The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-02

/ The dullness Of Monday was not con-
tinued on Tuesday. In the Senate, Mr..
Vance, the mparablc "Old Zeb" Of
the Tar.heel State, made natter very
animated indeed Those who are not
acquainted with him personally will per
| haps like to know what manner Of man
| he is suppose tina, he is qnite six feet
in height and fully go pounds in ayoir
dupois. His bulk causes him TO walk
with an eleEhantnc tread. Everything
about him is big-head, heart body and
brain His hair i. luxuriant and Of 4
luslriou- grey, ,ingcd with infrcquent
darkness. His forehead is square aud
firm. His eyes are grey .nd sparkling
two merry devils that have been con-
vertcd to goodness withou! losing their
wnggishness. The face is full, unctuous
with content and incarnadined by high
and gene rous nourishmcnt. Unlike his
brother in the House, he take, his toddy
when the spiri, moves him and his quid
nf tobacco when lunch time arrives. His
devotion TO party is extreme, but the
ui,ra Republican Senators have only
kind feeling. toward him. He is 'hail
fellow well net" with Mi mankind, AMI 1
think even the temperance ladies, who go
about cru.ading, readily forgive him for
frankly informing them that though his
spirit is with their cause, his rebellious
stomach is against il. He is racy Of the
soil Of the Old North State, and pine
tree is 70 him far more beautiful than Inc
sta,elie=t palm or quccnlc>t magnolia.
Like our own Stephens, who would
''rathcr be hanged in Crawforlyillc than
compelled to live in Pari,," Vance would
he willing 10 give up the ghost at once
ra,hci than be cxiled from his birthplace.
Never did the South produce character
more s"i gcncris more typically inui-
vidnal lie could not have been grown
anywhere else, and suspect that lie is
the best product of Bnnc0mbc county,
polished by Charlotte and electrified ut
Washington. The idol Of the masses
ard the hero of the stump, nobody can
surpass him in popular oratory when
breathing his mountain air and face to face
with his devoted constituents. But the
chilling prccedcnts Of the Senate. allied
with certain traditional pomposity, re-
press his freedom of expression and
dampen his frolicsome pinions. The
atmosphere he takes into his capacious
chest is not the sweet breath of the frs
on the cliff, but the artificial ventilation
that issues from the bowels Of the Capt.
tol and engineered by subterranean
gnomc. Under these crampng circum-
stances, he cannot be seen in the highest
development. MstruSting his genius, in
such an arena, he carefully prepares his
speeches, and has them in manuscript
before him. On yesterday he did not
| confine himself scrupulously to the text,
but, ever and anon, snapped the threads
OF starch convcntunality, and burst forth
into some of the wittiest and most clo.
qucnt utteranccs. While many people,
North and South, may not agree with
him wholly OH the tariff problem, it can
not be denied that under :. fIslade Of
humorous illustrations lay hidden deal
Of sound sense and truth. His voice is a
mellow one, and trained 10 giving en-
phasis to cpigram, al, cdolc and satire
He knows to perfection when to make Il
point, and where to stick it, He has the
faculty rs Lincoln had, Of illustrating
argument with little stories, fall of pith
and pungency, and no less man than
Grant has recently testified, in post
prandal speech, that this gift is not un-
! becoming the greatest and most serious
of mortals, but only objected to by those
who are barren Of wit themselves and
mistake the sepuchral for the sublime.
In the beginning and at the end Of
Vance's speech, Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont,
prim. grandmotherly gentleman, at
tempted to break tho force of argument
by referring to the North Carolinian's
record for jocularity twenty years ago,
when, rs n member of the House, he
proposed to put tax upon Yankee
upon terrapins. Vance good humoredly
but incisiyely rotorted That he did not
think he had ever voted for protective
tariff years ago. but, if so, he would sim.
ply say that he had kept some bad com.
pany in his youth, for which he was duly
pcnitent now Mr.. Frye listened to the
greater part of the speech with gravity,
and did not seem to relish some of the
81: digs lio received. Democratic Sena-
tors in hearty accord with the speaker
gathered around him in an admiring and
delighted group. There was deal of
laughter on the floor and in the galleries,
which was not suppressed. The speech
started out with solid statement of how
the North had received from, the Govern
ment the lions share of the public do.
main, railway subsidies, canal bonds.
educational funds, and long array Of
miscellaneous bounties. The mammoth
disproportion was so greatly in favor OF
one section and against the other that il
was no wonder wealth and luxury pro.
vailed on the one hand and poverty and
shabbiness on the other. The man who
has eleven acres given him can educate
hio children better than tho man who had
only had one acre. The absorption of
profits by the manufacturing North was
at the expense of the agricultural West
and South, and such monstrosity was
only made possible by high political
tariff, which constituted New England
the great American dead head. The
high tariff falls mos. heavily upon agri.
culture everywhere in the Union, and
most heavily upon the South. Prohibi-
LION in the tariff was on level with Dick
Turpin's code Of morality. The one lad
the more civilization; the other more
manhood. The ono sneakingly evades
the ten commandments; the other OPEN
ly deiics them. When he proclaimed
that such prohibitory taxation was rob.
berry, he simply echoed the decision of
the Supreme Court, which he read for
the enlightenment of the Senator from
Maine. There can be no more heretical
despotsm than unjust discrimination
that builds up individual wealth. 1t was
unconstitutional, illegal and unholy. To
maintain this Government protection of
the rich few against the mullitudinous
poor. capital had hired innumerable
howiing dervshes on the press and in the
lobby. lie was loyal citizen, and so
agreed with tho Supreme Court when
that tribunal characterized Mr.. Frye's
doctrine rs nothing but robbery -pillage
under the forms OF law to build up mar.
BILE palaces at the North and force the
South 70 dwell In hnyels Tho incr.nsnA