The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-15
Srlcetcd a}listellanp.
The leading speech OF the Pres
ideMt's DeGeMSc.

W.T. EVartS' Appearance and Style o
O'd'ory'
L"Pcc'a' correspondence oil the Cincinnati Gazette.
WAsHINGToN, May |.
Az the risk ot being lar behind cuter
priSlnS cotemrorarleS, have preferred tC
delay writing about Mr.. Evarts' spcecl
uhtH lhe speech should be huished. Now
that lhe last OF the polished sentences !baI
Tor DAYS nave been ialling in steady
stream pom The patient Senate has come
Que may better hope to say something Just
Ia"u accurate OF the speaker, the speech
'hu me eIect r.. ...
Nhen Jntge BIack-the great LAWYER
W'loh me fleS'dehl's personal treachcrS
inSt 20 ihe delthse-was still giving his
a"Nice Tor Tue conduct OF the case, he in
%s'eu specially upon the point that the
eaPl counsel should, it possible, he a
p''m'nrht Republican lawyer. "I am
more '.ktly TO do you harm than good"
Sa'H 'he IrarN OIL man. My political
"P'hIcns and record will excite against
your case prejudice IN the minds Of this
hrnhhlIcah S'hate, that no arguments |
might bring to your aid would he sufficient
[" balance. Make leading Republican
YOU leading counsel il you can
The ACCIDENT cf Mr. Sianbery's ;llrcss
rather than any wisdom ON tl,e Mari or n,'
Pfrsdunt has led to the result wb;cI,
Judge B ack sought. Mr.. -Evarts nnon
whom. after Mr.. Starrberrv was Disabled
tel the maine responsibility of the trial
became known TO the nation at large as The
special orator and spokesman of Wm
Seward, in the days when that statesmun
was the Acknowledge ed head of the Rcnub
Iican party. and it's generally exuected and
desired candidate for the Pres,deucv At
Chicago. when the faithful efforts of the
Seward party had ended in IN. rrinm,,b Of
the almost unknown Rail sulitter Fran, m;
nois, Mr.. Evarts Was put Corword ,o av
press on their behalf their ocouioSonoo
Ills brief spee h was felicitous oi,d 10 st;Ii
recolecied bv the attendants os tho ma,
stirring rhetoric of that stirring and rheto.'
ical Convention. In the midst or tha war
that followed. when the fern of noor oII
Pres ton King mad expired mnch of th. host
intellect and culture of tbe RnruIIicon
party in New York looked 10 Mr. Evarts
as the ftfest man, by right of nrjncinIe of
talents and of clooucnce. to represrnt u,s
Empire State in the United States Senate
A bcefy, fat.headed New York Civ NOR,
chant, whose wealth had made him CIV
erIor OF the State, was his leading nuno -
nent. The contest was between money
aud brains, and the money won-verv nmcI
ailer the same fashion, if the possin oI
thos4 DAYS is to be believed in wh;cI,
mt npy still wins in matters that come he.
fore the .egislatureat ALBANY. MrgEvofts
remained an outspoken advocate of t,o
war for the Union, and gave in his adhesion
to The emancipation and the other shining
acts of distinctive Republican poIicv hS
which the conduct of the war was illns.
tratcd. lie was generally reckoned in tho
Seward wing of the party. in New York
aad he stood in about the Same relation 10
ii that Geo. VIM. Curtis occupied in reh.
ton TO the Radical wing-the most cul
tnred representative, the most shining orna
ment the most accomplished orator; and.
wiIhal, too cultured, too shining. too nc.
to he of much dse in tie rough
struggles OF the dirty politics OF that Stale.
Meanwhile, he was mainly devoted to the
profession in which, in the commercial
he shared the honors of leader
ship oply with CIias. 0'Connnr. Jas II.
Brady. and David Dudley Fieli. In the
lillienlties between Johnsun and Congress
neither side has had his full sympathy'
His friendship for, and personal trust il