Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-26

It is curious to observe that the further west
YOU 20 in America, the more gushing is the
" hifllutin go eloquence Of the popular orator.
In the East the superior refinement and the
larger experience have toned down the exuter-
auce even ot the stump speaker. IL is in the
West-iu Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee
that one finds the most startling exhibitions OF
" ,prell-eageism. Ia Kentucky and Ieuues-
see especially the rhetoric II the stump. the
State Legislature and the court room, is often
an amusing illustration Of the elastic property %
words, and the amazing variation Of which
similes are capable.
We have before NJ q verbatim report VI an
obituary speech, made not long ago IN the Texas
Legislature, which, as the reiator Of it remarks
is not inaptiy described by Byron;
"a zine sample. on the whole,
uf rhetoric, which tAe learned call rigu.ar''e-'
The orator, in lameniing the death Of one COL
one. Yell, colleague, proceeds, " Mr. Speaker,
it becomes NY duty 20 announce that Andrew
Jackson NeI 0f Yelville a member Of this body,
is no more. He has fell victim 60 the grim
and destroying tyrant, Death, who yesterday put
an end 90 bis mortal career, and he uoW lies
ufele-s ~ the pleasant hoarding-house 0f Nr--
Jones. on the hiil, where he and many other mem-
hers this we're House have long received every
care and attention from that estImable .aiy, bis
room beng now vacant and valuable for some
other h0lrler-'
Here the gushing culoEist was interrupted by
% member. "who thunderel from the benches OF
the opposition -
" NIr Speaker rise TO a pint Of order. 90
The Speaker requested Mr. Stumpy to state
hi, point of order
IL want 20 know, Mr. Speaker. If il is in
order for any member Of this we're House, in his
speech unto the memory OF a departed member.
to ring in a boariin' house KEEP by bis aunt,
and furnished by himself, on sheers It may
be parliamentary. hut I dosen't see It,"
The Speaker decided that the POINT wss not
well taken, the eulogist continued
" All this is too sollum, Mr. Speaker, tar me
to notice any silh imperience and side remarks
rs that air. I thought some infamous hyena
would be out here to-day, hoWliu rouuI the
grave Of our departed friend, foamiu' at the
mouth, cuashing his toothless jaws, and iroolin'
out his Intellectual and inperteut rage. With his
hide al kiverei over with welts MI sore and lis
gu-tin' from the lash aud hot poker ot terrewth,
he rolls over and over. and bites and tears and
soils himself. till he is justly offensive 90 this
House. But TO rt>oom my melancholy subjeck,
the deceased, Mr. Speaker, inueuchei in the
GLORIOUS armor Of patriotism, with his hand on
this we're record Of his'n could look the Ameri-
k.u eagle proudly in the eye, and defy chain
lightnin in any shape, or from any quarter 1t
might come-and when prostrated and emaci-
ated. he died at last on his prostratei bed at the
pleasant boariin house Of Mrs Jones, on the
hill, the thoughts Of this we're armor, and that
air record of his'n come to his wounded seusibi-
lities like a heavinly angel, and even death him
self couldn't SET HIN half IL turn jack." And
so on. Il is but Just to say that such harangues
are not fur samples Of Western legislative elo-
quence but they DO occur.-Olae ireet.