Litchfield enquirer., 1868-05-07
LEGISLATIVE ORATORS.

Legislative oratory is sure to gush on the occasion of the decease of some member of the Legislative body; though the speeches, as Byron says, may be said to present
 "A fine sample on the whole.
 Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call {" rigmarole" :"
 As superlor specimen of this "studied impropriety of speech,' we have been fa- vored by friend with the following trib- ute to the memory of ,ne iaso Col Nell, of Texas, delivered by 8 distin guished col league from one of the border districts of that State. For freedom and breadth of style, 1t Can hardly be surpassed:
 MT. Speaker, 1t becomes my melan- choly duty to announce to the members of this yer body that Andrew Jackson Yell, of Yellville, is no more. He has fell victim to the grim and destroying tyrant, Death, who yesterday evening put an end to his mortal career; and he now lies lifeless at the pleasant boarding house of Mrs. Jones, on the hill, where he and many other mem bers of this yer House has boarded session after session-and where, throughout his lengthy and consequently protracted ty- phus fever, he received every care and att tention which that ar kind-hearted woman and her numerous and attentive help could w.
 ness was of no avail Col. Yell Is gone from among us, and it has become my mel ancholy duty to offer the customary reso- lutions on this occasion, which l hsv taken l the opportunity to draft out last night, while settin' up with the body. It ain't with no primary feelin's of grief, Mr. Speaker, that make this yer communica- ton to this yer honorable body; for l knowed the deceased in particular. Mr. 1 Speaker, and knowed him clean through, l might say, from Alpha to lizard. There may be men mean enough to come forward now he's gone from among us, and allude 1 to his faults of kerricter-for like all other men, he had his faults, and who ain't got them? There may be men ln this yer body mean enough, l say. out of pure cus- sedness, to fetch up the failin's of the de- ceased, but I, at least. ain't a-goin' to be one of lem. I know there were some things that nigh be norated agin him. He may hev been slightly addicted to whisky; but then, Mir. Speaker, there's others Tn this House that could drink him blind drunk afore breakfast, and they know it, He may hey been quick to use his shootin' tools but then he never draw'd a weapon on 6 man if he wasn't mad! They may say he didn't pay his debts-.Cho in Isras does
 Mir. Speaker? And, agin, they may tel
 you that he frolicked considerable We'll, al
 I hey to say about dsa, is, who in m- don't
 Mir. Speaker? I put it to you, Sir, and te this august body to answer hat pint. Who
 ever in this House, at least, IS without
 fault in this respect, let him, as the Scrip ter observes, be the first to shy conside
 rable-sized rock on his memory-or words to that effect; I don't rack'lect the precis'
 terms of the passage. Among his man. virtoos, Mir. Speaker, our departed frient was devoted admirer of that noble animi the hoss, conscientiously attending ever.
 race-track within forty miles of this ye place, and backin' his opinion onto encer tain events in the future to the extent 0 } his ability, and sometimes beyond 1t, in tn extensivest and most gentlemanly manner He was also an active member of the En zine Company, and often good at fires. |