The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-22
By ALFRED s. HORSLEY.

of the knee, that thrift may follow
fawning."
Think of the men he has encounter
ed-Morton with an energy as tireles'
as a devil from the bottomless pit
| Conkiing the curly-haired orator anC
apOlogist of Grantism in its worst
| form-the catalogue of haters of the
South swells-hc has seen nearly
every one of them perish. To-day, he
| is not at the head ofa Spartan minority
he is the leader of a mighty, con-
quering army! TO him more than all
! others is the country indebted for the
return of peace. Discussions at home
have ceased and tomorrow ne would
come back, by a rising vote from
Ohio.
BLAINE OF MAINE.
The next day, the Senate Chamber
was densely packed to hear Blaine. 1t
was quite q different showing from the
day before. The contrast waSmarked,
Thurman was sincere and stated bold
ly, that the silver dollar of 412a grains
was the thing to pay of the bonds OF
the Government with. [ would like
for any Southern man to read that
speech and claim that it is not so. If
he were, / should suspect, that his
avarice had gotten the better hand of
of him and that he was for getting
money, in any manner he could.
Blaine straddled the fence. The COM
mOnest understanding could see and
did see that he was hollOw-hearted
and insincerc. The main difference
between him and the other speakers
on the silver side was, that he was for
a dollar with 425 grains in it. His
speech was well delivered and highly
finished. His peroratiOn was eloquent
and beautiful and brought down the
house. There is more audacity and
cunning mixed up in his makeup,
than any man in America, With the
shrewdneSs of Yankee, he saw that
silver would he remonetized and that
the only thing he could save out of the
debris of defeat for New England, was
a dollar coined with more grains in
it than the JefieTsOnian dollar of 4122
grains. BY this clever trick, he sup
posed, that he would please the West
and South and quiet New England.
This is one of his planks for 1880. 1t
looks very queer in hin to be quoting
Webster and denouncing the demOni-
tiZation of silver, when he was the
Speaker of the House in which this
horrible Outra se was perpetrated. He
could have prevented it, but he aided
and abetted the wretches, who swim
died the people out of millions. Wis
er by far, than any man of his party,
he is audaciOusly splitting upon the
past record of his party and cunningly
manipulating the politics of the pres
ent, in order 'tO pluck the flower safe
ty out of the nettle danger" While
Bayard, Lamar, Eaton, Hill and Ker-
r. 10 I, 81, nY,ty- nd ,Nnnr1n
Blaine is wisely heading the recalci-
pairing to solidify il upon the very Is
sues. which the bulk of the Democra-
cv eXDect to win i'm 1880. Blaine is
stealing our thunder. Vet, one after
another, these Democrats have gotten
UP and misrepresented their people
and bowed in the dust of
humility to the Golden Calf of the
plundering bondhOlder.
If Georgia could have seen Ben. Hill
on last Friday, she would have hung
her head in shame. He got up with
an air of apparent sincerity and tnNit-
ed the Senate to listen to him. be
made disgraceful fling at Voorhees,
called hiU "arhapSOdIcal demagogue"
hot by name to he sure, but every
one knew at whom he flung the cpl
thet. Like Eaton, he was mad be
cause Voorhees, spoke for the people
because in answer to that speech, a
word of cheer had come to the Indi-
aniaH, from every hamlet III the land:
SO, nlisrepresenting his r6qDle and
consorting with the golden sEectacied
ariStoeracy of the East, he too must
Il =, l,iro,GaIf nv fIrinn Dt
mt one of the bravest and trueSt friends
that Georgia ever had. What a shame!
Voorhees, tomorrow could beat him
out of sight in Georgia. Hill is full
six feet hi@h-gOod looking and with
a voice of gF6at powsr and volume.
should say, that on. a subject, in
which he was terribly in earnest, he is
the most captivating debater in Amer
ica, He is eccentric. AS old
man Vanderbilt used to
say, che has GOg out" This spoils
his usefulness.
He began his speech by a criticism
of Blaine's speech. He had not pro
ceeded very far, before he said he was
sorry, that the distinguished Senator
from Maine was not in his seat. Soon
the distinguished Senator took his seat.
Quick a. lightning he sprung tohjs feet
and began to catechise Hill, to the lat
ter's r'sgreatannOyance. EVerybodybegan
to think we We're going to have the
Andersonville horror enacted over
again. The news spread that Blaine
and Hill had locked horns. Men began
to pour in. Pretty soon it was disclOs-
ed that 50, awkward was Hills posi-
ton, that he had no fight in him. "If
the gentlemen will permit me,n shout
ed Blaine. 81 will not permit you,n
thundered Hill "All right" said
Blaine, turning his face full Of cum
ming up to the Galleries, as much as to
say. Boys you see | am in for a fra
Gus. but he won't fight Hill said, "1
am not criticizing the gentleman for
debate, because | think he made a
very fine speech" 1t was we'll enough
for this iioundering Georgian to use
this paiaver. For it was very plain to
every one who heard both of their
speeches, that they were playing n
| game-bOth insincerc. Hilps speech
| was a flat failure. His head like La
mars has been turned by the incense
which the Easl has been burning Vn-
| der their noses, in both dreaming of a
vice-presidential nomination. 1t is
nov pretty certain that silver will be
remOnetized.
1t is equally certain that the Demo
cratic party is gaining strength, even
! in the East on this question. There is
no telling when the final vote will be
| taken, nor what the man at tie other
! end of the Avenue will do. l suppose
that his conscience is grinding him,
when he thinks about the imprison-
| ment OF tan New Orleans thieves who
stole his Office for him. what cate
CORY for President!
TIE AVENUE.
The Partisan Rqulevarls are the
finest in Europe. Travellers say tina
"The Avenue - is the most magniti
cent in the world. Standing on Capi
toline Hill you Gan see for mile, o.
more, adOWu this Street. every YaTie-
ty of costume and equipage and men
of all nations. There Is Just enough
of the aping of European cities, I,
, give aV air of court. Saunterins
along this promenade, one sees, tht
extremes of sOcicty-here lnXuriou.
and pampered wealth meets squaliC
F poyerty in its sinking rags. a poo
| haif-staFVed white women, sits "fron
early morn IT'LL dewy eve" grindin,
ont miserable music, from a hand-or
/ 60, Will, n Io0ppd LITTLE UirI ohOu