Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-08-11
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Philadelphia Duy says something
sensible enough to gife our readers
Here is:
"Silence has shining virtues, but
it Is liable to Interpretations
Only the other day a Washington
correspondent exhausted the shall
low quiycr of his ridicale III d col
umn comment upon some member
who has never yet waved his fist OH
high and yelled 'Mr Speakerp--
This silent man is represented as
'one who has no opinions We
regret that his name is rot given.
A man in Congress without opih-
ions strikes us as something above
the ordinary. He is presumed to
have no opinions because be does
not, twenty times a day; afisb I'd
his place and demonstrate his lack
Of opinions. Happy man zen
trenched behind his newspaper or
writing letters to-chii 1t be that
this opinionless man writes letters
to his wife ? or sister or some bth
er reputable woman? No matter.
He has no opinions, because he Is
silent in his place. Therefore let
him be pointed at and lidiedled;
and when his term expifas, let his
constituents keep him at home. or
what use is a member of Congress;
unless he can yell like an Indian on
the war path, and drink oceans Of
whisky?
"There is another silent man III
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the readers
believe it or not. There is n silent
man at the other end of the avenue.
He never put himself forwerd as d
man wiser, or better, or greater,
than others. He entered the Union
army a Captain and became its
General. His communication were
yea, yea, and nay, nay;' his dis
patches were very brief-containing
very little about himself and much
about business. He never tried to
paint out the wrinkles on the iron
front of war with fire writing
Meeting an obstacle, he Numbered
away at it, and it was remoged.---
The Army of the Potomac had been
addressed and reviewed dd ndH8e-
am. Its annals were voluminous,
This silent man, who sI1okes-and
so few Americans do that, YOU
know-took the Army of the Poto-
mac from its anchorage On the
banks of the Rappahannock and
encamped it before Petersburg. His
dispatches on the way would not
fill page of foolscap. OF c6ufse
this man Of silence and eigars was
a fool. Everybody knows that be-
cause he held his peace, and put i'd
spread eagle into his conversation.
A public man who does not nros,
trophize the American eagle 6tice d
day is an idiot. Yet, this retieent
man succeeded, and received the
surrender of the chief Of reyoltE
The man who acted, by some inver;
sion Of natural law as expounded
by partisan journals, for cnee ac-
eomplished more than the men who
talked. We shall waste no time
in trying to explain this singular
anomaly.
"Now that the people have mad6
this silent man chief magistrate,
ought he not to drop his reserve,
and open his lips for much speechg
Ought we not to hear from him as
otten as three times a day, in re-
3ponse to the profound questioning
If newspaper reporters Should
his man of silence persist in hav-
ng some privacy? All great men
wear their hearts on their sleeves.
This man does not wear his heart
IN his sleeve, therefore he is not
.reat. He refuses to publish all he
.uows about foreign affairs; there
ore he knows nothing Of our re-
atoms with other nations. He
oes not dispatch the army to ar
est Juarez, said to be smuggler
S we'll as President of Mexico;
lerefore he is 4 fool.
whether of Aristotle, or Bacon,
r Whately, or Mill, we know not;
Mt this is logic, and the public
lay hereafter know q great and
ood man by his capacity for