Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-01
Hon. II. S. Magoon for Congress.


the study Of our educated and aspire
| ing youth. In some respects his
traits are worthy of imitation.A But
imitation is seldom success, except
when applied to those modes OF
thought and action That may be con-
trolled by the Individual CD dice. The
man who knows by intuition all he
can ever know upon any subject,
whose first wow or glance is always
/ the most correos and reliable, has his
uses and advantages but be need
not attempt to model his mental
proc esses after those Of Magoon. BY
/ nature he is slow, cautious, studIous,
persevering and always enlarg1g
the boundary OF his knowledge upon
news question till it meets the linz
its ofh older ideas on matters and
questions adjacent to it. We remem-
Der his debut in Grant county 10 the
| wear 1857 or '58. We were but a
boy then, but the impression of
his personnel we cannot erase from
memory. His complexion was youth
full and fair but there was depth of
thought in that gentle. calm and al
most melancholy eye. Why should
we remember ii when We have for
gotten thousands of moro recent i'm
pressions There was a mysterious
force that enabled the young orator
in one effort, aud in that nothing ex-
traordnary, TO stamp his image and
memory upon the minds of his fell
low citizens in this County; so that
rolling years and the most startling
events u history occurring since have
not been able 10 eff4ce them. We
could repeat even now portions of
his language which be used on that
day in tho celebrated Green trial.
There was no spasmodic outburst OF
feeling, but u deep earneatness and
sincerity that gave unusual force
and effect to his address. 1t was
not simply Carhart that was muir
dered, but.a man. The speak
showed such an appreciation of the
dignity and possibilities of human
nature as invested life with infinite
value. TO take it without justifca-
ton was The darkest of crimes. Its
protection by the due punishment of
the mansIayer was the highest duty
and object of government. Mr.. Ma
COON has an inbred reverence for law
and Justice There is an unsolged
mystery in his nature, and the Green
trial offered favorable opportunity
for its exercise. The reality, or the
, illusion, ID this, that nobody has
ever heard Mr.. Magoon address a
jury or political gathering, although
be may have thoroughly exhausted
the subject or overthrown his oppo-
nent, but that such person went
: away with the impression that one
! speaker was held in reserve and not
exhausted.
, 1t is perhaps not mystery, but
it was to be expected IN Congress
sionaI district like this, that man
like Magoon so thoroughly convers-
ant with the past history of man, SO
, deeply Interested and thoroughly &C.
;, quainted with the affairs of his own
country and time, should be called to
! seat in the Congress of the United
States. He is as scholarly and pol
, lished as Sumner, as industrious and
E energetic as Schurz, and as true to
the principles Of Republican freedom
as Bon. Wade or Henry Wilson.
Whether Senator Magoon agrees
with his Congressional bi ethren or
not, they will all respect him for MS
individuality, integrity and firmness.
His manner of elertoneering for the
nomination, if it can be called such,
Is worthy of imitation. Senator
Young cannot complain that Mr..
Magoon ever interrupted a farmer in
Grant County AMI kept him from
work five minutes in attempting to
obtain his vote ut caucus. Nor did
he ever stop the mechanic at his
work for this purpose. Il he talked
with his fellow citizens during this
canvass it was on any other subject.
than that of his own nomination
But no man ever conversed with Mr..
Magoon for a quarter of an hour bat
that fels that he was proper person
to trust with the possibilities of
national legislation. Deeply read in
books he is not less acquainted wit b
men and the affairs and wants of his
country. He has studied its mater
ial interests. As to principles his
are as deeply imbedded as the rock
and yield no changes As to meas
ures which must be adjusted to the
requirements of the times, we may
we'll trust to his sagacious and eau
tious judgement.
gag Eina Dean Proctor. who has
sued Moulton for libel, is thus de-
scrbed by the New York Herald