Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-02

| pliments of St Paul by dying friend, w1tb
| the assurance that be approved hts writings
generally, and entertained for himself rs
man, the highest regard, affection and es-
teem." This, however, was only an eNag.
geration OF his customary MOOD, ior IN nus
best days he would have offered his arm TO
an archangel in the style of Democratic
president doing the honors OF the planet To a
distinguished visitor. In word, he was
lust himself, precizely-a man that would
have stuck TO his iutercession for the cities
of the plain, IL he had been in Abraham's
place, till he had nothing left but Lots wife
to offer in mitigation of their doom. Moses,
though the meekest OF men, was bold enough
to reply TO the threat OF destruction to the
1sraelites, Forgive them, or blot my name
out Of thy book Genersl Osle wouldn't
stop at that he would offer su apology for
the unfortunate multitude at the general
judgment, in the confidence that every thing
Couid be satisfactorily arranged afterwards
10y his own kind offices
OF his moral conscience am safe in say.
ing II was just the balance OF his own I'M
pulses and opinions His feelings settled
the right and wrong of things among them
selves, without any reference to received
standards No prophet could be more conf
dent OF his inspiration than the general was
of the oracle within him and he was, more
| over not the man to desire a favor out of
| rule, to pray, or wish, in thought or word,
| for personal benefit to soul or body, or to
fear or evsde any legitimate consequence of
| his own large liberty of soul.
As an example of the generals mode Of
| reasoning, and the morale of his logic, he
| shall answer in his own style suppose an
| Indian war to be the subject its providen-
| tial results rather than its Justice being its
| warranty.
| " fercizsly," he would say, you mustn't
| look at great national movement the way
amagpie squints into a marrow. bone His
| tory isn't written with the point OF a pin.
TIE Csnssnites were the Indians of the Holy
| Land, and when the cup of their iniQuities
was full and the Cavaliers and Puritsns oi
that day wanted room, and had the better
right of better men to fil it, Jehovah told
| them, pine-blank. TO oust the lounging var.
lets. Ie see, the Lord of the vineyard can,
not tolerate mere cumberers of the ground.
| The copper. heads take IN more room than
| the rest OF the world can afford them They
| are in TACT, the greatest land d-monOpolists in
| the universe, and the most worthless SQUADS
| at that 50, the fine fellows must either &C
| to work, when the time comes, or else pull
| up stakes, and put out for the Rocky noun
tdins, or Tor kingdom-come. The earth mus
| be farmod, not foraged, by man and the
vsgabonds that have neither forts nor fences
must give 1t up-their case is past praying
for-burnt brandy wouldn't save them. Be
| sides. new world was wanted for the new
| system. Democracy required a fresh soil,
wide field and a clean sweep, to set up with
and this was just the continent tit for the use
| percizey ~
Responsibility for poor mems debts, ant
| lue aCludi payment Oh lnem IN the last eS
| tremity, and the general care and direction
| OF the improvident and incapable people il
| his large acquaintance, rested on him con
stsntly, and was cheerfully borne and un
grudgingly discharged, and, OF course, not
| little ostentatiously at the same time. Tn,
manners of his constituency were robust anC
blunt, and great delicscy in his conduct to
wards them would nave here missed its aim
| and he had no idea of reserve toward thos,
| who would bear the open utterance of every
| thing that nr,i
| ingly, not al all unusual, nor very outra
geous, either, to find him enacting his beney
oiences in the public streets nor, indeed
was il qute out OF the way for him to re
| hearse them to the ungrateful and presump
tuous, Tor their benefit and his own honor
In the centre square OF the county town, OF
| public day, with q crowd of the countr,
| people around him, he has been heard to say
more than once, in his loudest tones, " I'm
| the father OF the county. For forty years
have done all its thinking and managed al
its business. prof ojected your public roads
and every great improvement in the polio.
of the community. 1 have made you happ,
| at home and respected abroad. / know
| every man Of you, from the scorn up to tn
| scrubs that ye are. l know more law thai
| your lawyers, and more divinity than you
| preachers. l can teach your merchants ii
| their own business aud there isn't one in
| dozen of you that doesn't owe your gooS
| luck TO my advice, and your misiortunes 4
| neglecting it. / am the oldest major genera
| in the United States except General Jackson
! want nothing from you'll belong to my
SELF but / want you to know what is 70
| your own good, percizely."
In public debate and conversation, he wa
| remarkable Tor tact blunt wit, and etIectiv
eloquence besides, he had a voice an,
manner of defamation which insured tn
reception OF anything that he uttered. No
man in a million has equal possession an,
command of the nerves of his auditors
Think towards him as they might the,
were obliged to think with him. He neve
knew the embarrassment of doubt, and b
never showed its hesitation. He WASH
loaded squib fashion, with alternate wads o
wet and dry powder. When he exploded al
opinion, it had the clear, compact, metalli
ring OF strsight-cut.rihs crack, and, hit o
miss, 1t was not safe 10 stand within hi
| range.
He had learned all the best and most avail
able law msxims he knew the Scriptures
as he said, like a book and he was richl,
| supplied with those sententious oracles @
wisdom and prudence which have crystal
liZed themselves into happy, self-provinl
msxims, In form for ready and effective use
Concluded next week.