, 1874-03-29

! ened By his sedcntary habits, aud sttong gust
| Of feeling and passion, which SGT bis uca1t ny
ing, and almost invariably laid him up tor days
| He would have been more OF a man had ho TO.
/ that large body with more method, exercised
| more act1ve1y, and slept upon an emptler stom
ach. His habits wcro English in an America
| climate and with al American temperament.
must be accounted to the abuse Of Natures en-
[ dowmeuts by such men that they walk tn
| ground il mighty girth aad stature, and do no
| know how to use their arms or legs. Here vi
line physical being. who lived in street-cars ii
t. chair. st the end Of table, and iu bed, almos
| altogether. He never gratiiied his backbon
With q squirt on colt. He did not ride into th
wind Tor rose-color and appetite. Around hi
heart the fats collected tie muscles clinchct
like parasite-yiues around an unmatched tree
and tc died in strong mans agony.
Speaker Blaine was one Of the witnesses OF tht
deatll-bcd scene.
HE suffered intensely" said Blaine; "his
breath WAS fetched up like the painful drawing
Of wcll-buckess. His face contracted st the
point where the eyes in agony seek o!indiy fot
each other across the bridge of tho nose. pry1ne
through the porznge Of the Aead. as Shakespeare
says and an '0h!' came now and then from
his unconscious seEses."
HIS DEPENDENTS.
Mr. Blaine tells the following curious tale about
Mr. Sumner: -.
IT asked him one day what he expected OF the
co1ored race, that he Was giving 60 much time
"'weu,' he said, they will be q dependent
and a,niable peasentry, requiring. al the sa1e-
guards OF the national protection
II thought" continued Blaine. "that he ex-
pressed it well. Neither Mr.. Sumner, nor any
body, knew the. speed at which tho raco would
advance. Why, there are four OF five negroes in
Congress- whom nobody can attack with temerley.
There arc Lynch, Ransier, napier, Elliott; and
every year or so Wo discover a more capable
negro than re had. Gath" said Blaine, '.eyery
public man has his uses. We went ahead with
Reconstruction further than We e7or expected,
and anticipated years Of little difficulties by the
political quarrel we had with And1ow johnson.
Opposition extorted aggression, and Sumner,
Stevens, and those Radical innoysto1s took ad-
vantage Of Johnson's resistance to make tbair
measures those Of consolidated party"
asked Mr.. Blaine if be thought the work Of
Sumner would not now be suspended for years,
as to the remnant OF rights aud privileges re-
quired by tho African citizens. "Oh no!' he
answered, II think not. There's lockwood
Hoar = very substantial man, aud probably good
for many years OF public life who ho1is the same
ideas. The thing is started. aud it will go. with
more OF less speed, like everything inevitable in
our country"
III. Blaine added that, in the last ten years.
New England had produced three men of the
first rank in the Senate: Collamer: Fesaendenn,
ties possessed By neither Of the others, and
alluded with some humor and depreciation to
Summers reference TO Senator Foot, of Vermont.
as ''the walking gentleman of the Senate"
AS 4 n0ME~TbuRIsT.
The propenaitiea Of Mr. Sumner for travel led
him to many parts Of the country and taught
him much. Mr.. Titan J. Coi1ey, lsto Secretary
Of Legation to Russia, told me that, after the
Brooks ASSAULT Mr. Sumner Tas ordered to Cape
May, aud then to the top Of the PennsylSania
Alleghenies, where he stopped in the neighbor-
hood OF somebody Of local greatness, who forth
with wrote to Co1fey:
"Come over The gods ars herel"
Mr.. Cofrey took him over to Loretto. where
Prince Gallitzin had resided that Catholic
Russian, of note chiefly In tho annals Of the
Church, because he WAS convert and = Prince.
Such an experience must have had its influence.
Pennsylvania he's produced nearly all its great
characters from transplantation Gallatip,
Bayard, McKean, Audubon, Matthew (not Henry
Carey, Franklin, Girard. Stevens. What was
wholly original WAS not fine, unless James
Buchanan was. Why? Because the State
always lacked homogeneous purpose and char
acter. Faction and Gossip have ruled it for
ever, with their inevitably attendant corrup-
tons. Let this provoke reply. SO much tho
better.
11r. Summers visit to Chicago was embarrassed
held with him which ho felt wounded about, and.
believe repelled as partly false in report, and
wholly false in understanding and design. He
liked neWspaper-men; as who does not until
outraged? Allen OF good nature and the desire
Of affecting opinion often disnterestedly, like to
come close to the professional communicates Of
remark aud news. This should stimulate re-
6ponsiye faith in guild Of natural atfability
but how many men in tho press are carried away
with the consciousness Of power, and, instead Of
soltening with time and and achievement, like
life, they rage against the prison.
bars, md howl Il, unlike Sampson, they caauot
break the braces of tho temple. Tharo WAS an
element Of power in Sumner In his treatment or