Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-12-22

Pictured by Mary CIemmer in the Independent.
In front seat sits Ben Hill" of Georgia.
His head is bent in deep study and he is
waving his long lean foot defantly; tall,
bent, sour-loOking man. He says he is not
going to be muzzled, this session; 80 it is
not difficult to imagine the stores of anarchy
that he has in reserve for US. A little in
front Of him, in the outer aisle, sits Faux
ner of Virginia, with jaw of rhinoceros
and an immense mouth. clinched to gether
as if he could bite the world in two !; a large
man, with the reddish hair, skin and eyes
so indigenous to the Virginian. Randolph
Tucker, relative Of John Randolph, Of
Roanoke, who might be marked as o Vir-
ginian anywhere, if only for his suit of
"rebel gray" tall, strong, well-built, AFRO
CANT Of face and mien, is strutting up and
down the middle aisle, straight and proud
as turkey-cock. He is rebel Of the
rebels, as are also the other men named.
Words cannot express the comfort, the COM
placencv they feel in being here, though
their words are unstnted and their assump-
tons measureless. When speech shrinks
and fails before the demands Of their i'm
portence, they fall back upon strutting, and
wreak out upon the faded carpet and ''cir-
cumambient air" that superlative Of super
latives, III am a Southerner
On the opposite side sits another South
erner OF opposite type-at least, in looks.
The Virginians are fine race, athletically.
Their out-of-door life gives them broad
shoulders and straight limbs, Drawn of arm
and girta of chest yet they nearly all have
pale, faded-looking eyes, and certain gray
ness of aspect, as if there were something
lacking of ripe, red blood-the coloring
quality, at least, that dcepens the ardor of
cheek and eye. The lower South gives US
the "ratty" look, swarthy skin, black hair,
sharp features, and dark, sunken eye.
Somewhat of this last type is Lucius Q. c.
Lamar. He does not look as if he held
blood enough to give him the vertigo yet
it has threatened his life once or twice,
within a year. He is rather above medium
height and size, has a good head and
thoughtful, care-worn countenance. His
hair is black. just tinged with gray,
straight aud long, and clinging to his neck.
His skin IS sallow, his nose straight
and refined. his eyes deep-set and mel
ancholy his whole expression melancholy
and intellectual. The pompOsity and swell
ing selfconscious conceit Of the Virginian
finds no manifestation in bis looks or bearing.
Perhaps no other Southern man in the House
il regarded with so much confidence by
Northern men as he. 1t is not only that
his hearing is conciliatory and temperate, his
looks peaceful and appealing. as of one who
had suffered his words and acts are con-
stantly characterized by largeness of men
tai view, freedom from sectional prejudice,
and superiority to small spite which in
Southerner is remarkable when speak
of my country" said John Randolph. Of
Roanoke, II mean the commonwealth of
Virginia The country Of his relative,
Randolph Tucker, is not an inch larger. to-
day. Few, indeed, are the Southern men
whose patriotism can by any possibility be
stretched across the boundary Of their native
State. Among the few is Lamar