The true northerner., 1876-04-28
The Detroit Post resuscitates the following
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DIT or parliamentary amenitles:
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Conkling have not spoken
to each other for ten years. The last time they
spoke to each other Mr.. Conhling, then in the
House, remarked with severity upon the con-
duct of Gen. Fry, the Provost Marshal General,
and Mr.. Blaine said he didn't think it was very
creditable in Mr.. Conkling to be speaking OF an
honorable and hgh-toned officer when he had
no opportunity to be heard. Mr.. Conkling re-
piled that Gen. Fry was to be commserated If
he had to depend on Blame for vindication,
and il he, Conkling, had fallen to the necessity
of taking lessons from the gentleman from
Maine in the rules Of propriety or OF right and
wrong, God help him. Mr.. Blaine, afterward,
on Gen. Fry's authority, charged Conkling with
taking pay az Judge Advocate, while member
of Congress-, which was prohibited by law.
similar offense has been charged upon Mr..
Conkling since he was member OF the Senate.
To Mr.. Blanes charge MIR. Conkling responded:
II the gentleman from Maine had the least
idea how profoundly indifferent 1 am to his
opinion upon the subject he has been discussing.
or upon any other subject pertinent to me,
think that he would hardly take the trouble to
rise here and express his opinIon, and, as itlis
a matter Of entire indifference to me what that
opinion may be, / certainly will not detain the
House by discussing the question whether 1t is
we'll or ill-founded, or by noticing what he
says. His conduct is ungentlemanly, imperti-
nent. and has nothing whatever to do with the
question.
able egg upon the gentleman OF New York and
spattered him thus:
AS to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, hope
he will not be too severe. The contempt OF
that large minded gentleman is 30 willing his
naughty disdain bis grandiloquent swell, his
maj este, supereminent, overpowering turkey
gobber strut has been so crushing TO myself
and all the members of this House, that know
that 1t was an act of the greatest temerity for
me to enter upon controversy with him. But.
SIT, know who is responsible for all this.
know that, within the last five weeks, as men,
bers OF the House will recoect, an extra strut
has characterized the gentleman's bearing. 1t
s not his fault. 1t s the fault of another.
That gifted and satirical writer Theodore TIL
ton, OK the New York Independent, spent some
weeks recently in this city. His letters pub
lished in that paper embraced, with many
serious statements, a little jocose satire. part
of which was the statement that the mantle Of
the late Winter DAVIS had fallen upon the gen.
tleman from New York. The gentleman took
1t seriously, and it has given his strut addition
al pomposity. The resemblance is great. 1t is
striking. Hyperion to Satyr, Thersites TO
Hercules, mud to marble, dung-hill to diamond,
a slnged cat to Bengal tiger, whining puppy
to a roaring hon. Shade OF the mighty Davis,
forgive the almost PROCLAMATION OF that jocose
satire
We suppose it is not rash to say that in case
Mr.. Copkling is nominated Mr.. Blaine will not
stump the State OF Maine IN his behalf, nor
Mr.. ConkDg the State OF New York for Mr..
Blaine II he is the candidate.