The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-05-31


demons in human shape are preparing fol
them. Go on, and you will see whether the
IS. X. X. K. will he Be learned in time
By order of the Grand Commander of the
X. X. X.
VIC. c. K, April IA, 1865. s S. XXX X
| ELooUENcE OF THE TRIAL.-A Washing
ton correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune,
under date of May 4, says: Now, that the
trial of the Administration is nearly done, we
can measure up the chaff and the wheat of it.
The Managers who have displayed the bes,
ability have been Butler and Wilson. The
former has greatly increased his reputation,
but added no friendship to himself. Butler
seems to have no power in Cancellation all
power is crushing. He loses in love where
he gains in fear but without him the Mana
gers would have lost the right hand and the
five sense. Of their cause. His cunning is
almost divination; his audacity is almost
purity; republican form of government is
no adequate theater for man with such alb
solute parts. Mr.. Wilson has made repu-
tation for a more citizen sort of maniness.
Whatever he has said has been of the best
that all have said. He has, more than any
observed the old phrase that speech is sill
vern, but silence is golden" Ever at his
post to be of use, he has not loved mere
wrangle, and, like Governor Boutwell,, will
retire from his stewardship followed by
respect.
Among the Presidents counsel there has
been mere uniformity of talent. The law
trains men much better for indoor effective
ness than the looser practice Of politics.
Standing sedately before deliberative body,
composed in large part Of men of rational,
even cynical turn Of mind, the mere legisla-
tor finds himself cramped by question of
law. Not SO the lawyers, like Stanbery, Cur
tbs, Evarts or Groesbeck. These four worked
together like four fine needles in loom.
Every sentence cut. They committed no
blunders of taste. Poor old Nelson sat
amongst them like schoolboy. or these
men Curtis was the precise lawyer, Groes-
beck the magnetic pleader, and Evarts the
idealist, who aimed to carry the mind Of the
Senate from the crimes Of johnson into the
wide arena of patriotism, so that the imme-
diate duty of the Senate should be forgotten
in its fears. Then Stanbery, with his mettle
of candor, came in at last to promise the best
him off. Evarts has shown magnificent lit
erary endowments; Curtis equal temper and
an awe-compelling department. Groesbeck
has almost dihnited Johnson into portrait,
who had before hardly the consistency of
meal. As to Mr.. Nelson, he is Mr.. Johnson
come to judgment, a mounting old person,
full Of odds and ends Of poetry, and unstrung
phrases of the law. Perhaps he did some
good amidst 70 much ridicule.
Mr.. Bingham, of whom much was expect |
ed, prepared fol- too long and high flight.
He sped to the heart of the galleries, but the |
Senate sat with withers unwrung. A weak |
ness for color, rhetoric, strong expressions,
his own opinions, and Bellerophon caperings |
in the land of adjectives, remark Mr.. Bing- |
ham. He drives, like Rufus Choate, a sub !
stantive and four.
Mr.. Bingham's appearance is not unknown
to you; lean-sided man of the medium
hight, with white whiskers, like a cat, under
his jaws, and sharp, irregularly twisted
face, wearing petulant look, like worried
schoolma am.
On the occa sion Of this particular speech,
Judge Bingham discarded his historic brown
coat, and transferred the black velvet collar
thereof to a long, black cloth coat, which,
buttoned before, enwrapped him from the
Dreastbone to below the knees. This was
he second appearance of the black coat, the
first having been on the occasion of the Man.
ayers going to the photographers. A pair
If square-tocd boots, well blsckened, stand
ng collar and a stock, and black breeches,
completed Mr.. Bingham's exterior.
To this sort of dress athx, for the superior
part of this little man, head of hair that
stands like a shock Of corn, every way but
'moo:h. Imagine under the head of hair
,air of eyebrows that are always knit into
he ecstacy of rage, a mouth pursed up, and
general expression like an old woman's
when she surprises the boys stealing her
pples The head itself is stify and opin-
onately set upon a neck of loose tendons,
nd it is shaken in funnily, self-satished
ray, at every escape of its owners resonant
dice. He leaps around; he holds his right
and forever against his spare ribs; with the
eft hand he threshes the Senate, scolding
hem with his eyes, scolding them with his
ret, turning a rhetorical Kaleidoscope all the
,hile. He slaps his head with his left hand,
aying: at burns into me brain! !" He slaps
he table with his left hand, saying: AZ honor
ne immortal Thomas Jefferson! !" He speaks
ght on with surprising toughness, after
.shion that used to please you and me on ]
curtin of July, but now, sad dogs that we
re We exclaim out Of our worldly souls
Is it possible that we ever liked that kind
rhetoric p
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