Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-11-22
TWO ENGLISH LEADERS.
WILLIAM EwART GLADSTONE.

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hear his voice and look upon hi
face Imagine tall man, six feet il
his stockings, with q massive head
q good strong body, sparse
side whiskers, just whitening with
years, pair of dark eyes, deep al
an abyss, with the thoughts anC
struggles of mighty spirit welline
up-frm lips and cavernous eye
brows, q massive and persistent
under jaw, the limos of the face
strongly marked and indicating by
their rigidness the conflict that has
been going on inwardly for years
and dress that figure up in deer
black upper garments and mixed
trousers, and you have something
like the Premier OF Great Britain as
| saw him in his seat on the end OF
the Treasury benches in Parliament
One leg is thrown over another in a
negligent and thoughtful attitude
the head being bowed forward on the
breast, while every few minutes be
raises his eyes with wonderful
mystery glittering in them to the
face of the member who has the
floor, as if he were taking the men
tai measurement of the speaker.
The face represents a fierce enthusi-
asm which can kindle into great
deeds, or express with glance
great thoughts.
This wonderful man started in life
as high churchman and tory, be-
Loving that all bishops should know
Greek and acknowledge the apos-
tolic succession, and now he is an adj
vanced liberal, but opposes woman's
suffrage as a dangerous measure. In
religion Gladstone sticks to his Ok
ford teachings, and this is best prov
cd by his Episcopal appointments,
nearly all Of whom are high church.
men.
How grandly the sentences roll
from the lips Of the scholarly pre-
mier, az ho stands up to reply to
some attack on the administration.
Every sentence is rounded, full, con-
else and flowing, and every phrase
seems chosen with elegance. He is
a marvellously brilliant speaker, but
it is better to hear him than to read
his speeches, which, though perfect
literary compositions, are yet, in
type, brilliant and dry distractions,
while the contrary may be said OF
Bright's speeches, whose productions
sound better in a report than they
do whom they are delivered.
And now ho has done, and sits
down, slamming his hat on his head
and reclining back, with his eyes
glued on his shirt bosom; and from
the opposition benches at the other
side Of the house, tall, massive fig
ure, which is radiant with jewelry
aud surmounted with roll of black
curly hair, rises to answer Mr.. Glad
stone. 1t is
BENJAMIN DIsRAELI.
His face is corrugated, his nose
like an eagles beak-curved like
those on Roman coins, or just such a
nose as Titus encountered by the
thousand, under piercing, almond
shaped black eyes, in the court of
the holy Of holes. when the chosen
people fell in heaps behind their
shields, only glad to die for Jerusa-
lem.
Yes, there Is one of that same
wonderful, pIucky race, which have
survived hundreds Of years Of war,
pestiIonce, famine, persecution and
contumeIy, and now finds its best
representative in Benjamin Dsraeli,
tho author of "Tancred," "Conings-
by" "Henrietta Temple" and do
THAR" that book Of books. This is
the same Jew whom O'Connell thun-
dered at thirty years ago, and whom
he denounced as the lineal descend
aHt Of the impenitcnt thief who died
upon tho cross. Thirty-three years
ago, this man entered parliament and
made his maiden speech, or attempt
ed to make it, as q member from
Maidstone. The crowded house
laughed at him that night-men who
were used to Canning and Henry
BroughGm to that consummate or
ator, Daniel O'Connell, and TO the
brilliant fireworks of Richard Labor
Shiel--laughcd at the young member
with the Jewish beak and profile,
and he sat down discounted, but
not beaten, crying out to the house,
which was indulging in cock crow
ing and geese cackling at his expense,
"You will not hear me now, but you
shall hear me yet"
He il an older mUn now, and has
been successful in every thing he has
attempted. Hear how he dashes in
to Gladstone's eloquent sentences
with his biting, whitening words OF
sarcasm how he overthrows the
airy editice which the liberals were
just now contemplating listen 70
the fiery words of this master Of wit
and trenchant, cutting invective-in-
voctivo that spares no feeling or cher
ished opinion, but bares tho breast
of the minister like the surgeons
hand, plunge still deeper the scalpel
in the roots Of the wound.
Now be has done, and he sits
down, and members crowd around
him and congratulate him, but he
receives their incense with that
wearied, Indifferent air, that seem:
to say, II have been Premier myself
and | think it to be q small place
for man of ability"
And so,the night passes on ia thC
House, member after member get
ting upon his honorable legs, anc
the small hours come on apace, anC
the small talk continues, and tn,
Speaker comes in and goes out, yeI
SSH the House remains in committed
"a very wearisome night 1t IL, anC
hot and close in the galleries, anC
many sleep the sleep of exhaustion
in the legislative arenS-while off il
the green fields and grassy meads
by lakes and rivers, the dew fall
heavily, and the English moon shine
with q soft light all over the broad
land. Palace aud H0rei.