Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-27
Thaddeus Stevens in his Study.

called to see Mr.. Stevens the SECOND
time last Friday afternoon.
| The old man sat in the same chair, be
| side his little writing table, in the sam,
comfortable chamber. CHASTITY and feeble
| as he appeared. there was slight, very
slight, hectic flash on both his cheeks
/ His blue eyes, sunk far beneath his brows
were bright as the eyes of consumptivt
| invalid. The whole expression of his face
and figure was invigorated and when his
! hand grasped mine it felt like vital human
| hand, fit to do good deal more of the
work that it had been doing.
81 am glad, Mr.. Stevens, to lind you
| looking SO much better" ~ q
I s'Thank you, sir" kindly. st ann bet
ter. Il feel good deal better to-day"
-" You keep at work, see," pointing tc
| the papers strewn on the table; most
men at your age, and i'll as you are, would
set apart their future years for rest" Y
"Well, sir, that has never been, and il
| less now than ever my intention. l am
one of those who believe that until the END
which for me know is nigh-the brain
| should work on, if it can u
1t is impossible to describe the pathos
| which these words, uttered in firm tones
that trembled," must have conveyed to the
sense and heart of the nearer. 1 quote
them literally; but cannot even indicate
the extreme mortal resOluteness of the ex.
preston of the pale lips that spoke them
Altogether, they were key to the charac
ter of man whom should wish to be the
last to seriously accuse of being less thar
sincere in all things that it has become
him to deal within public life. Heis near
ly rs years of age, and his once sinewy in
tellect, now falling, still appears to harbol
convictions as unwavering as ever. The
hostility which he has entertained, during
longer than ordinary lifetime, againsl
beliefs opposing his, is as direct and i'm
placable as ever: and his scorn of double
dealing and of halfway" men and meas
ures by the same indignant, vituperativ e
treatment of them and their names as he
has immemorially employed. His power
| over the majority in Congress wanes only
with the strength that disease is rifling
him Of
"Of course" said to Mr.. Stevens, after
some conversation on other topics, "you
must feel much encouraged now by the
fact that the President is really going to
be impeached, and probably tried, at last u
:" Yes, sir, l do, as every honest man in
the country ought to feel"
Anu III lew moments IOOK my leave.
Every day, from the humble brick dwell
ing on South B. street, where Mr. Stevens
lives, he is taken in carriage to the en-
trance of the House wing of the Capitol
Thence two men bear him in a chair along
through the resounding corridors of the
basement, up one of the broad stairways,
and along again through the halls to the
room of the Committee on Appropriations,
adjoining thelobby of the House, and which
is known as "Thad. Stevens ROOM" He
enters the House itself rarely, except when,
as during the late impeachment proceed
ings, it. is necessary that he shall be present
When he speaks he is assisted to place
on the platform next below the Speakers
desk, and as he talks very low, most of the
Radical and some of the Democratic mem
bers crowd into the semi-circular open
space in front of the desk to hear him.
At half-past three or four p. m. he is
borne in a chair to his carriage, taken
home, and taken in chair, or in the arms
of two men who attend him, up to his
chamber. He bears his suferings like a
Spartan, and has no fear of death.-Cor.
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