The daily gazette., 1877-11-21
Our Washington Letter

Wet Blanket on Former Distinguished
Orators-Maste Sons of Thunder-The
Secret Springs of those Who Pose-Bla,ne
Untorsed-The Importance Of Gossip,
etc., etc.
From Our Regular Correspondent.l
WARRINGTON, Nov. 20.
! Since the Inauguration of President
Hayes, have carefully studied his visit
ing list, or what may be called the White
House or Court register, for have been
curious to know the personal anin,us of
prominent men of his own and the De-
mocratic party. Think we can frequent
ly know more of the real sentiments and
feelings of men from their reserved and
, almost unnoted actions, than from their
gu arded public utterances or,studicd pos.
ings before their constituents and
posterity. We are separated by an
ocean from what we are pleased to call
the effete despotisms, and we claim a
new departure In our form of govern
ment, but we have still, though under
different names, the forms and faults
powers imported duty free. We have a
court and courtiers, intrigues. plotters
and powers behind the throne. ihe con-
venience of speech as a mask o thought
Is as great as it was in the day of Tally
rand or Machiavelh of Seward or that
English combination of the devil and
the graces-Lord Chesterfield. / have
observed that some senators and MEM
hnr IL
very regular in their attendance, and,
it is remarked that those who had most
frc qGent audience with the late adminis-
tration give the present incumbent berth.
"AmoRg the callers upon the President
to-day We're Senators Patterson, ,iSpencer,
Logan" etc, ETC., was an announcement
! of such almost daily recurrence in the
evening paper during the last two years
of Gen. irant's second term, that the
journal must have found 1t convenient
TO keep IL in type. Now the daily an
nouncement is characterized by the
names of Hill, Gordon, Lamar, Cockrell,
or Alexander stephens. But when L be-
gan to write, / was thinking how per-
sistently the old orthodox Democratic
senators and members like Thurman,
Bavard, Eaton, White, Cox, Randall,
Ewing, and a host of Others, ignore the
present tenant of the White House; not
one of them has called upon the Presi-
dent, nor IL IL probable that they will
ever call. a.
There was but little cordiality between
| the society that clustered around the late
administration and the Democratic lead :
ers, and it is quite evident now that in
spite of olive branches, and eras ofpeace,
there will be but scanty hand shaking
| across the chasm inhabited one side by
| the President and his cabinet, and on
the other by rectangular Democrats.
With Lamar, Hill, Gordon, Cockrell,
and Stephens, the case is different; their
| role from necessity, has been diplomatic
as well as political-te apologize for the
past bluaders of their hot headed consti-
tuents, and to conciliate Northern pref
udice, and, l suppose, history will re-
count that they played well their part.
Messrs. Lamar and Hill have been as
gentle as lambs since they have been in
the Senate. Indeed when we rememb Der
how easily Mr.. Lamar slipped in after
| their the mutterings of opposition about
4 the blackness of his title, it might not
be unreasonable to suppose that he prom
ised to have had frequent and long con-
! ferences, that. if he would let him be a
little senator, he would be very good.
Except in rare instances the Senatorial
toga has been the shroud of oratorical
genius. just think of the dumb Senate
| &,
] Davis, Voorhees,! Blaine Is the only one
that has been heard from, and, poor
Blaine! 1t Ia easy to see, has never raj
led from those three fell blows: Inves-
tigation, sun stroke, and the Cincinnati
! convention.
What is a seat In the Senate to man who
has long held, and with signal ecldt, the
| thlrd posltlon Tin honor) OF the country, the
srcond in conspicuousness- who
mourns the loss of The Presidency? There
| ls despondency in his countenance in his
gait. IN his voice. He is suffering only a
| different variety of paralys from that
which killed Morton-a paralysis of hope
and Vault. G am bition. To see that splen-
ala energy unhorsed, that Napoleon of the
House confine to the st Helena of the
Senate Chamber to be "guyed," hedged.
| an snuhbed. by Sir Hubert Lowe (Senator
Eamunds) of Yer mont, is deeper tragedy
| than we See on the stage.
1 nave omitted matters of political news
because there is lis week nothing of i'm
porta AMI because l know the wires
Will have told you the little that is OF in
trrest, aud, uni sss yoa advise me different
ly 1 Will IN 1utuie confine my letters not SO
much TO matters purely political-the pas
sage Of bills and the action of com IN tees
as to the episodes of legislation and of
official life at the CapiIa al There are scores
OF reporters and short t-hand writers who
record, ON the spot, the public utterances
or stiff, ut-and-dried conversations of
those who make our laws, but am persua-
ucu bieto bbc HnO Will b6il
faithfully what he sees from his stand
poin although his narrative may descend
to the pueility OF gossip about men and
women, will not be performing u useless
work. Maaauley was willing TO endure
the reproarh of having descended below the
dignity of history that he might show his
countrymen anu women how their fore
fat 81 S wore Clothes and what they ate for
their dinner. IL would be well If we could
ow more OF the secret mot yes and pri
vate acts of these who make our public
laws for the outcome nf these in legislation
aud their ulterlor influence upon millions
of lives are incalculable. 1T Is as difhcult
to diyest our mental vision of the glamour
with which we magnify the little men that
come here, a. 1t is TO purge our conversa-
ton of cant and we are disposed to look
upon Senator or CabneL officer as "a fixed
quantity and To formulate him as lepuDlI-
can or democia', lateSiIien or demagogue,
honest or "olery'-pardon the slang-tor-
getting they are men of Ike passions with
ourselves. aud that often their wives, or
somebody else, is the real Senator or Cabi-
net-oficer. G. As.
FORGETTING THEIR DIGNITY.
To the unpr judiced observer it would
appear much more crediLable TO the MEM