The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-04

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Snackeiford, which attracted no especial at.
Yen tentqn at the time. In the Fiftieth Congress
snG lion. Louis Charles Latham had spoken
mantS snloe Times, once on lottery advertise
Paint once on the lighthouse at Pamlico
assistsn atu ynCe on the appropriation for an
Claims. tne commissioner Oh
oo ~ VIII lhus be seen that the previous re-
oeiu al the member from Cape Hatteras
that ...sl no reason whatever for expecting
in C mn.nln TWO weeks of the end of his term
~, wo,, Ji99usress-for he is not reelected-he
h muu,u startle the House with such an out
~ out Az =. " dramatic and impassioned eloquence
90 distinguished his speech last Wednesday
b bnu une proposed appropriation for light
Missouri had discussed the Diamond Sboai
phb1lect 10 the most prosaic fashion imagn-
aoie. lie then yielded the floor to Mr..
LATHAM. who, with very few preliminary
tMoras, launched into this wonderful descrip-
tion OF the ocean:
Inc sea is a yoracous and insatiate monster.
us WHITE capped waves are constantly reckoning
70 destruction, and Its voice. like the horse-leechs
aaagnter, is ever calling for more victims. Youth
ana old age. wealth, intellect, beauty, all have
alike been swept away In its remorselesss wrath,
and lie wrapped in its cold embrace. Its dangers
and In every language Whether portrayed in the
beautiful periods of the Psalrnist or tabulated in
their dry details by the Lighthouse Board, they
excite the sympathy and appeal to the humanity
OF every reader. Its moods are as variable and
uncertain
GAS the shade
BY the light quivering aspen made
"Roused by the battling winds as they swept
across its bosom to the full height OF its majestic
wrath, 1t PUSHES with irresistible force from the
SHORES OF one continent to those of another sweep
ing as with bosom of destruction everything In
It's path. till, tired ana spent, it falls back like
giant exhausted, before the barriers erected by
Omniscience against its further encroachments
AT times II sleeps as calmly as the infant at its
mothers breast; at times 1t losses like a strong
man IN FEVER lnits anger terrible; in its serenity
beautiful; In every mood and at all times, grand
majestic" if
Mr. Latham paused, as IL to give his aston
isned hearers time to get their sea legs, and
tnen, with roar like all the assorted winds
OF dlolus broken loose at once, he dashed
the House against his own Hatteras:
while the sea sleeps elsewhere 1t here knows
no rest. The pulsations of its mighty bosom are
ceaseless and eternal. Its white-capped waves,
taiions fafi back only TO again advance. II knows
no pity, no remorse. Baf1ied In its onward march
it wreaks its revenge on everything that comes
that ever rode the MAN, though her ribs were
forged by the Cyclops. is a cockle-boat in its
mighty grasp When the sound of its waves as
they break In white toam on the outer Diamond
falls upon the ear of the mariner he leaves hope
behind for his doom is sealed. No ship has ever
ridden Its waves In safety; the Angel of Mercy
mas never drawn from its swirlng waters human
being that its waves have once engulfed"
Need we add to these extracts from the
bon. Louis Charles Latham's first and last
tnat the House promptly voted an appropri-
alton OF $500, 600 TO be expended in his dis
trict? Then the member from Hatteras,
tired and spent, fell back like a giant ex-
hausted. and reposed in his chair as calmly
as an infant on it's mothers breast.