The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-27
Miscellany.
Texas OrnfOrx.


The following rich specimen of Western
legislative oratory we take from the last
number or Harpers drawer" II is trib-
ute to the memory oil the late Colonel Yell,
of Texas, delivered by distinguished COL
league from one of the border districts of
tlat State. For freedom and breadth of style
i can hardly be surpassed:
Mr.. Speaker,-It becomes my melancholy
duty to announce to the members of thus yer
body hat Andrew Jackson Vel, of Yellville,
a member OF this house is no more. He has
tell victim 10 the grim and lie troying
tlrant, Death who yesterday evening put an
end to his mortal career; and he now lies
Ileless at tie pleasant clearinghouse of
Mrs. Jones, on the hill, where be and many
other members OF this yer House has board
ed session alter seSsion--and where, through
out his lengthy aud consequently protracted
typhus fever lie received every care and at
tenton which that are kind-heared woman
and her numerous and attentive help could
bestow. But, alas all her care and kind
ness was OF no avail. Colonel Yell is gone
from among us, and it has become my mean-
choly duty 10 offer the customary resolutions
on this occasion, which ] hey taken the op-
portunity 10 draft cut last night, while settin'
up with the body. 1t amt with no ordinary
teen's OF grief, Mr.. Speaker, that | make
this yer communication 10 this ' er honorable
body; tor | knoWed the deceased in parricu-
lar, Mr.. Speaker, and knowed him Clean
through, might say, from Alpha to lizard
There may he men mean enough to come
forward, now he's gone from among US, and
allude TO his faults OF kerTickteI-for, like all
other men, he mad his faults, and who amt
got EN-? There may be men in this yer body
mean enough, say, out OF pure cussedness
to fetch up the iailin'S Of the deceased, but :,
at least, ain t a-soiD' to be one oil 'em. There's
some Things that might be porated agin him
He may htv ben Slightly addicted to Whis-
ky; but then, Alr. Speaker, there's others in
this House that could drink him blind atore
breakfast, and they know it. He may hey
ben quick to use his shootin' tools, but then
he never drawed weepon Old man if he
wasn't mad! They say he didn't pay his
debts-a0hO IN Teas does, Mr.. Speaker? And
agin, they may tell you that he frolicked
considerable Well, all hev to say about
that is, who in - DON'T, Mr.. Speaker? /
put it to you, SiI, and 10 this august body TO
answer that pint. Whoever in this House
at least, is without fault in this 1espect let
him, as the Scripter observes, be The first to
shy consldcrabie-sZed rock on TO his mem
ory--or words to that effect; don't reck'lect
the precise terms oil the passage. Among his
many virtoos, Mr.. Speaker, our departed
friend was devoted admirer OF that noble
animll the boss, conscientiousIy attendn'
every race-track within forty mile OF this yer
place, and backin' his opinion onto uncertain
events in the future to the extent of his
ability, and sometimes beyond il, in the ex-
tensivest and most gentlemanly manner He
was also an active member OF the Engine
Company and often good at fires.
In short, he was good citizen an honest
man, and perfect gentleman. In his mel.
ancholy disease society has lost one OF its
brightest ornaments, and a gloom is cast
over the domestic circle OF Mrs. Jones's
boarding house, where the eligible room
which he occupied, and in which, 1 said be-
fore, he received every care and attention
from that estimable lady, is now, alas! vacant
lor the Balance OF the season.
Mr.. Speaker la member of the Opposition
here inteEupts rise to a int OF O DEL"
The speaker requested Mr.. Shaken to state
his pint.
81 want to know, Mr.. Speaker, if it is in
order ior any member OF this yer House, in
his speech onto he memory of dead man,
to ring IN q boarding house kep' by his aunt,
and furnished by himself on SheerS? 1t NAV
be parliamentary and all right, but don't
see IL :"
The Speaker, with a whitening glance at
Shaken, decided the pint to be rot well taken.
All! IulS is lOO SOltun q occasion, MT.
Speaker, Tor me to take notice OF any SIGH
lmperdenee and side remarks as that air!
fuiIy expected some infamous hyena would
be out here to-day, howlin' round the grave OF
OF our departed friend, loamin at the mouth,
gnashin his toothess laws. and droon' out
his Intellectual impo ent rage. With his hide
covered over with wells, all sore and disgust
IN rom the lash and the hot poker OF truth
which bis insolence has brought upon him
pretty much every day durIn' this session, he
rolls himself over and over and over. and
bites and tears and soils himself. till he be-
comes justly offensive to every eye in this
House III see that his goose is cooked for
MN hereafter, suitable, and that not on no
melancholy occasion nuther To resume the
deSeused: Whatever kin be said of him by
trionds or en- mics, no man at least kin DENY
that he WASH patriot. Look back at his
political record, Mr. Speaker, and see what's
thar! tor, as the poet Watts very leelingly re-
marks, By their records shall we know me-
MIR. Speaker, what is that record? Virtue is
Its own reward, Mr. Speaker; and nc great
acton was ever done liz tbe world but what
The man that done it was baIked and yelped
alter by somebody. But the diseased, in
trenched in the gaiorious armor oil patriotism,
with his hand on this yer lecord. could look
the Amerikin eagle proudly in the eye, and
DEFY chaln-llShtnine IN any shape or from
whatever quarter IL m GIT come; and when
PROSTATE and efnaciated, he died at last on
his PROSTATE he'd at the pleasant boarding.
house OF hrs. Jones, on the hill the thoughts
OF this ere armor, and OF that ar record oil
hls'n, come 10 his wounded sensibiities like
heavenly angel and even Death himself could
nor set nan haif tiGn hack. | close this
affecting du'y, Mr. Speaker, by moy ing that
committee OF this House be appointed to re.
port these resolutions on the deceased, and
TO attend his funeral, and that Leonidas
BLIZZARD. OF Athens, be the chairmen of said
committee; at the same time lemarkino
that the georgouS heavens has now opened to
receive hls mortal spirit, and that his earthly
remains Will be buried at three o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, sharp, from the pleasant
boardin'-house Of Mrs. Jones on The Iii |,
where, under the late ruin of the Speaker
deem II entReRtiy proper for me TO remark,
ana L 90 1t emphatlclno matter a1h0Se corns is !
Irod on, the eligible room which he occup ed
IS now unfortunately vacant, and will doubt
less be let to any other member of this House,