Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-04-13
Yates and Salisbury.

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= tors especially notorious for in
5 briefly, in q manner at once charit
+ bic, tender, and affecting:
2 With Senator Salisbury will val
. ish one Of the most memorial.
? faces ard forms of the senate. 0
J the democratic side Of the senat
he is the figure head, as Charlie
Sumner is on the republican. No
to see Salisbury with his hand
deep in his pockets, glowering u
and down behind the last tier Q
senatorial chairs, restiYe and def
ant as a Gagged lion, but his pale
trim, temperate brother Ell" il
his seat will be to see new senate
To look upon, he is a great leonin,
man, noble to behold, though h
does not chew tobacco, and mOcl
with strong drink. | have seen hin
on the street corners exchanging
"chews" on terms of perfect hal
equality with ono of the despised
race, which he ragged over the mex
day in the senate as very little
above that of a baboon. | have
seen him empty his stomach in the
gutter and then drop down and lie
in it, and | have seen him one OF
the grandest looking of men, clad
in faultless black and spotless linen
walking beside Mrs. Jefferson Da-
Wis on fair June Sabbath { (which
her husband spent at Fortress Mon.
roe) gallantly and devoutly carry
ing her prayer book to church. /
have heard him recall to a friend
by his side the days ofhis boyhood,
and when he aud eli" played to-
gethcr in the old barn and slept in
one he'd, and each told the other
all his heart, each loved the other
so much that they couldn't quarrel.
And in this recital there were
touches of a generous nature which
told that God had made this man,
in the beginning true, loving and
noble. He stands six feet high, and
is large in proportion. His head
is covered with abundant black hair,
just touched with silver. He has
black eyes and finely cnt features,
and when he is himself, a most
winning expression, In early life
he studied fol the Episcopal min
istry, aud even now when he as
sumes the "white choker," as he of.
ten does, looks like one. With
him and Richard Yates, on the 4th
of March, departed tie last of the
inebriate senators. There may be
plenty of drinkers" left, but no
other "drunkards"
"Po0r Dick Yates" as his breth-
ren so often call him. Probably
never did living man battle harder
than he had done with an over
mastering appetite. An inherited
one, born in his blood, no one not
thus cursed can dream of the pow
of such foe, nor judge by the
right the sin of the soul that at last
sinks vanqrished. Brave, gener-
ous and child hearted--as the vic
i'm of the winecup often is-Illi
lois loved this, her favOrite son,
owed him for herself and for all
hat he had done for his native
State: trusted him, bore with him,
,rusted HIM again-even when
through weakness of the will he oft
betrayed her faith. How he strug-
gled to be worthy of that trust in
,he highest legislative council in
.he nation, he and his God only
knows. But there came an hour
when it was too late; when atfec-
ion, and intellect, went down for
ever before the insatiate foe, and
Yates, but the wreck of
himself, to day trembling in the
'eat, counts the days when his
,lace will be filed by another.