The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-22
Picture OF COnk-
Ifns.
[COurie Journal


Tie tufted moth, with silky hair
deftiy brushed, and symmetrical legs
neatly kept, is singed, then burned, by
propinquitY to the thing he loves,
which is an eager fame.
Roscoe Conkling is that moth
Conkling, the "Stalwart" (great heav-
ems, what misnomer for such creas
tureD; Conkling, the "champio of hu-
man rights" Cooking, the "states-
man; Conk ling, the worshipped bully
OF the staiwart horde; Conkling, the
Adonis, emerges from the atmosphere
of Providence like a POOR, sneakinc.
whipped dog, bearing upen. his beet.
ling brow the brand which an>ans,ry
husband alone can put there.
Conkling's Fallantries, it seems,
have been coeyal with his life at WASH
ington. His persistent attentions to
Mrs. Sprague while attending to her
business affairs, and the denOuement at
Providence, present him to the world
as a most contemplate, ignoble char
acter. To cover his own mishap, he
lied TO the public by rushing off a dis
patch through the Associated Press to
the country, to the effect that Sprague
difficulty was with the German.
Lineke, exclusively, and that he
(Conkling) figured in the affair as
friend OF the family" The meanness
of this act IS xpressible, but Is char
aeteristic Of the selfish man who per
formed it. Il places Mr Conkling in
the most despicabls attitude.
A career like that of Mr. Conkliug
usually ends in bloodshed Married
men who tiirt with all the pretty WON
eu they come across must calculate on
awakening jealousy aud arrangement
at home Married men whose firta
tions run into erimiuality aud brazen
a Abandonment to passion must expect
their carcasses to be pierced with bul
lets by the men whom they indirectly
ibjure. Conkling's wife aud daughter
kept away from Washington to avoid
the consciousness Of the near presence
of his manifold unfaithfulness. His
nlatuatiou with Mrs. Sprague has
been the talk of Washington for some
years. y superbly beautiful woman.
she possesses that feminine vanity
which delights in tha aduIation of
handsome and distinguished men. Few
women there are who are impervious
TO the incense Of persistent devotion,
especially if they are not happily mar
ried. They overlook the reflections
which the eager tongue of SANDER may
utter upon the apparent situation. All
their little encouragements of the ad
mirer are carefully noted down in the
book Of the scandal'mougers. The
lady is in peril, but she does not see it
The man is in peril, but he does not
care. The moth hovers lovingly over
the palpitating fame and bathes his
face in it. Woe be to the man who
troubles another's nest; who leads the
public mind even to suspect that it has
been Gefled.
Roscoe Conkliug may parade his
pu~e patrie,i=rn, which everS body
knows is sham; he may iuveigh
against those he is pleased to call bar
bariaus of the South" he may below
about "human rights" and Justice, >"
but he, himself, stands before the world
as a robber of domestic happiness; a
sneaking bird of prey, who plays off
his fine face and figure; a polished
ibertine; and he appears finally fowl
with feathers begraggled in the mire;
q fugitive with pale, eowardly face,
stealing out of town, trembling be
fore the justifable rage of an Indignant
husband. Conkling IS a cowardly
brute; cowardly in politics; eowardly
on the stump; cOwardly on the floor of
the Senate Behold your gold, Stall
warts, with blauched face, trembling
lips, quirerinG legs, sueaking like a
whipped dog By night out Of Provi-
deuce, with shotgun pointed at his
sleek carcassl