The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-18
TIE wHIRLIGIG OF TIME.
Jefferson Davis Evidently Not a
"Shining Mark"

the following named senators answered to
the roll call:
Maine-Lot NJ. Morrill,, Wm. Pitt Fes.
sender.
Vermont-Solomon Foot, Jacob Col
lamer.
New mpshire-John P. Hale, David
Clark.
chusetts-Char.es Sumner, Henry
Wilson.
Rhode Island-James F. Simmons, N
B. Anthony.
Connecticut-James Dixon, La Fayettt
Foster.
New York-Preston King, Ira Harris.
New Jersey-John R. Thompson, John
G. Ten Eyok.
Pennsylvania-David Wilmot, Edgar
Cowap.
Delaware-Jas. A. Bayard, Willard
Salisbury.
Maryland-Anthony Kennedy, Jaa. A.
Pierce.
Kentucky-Lazaru W. Powell.
Missouri-Trusten Polk.
| Tennessee-Andrew Jackson.
IIlinois-Lyman Trumbull, Orvill H.
Browning.
Indisna-Jesse D. Bright, Henry s
Lane.
Ohio-John Sherman, Ben Wade.
| Miohigan-Zachariah Chandler, Kins-
ley s. Bingham.
Iowa-Jas. W. Grimes, James Harlan.
Wisoonsin-Jas. R. Doolittle, Timothy
O. Howe.
Standardization s. Latham, Jas. A.
MoDougall.
nnesota-Morton s. Wilkinson.
Oregon-Jas. W. Nesmith.
Kansas-Jas. w. Lane, Samuel @. Pome-
roy.
The purpose of this article being to
speak particularly of the republicans who,
by their ability and prominence in the
early months of the war caused their
names to become familiar to the whole
country, particular reference to them
alone is made.
| Of the republican senators above men
toned all are dead or in obscurity save
John Sherman, James R. Doolittle and
Lyman Trum bull, the two last named hav-
ing joined the democratic party.
The members of Mr.. Lipcoln's cabinet
were William Fl. Seward, Salmon P. Chase,
Gideon Wells, Simon Cameron, Montgom-
cry Blair, Caleb B. Smith and Edward
BatPs-all are dead. Hannibal Hamlin,
vice president at the time, still lives.
In the house OF representatives the men
who are remembered most wildly for the
rhetorical thunder hurled at the head
Conkling, John A. Bingham, of
Ohio; Schuyler Colfax, Elihu
Washburn, Thaddeus Stevens, Owen Love
Joy, Arson W. Burlingame, Jae. Ashley, of
Ohio. All of these are dead except Ashley,
who, like Trumbull and Doolittle, pro-
lopged his life by joining the democracy.
The most famous war governors were
Andrew, of Massachusetts; Curtin, of
Pennsylvania; Brough and Todd, of Ohio;
Morton, of Indiana, and Yates, of Illinois.
Of these all are dead except Curtin, who
came forward and was baptized in the
Iife-giving waters of democracy.
The illustrious editors and other anti
slavery agitators best remembered are
Horace Greedy, Gerritt Smith, Henry
Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Joshua
R. Giddings, Thurlow Weed, John W.
Forney and George W. Julian. OF these
George w. Julian alone survives; he needed
the warming, joined the democracy, and,
although candidate for vice-president
more than forty years ago, is In all his
mental strength, performing the duties of
the Office of surveyor general of New
Mexico by appointment from Grover
Cleveland.
A great many men achieved fame or
prominence within a few months after
July, 1861 among whom can be mentioned
Edwin M. Stanton, John A. Logan, James
Speed, Joseph Holt, James A Garfield,
Ignatus Donnelly, Daniel E. Siokles,
Thomas Ewing, Jr., Gen. Sam F. Carey.
Donnelly, Ewing, Sickles and Curey put
on the democratic life-preserver and live;
the others, all dead.
Mr.. Lincoln appointed Stephen j. Field
to seat upon the supreme bench of the
United States, and he is the only surviving
member of that august tribunal as then
constituted, and is democrat.
Tho purpose of this article is to notice
OILY those whose regulations rest princi-
pelly upon their achievements in civil life,
and the names referred to are those that
first occur to all who remember the stormy
times of 1861 to 1865.
Should Jefferson Davis live to read the
obituaries of John Sherman and Hannibal
Hamlin, he will have outlived the last of
those whose names we're familiar to all the
land as leading republicans, save those
who apparently escaped the king of ter
rors by becoming democrats. The lesson
will probably be lost on John shsr-
man and Hannibal Hamlin in their
perverseness and stubborness of spirit
They prefer sure death to the promise of
life where the condition is allegiance to
the ancient democratic faith. 1t ia only
kindness to suggest to the venerable ex-vice
president that the frozen iphospitable
shores of Maine court the coming of the
destroyer, and to John Sherman that
neither the Potomac flats nor MAS
matte fields of Ohio are conducive to lon
gevity, and while he in the tolls of glory
frets, j Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir, drink
ing the odors of the magnolia and famed
ty sailed zephyrs from the southern sea,
sips his mint julep with an expressive
wink as he exclaims: "Only two more and
I am feeling splendid"
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