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much to the disgust of one of his friends,
who having vainly expostulated with
him and losing temper, exclaimed
Evan Buren,, is there case so low, so
vile, so filthy that you would decline
to represent it," II do not KNOW" re-
piled the lawyer, hesitatingly, and
quickly approaching his ear close to the
lips of the inquirer, he whispered.
"What have you been doing?"
Judge S. B. Hoyt writes:
Hon. Nathaniel Macon, of North
Carolina, was one Of the few intimate
friends of John Randolph, of Roanoke.
They served together in both houses.
Mr.. Macon retired from the house in
1915. His successor made every effort to
succeed him in the good graces Of Mr..
Randolph. Mr.. Randolph snubbed him.
Angry at this, he took the first opportu-
nifty to assault Randolph in debate.
Randolph made no sort of reply, but a
few days after, in discussing some sub
ject, said: "Mr. Speaker, I am remind
ed of a remark Of my friend, Hon. Ma
thaniel Macon, of North Carolina, the
wisest man I ever knew" and then
pointing his long, lean finger at the
seat formerly occupied by Mr.. Macon,
but at that time by his successor, con-
tinued, "but whose seat in this house I
am sorry to say is now vacant!vacant!
vacant !n'
This may be in print somewhere, but
never saw it. 1t was told to me when
I was boy, by my grandfather, an old
Virginian. I have always regarded it
as the most whitening satire I ever
heard Of.
I append, however, the following,
which, under the circumstances, re-
gard as one of the keenest and most
polished specimens of satire I ever
came across:
Disraeli, the great English premier,
as is we'll known, was defeated several
times before he was elected to parlia-
.ment. In one Of his speeches on the
hustings, he denounced Daniel O'Con-
nell, the great Irish agitator, as a
"bloody traitor :" to which Mr.. O'Con-
nell made the retort: For aught ]
know, the present Disraeli is the true
heir al law of the impenitent thief who
died on the cross"
Disraeli challenged OConnell's son,
Morgan, who took up his fathers quar-.
rel, but the challenge was not accepted.
Hon. Charles G.. Jones, Augusta,
Georgia, writes
"When that brilliant but erratic ora.
tor, the late Thomas Marshall, of Ken.
lucky, was addressing large audience
at Buffalo, he was interrupted by a
politicel opponent, who, pretending
not to hear the speaker distinctly, en-,
deavored to embarrass him by putting
his hand to his ear and crying out
"louder." Several times did Mr.. Mar.
shall pitch his voice on a higher key
but the only effect was to draw forth
from his tormentor still more energetic
cries of "louder, please, sir, louder
Thus interrupted in the midst of one
of his most thrilling appeals, Mr.. Mar.
shall, indignant at the trick, paused fol
moment and fixing his eye first on
his enemy and then on the presiding
officer, said: "Mr. Chairman, on the
last day, when the angel Gabriel shall
have descended from the heavens and
placing one foot upon the sea and the
other upon the land, shall lift to his lip:
the golden trumpet and proclaim to the
living and to the resurrected dead thai
time shall be no more, I have no doubt
sir, that Internal fool from Buffalo viii
start up and cry out: Louder, please
sir, louderv'
One of the neatest retorts ever made
by public speaker was that given by
Coleridge in response to some mark:
of disapprobation INDUCED in by the
audience during his democratic lecture
at Bristol: "I am not at all surprised
that, when the red-hot prejudices O
aristocrats are suddenly plunged into
the cool element Of reason, they should
60 off with hiss
Judge Richard H. Clark writes:
Before the war in the high party
times between the wings and the dem
ocrats, Horace Greeley then as after
wards was editor of the New Yorl
Tribune violent whig paper. HI
was dissatisfied, even disgusted will
the platform of a whig national con
vention. After denouncing it in :
manner that only Horace Greely could
his contempt reached its climax, wher
his denunciation ended with, II spi
upon the platform"
Then, George D. Prentiss, anothe
whig editor Of the Louisville Journal
replied: "If you spit upon the plat
form, you cannot expectorate as ;
whig."
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