Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-17

VINO mas uuutiSd biiS Se'HNS eAiA Q
Don Piatt thus describes tine conflict:
Box AND cox.
Since the return of our witty little
friend TO mis- piac. in the Cave Oh the
w ,iads, there mas Deen 4 restiess sgate Oi
am0as tne honorable mein-
hers Tie belief ootAIue JnatsOoner Vi
la TIA aforesaid wJIid aUtack BenJa-
mia B., the pagnactod5 Fappertr Mira
bsau of the Hodse. Tais grew o1t or the
was the two nave eyed eacn other nom
time to time. Nature has endowed Us
aII Iavith the instructive knowledge OF
o,lr enemies. And when Sammy and
Ben. met on the floor, each felt IN his
bones that scalp had to be taken, and
the feeling spread to such an extent tnat
Democratic members stuck 10 their
seats,} regardless of the fascinations OF
steaaied, oysters, pretty lobbyists, or
the dear old games of sledge and poker.
Innocent Democratic mem bers meet IN
each others rooms and play old siedSe
for the drinks, while the very wicked
indulge in poker, going as high, some
times, as a Y on a null hand. These las
cinagions, / say, failed TO draw, for the
Democratic side, long oppressed by old
Tappertit's snarls, snaps and sneers,
wanted to be present when little Sammy
".went 4ior land "pulled down the beast
-da,n n hin?p a 4'i"
Yesterday the mill came off: The
House was fun ,and the galleries crowd
ed.s Bsnj.s B., the -beiiigeremt- beast
opened uy moving repeal OF tue law
allowing mileage. He was attacked by
several members of his own side, and in
q lull on part of the Republican mem
bers, Sammy rose. immediately there
was a rush, and from both parties came
a crowd to iistea. Our former Ohio
member began with mock defense Of
Benjamin. With an easy self-assured
manner, and clear voice, he hit out right
and left, aud as each little hit went
home, the Democratic faces lit up like
lanterns. My exceilent friend Smiler
could have taken lessons from the broad
grins sthatleKhibited seventy-odd sets of
false teeth, and an intense sense OF Dem
ocratie satisfaction. Nor were the Re-
publicans less pleased. The Hon. Tap
pertit 1B. had so bullied and abused
them that they were delighted to see
him baited. .-511TJi "' '-
The trouble s. S. experienced, how
ever, was that all the raw places had so
often been touched with the whip that
the effort lacked novelty. From the
jeff. Davis, through Dutch Gap, to the
fearful explosion OF the powder-ship,
very event had been not only used, but
referred 20 in such deXterous way that
nothing was left. Even the smart
Bingham had exhausted the bottle and
spoon, and had to fall back on Pope in
his latter discussion. -...., a- E.. ..fe-
However, Samuel acquitted himself
very well, and sat down with his back
ers decidedly content, looking at each
other with an expression that said,
Never mind that is only the skirmish
line ;gwe'H hear the big guns directiy.h ~
The Hon. .Tappertit b. jumped to his
feet, and swung for a moment as if bal
ancing his belly over his slender legs,
and bringing his off-eye to bear on the
Speaker, and fixed the ether ON Farms
worth, and then, in that voice of his,
that resembles saW-mill with bad
cold, began a reply to the attacks of
Farnsworth and others on his own side
This, to the establishment of all, he con-
tinued for some time. He seemed to
ignore his real antagonist. With cool
impudence he charged Fsrnsworth with
insinuating things against his character
no one had dared utter directly. This
of itself was so iIdicrous that it made a
superb opening TO go in on him precisely
=. as Cox had commenced. He had been
openl y charged on the floor with every
crime known to the calendar, and had
not even resented the assaults by words,
let alone the other means to which he
referred; and now he spoke with solemn
emphasis insinuations. And so he cor
tinued, until the House had about con-
ecluded that he declined the fight through
fear, as he had done once before when
assaiied by Schenck. But at the close
he suddenly turned, as if he accidentally
remembered that somebody had been
after him, andisaid: os l' o1 d. gi-
.'Asfor thegentiemen from New York
Mr.. Speaker, the reply that [ have TO
make to him may be heard wllistled by
every boy, and ground out from every
hand organ on the Avenue, and that is,
'Shoo fly, don t bodder me. ~ ~ l
The manner of doing THIS was superb.
There was such an air of utter indiff-
erence,T such good natured contempt,
that floor and galleries broke with bois
ferrous laughter and applause, which
died down and broke out again, and
rolled and ratified through the Gave for
five minutes. / must do4the old scamp
the Justice of saying that it wascapital-
it was superb--it was artistic. The bull
had caught the little boy upon the tip
end OF his long horn, and tossed it into
the haymow. The point took Coxy in
such tender place. Like all small
men he is sensitive about his size, and
here without word was am ugly re-
ference to it. i- -. I--.s -s.iHD.Ii ia.
Had Cox taken moment for refiec-
ton he would have come back and
floOred the old fellow. Cox can do it. He
has wit that strings, and a humur 10
wing it. q [ have heard that humor go
buz-buz for a few seconds, and then the
sting that made the biggest sort of fell
low how'll ~ -iisi.a g .sil.'..
While the laughter was ringing about
5me Ilexpected to see him rise cool, self
possessed, and, with an injured air.
.deprecate the conduct of the gentleman
in thuseasting off the only tender OF
friendship and support ever made him.
He should have said that he COX was
brayer than the gentieman's allies, fol
while they dared not attack him, he
.tCOXl dared defend him.. He stood
prepared to sustain him against the
charge made byh (Butler's) political
associates, that he was the meanest,
,hest cowardly, corrupt old scoundrel
aGod.eyef, from some unknown reason,
seton endtO curse humanity. He, {CoX.
in bis denbsfriendship,, was prepared
toihurl back in teeth of the political
associates Of the gentleman from Mas
-sachucetts the charge basely insinuated
that, he( BatleI) had never had a friend
that he had not forsaken, nor a parry
that he. had not betrayed, nor princi-
-plethatl he had not corrupted to his own
yilepurposes. He Cox could never be
made believe that the gentleman had
sought, as charged, to break up the
Democratic party to bring on a war, nor
that he bad gone into the war to plum
der the9people. He Cox denied that
the fig and vine tree that sheltered the
gentleman from Massachusetts, grew
rank and heavy from graves. He was
prepared to deny all this--in q word,
he propOsed to astonish Ihe world .hy d