The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-03-20
ORATORY IN CONGRESS.
EXTRACTS FRoM THE EFFECTIVE SPEECHES
or THE CLOSING HOURS.

EXTRACTS FRoA THE EFFECTIVE SPEECHES
or THE CLOSING HOURS.
Much has been said in a spirit of
leyity about the great efforts Of Senator
Conkling. He has repeatedly been re-
ported by his admiring friends to be
about to make the great effort of hig life,
and usually, when so advertised, he does
nothing. At last, however, he has made
that effort He did it IN reply TO a
bantering speech by Senator Thurman,
and It is recorded that Thurman said to
him when he had finished, ''That is the
best speech you have ever made in your
life" Ii will be remembered that this
speech was III the night, amidst the
closing scenes of the session, and that
reference was had TO Thurman's candid
acy for the Presidency. cit will not be
necessary in my case, as it is said
anxious and nervous political asp1rantS
sometimes find it necessary before voting
upon question TO go out and not only
consult the signs in the zodiac, but see
now all the tin ROSTERS on all the barns
stand so as to know exactly which way
the wind blows. Laughter. | will not
ask time to do that, because | have no
Presidential prospects to be imperiled
by any mistake / may make in voting
here. | shall, however, want an oppor-
tunity to look at the balance sheet. [
shall want TO see whether at that particu-
lar time there is or is likely to be any
money in the Treasury with which to do
such a magnificent thing as in exact,
appropriate and imposing language the
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sure to propose. The President, if all
these somewhat varied and, as a lawyer
from the Senator's State once said.
.multifcious' circumstances laughter |
shall concur, and if there shall be a
harmonious union of all things, showing
that the nick of time, the longed for and
workedfOr moment has come for the
honorable Senator from Ohio to make
his popularity absolutely universal by
adding TO the endless idoIizing train
which follows him III the serried ranks
of the soldiers of the Mexican war, the
honorable Senator may be sure that /
pill vote to add all that Respondent
length Of tail to his political kite.
Laughter. | submit to the honorable
Senator that nothing could be fairer
than this. / DO not believe that the
Senator now is at his best for so great
and critical an endeavor. The Senator
has during Sunday and Sunday night
delivered 50 many eloquent and fervid
speeches, he has so taxed his brain and
Lls Imagination; particularly his imagin-
alton and many of his highest faculties,
that | do not believe it within the limits
OF mortal possibility than he can still
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himself might more appropriately say
spread himself laughter as undoubt
eddy he would glad to 10 when he takes
mp the question OF the Mexican war,
looks over the whole field, calculates all
the chances, and arranges it 50 that all
the lights and shadows will strike, as
they should strike, in reference to
1880 and other great and interfering
epOchs Laughter. The Senator from
Ohio is III q TESTING mood to night. | am
for the men who carried the star
spangled banner and planted it on the
tower of the city of the Aztecs. They
are the men for whom the honorable
Senator from Ohio should legislate. But
with his anxiety he may need to go fur
Their. / beg him to remember those who
fought on the other side, \ good many
Of them have crossed the border to live
or steal cattle. They may be a factor in
elections and results, and l beg him not
to be thoughtless of them. He should
90 very sure-footed, and march without
scouts. In every view it is an important
matter, and ! warn the honorable Sen
ator not to run ally risk to turn his back
upon brilliant future by doing anything
without the utmost forecast. The sol
diers' ballot N this country Is very
large. 1t has great force in many States.
1t is numerous indeed in all the states,
and there are political advantages and
hazards which ought. think, to relieve
this subject from the levity with which
the honorable Senator from Ohio seems
inclined to treat it. Let he say further
to that honorable Senator, that when he
Is as old as | am, when he has had as
much experience as | have had in those
grand and placid assembla2es, each
plaza dc Tauro called Democratic
National Conventions, he viii be salts
fled. as | am, that not IL the morning at
) o'clock, when he is tired, when he is
under the reaction of his many speeches
which have produced much exhaustion,
rs all of us can testify, but at some other
time when he has himself thoroughly in
hand, when he is able to survey the
whole table and study its angles and its
pockets, to see exactly how to carom not
only on the red ball, but on the black,
and on the Chinese laughter then.
AMI not till then. he should take his last
cue and prance proudly to the fore as
the champion political billiard player of
the hemispheres and all the ages.
Laughter. That is his mission and
destiny, and II he is true 20 it his name
w DO .. G"ht and a landmark on the
cliffs of fame"
THURMAN 5 REMARKS.
Following are extracts from Senator
Ihurman's speech on the proposition
not to pension JEFF. Davis:
4 have already stated that am in
strncted by my Legislature to support
the granting pensions to soldiers Of the
Mexican war. | do not read anywhere
in those instructions that | am to except
Mr.. jefferson Davis, nor do | see IL
their spirit that it is the opinion of the
General Assembly of the State Of Ohio
that punishment of the people of the
South ought to be vicarious of Jefferson
Davis, and | do not anywhere see in
those instructions that If is the desire of
the people of the State of Ohio 10 single
ont Jefferson Davis and make him
martyr, while other men, who went quite
rs far as he did, are not only not pun
ished, but are received into the highest
stations in this government; and l am
not the least bit afraid OF the verdict of
the people OF my State upon this subject.
nor of the people of the nineteen other
States whose Legislatures have passed
resolutions in favor of these pensions.
LAMAR's EFFORT.
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