Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-22
RAlLROAn SPEECH Of con-
GRESHAM wOODBuRN.

RAlLROAn SPEECH or CON.
GRESHAM WOODBURY..
Over four columns of the Enterprise
received by yesterdays mail are de-
voted to a verbatim report OF the
.sSpeech of Hon. William WOODBURY.,
delivered ia the House of Representa-
tives April 9Th, 1876" on the subject OF
the Texas Pacific Railroad. The
speech may have been delivered. but
II %, It failed to excite that attention
which its subject matter and the con-
scious eloquence OF its sentences would
osem to demand. We saw nothing of
it, either in our own culled dispatches
or in the full report Of our exchanges
Of the Associated Press. The sth day
Of April fell upon . Saturday, a dsy
which We all know has, for years, been
devoted to granting leave TO modest
members to print uuspoken eloquence
for the benefit of their uniformed con-
stituents. We are strongly inclined to
the opinion that the distinguished Rep
resentative from Nevada never delir-
cred any such speech rs the custom Of
the House has authorized him to print;
and that this exposition of his views
will have less effect upon the action of
Congress in this MATERIAL import
ant to his constituents though it be-
than An April shower would have upon
the Bog of Allen. This affair of hy-
pothelical ~utterances, printed for bnn-
combe, is played out. 1t may do with
some constituencies, but the people of
Nevada are too we'll informed, are too
eager devourers of the daily papers, to
be deceived by any such false pre-
lenses.
It may, however, be fortunate for
the interest which Mr.. Woodburn ad-
vocates that his speech was no de-
livered in the House but consigned to
she oblivion Of the columns Of the
Congressional Record and the Terri
trial Enterprise. Mr.. Woodburn had
q strong case, . case in which he was
fortified alike by fact and precedent,
and in which he had the moral aid and
sympathy of owe nine out of ten Of his
constituents irrespective of party. He
Wal pleading before . great tribunal
the cause Of hundreds of thousands of
his fellows and friends, q cause in which
was involved the material prosperity
Of q great empire. Cicero had nc
stronger incentives when, in words
which will live forever, he pleaded the
cause o fSicily against verres. Burke
did not treat Of a greater matter when
f,r two days he held spell bound all
the wit and learning of Great Britain in
his ~invective against the oppressor of
India. Yet we venture to say that any
OF our readers who has ever CHANGED
to drop into . magistrates Office at the
morning hour has heard from the lips of
the attorney for defendant in a d. d..
case, an argument more replete with wit
and logic; an argument more directly
addressing itself to the object in view,
that Is, persuasion. one-half Of his
speech is devoted to quotations from
brother members VINO have preceded
him and with whom he agrees; anoth-
or half he employs in endeavoring to
prove (what nobody disputes) that the
Democratic party of California has pro-
nounced in favor OF the Texas Pacific
railroad; and the remainder of his
speech-Mr. Woodburn will nationally
excuse our BULLS occupied with Q re-
hash Of the old familiar statements con-
corning discrimination OF freights and
fares" and the old familiar charges
against the Central Pacific magnates
personally. This is, we believe, Rep
rssentative Weodburn's first appear
ancs oratorically. We trust it may be
his last.
TIE fAet that the grave Of Captain
Jack, the Modoc warrior, sank down
last summer created great discussion;
and to put all speculation ct rest, the
grave was opened . few days ago, whom