The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-11

liable speech Oh the glories of Duluth
and the Northern Pacific railroad set
the whole nation laughing last sum-
mer, is at it again. In a recent speech
he drew the following picture OF the
military and political career of General
Harlan, the Radical candidate for Gov
ernor OF Kentucky:
THE CANDIDATES
Kentucky must furnish the vanguard
! OF the Democracy in this contest She
has ever been true 10 her prestige; hav-
ing ever performed her duty, true and
faithfully, she will do it in this crisis.
Ii, sand he. the approaching election IN
volved no more than the mere express
sion OF personal preference between
the candidates present,d for our sui.
TRACES, | should not have a single word
TO say. For while am aware that no
enlusy OF mine could lend solitary
ray OF additional lustre to the bright
escutcheon Of Governor Leslie, would
scorn to stain u single leaf in the gilt
tering chaplet that entwines the brow
Of General Harlan. Applause.
HARLAN DULUTHED. Z
have known him long and well as
most genial gentleman, a profound
lawyer, aud scholar OF varied and dis
tingulshed attachments, and taken all
in all, a man Of whom am personally
iond As public man ] am Tree TO
acknowledge, that he has perhaps the
advantage OF Governor Leslie. Re.
nowncd alike
AS A WARRIOR
and statesman, his career has been
such as to dazzle the enraptured vision
ufevery beholder with the associated
splendors of a thousand brilliant
achievements, which constitute the
brightest gems in the diadem of his
country's glory Grtat Applause
His military record especlal is the
theme upon which every patriot must
delight to dwell. Applause
confess | cannot recur to 1t without
! ltSllnS every hotC anu tisouC W III We
IN Jingle with thrill OF martial ardor
! Laughter and applause. ] remember
now his impatient blade leaDed from
It's scabbard, when the first notes O.
civil discord echoed along he lowering
horizon o 1851, or how it cleaned like
meteor along his terrible pathway, a.
lie swept like a tornado 10 the dread
carnival OF death. The awful sublim.
ity OF his going forth to immediate HIM
self upon the blood-sla>ncd altar OF
patriotism will haunt me 10 my dying
day. [Applause.l 1t reminded me OF
Ossians description Of Cuthullin, as he
rushed in the sound Of his arms like
the terrible spirit Of Lola, when be
comes in the roar Of q thousand storms,
scattering battles from his eyes. I'M
menseapplause. What deeds OF proves
he might have won upon the CORY field,
what hecatombs OF slaughtered reoels
might have gone down beneath the bit
ing edge Of his trenchant blade, had he
ever succeeded in meeting his countrys
foes upon the perilous ridge Of battle,
the pen OF history vii never tell, for
ere he had an opportunity to quench his
blazing brain in the blood OF traitors, he
was called from the paths Of martial
glory to the more arduous duties OF civd
life. Great laughter know we
much needed his distinguished services
IN the cabinet. am willing to admit
that there was not another lawyer in all
thelength and. breadth OF the Common
wealth, from Maysville to Mills Point
who was capable of discharging the
distinguished functions of the office OF
the Attorney General laughter !, yet |
can not but deplore the memorable nee
essitv which compelled him to quit the
tented field and bid farewell forever to
"all the pomp and circumstance OF glo-
rious war" In fact, consider the res
isnation Of General Harlan as the direst
calamity that could have befallen our
beloved country under the circumstan'
ces Tlaughrerl, tor am satisfied that
had the Confederate leaders been con-
WINGED that there was no other means
of escaping direct conflict with General
Harlan upon the open field, they would
have laid down their arms at once"
Renewed laughter. But when Lee,
and johnson, and Beaures ard ascer-
tanned that General Harlan had resigned
they plucked up fresh courage and de-
termined to prosecute the war TO the
bitter end Laughter
Ii can, however, be said OF General
! Harlan, as it can OF but few military
heroes OF equal proves and reuown,
that when his .dimmed eye rested
tor the last time upon the war-worn
forms OF his command, when he bid
them a last long adreu upon the tented
| field, he had the proud satisfaction OF
knowing that he had never led them
into danger in his life. Prolonged
laughter and applause =,
| But while could dwell forever with
increasing raptures upon This delightful
theme, ! could not withhold fitting
tribute to his equally brilliant and eH-
traordinary career ,rrT
! req. AS A STATESMAN.
7 Endowed by nature with a genius ca
pable of embracing in single grasp
every theory Of governmental science.
his public life has been a perfect poiti-
cal kaleidoscope. exhibiting in every
| ooltnoa;vobIe variety of combination,