Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-08-24
THE LATE1 SEN lTOIs GEcDOU.
GALL.
4 EamaV [ab!c speech ana n Ter
IiJIe Guu.nIvnti,ry.

The memory of the late Senator Nc
! nougalI : doubtless fresh in the mint
of many Gifted, eloquent. aifahlr au'
accomplished the life and soul %
social parties, he had one failing
which cIung to him like ;hc ,Sessus
bore him to his doom What it was
The following remarkable speech. 1e
l.vere,l in the United States Senate
during :, debate on Senator wilson,
resolution t. prohibit the sale OF in
toxicatine liqnors in tie Capitol, vii
slow Here is the speech:
hfR PREsIDENT-It was once sail
that there are Is many minds as men.
aud there is no end to wrau"iing.
had occasion some years since tO dis
course with 4 rcvs rrud Doctor of pi-
vinitv from the State which has the
honor to he the birthplace. thI X. oi
thr President of this body. While
| was discours.ng with him, It lot OF
vile rapsca.liOns invited me to join
them at the bar | declined out o.
respect to the reverend gentleman in
whose presence then was. As soon
as occasion lad passed remarked Ia
the reverend doctor: ''Do not un,ler-
stand that / decline to join those
Young meB at the bar because | have
any objection to that thing. for it is
my habit to drink always in the front,
and not behind the door. He looked
at me with certain degree OF intero
CATION. then asked him, Doctor.
what was the first miracle performed
by our great MaStrr:' lie hesitatpl.
and | said To him, Was 1t not AT Ca
II .inGal!iiee, where he converted VA
pr lotto wine at Il marriage feast ::
He asspntp,l J asked him then, al
ter the ark had hsated un the lempcs
tauu> seas for forty dan : and nights,
AID rs it descended upon The dry land.
what WAS the first thing done hy Fa
tbrr Noah" He sand I,r did not I;nC "
rilat exactly. I'VE" said |. did ne
njt = ant vine: = Yes, h. remember
ci II tlIch.
asked him. DO vou remember
aay great poet that illustrated the
h'gler fields of humanity that did not
ii.nifv the use OF wine, from old Ho
mcr down = He did not ] asked.
Do Won know any great philosopher
that did not Use it for the eXaltation
of his intelligence z" DO YOU think.
Doctor that Il man who lived upon
pork and beet and corn bread, could
yet up into the superior rcgions-into
the ethereal Z" M he must
Take nectar on hi sh CIvmpus,
Ana hi ghJy mead l.. Iin.tliI.
l said tu him: Doctor, You are q
scholarly ran. of cnursr-a doctor,
If divinity. graduate of Yale; d.
Won remember Plato's Symposium -
Yes, he remembered that. | referred
him To the occasion when Agatho,
having the prize OF Tragedy at the
Olyh.iic games Corinth. On coming
ack to Athens was frte,l hv The no
bilitv and aristncracy ofthat ;'ity for
it was Il proud triumph TO Athens to
WI t. prize of Tragedy. Tuev got
together. at the house of Pheirus
and they said, Now we have been
every night tor these last six nights
drunk: let us he sober To night, AMI
we will start Il theme. which they pass
ed around the table as the sun gne;
round, or rs they drank their wine.
or as men tell story. They started
Il theme, il was love--not love in
The vulgar sense. hu- in its high sense
love of all that Is beautiful. After
thev had gone through. and after So
crates had pronounced his Judgment
about the true am beautiful, in came
Alcibiades with drunken body of
Athcnian boys. with garlands around
their headc to crown oil Socrates an,t
they said 80 those assembled: This
will not do we have been drinking.
and you havc not AMI after Aici
blades had made his talk in pursuance
Of the argument. in which he under
took to dignity Socrates, as remem-
1er it, they required (alter the party
had agreed to drink, it being quite
late in the evening, ard they had fin
ished their business in the wav OF dis
cnssion) that Socrates should drink
two measures for every other man $
one, because lie was better allie to
stand. And so, one after another, they
were Laid down on the lounges in the
Athenian style, all except an old ply
sician named AristodemuS, and Plato
makes him the hardest headed fellow
except Socrates He and Socrates
stuck at it until the gray cf the morn
ing, and then Socrates took his path
and went down to the groves and
talked academic knowledge.
After citing this instance said to
thi~ uivirc: DO Won remember that
L'ri Bacon s;,i'. II at Il man should
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