The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrorn our Regular Correspondent

lFren our Regular Correspondent
JANUARY 10, 1873
1t is quite entertaining to hear Uni
ted States Senator's read funeral ora
tons. On all political questions we
know pretty much what each Senator
viii say, and on the floor of the Senate
we hear repeated, though in inferior
English, and with faulty elocution,
the same arguments that we have
read again and again in the papers.
But funeral Grafton is out of the usu-
al line. 1t is nO easy transition from
finance, or the Southern question, or
internal improvements, to clegiac ora
tory. Some Senators. powerful in de-
bate and ready in repartee, appear
tame and commonplace in this unfa-
Iniliar role. Senator Edmunds' eulo-
GUM on Morton was well written, dis
terminating and just, but it was on the
whole disappointing to the galleries,
because it fell short of elOquence. One
part of it lhade the studiously uninl-
pressionable Conkling smile and look
guileless; it was when he hit the adj
nIinistration foul by saying that Sena-
tor Morton was not one of those Re
publicans who believed that the best
interests of a cause would be promoted
by appointing its opponents to office.
After Edmunds, Conkling spoke and
he was the only Senator who deviated
from the rule of reading his remarks
from a manuscript. To all appearances
he spoke impromptu, just rs Mark
Antony did over the dead body of Gao
sar. Senator Conkling's elocution,
slow and drawing OH all occasions,
was peculiarly elongated on this. If
it were not for his brains, character,
and dignity of presence, this peculiar
ity would cause him to be laughed at.
Senator Booths Grafton was from first
to last crowded with unmonotonous
narrative, striking antithesis, and bold
climaxes. And it was singularly free
from the triteness so common on flu
neral occasions. He had evidently
expended great labor in its prepare
ton, for the sentences were condensed
and finished to the essence of ideas.
Senator Burnsides' remarks were pc
culiar in their abundance of personal
Renaissance. The fattest and most
commonplace efforts were those of Sen
atOrs Paddock of Nebraska, Mitchell
of Oregon, and Wadleigh of New
Hampshire. Expectation was excited
to hear Senator Voorhees, who, since
his speech on the silver bill, is the
leading Senatorial star, but his eulo-
GUM was brief, pointlcss, and non
committal. He however said that he
thought that the influence of Morton
on American politics since the war had
been detrimental to the peace and pros
perity Of the country. Senator Thur
man confined his remarks entirely to
the personal and social character OF
the deceased Senator, and said that
while they had been for years in sharp
antagonism on political questions, there
had been no harshness or discord in
their individual relations
The Democratic organ the Post of
this city has exploded torpedo in the
party dovc-cote by an attack on Speak
CT Randall who, it would seem from
the PoSts standpoint, has not behaved
lovely in the organization of the HOUSE
committees. But the charges of the
the paper. are as yet too vague to be
classified exeeptas general cussedness