The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-03

hear it. Ho snys that when c,e., i,.i,, I
ION, beg slDg "f the question. and siIs.
thrusts are requisite to defeat. an inves,i-
CATION, the pubic may we'll open their
ears and know the matter in hand. A. |
this everybody's ears are well alert, and |
the speech goes on. Every sentence in IL |
is curt, sharp, and manly. Every point
IN II Is gcntle'nah's point, never intended |
for mouths of lowest censure.' Without
much temperament in the speech, it climos
its way up towards classical clmaxcs.
Very soon you en- see Morton's hands
working and hi, mouth pickering; you
can see Conkling sticking his head down
into some imaginative document and pre-
tending TO be deeply meditatng It. You
can see Harlan reading the Cherokee bill
and counting the moments of his seat in
this body. You can zee Nye Shipping
around in the rear, and suggesting some
grave FEASIBILITY to somebody who is lis.-
ening too intently.
But, looking away from these place
getters on the floor of the senate into the
| galleries you will note that every eye is
bright with appreciation, and every ear
eagerly intent to catch every syllable
which the "Dutchman utters.
THE MODE or DOING 1T.
lie stands before his desk with his hand
upon the back of his chair, and upon the
desk are book upon book, ready to De con-
suited, and nobody knows better than he
that the lesst slip in the line of his argu-
ment will be made matter Of triumph to
the chaps that fear him. To make a
speech like one of Schurzs lie, in great
part, a consecutive, documentary matter,
demanding the fullest, clearest sagacity.-
capacity to bring up in order, without hes
itat'an, every piece of paper, every calcu-
lation, every book before him, and these
books, in the case of the present speech
were in many languages, and the man, n;
linguist, had to translate them off-hand
as well as to be an orator No speeche:
made in Washington City have trodden
closer and more severely upon the direct
path Of argument than those of Schurz
His power lies, tor the trunk part of 1t, en-
tirely in tho force of consecutive state
ment of fact. With this argument, h
proceeds keenly, undeviatingly, straight
forwardly. Now and then, when poin
logically in its place is to be made aCains
political opponent, he steps aside from I'll
contemplation of his manuscript and vi
= ters it with additional forceand splcndor
SO that it pierces and makes blood for tn
instant hutter Mt the heart of every liz,
ener. As the thing goes on you see tn
additional interest of the galleries and tn
growing fury of the factionist. You Gu
u see that the people are with the man, an
the place. etters distressed for the point
he Is making on them. Wien lie say
sycophant" You can see shudder in I'll
shoulders OF Conkling and in the heart {
l. Morton. No revenge which they are CT
pable of, under an enlightened form
government, is adequate to meet this da
cs ing intellectual champion. He overcome
h. unmanliness with manliness, and meanne
with honor. He describes Mr.. Rose
Conkling without mentioning him, und
re a returned and reapplied form of speec
or Before he has finished, every independe
soul in the senate is marshalled to his sid
Heavens |" says listening reporte
,f- sis not this your idealization of your
I'M mans accomplishment of fame Look
him, and see how these fellows hate hin
how he holds the people, and yet witho
Il particle of dcmugogery.'
Such is Schurz on one of his great ocC
sions-a young man, making his poin
lberalizing the country, terrifying terrc
They only retort is the language of Ne
el ton, that this man put a democrat in I
IA senate, and lost "the party y its represe
10 taiive from Missouri. And yet, look
or Missouri to-day-perfectly content,
,ll perfectly orderly, inducing immigratic
ne developing its railway system, rivalli
Or. the old states in the country in populati
ed and let US answer the question as
nv. whether Carl Schurz committed a blund
ir when he prompted the conservative st.
mr. Compare Missouri with Louisiana or Gee
nj. gia, and which state is in the hands
of statesmen
nd This WAS the "Dutchmnn'sn undertake
M and it has been ms complete II success
that "Dutchman's' part as ~hen Kai'
wilhelm made United Germany out
the hodge-podge of Northern Europe.
CHI. Mr.. Morton, Mr.. Conklng, all the r
ous -"the Dutchman' has come to stay
per biography is II part of the history of t
the West. 1t is an ilustrious chapter IN /
ess history of Missouri. You may have be-
'ell in your turn, great war governors. T
ip- man was director Of the peace of Nilsson
his and his fame in the senate of our coun,
ate is achieved.