Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
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serves OF certain Cougressin-n.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Times, "Olivia,n
touches up some OF the members Of
the Fory-Third Congress as follows:
Like IN expiring flame in it's socket,
Alexander Stephens seems thrust into
his sea, and one is at "A loss to- know
whethe' he is a dead man come to life,
or live man in the last throes of death.
The grsve seems working out its awful
secrets the full blaze of day What
brave fight with the King of Terrors
The earthly tabernacle is not consumed
with fitful fever. There is y melting
away of the human rame as the walls
of tAe snow palace disappears under
therays of the arctic sun. A private
SECRETARY speaks for him, acts for him.
1t nay be said he has two bodies to his
soui-few equals but no superiors in
| thelbouse-a living sword suspended
by b SPIDERS web When he whispers
"A double presence is felt. II is the
shiiow OF the inexorablr.
Not far away another Southern man
= real child OF the Tropics-Lucius
q &c. Lamar, of Mississippi. AS one
uf.the Committee uf Arrangements at
the late Hon. Samuel Hooper's funeral,
hdwore a broad Grape weed on his hat,
grey pautaloons, dark green gloves,
aud sky-blue neck-tie, aud with all
| histaste in dress he showed more feel
ing than any other member. Although
hehas lived half century, he is in the
| full flush and dash of boyhuod.
| Though he was a fierce rebel during
| oui "late unpleasautness, he is now
thoroughly reconstructed, which proves
! thtt boys can he whipped into proper
submission. Instead of going back to
Mississippi to teach his late constitu-
ems what he has learned in Congress,
hetravels to New England, that be-
nighted stronghold of moral darkness,
! to light the anti Grant fires on thou
sard hills.
'By the prcking of ones thumbs"
the American gladiator is coming
down the aisle. All hail, Benjamin
+. butler, Of Massachusetts,! He now
| talks the floor. For an instant the
confusion ceases, whilst this lion Of
| the Republican party shakes his name.
| With what disdain he measures the
| ferotious sheep around him. This
! Goli,h will soon be shorn of his po-
liticil locks, but his enemies are
varied that his wonderful eyes re-
| naiV. by far the most remarkable
man in either branch of Congress,
mad, up wholly of contradictions aud
extremes; God-like in his finest sensi-
bilitihs, but implacable az satan in his
| wors,. With "a mental vision which
will not allow the smallest tritle to
escape il, and a memory so retentive
that IL keeps all it gets like the tomb (;
mountain of knowledge and al ocean
of intellectual strategy, resource and
tact. Like the warning tnunderbOlt,
! he carries in his existence the germ OF
good or evil. If he has done his part
| towards destroying the Republican
party, unlike his mosquito brethren in
| Congress, he has seized and slain 1t as
! "A lion does an OK. No waman can
make proper estimate OF this man,
! because Of the short length of her
mental tape-line. General Butler is
still speaking, and the tall man stri.
ding across the floor, who attracts all
eyes and looks like the picture OF Hen
ry of Navarro, is j. L. G. Shanks, o
! Indiana, who will soon have the priv.
iege of going back to the swampl
state of two-headed children, for a
twelve o'clock he will politically ex
pire.
Leaning like the Tower Of Pisa, bu
sure to fall within an hour, may h,
seen Representative Crutchtield, 0
Tennessee. His unkempt locks ar,
seldom annoyed with comb and brush
and he is clad I'm the good old States
Rights uniform Of Confederate grey
There has been great deal of dir
eaten by the Forty-third Congress, bu
the Hon. William Crutchfield is tn,
only man accused of carrying out th'
performance by means of the teeth
Once a clay-eater, the habit is fixed 70
life.