Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-03

dicatins his opinion that any duty, il
properly performed, would be "hard, -
and he held long tets-d-t with his visi
tor, who was one of his old friends OF the
towpath.
| His Public Services.
| OF the value of his services to his state
and country it may be too early yet tC
form a Judgment or express an opinion
that will stand the test and merit the ap.
prOval of history. As a senator in the
Ohio Legislature he revived popular en-
thusiasm on the subject of state geological
surveys, and at the beginning Of the wal
aroused spirit that supported it by rails
ing troops. He cut short his mil
itary career to take seat in
Consres. His learning and his read
mess made him the leader of his
party mainly when it WAS in a minority
He had not the aggressiveness aud stiff
ness to originate and push fearlessly
striking measures of legislation, and Of
ten made for himself a reputation of lack
Ofback bone and moral courage bycOmprOm-
ising his convictions for expediency' S
sake or to party necessity. Notably he
rose to the heights of Democratic doc
trine in his Iilligan speech, as the col
league cfJudge Black, against military
tribunals; and more than once he
proclaimed principles in. the House
which he abandoned at the behests
rency and tariff questions he wObbled
did not square with his -iNantic Monthly
article on the civil service. aud too often
he found his theories Il reed instead of 4
staff in practical politics.
| As an Orator.
His literary performances were almost
uniformly creditable. He had prodigious
memory, m uch learning, ready speech and
great versatility was unquestiOnably one
of the few orators of his generation and
perhaps the most scholarly man Of emi-
nence in his party. Such speeches as that
at Arlington Heights Oh Decoration day,
1868 his eulogy on Gen. Thomas before
the Army OF the Cumberland in 1810j
his acceptance for Congress of the Massa
clusctts statues and the painting Of the
Emancipation Proclamation signing will
endrrc in the annals OF American clio
quence. A fine example too of his power
was the few lines he spoke at the Farragut
statue uIvs III y.
AS Il LAWYER he was only admitted to
| b1CCiCc la tHo CuHcLno CoulC, "hcIl
Judge Black took him into the Milligan
in the peculiar line of practice developed
in Washington. The following extract
from his speech in the Milligan case is re-
produced, because of its high eulogy of
the law, its specimen of his Oratorical
power, and the true Democratic spirit it
brcatlcd, which every publicist Of learn
ing must feel when he does not narOw
his intellect to meet party exigencies. On
that occasion he said to the Suprc me
court:
| MILITARY COURTS.
'"Your decision will mark an era iu
American history. The just aud final set
tlement of this great question will take a
high place among the great achievements
which have immortalized this decade. 1t
will establish forever this truth, of ines
tmabc value to us and to mankind that q
republic can WELD the vast enginery of war
without breaking down the safeguards of
liberty; can suppress insurrectiOn and put
down rebellion, however formidable, with
out destroying the bulwarks of law; cln
by the might of it's armed millions, pre-
serve and defend both nationality and lib
erty. Victories Oh the field were of price.
less value, for they plucked the life of the
republic out of the hands of it's enemies /;
| but
| Peace hal II her victories
i No less removed than war;
and il the protc ctiOn Of law shall, by Your
decision, be extended over every acre of
our peaceful country, you will have rcn
lcrcd the great decision Of the century.
''When Pcricles had made Greece i'm
mortal in arts and arms, in liberty and
| law, he invoked the genius of Phidias to
devise a monument which should SYM
bo!zc the beauty and glory Of Athens.
| That artist selected for Ills theme the
tutelar divinity of Athens the Jove- born
goddess, protectress of arts and arms,
OF industry and law, who. typiticd the
Greek conception of composed, majestic,
unrelcnting force. He erected on the
heights of the Acropolis a colossal statue
Of Minerva, armed with spear and helmet,
which lowered in awful majesty above the
surrounding temples of the gods. Sailors
on fa:-olf ships beleld the crest and spear
of the goddess and bowed with reverent
awe. To every Greek she was
the symbol of powe: and glory.
But the Acropols, with its temples and
statues, is now heap of ruins. The visi-
be gods have vanished in the clearer light
store the decayed em6lems of ancient
Greece. but it is in your power, o judges,
to erect in this citadel of our liberties q
monument more lasting than bras in
visible Indeed to the eye of flesh, but visi-
bc to the eye of the spirit rs the awful
form and figure of justice, crowning and
adorning the Republic; rising above the
storms of political strife, above the earth
quake shock of rebel lion seen from afar
and haileda as protector by tho oppressed
OF all nations dispensing equal blessings,
and covering with che protecting shield OF
law the weakest the humblcst, the mean
est, and, until declared by solemn law
unworthy Of protection, the guiltiest of its
citizens.
/ LFor a considerable portion Of the data
used in preparing the above sketch the
compiler is indebted to Major Bundy's
b;ography.-EDs.I INTDLLIGENCER.]
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Vcnnor calls for an intensely hot July
varied by frequent storms. and hurricanes.
The greater part of Aarbcrg, y town OF,
an island in the Aar, has been burnt down
and number of lives lost.
Three steam snacks off Rockaway
| ~ =, srht 900 O{N) mounds of weak fish The