The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-05

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en-: but he must look to his latter end
am tired of making obituaries here
But if | am called on to speak his eulogy
| would draw on two eminent poets who
will combine for such an occasion. One
is the sweet singer of Michigan, and the
other Byron. Over his grave let there
be inscribed:
Here lies the body
of
CONGRESSMAN Horn; ~ ~. ~
'Tis Greece,
but
Living Grease
no mOrel
Reqtiescat!
[Great laughter.
Mr. Horn replied to Mr.. Cox On the
following day.
He stated that before he commenced
his reply to the eloquent and able speech
of the distinguished and weighty gentle
man from New York (Cox), he would
ask Clerk turead the speech, or that
portion of it which he (Horr) had de-
liVered a few days ago, and which had
oecasioned that fearful effort which the
House had listened 60 yesterday.
s2The Clerk read: ''Gehial little
FRIEND" etc. Loud laughter 81 f.fls
Mr.. Horr justified himself for using
the words "genial little friend, by ex-
planning they were spoken in the heat
of debate. Laughter. He had spent
his boyhood in manual labor and hard
work, and was consequently sometimes
embarrassed, and in his extreme diff
dence dropped words which he was sor-
ry for afterwards. "a Had he known the
sensitivenessef. the gentleman from New
York, had he kho wnthe poetry of his
failure. he would Ahav9 addressed the
gentleman in the language of a modern
poet, as "Dear Little Buttercup."
Continued Laughter. gHlluding- tofthe
book " Why WeLaugh,'' which Mr.
Cox had sent to him yesterday, he said
that he regarded it as that. gentleman's
best work, because it contained very lit
lie Cox and good deal of other men.
laughter. Nothing had been further
from his mind than the idea ofshelittling
the gentlemen from New-YeFk before
this Assembly. He knew the pntieman's
weight and accomplishment, and far be
it from him to contest with him. Why,
some one had intimated to him
that it was thought that he was trying to
get some belt from The gentleman.
Good heavens! What good would it be.
to him. Great laughter, caused by
Mr. Horr's feeling his own waistandin-
sinuating that belt which would fit
Mr.. 0okfweuId be too small for HIM I
No man could surpass him in, his admit
ration of the beautiful form of the
gentleman from New York, and he
never looked at him without thinking of
some ancient Greeian model%-" A thing
of beauty was Joy forever" How
sinplela statement and yet how.trie.
But he wished to make a suggestion to
his friend, which would add to his
already exceeding grace and beauty.
end that was that Brother Cox should
part his hair in the middle andlwear
bangs. Loud and continued laughter.
He (Horr) now approached another
subject tremblingly, because his friend
had told the House yesterday that he
once blew man right through akeyhole,
and he (Horr) did not want such a
tight squeeze. His friend had made a
speech during the extra session on the
test oath. That speech had-marked on
it % laughter IA times, and .'applause -
great laughter once, and g long con-
tinued applause once. He. wanted to
know if the rumor was true if the speech
had been printed, laughter, applause
and all, three days before it was deliv-
cred. GRoars of laughter, That was a
biz advantage. Gentlemen who could sit
down in the darkness of the midnight
hour, and when they got funny thing
stop and cheer themselves and write
g laughter" had a great advantage
The gentleman did too much for the
world. That was probably the reason
for his being so thin. Ii he furnished
the Z" Laughter y. and let the world fur
nish the " applause" it would not draw
so on his constitution. For the purpose,
as he explained, of showing that he was
not wholly to blame for having applied
the term "genial little friend" to the
gentleman from New York, Mr.. Horn
sent to the clerks desk abound, volume
of HdTper'S Weekly, which the clerk
held up to full view of the House,
opened at a picture which represented
MIR. Cox al. Speaker of the House, with
his feet resting on the 'baeksof a chair.
This action of Mr. Horr's was greeted
with roars of laughter, which broke out
afresh when that gentleman stated that
the picture had been published Just. af-
ter Mr.. Cox had not been elected Speak
err. Whoever looked at that picture, he
said, would notice that the gentleman
had been placed with his feet on top of
the Speakers chair So that he
could get his head over the desk. He
had heard that his friend had once
stated that had he been six inches taller
he would have been President. Laugh
ter. 1fsthe gentleman from New York
had three inches and lot of votes more
ne might have Been Speaker of the
House. He wished to say, in conclusion,
that whatever he might herafter say in.
debate he begged the gentleman from
New. York. to understand that~he had
no malice or lIarsfness of heart'in him.
That gentleman had been kind enough
to give him an epitaph. He (Horr) was
not a poet, but a friend had wFittenfpr
him an epitaph upon the gentleman
from New York, which he thought just.
covered the case ~ q
Beneath this slab lies the great Sam. Cox,
Who was wise as an owl and brave as anroS
Think it not strange his turin gto dust
For he swelled and he sweiled till he finally
Just where he has gone or just how he fares
Nobody knows and nobody cares;
But wherever he is be he angel or ell. 80.
Be sure, dear reader, he Is puihng himself.
The delivery Of these lines was fol-
lowed by roars of laughter, which was
redoubled when Mr.. Cox made no re-
ply nnnE.a..N .s.r-EurrO
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