The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-14
Hon. John Mor-Easy's Maiden speech
F"0r" S'OtmOfH' Round the Circle.

(Rogers-EyesD
Yes, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1
look around upon the smiling and in
telligent mugs
(Rogers-No! facesD
intelligent faces of the respected
(Sotto roce)-what is it-buffers?
lF. Wood-No, gentlemen.)
(Rogers-Members.)
when look around this ring and
see the smiling and intelligent faces of
the respected members OF this body, 1
feel profoundly impressed with the fact
that we live under the egis of glori-
oas Constitution which guarantees to
every man the privilege of rising to a
glorious eminence: and l contemplate
the. institutions bequeathed TO us
by our noble forefathers with the deep
est emotions that can rise from the
depths of proud and grateful-and
grateful-gizzardI
(Rogers-No! no! Hearty
And grateful heart. In this perilous
crisis in the history of our once happy
but now distracted country, come up,
Mr.. Referee
(Rogers-No! noD
From a gallant and lion-hearted con-
stituency-a constituency
"who know their rights, and knowing. dare
tApplause from the Conservative
side
come up to represent for them in
these classic halls that noble policy
of which count myself one the pillars,
of the forgiveness and reconciliation
which is inculcated by the sacred prin-
ciples of Christianity, and when these
PRINCIPLES are under discussion 1 should
be unfaithful to that constituency If 1
failed to open my-my oration-trap-
(Rogers-No! noD
My tater-trap-or rather my CAB
Rogers-Mouth.)
Mouth, to speak to you the convic-
tons of patriotic and impulsive giz-
that IS to say, soul Allow me to say
! that come from that constituency in
the spirit of Spartacus of old, proud
and defiant. In the language of the
poet they call me chief, and they do
well to call me chief, who for good
many years has met upon the bloody
arena-has met
(Rogers-That's right.)
Has met some OF the gamest hItters
on this continent-Bill Poole, Yankee
Sullivan, and Heenan himSelt-and
never tossed the sponge.
(Rogers-All wrong! Lowered his
arm.)
(Sotto Voee.) Let her slide. (Aloud. J
And yet, sir, come here prepared and
ready, and willing to grasp, as with the
grasp of compatriot and a brother,
the tiipper OF any Man
(RogerS-No, mol Wrongly
The bunch of fives of any man. (iSotto
Voce.) What's next. Jack2 (Exactly.) }
What's next? You'd make a blessed
d. bottle-holder, wouldn't yon? III
git on that weepin' part. (AIoud.l 1
have a che-ild-a youthful b-woy-
(Rogers-You've skipped all that
about the rebel debt.)
(iSotto Uoee.) Let her drive. (Aloud.) }
L repeat, Mr.. Referee
fPnuarc VnVHllu hia tot
That is to say, Mr.. Speaker, that I
have a youthful b-woy-the scion of a
game
(Rogers-No.)
(iSotto Voiee.) Yes it isl (AIoud) of a
game ancestry. Iwould that in coming
years that this my only, my youthful
che-ild, should grow up with emotion,
Reporterl to emulate the example, and
to inherit the virtues, and to glory in
the record of his fe-atherl
(Rogers-Now weepD Mr.. Mor-Easy
wipes his eyes with his pocket hand
kerchief.
(Sotto voiee.) That couldn't a been
done much patheticker, could it Jack ?
(Rogers-Try a gesture.)
feel deeply sensible, Mr.. Referee
(strikes out from the shoulder in a
graceful manner.) Alaugh. (Mr. Nor
Easy indignant at this unfeeling recep-
ton of this pathos.)
chaf on mel 1 aint that gaitI kin
strip and go in rough and tumble on
this jest as quick as you feel like it'll
(Rogers pulls at his coat tail.)
1 kin polish off the whole d. crowd
in half a dozen rounds. daughter
scientific gestures.) Look ERE! Idon't
make no limits on my game, and you
kin buck agin that tiger jist as long as
you think it's healthy Now who
wants to walk into me? Now, Just put
up your hands, will yer?
1.-THE last remark addressed to the
Speaker, Wood and Rogers each pull at
coat-tail.)
Mor-Easy (apologetically). Well, I
don't let no moke pull my sneezer
more'n once't at time. Maybe my
knowledge-box amt got as much in it
as yours, and 1 amt much on the
speak; but that ere amt the kind o.
punishment wat sends me to grass.
(Cries, order! orderly I kin go ye a
thousand to five hundred on this little
mill; and see If 1 don't come up smilin'
on the last round. I've got some green
backs left yet spent $4,000 on the
election in New York. They say money
makes the mare go, but it didn't make
our Mayor go in New York State.
That's sure enough.
(Rogers prompts, and hands page of
manuscript, "Pardon this digres-
ion.")
Pardon this DEPRESSION. (Reads.) Me-
, thinks behold, methinks behold in
the dim vista of the coming future, the
vision OF a reunited and reconstructed
! land, when the dark clouds of vile
( fanaticism have been swept away by
the beacon lights OF the Constitution;
and when upon the cloud-capped pin
nacle of our glorious country shall be
! observed the gracefully-swaying and
an-fn1a ~
who now occupies the Presidential
chair, and so nobly dispenses the post
] Offices and collectorships to a beloved
and bleeding country, shall be observed,
say, supported on the one side by the
/ immortal Washington, and on the other
by the illustrious Jackson, floating aloft
/ the emblem OF thirty-six stars, and
having shufaed-(sotto uoee) is that shuf-
[Rogers-Yss. shufled of this NOR
tai COLI
tiSo4o poeel-what kind Of shuttle is
thatf (Aloud.) And the halo shall
hover round his classic brow, and those
claim. Soto U0ee.) What's on the
next page? I forget exactly.
(Rogers-Can't find it,
or-Easy-tS Soto Uoee)-I'm of my
pins, Jack. What is it7 (AIoud.
Shall exclaim, something like:
"Puffs there smoke with so fum-
mixed giZ"-
| (Rogers-No; I've got it. "Breathes
there a man with soul SO dead" etc.
Excuse me; shall exclaim-
who never to himself hath said,
This Is my own, my native land"
) like feIler of that kind of build
he's game-he's feller that amt easy
knocked OF his foundations.
(Rogers hands him leaf OF manu-