, 1869-03-08

surrounded with q crowd Of bogus Insurance
men, and Was explaining to them With all his |
.loQncnce what was to be dooc., Burnett was
excited, and was receiving Instruction from
Dtn.moor. Mesers. Taylor ard Reynolds,
abcyed the outside preesute, fought the dsht
znd Won It, and Il no bill Ii passed, respect
able insurance men Will know who TO thank
for It.
The Houto liatcned the other dag to very
senkib1e, but outtageousiy funny. speech from
Nr. Sumner Of WtnncbaKo, the farmer repre-.
sentative Of az agricultural community. He
is man with = homely lace, surrounded
and when he speaks be shoves his spectacles
up on his forehead, where they glitter and
slime IN h most provocative manner. A bill
came up to change the time OF holding couss::n
the Fourteenth JudictAl CiTcnlt, which Is COM
posed Of the counties Of 10 Dsytess, Stephen
son md Winnebago, and he assailed 1t oa
the ground that Que term begun In his coun
ty In April. when his people were seeding and /
sowing Then he Wout on In language |
peculiarly funny, because 20 at varlancs Tish
Winnebaco, that maiden In her teens, sitting |
in the lap Of Rock River, who, honest. Eirtu- |
Gus and chaste, had never bweyved in her de-
votlop to freedom. But since Wlnnebago
with the other counties. aud since the Judge
Of that circuit wanted to put on the coat of
E. B. Washburne, which would not At him !;
no, cir, the garment could not be shaped to
sulk hlu, ne Qlu u0t pay LIS VOWS 10 LUG
maiden Eiunebago, but vent eonrtiag that
old htg Jo Daysess. and also Stephenson.
| abandoned by her mother IN infancy, and
which had been atrtipg aud coquettiug, yes.
coquetting with the cause Of liberty: The
Judge, too. was opposed to working In July:
| He ws like the speakers dog, which wanted
to get IN the shade HAeu It Was hot:
| Bailey spoke In reply, but the House felt
something Was due to tho gentleman from
Wlunebago, and BY an overwhelming major-
i,y, Voted down the obnoxious bill. i he
bean cast aga.nst It. 1 did rot 1t hrst think
| VERY much Of him, bat as the session ad-
vanced bis sterling good qualities became
appspeut. Ho Is utterly honest, the verr
mon sense, Ind good, hard worker. Yes
tcrday, when the vote was taken on the
constitutional amendment. he made the
bsiefest md best speech there uttered. He
said that be roted yea without mental seses.
TatIon and without hesitancy. That question
under consideration had been dead issue In
W1nnehago County this many yeat. The
people Of his county. could not do better
than to rtturu the plain and honest old
farmer, who has worked as well as any, and
who made the most effective speech ol the
kcs.ion.
The only Democrat who spoke at auy
length when the vote was taking on the
adoption Of the amendment, was Judge
! Woodson, Of Greene It WAS understood that
debate wis 10 b limited to 1--we minutes. but
q natural courtesy was extended to gentle
man Of his aGc, kindly disposition and un-
donbteo ability, and he spoke fur beyond the
sllotted term. His remarks brought the old
days back, and thought listened once
more to the speeches which were heard ID
the halls Of Cong7ess In 1860 aud 1851. lie
went over the old ground 10 often trodden
By Mason, Davis, Hunter, and others. He,
too, has learned nothing, and wager that he
has not read single speech tiuce he finished
studying the Congressional GLOBE Tor the years
have mentioned. Phillips and Saltousta'1,
Physicians both, aud who voted against the
Dl:sccttng b1l1, took high moral ground, and
borrowing from Mott, Eoothles and Brooks,
County, whence Phillips comes. isolated
Arc there railroads thcFt! He resorted to
the old Bible arguments, and degraded the
colored INN By quotations FROM tnc Holy
Writ. It was there said thRt the hairs on the
head Of every man we're numbered. But ae-
