Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-02

From q VFonan's Correspondence with th'
New York Independent.

From q W-ofnan's Correspondence with the
New York Independent.
Because 1 think that Mr.. Dawes had
earned the honor, and was in every
way fitted to fill the Speakers chair,
let nobody suppose that / bear any ill-
viii toward the gentleman who has
won it. Mr.. Blaine fills it well-better
than I thought he would. For he
seems to have left his nervous jumping
up and hand-slapping back in his old
seat, and to bring an unwonted seren1-
ty to grace the new occasion. Earn
estness, enthusiasm, and impetuosity
characterized him on the floor high
qualities alI-but, in an exaggerated
degree, not just the ones for an impair
tial Speaker, presiding over one Of the
most turbulent and unmanageable
legislative bodies of the world. Mr..
Blaine has always seemed to me the
Camille Desmoulins of the House. In
spite of Scotch-Irish blood, he has Just
the temperament Of that most bril-
liant, most mereuriaI, and most unfort-
unate of all the journalists of the JAG
obins. AS he goes past my windows
these sunny mornings, 4 see that he
has q certain CavalieEish aiE-fhat he
throws back his ample cloak with the
easy swing of a successful man who
has mastered every untoWard fate.
Success Is the best tonic. 1t is better
than pepsin for weak digestion. 1t is
a perfect developer of curves. 1t IS the
poor ne'er-do-weIIs who must needs be
angular and skinny" Mr. Blaine IS
tail, of fine stature, well rounded out Dy
prosperity. As he looks back TO IT'S
beginnings, nobody knows better than
he that the world has gone Wen Win
him, and no one could bake the
knowledge more kindly. An Indian
Summer of youth still gloTines his
face under a mass of hair already WIN
tered with IntimeIy gray. His eyes
are the remarkable feature OF ms 1ace-
They are large, full and clear, q
a IimDid brown. which makes
them the rapid translator Of every
emotion-she sort of eyes which I'M
pressibIe maidens who have not OUT
lived their fondness for dark-eyeQ ne
roes, declare to be perfectly lovely,
Mr.. Blaine has all that good 1elIoW
and tthail fellow" element Whtch
makes him popular with men, and the
delicate suaVity and personal impress
ment which makes him general fay-
orite with women. He is said to be q
delightful travelling companion, and
tabIe-falker. He is impulsive, gener-
Gus, and kind-hearted but enough Of
a politician to keep his larger charities
walking steadily in the track of his in
terests, and not very far behind them.
He has won just honors enough to
make him want a great many more.
He has cast still higher stakes In his
political future, and is working stead
iIy, yet enthusiastically, toward them.
He is emphatioally rising man; and,
if he does not push on so hard and so
fast as to iostle and hurt other men
equally powerful, he is likely to reach
his highest mark. In this Overween-
ing quality lies his danger. For,
while his impulses prompt him to gem
erosity. his passion for success tends
toward overreaching. He certainly is
not tortured by that exquisite moral
sense which in the highest natures
holds ambition in abeyance. And
scarcely think that the moral tender
ness of his conscience Will ever be the
cath of him, true Republican and
agreeable gentleman though he be.
The Chair of the House has been so
long associated with the person of
Schuyler CoIfax that the House scarce
one cannot say that he looks "Rot at
dent. 1t is one of his characteristics
that he always brings reserved quail
ties to every new position. He pre-
sides with perfect dignity. over this
body of grave and reverend seignOrs, "
and sits as motionless in the Vice
Presidents desk as if he had not been
ac customedS to writing hundreds of
letters per day, and having good time
generally in the Speakers chair-alI of
which must seem a serious bore and a
fearful waste of time to such a busy.
man.