The daily gazette., 1879-09-09
SENATOR EATON.
AND WHAT AN oUTsPoKRN soUrHERN
EDITOR THINKS OF HIM. y.

AND WHAT AN OUTsPoKEN soUTHEHN
EDITOR THINKs OF HIM. Y
From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. e.
There IS not more remarka able man
in the United States Senate than VIM
Eaton. of Connecticut. He is GA years
of age. and looks 1t, but there is an elss-
ITCHY about hun physl cally and q mental
fire worthy of the most bouyant youth.
His stature is dimlnutive, but he has q
noble aud great soul No man has more
extreme Democratic States right views,
and no man can more trep.dly avow
them. To hear Eaton appeal to the
memory and record OF Oliver Ellsworth
is equal to the most iinpassioned vow
ever uttered In sincerity by tho most de-
vout Of lovers to his sweetheart's charms.
His courage, his honesty, his force, his
lofty PATRIOTISM, his wit, and the whole
make up of the man are 80 ms-culine
that he is a general favorite In the Sem
ate, and the Republicans, who oftenest
feel the weight of his attack upon Jbeir
centralizing prpcli yitiss, seem to love
him best of ALL There is no gall In his
wholesome nature, and no humbug. No
| man more detests the political views Of
Senator Conkhng, and no man more in
diguantiy repels them but he and Conk-
ling are as cordial, personally a. Damon
| and Pythias, and the New York Senator
in his day of supreme haughtiness, while
hnrlng his most blightjng shafts of argu-
ment or irony at Eaton, the politician al.
ways seasoned them with the compli.
mentary illusions to Eaton, the man
Over and over again have We heard
Lord Roscoe, in his systematically vivid
and sesqui pedalian way, thus speak
"Mr. President, when the Senator FROM
Connecticut assures me and this body
that he said such and such thing, be-
lieve him most implicitly, for long NC
quaintance with him has bred Ia me 4
cow iction stronR rs life or death thai
that Senator is incapable OF the shadow
of q shade of equfvocation, and woult
prefer his Word 10 any other mans bon,
any day" After.tha he would pumme
the little game-cock in his poEdrou
way, avoiding insult carefully, even ten
derby, and then most good humorodi.
receive the gaffinR that was sure to com
from one-half OF the Nutmeg State, u
which Eaton is incOmparably the create
representative. .,E-. ~ gH
To near Eaton speak ia one. of the DE-
lights of this lower world. He Away
says something memorable, and Is a.
: ways terribly in earnest. His venera bl
head grows crimson a. lie proceeds, an
his eyes are lit with the joy Of CONTEST
Blaine and Window tease him and eve
udkb uim maui Dut no uuauY putS III
, rapi.r through and through them, an
never fails to secure the laugh ON hi
side. Aud yet no Senator has truer dir
nifty, and none will mora emphaticalf
put down anything that has the fainte'
2 resemblance to personal afront. "Dot
the Senator from Maine mean to max
personal attack upon me7" queries tn
fiery orator, with tone of voice thi
uumistakable means "business." NJ
Blaine's disclaimer IL, on such occasions
I most prompt, most hum Die, most obs,
{ qmous. Such IL William Eaton. . trU
( tribune of the people, faithful anon
. the faithless, one of the rare old stock
: New England's best patriotism, q
, honor to bis commonw ealth, and Low,
: of the liberty shat has survived eve
> radical malice and the lust OF foreig
gold. The picture might be bigbtent
g by contrasting with him his Republics
! colleague, a giant, Puritanical, speci
It pleading attorney, with q lank, lea
r Oily Common craftiness, and none
a the robust virtues that characterize h
q fellow Senator from the same State.