Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-10


egates from his state had changed their
minds, and would admit Mr.. Pendleton
to share with Mr.. Hendricks the favors
they had been bestowing upon Gov
English, there arose storm in the lit
tie delegation which came near to end
ing in II dire shipwrccl of two or three
ofConnecticut's most promising Demo
cratic children. \ member arose, and,
with one flashing eye turned full upon
his Chairman, the other fixed upon va
rious points of the Convention compass,
he bore down upon his leader with full
head of oratorical impulse which
threatened for time to leave the Nut
meg State in mourning. But, when
Mr.. Eaton arose, and in the cmotivc and
demonstrative style peculiar TO demos
themes when launching his Phillippics,
he proceeded to lay out the delegate, the
approximations OF The sober people were
more than doubled, while the general
crowd enjoyed the break and checred
the speaker Justify. Then there was Il
rejoinder. Then the contentious spolles-
men were silcnced by the Chairman of
the Convention; whcreupon they enter
ed privately into an argument, iii which
there was much abuse and littlc reason.
They forgot the speech of the Snowman
Short to his partner Goblin: Don't say
devoted to something plcasanter;n nor
did they. as that philosophical artist
advised, respect associations" even if
they did "cut up rough.o 1t was long
before quiet was restored in the Conncc-
ticut delegation.
SPEECH OF AN ILLINOIS DELEGATE.
One of the last ballots, perhaps the
last, in which Illinois was announced
rs giving a solid vote for Hendricks,
was somewhat confused for time; but
the promptness of the Chairman of the
Convention, the shrewdncss Of the Dele
gates who cried down every attempt to
edge in Il word in favor of weak can
didatc, saved the reputation of the De-
mocracy, and left the records OF the
Convention without blot. \ Dele
gate from Illinois rose to his feet imme-
diately after the announcement of the
vote of his Delegation, and spoke as
follows:
"Mr. Chairman, every American citi-
Zen who-(cries of sit down !')-who
feels, Sir, pride, in the freedom-(Put
him out!-in the free--(Order! Sit
speech-I won't sit down, Mr.. Chair
man, until have spoken for my con-
stituents Of the lid District. | say, Sir,
it is so. The palladium Of our liberties,
Sir, is the right-(Wrong Wrong! Sit
down !)-I won't-Is the right to speak
the feelings of the patriotic heart when
ever and wherever the occasion demands
the exposition. (Cheers.) For one, Mr..
Chairman, | have not cast my vote for
Mr.. Hendricks. l have watched with
interest and with pride, Sir, the course
of a man who is dear to every citizen
who loves his country, and desires to
see the rule of Radicalism broken off
short in the middle. (Applause.) He
it is for whom | shall vote-the patriot
and tie sage, the unterrified, the incor-
ruptible statesman, Andrew Johnson"
a complimentary report of this remark
able speech will be found below; but in
it the reader will not be instructed as to
how the orator stood while speaking
how he planted himself firmly upon the
floor, with legs wide apart, and arms
folded after the manner of Forrest in
"Metamora," and of Edwin Adams in
the Stage-Struck Barber''-how he
glanced defiance at his broad-chested
chairman, and gazed with Indifference
upon the yelling multitude, who would
force him to silence-how he held his
ground till he had finished speaking his
piece, and how he sat down with a
thump which set the galleries in a roar.