groes had wool. Hence theT were not men
that l., white men. Then, TOO, Canaan WAS
accurecd. Then, too, mlscegcnation would
cnsue. The blood cotpussles Of white
man were different from those Of N African,
, though how the dear man, who never looked
through microscope In his llfe-since they
! arc not N mentioned IN the Bible ever came to
know IT, cannot conceive
Dr.. 6a1tonstall clothed himself In the nsn-
} Tie Of Jeremiah, and proceeded 10 unfold The
r ! unto tbee, oh Ame1icz." There Ma 10 b,
/ uiscegenatiou. The accursed mllllous Of Tau
: kce doug shiaees who bud forced the negroes
a would 20 on in their unhalloWed cA:eer. Ths
= republic would sink below The lerei Of Ae1i
:. co, the inferior rzct dragging doWr the 81
=, perior. He quoted hfstasy, and tod then
!, now Babylon and Troy town fell, and I ,hinl
= = be said something about San Donlugo;. Fo
r marvel, be forgot John Brown. He cor
cluded By the statement that We vera Ill go
ing down, down into bottomless gull, 1ad
;, the members On the Republican side cris
{, ont In melancholy chorus, !" Good bye, dot
y tor" The TWO smartest Of the junior men
! bers On the Democratic side, Ross of Fulton
and Burnett Of Ganaiin, said nothing, -, !,
General John Cooks State Houss Oil /
u dead, and Tor It there Is 70 rcsu1recslou
i. The Coroucr's jury, composed Of the Citizen
u of Springfield, have brought In 4 verdict {
u John, who Is not as poputar N M. soa
ii | munI,y Il the present Presittnt by LOT
!, 4hot. They solemuly aycr thAt what xnh y
~ unholy alliances hc ents1ed into, sd =
~ bargains he rnaae, hc Eonla h2ye SAEo ta
~ ~ moral lsw Ii it had had to be sdopted.
The bin might have passed The aous
rotwithatandruE al these treaties, Il II hi
not been for tho most uladvised and iooh'
oe speech Of the session. know toat sa5E
I'd much Tor my speech, but It Is true. Il VI
ID made by III. Parker, Of Coles, n oEcrbea
no ing, vi,lent AID toollsh maa- He attempts
ri 10 hector and bully those members who St
IL persisted In opposition to this Dill aaa CLOS
to by fatly accusing Tan 0sdel Of Pel11.
be Such charge against such man was iAI
to the maker. Cook, Of Lake, who nad Z
wears been intimately connected With Il
~ gentleman thus attacked, At ouec sprung
n Els feet, AID With great feeling defended
Y" from til. aspfrsions Of Nj. Parker, who h1
lie With unbiushlug mendacity, nlss:attd fac
10 rtrbled letters, And Invented calumnies. 7
fpeech and the reply did the bus!ncss. =
c1M members, dsrusted With this attempt
!. cocrcc them, at orec changed front. Va
he Of the Democrats, seeing that bnckmas
~ had no chance, felt themselves relieved .fre
=" Ill OBLIGATIONS to support the measure, .
Eu- went ptumply axaln:t 1t. Tnc moment
in. vas seen that 1t was defeated, Bond. Law!
lot md Muusou Jumped to their feet, and v
ire great heat demanded 10 change their 70
IL Gc1 erM Cook sat forlorn and desolate.
~ had betn hopeful to the last. He could
Inc believe that ill his coalitions were to 60
md nausht. Whcu the vote Was arnounceo,
Is sunk back into bis scat, utterly oTcrcol
Ian Some members spoke t. him, but ne nce'
ian them not.
- s.Ihe airy castle E1elseth into str+
hao Ths dcue dt1solved, The bright walls Ade aN'
Oh, cut of avn1pathr for stricken brother,
and House adjourned In silence. I. Is uuderst
that Ill he asks Of the Legislature no" +
at. allow him to be buried In the basement
The unfnl.hcd State House. They cinnot
ae fute the simple prayer. There let
ling a'eep. his on1G epl.aph" Yess, q nays,
rim Il Is understood Ihat the DtmocIah
ohn yo1c in body aEntnst the Senttc bill. II
-, Il ossscs It all, it Will be With amending
lo.k fhe eloquencc Of Sumner was funny
'oss convincing; that Of Aunson ridiculous
and forcclesa. 1 mention It, indeed, only to b