The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-02
MR.. WO0DW0R7H. OF ONO.


The Boston (Mass,) Herald Washing
ton correspondence of II week or two ago
thus dishes up the eagle orator who lives
at Youngstown, and represents this dis
trict in Congress, This line of spread
eagle ora ory should be kept up. Wood
worth's predect ssor was Amber, who
succeeded Ecklry. Who shall be the
spread eagle to follow Woodworth ?
Don't all speak at once. We give the
extract from the Herald, which is good
MIR. wooDwoRTH OF ONO,
is q member of the House of Represent
atives, aud he is one of the lOyali>t gurh
ers who ever flung his fists and dishev-
eled his hair in this hall, where loyal
gush has been so often poured out in the
last twelve years. Mr. Woodwork is a
friend of President Grant, and therefore
does not belive in limiting the Presiden
cy to one term. The proposition to do
that thing was what brought out Mr.
Woodworth's gush. His evolution was
attended with great deal of noise and
perspiration, and in order that you may
know Just what we have to listen to d
good deal of the time in the galleries OF
The House,and inst what sort of man the
Hon Mr. WoodwOrh is when he lets the
eagle soar, forward single paragraph
of his Columbian oratory:
"By The Declaration Of Independence,
III ,s. .,I 81 ~,
nial year, and so much in all our utter
ances, too | might add; by the achieve.
nents, both in Congress, where the eX-
pertinent of self government was FASH
iOned in the anxious minds Of men, and
upon the field where armies threw the
iron death-dice' for human rights; by the
convention of 1887, mentioned a moment
go, where all the experiences Of the
past and all the possibilities of the future
were brought together and made TO join
hands to work out the problem, the
mighty problem of how may this thing
known as the rights of the people, 50
long hidden beneath the bald absurdity
of the divine right Of kings, be most
surely realzed-by these, sir, was our
nation planted upon the foundation rock
of selfgOvernment by the people; and
this fouldation.rock has become 10 be to
MS political rock of ages upon which
let no man, or body of men, lay desecra-
ting hands. Upon this fOundaliOn-rOck
our governmental superslruclnre rests
superstructure so magnificent and
grand that in this hundredth year we
exult that it is ours, realizing that it is
the acme toward which struggled the
noble ambitions of the past, and that
within it now the century aloe of human
hope is b.ossoming, filing the earth with
incense. Its base is the divinity of hui
man rights. Its area is the breadth of a
gigantic continent. It's bulwark is 40,-
OO00O0 of undaunted hearts. Its dome
is crowned with the achievements
of 100 years. Thus, sir, it stands to-day
the boast of Americans, the wonder of
mankind 1t Is the temple Of refuge for
tie oppressed of every cline, and is ere
long to become the model upon which
the artists and the artisans of Old World
politics shall fashion a hundred emula-
ting structures in hundred lands. The
beneficence of its example must be felt.
This year, thanks to the patriotic city Of
Philadelphia; thanks to The grand Com
monWealth Of Pennsylvania; thanks to
The country loving men and women OF
the whole Union who have stretched a
hand to aid our proposed centennial juli-
lee; and thanks, TOO, to the action Of this
House, taken but few days agO-this
year there shall 90 ont from it. as well as
from where the Golden Gate stands open
10 the lisping southern sea as from where
old Plymouth Rock still beats back the
angry Atlantic voice saying to the ma
lions of the East and to the nations of
the west, Come up higher! and that
voice shall be echoed and re-ecnoed over
the craggy continent and sea-girt isles
of Europe, and waited even into the
haze of 'farthest Ind, unit
one day the response, We comel' shall
float back, and the divinity of human
rights, overthrown ten centuries ago by
and the Conspiring pre-
lates of that era, shall be reproclaimed
on the ruined walls of many a dynasty,
and planted a star, high up in heaven,
there forever TO remain polltlcal gulde-
star for humal kind"
NOTES.
see that people still seem to be car
ried away with the notion that Mr.
Blaine during the amnesty debate per-
formed some wonderful teats of parlia-
legerdemain, and that he did
which was never done before.
The explanation of all his success was
that the Democrats entered upon cam
paign which required a two-thirds ma
jority, VIXEN they had less than two
thirds. Mr.. Blaine, at the head of more
than one-third Of the House, was exactly
in the position of the leader o. a major
itv. If the Democrats had not been so
foolish, Mr.. Blaine would not have had
his ODpOrtunitV.