The Portland daily press., 1870-10-03
Terms $500 per- AMMAN, in adrance.

braska bill by Atchison and others, the fire.
eaters OF the South. They threatened to drop
hlm il he would not yield to all their de-
mands.
10 advocate dsunion is 10 gain the favor
OF tnis administration THAT of Pierce). The
last iorelSn appointment was an editor from
MoDlle 10 Mexico, whose last editorial was IN
favor OF disunion. Those disunion dogs, vul-
gar fellows, get the appointments. One wrote
that nasty, Sinking letter from Turin. As
soon as it was known there they dropped him,
sir; would not notice him as a man at all i'm
that refined circle; paid him only the atten-
ton due representative from the United
states; made a distinction between the man
anu tne representative, you understand, sir.
In Missouri last Summer, when | was
e..,hpihg the State, two anti-Benton men
misneu 10 get look at me for the first time,
ouI "o,iu not come into the room and so
peeped IN at the door. L was -tanding up,
engaged IN an animated conversation with
some friends, and suppose looked more viz
orous than usual, and one turned to the other
and said, GOOD God! we shall have to fight
him these twenty yeaIsw L keep my health
by horse back riding L might be taken by a
foreigner for Gen .Pelisser, on my black horse
Few ride so well as l ride l was once, when
riding on my black horse, with my little
grandson on his white pony, taken for a rid
ing MASTER Few public men have kept
horses to ride. Mr.. Randolph, who rode much
on horseback, was an exception.
Contrary to the general opinion Mr.. Ran
dolph was very industrious man, and labor
ed much in the committee room. My seal
was given me by him, after his duel with
Clay. You will see all about it in my "Thirty
Years View" He ordered it for me in Lon
don, searching out the co9t-of arms OF the
Benton family. He said the motto should be
Fdctis ct uer6is, instead Of Facts non uerbis.
.IOhn l)nInPu Adams vya n mos lnIn
trious man ever knew.a have often been
& npared with him in this respect, though |
caanot compliment myself so highly. i am
now engaged on nv sTAbridgement of the
Debates of Congress-" in about sixteen vol
umes, which will occupy me two years. l
hope to live till 1860, and the remaining two
years intend to devote to history OF Pierce's
administration.
l have no favor's however, 10 ask of this
administration, none, sir. Mr.. Pierce had the
high honor TO come in almost unanimously,
and will go out with as great unanimity. AT
the Cincinnati convention he did not know
that Douglas had withdrawn, and was pre-
sented in the pitiable condition of holding on
to the last for nomination, after lis chances
had become hopeless.
am much younger than Cass, Van Buren,
and the other statesmen of my own age, much
more vigorous than Buchanan. Last sum-
mer, in my electioneering campaign in Mis-
souri,, made forty addresses OF two to three
hours each, to acres of people, under a solsti
tlal sun, successive days, and Travelled twelve
hundred miles over rough roads, much unlike
yours in New England. l have ever been
temperate and careful of my health.
Silas Wright and Mr.. Webster were very
unlike. Mr.. Webster was more labored and
rhetorical. The arguments OF Mr.. Wright al
ways seemed to be evolved naturally from
the subject. He was very simple in his man
ner and habits, and a most amiable man.
1 remember reading in letter of Timothy
Pickerings where he spoke of his fondness
for baked apples, the apples taken from trees
planted by himself. l knew he must be
man of simple tastes, for no one who has PAM
plain diet as baked apples. II had always
consulted others, l should never have done
anything. There are ever tiWid to hold
one back.
My feelings in 1880 were all Southern, and
I did not believe Southerners entertained dis
union sentiments. l supposed they merely
meant notification in the Virginia sense,
which was simply remonstrance. l do not
think Hayne was a disunionist at that time,
though he became so few years after; but
Calhoun was. Webster saw through their
disunion schemes before / did.
Douglas is now further from the Presidency
than ever. The South will ruin him.
The abolition Of the Missouri compromise
killed poor old Cass.
Mr. Clayton was a very indoent man. He
was accustomed to take off his clothes and 90
| to bed at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. His soft
| looking flesh indicated his habits.