Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-03-05
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PORTRAITS.

handsome man, with CLASSICAL features
which, beneath snow-drift of hair, look
out clear. pleasant and decidedly cool.
Senator Frelinghuyson, of New Jersey
too. is tall, gray-haired, fine featured
senatorial looking senator, with pleas
ant voice and winning manner.
Opposite Vice-President Wade listens
Senator Williams, of Oregon large
and rather imposing looking man, though
no one would suspect it as he sits crum-
pied up in his chair. His head is drawn
down into his shoulders; and we see,
looking forth from between straight locks,
a ssllow and rather stolid visage. How
brilliant this face may become when IL
Illuminated from within am unable to
say. 1t is certainly impassive enough in
repose.
The next listener is Senator Edinunds,
Of Vermont-a tall slim, bald-headed,
Roman-nosed, heavily-bearded gentle
man. He has the face of man with n
clear brain, cold temperament, and n
warm hear-for few. He entered the
Senate with some local prestige and
great personal pride rs n lawyer; both OF
which he has sustained To the satisfaction
OF his friends, and 10 his own satisfaction,
no doubt, for he holds an honorable posi-
ton in the Senate.
Senator Dixon, of Connecticut, with a
fine stature, has delicate, almost femi-
nine features, full of Kindness. He has
the sudden quick look and motion which
indicate n BRAIN alert, acute and ready.
But he has the temperament which is in
capable of long protracted effort.
Near him sits his opposite--ono of the
indcfatigable, the unresting-lienry VIII
son of Massachusetts,. Activity is TO him
the law of necessity. He will surely go
10 LYMAN Beecher's heaven, where the
angels are forever busy and never tired.
If he isn't righting his desk drawer, he is
writing, or reading or rushing about. |
doubt if he could listen 10 anybody for
more than five minutes-which, by the
way, is rs long space OF time as the
average speaker manages To keep HIM
self interesting. Mr.. Wilson has grown
aged somew hat within year or two ;but
the hair growing gray about his features
softens and retines their expression.
With no diminished strength, his face Is
deeper and gentler than it used to be, as
if, in the mysterious processes OF liie. the
springs of iunermost experience had
been touched.
Two Senators are marching up and
down the Senate Chambcr-Mr Sauls-
bury, with his hands behind him, and Mr..
Fessenden, with his hands i'll his pockets.
Senator Salisbury does not look as If he
intended to resign, although the legisla-
ture of Delaware have given him but ten
days for that purpose. He has done his
utmost 10 destroy the result, but nature
made him 10 be handsome man. Tall,
portly, with fine features, expressive
ewes, and a mass of black curly hair, he
bears with him the full insignia Of per-
sonal beauty and Of intellectual power.
To see such man reeking with tobacco
and rum is one of the saddcst comments
ON human frailty.
Senator Fessenden's great frontal head
droops rs usual. 1t is the droop one al
ways sees in persons whose vital func-
tons are inadequate To the demands oil
an exhaustive brain. Marked rs Mr..
Fessenden's intellectual acumcn Is, one
can't help thinking how much fuller and
freer il would be had be the elasticity of
health 10 buoy this massive brain into
JOYOUS activity. Now, in his presence,
one feels that through defective health,
rather than through q defective tempera-
ment, this great man has missed much OF
the glow and brightness of human life
which should have been his portion.
.Serenely IN his chair sits Senator Nor
gan, man who suggests very opposite
conclusions. To him has come the ut
most modicum of his gifts. In dress, in
figure, in face, he looks the prosperous
man. No malignant star has marred his
destiny. He has SO kind a face, l don't
like to criticize it; but it is the face of a
man with no power in reserve; every
force is trained and in action. H. the
perfect equipose of those mediocre pow
ers he has found the lifelong guaranty of
success. Honest and changeless the eyes
look out from under their shaggy brows.
An immoble face, it is easy to see what
the great artist meant who painted it. at
looks like him. said friend of Gov. NJ.
"but do you think that you have quite
brought the expression out?" 'There is
no more expression to bring OUT said
| the artist.
Tottering on two canes, there now
comes down the aisle man whose great
speeches on finance make not only Wall
Street. but the Bourse of Paris and the
Exchange of London, tremble. Nature
endowed Senator Morton of Indiana,
with a great brain above powerful
body: and thus far both have triumphed
over mortal disease. In him We see the
full motive temperament, muscular, ten
acious, dominant. His head is large and
round rather than high. with causative
faculties largely developed. lie has
black hair and beard, and pallid COM