Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-05-20

whip over members of this House, and has
been the natural successor here of these
old slave lords who used to crack their
whips here; his vaulting ambition has
.o'ereaped itself" Not satisfied to assail
US hele, to vituperate us here, he is going
to mould the next Congress, and he is sail.
ing into other districts TO tell the people
whom they should select and whom they
shall not select. My friend { Mr.. Price J
meets in the newspaper OF his district the
assault of the gentleman. He is ringing
the whole vast amphifheatre. Why does
he do this 2 There is a simple explana-
ton which is given out in my district, and
which is one of the great arguments why
they should send the distinguished gentle
mans brother to this House, namely, that
he owns General Grant That he carried
Ulysses S. Grant in his pocket. Why, sir,
he already feels on his shoulders the cares
of empire. He is already forecasting ca
binets, dispensing foreign missions, setting
man up and putting them down. We can
apply to him the language Of Cleopatra
to Mark Antony:
In his livery walk crowns and Coronets sem
pire and Island,
Are like plates dropped from the pocket'h
Has he not lived in the same town with
General Grant and should he not there
fore, perforce, be the Warwick, the king
maker the power behind the throne! |
never could account for that singular fact
that he lived in the same town with Gen.
Grant, except on that great principle of
compensation which ruus through the GRE
ated world, the town of Galena having for
many years endured the gontleman-God
Almighty felt that rothiug less than
Ulysses S. Grant should balance the ac-
count Laughter Josh Billings, talk
ing of compensation, says: 1t Is ques-
tion whether the satisfaction of scratching
will not pan a man for the punishment of
having the Itch" leave the gentlemsn's
constituents TO apply the parable. | bow
in profound admiration before the genius
OF Ulysses :. Grant. recognize him as
the greatest, wisest, Lroadest intellect Of
this generation. | cannot think that he
will degenerate into becoming puppet to
be played by wires held in the hands of
the gentleman from Illinois, or that he will
degenerate into kind of hand organ to
be toted around on the back of the gentle
man from Illinois, while his whole family
sit on the top of the machine grinning and
catching pennies like troop of monkeys.
I General and continuous laughter l
would say to Ulysses S. Grant, if it was in
my power TO whisper anything in his ear,
to take counsel by that profound remark
of Aminadab Sleek, when he said: ou
all expect TO get into Heaven by holding
on to my coat-tail but | will TOOL you all ::
I'll wear monkey jacket" Laughter.
General Grant has got to wear that politl-
cal monkey jacket. We had Grant up to
Minnesota, and of course, the distinguish
gentleman from Illinois was with him, and
when General Grant was serenaded, the
gentleman from Illinois stuck his head out
OF the window and thanked the crowd. and
when they rode in an barouche together,
and the crowd hurrahed, the gentleman
from Illinois laid bis hand upon his heart,
and bowed his profound acknowledgements.
The people out there were in great doubt
which was Grant and which was Wash
burne, and they came TO tho conclusion that
the quiet little gentleman must be the
fourth-class politician, and that the preten-
tious, fussy individual must be the conquer
or of Lee. Laughter. Old Jesse Grant,
it is said, remarked on that occasion =
"Pears to me that Washburne thinks he
owns 'Lysses, but he don't own me, not by
darned sight" Laughter. Shall the
two names 90 down into history together
Grant and Washbmne Why, Mr.. Speaker
the intellect of Grant is ike some of the
ancient warehouses in the great cities ofthe
old world, where floor arises above floor,
and cellar desccnds below cellar, all packed
full to overfowing with the richest mer-
chandise.
The intellect of the gentleman from Ill
is like some of those establishments that
we see in Pennsy lvania avenue, where the
whole stock in trade Of the merchant is
spread out in the front window, and above
it label Anything in this window for
one dollar" Laughter. He is the Cheap
John OF legislation, and that he should at
tempt to rule and to sway General Grant
is not consistent with probabilities. LORD
Dundreary was once asked why it wa;
that dog wags his tail. "Why'" say;
his lordship, 1.-THE reason. is because the
dog is greater than the tail" II it were
otherwise, says that profound speaker, ''th'
tail would wag the dog" Laughter Here
was an iustance, Mr., Speaker, where th'
smallest kind of "A rat,terriers tail attempt
to wag a Newfoundland dog.
Cromwell, / charge thee fling away ambition
By that Elm fell the aWgels."
How then can Washburne hope to prof
10y it
The gentleman should take counsel b
that proverb Of the Romans, freely render
ed, "You cannot make sta esman out c
every demagogue." Mr.. Speaker, / trem
ble for nv country. Is il true that eight
years of republican government have re
duced us SO low that there is but one hon
est man in this House-hut one Lot in
this Sodom ? [ Laughter ] Does no vo'c
but this ring out against cliqnes, and con
spiracies, and "rings 2" Will no voice b
F heard in the future assuring this Hons
I that its members are all pack of knayes
Il. a. ..,,..r,, % 1o;pO IN ruin and cou