Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-06
which he proposes working in American agri-
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH


was delivered with good deal of vigor, for
one who had for days been pulled and hauled
all through the country until he must have
been worn down with fatigue, and his senten-
G 8 were characterized by clear enunciation and
his grammer by some of the most fragrant of
errors. Yet, taking it all in all, it was well de-
ivered.
pleasing incident of the speech-making
was the demand that was made for the appear
ance of "Old Probs' Meyers, a man familiar
by his abbreviated cognomen 10 every man and
child in America, no doubt, and vet who
has always been looked upon much as a
suppositltious parsonage or mere figure of
speech to designate somebody of will who are
engaged in the reading of atmospheric condi-
lions and disseminating meteorological tnfor-
nation. "Old Probs'' was there, nevertheless,
and , whether he had prophesied that glorious
day or not he came out from
the rows of guests on the pavilion
floor, when the people called for him, and
standing under the soft sky, and in the flood of
sunlight that swept across the broad earth, told
the people that he could not and therefore
would on, not, make them speech.
legal side show, and oratorical
machine OF the Presidential party
Devens, the man of flowing periods and ready
reference to the Cancellation policy; ''My At
torney General, Devens, whom I will now in
trOduce to you, who has been trOtted out like
prize bull at ring show at every stopping
place of the Presidential trains from the inau-
guratlon OF Presidential pilgrimage under the
present administration down to the present
time. OF course Devens made speech, and
Devens makes good one, it must be conceded
dc takes hold of the old war theme with the
grip OF u Hercules, and he simply saueezes the
juice out of it every time. Atty. Gen. Deyeus
has never been able to forget that there WAS
once war IN the South, and he has turned
the subject upside down, inside
out, over and over, 'tother nd to, round
and round, until he can't, for the life of him,
say solitary new thing about it. He has used
up all the figures of speech relative to the
union of States, from many az the pillows
vet one as The sea, down to the sea sands, and
~ to the starry studded armament, all 10 show
tnat the union is many -pieced, yet single in in
dlVlduallty. The attorney general does the heavy
oratory, the basso-profundo elocution, the
stllled speech-making and he does it with pref
W good effect. His sentences are clear-cut. his
ideas sharp and we'll defined, his periods full
and pleasing, his style forensic. But the at
torney general yesterday gave the St. Paul peo-
people of New England, to the reconstructed
noutherns, and to the truly loyal sons of the
Middle States. While we must feel compli.
mented that this cabinet officer should see fit
to accompany the president, yet we might sug-
gest in all good faith that Devens set himself
to the task of getting up new speech for use
during the next decade or two.
There was another man on the platform yes
terday whom the people were very anxious to
see, and whom they called for loudly as soon as
1t was known that he was there. That Il an
was Senator Butler, of South Carolina Ans.
wering the call he excused himself briefly and
retired.