Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-23
NORTH AND SOUTH.

Just bow high or how low in the
affairs Of the nation tho typical South
erner should have his pedestal il au
unsolvci question but not so for wait
Of discussion Up 10 the war the South
had almost a monopoly on the Prcsl-
dency mud this might have continued
Indefinitely but for that misundcr.
standing; while her senators and rep
restntatves IN Congress have all the
time, before and after, been character
izsd by nggress.vencss la speech and
action sometimes amounting TO great
executive ability and again 70 the
most futile rashueBs. Those Of the
race 10 Utah-nnd they are quite mum.
orous now-ate not very different from
that, while rs a rule among our best
citizens.
a writer In the Washington Post
noies that there IL very decided
difference between the Northern and
Southern members Of Congress. 81
always go to the Capitol II Congress IL
In session "a a sort Of religious duty"
no says; 81 figure to myself that
1 am an American citizen
anu have 10 help pay the
salaries Of those ro0.tun. want to
sec whore they are ~ and what they
are at" lie finds that tue Southern
member is almost invariably more
fluent, has greater command Of Ian.
guagr, h blessed with more easy
delivery, is more phone to run to the
flowers OF rhetoric, has more fotund
voice, AMI enunciitcs more clearly;
also that the Northern member has n
moro positive face anu manuerovinors
thorough knowledge OF tho subject
under discussion, usually displays
sound logic, uses palmer language, aud
proiucca more effect. "t dud that tho
collar Of this Southern man IL apt to
grow awry anu his coat TO como un.
buttonod. | lnd that tho collar Of the
Northcrner IL always 10 place aud his
coat thoroughly fastened. The South.
erner has a tendency 10 become heated;
the Norlhernor Ia always cool. As
legislator prefer the Norihernor. Ito
10 los III crescent aud more safe"
The characteristics OF the two clio.
menis were perhaps as well illustrated
by the late Senators Conkling and
Lamar, the former Of New York aud
the latter Of Mississippi, as they ever
were. During their Last great discus.
sion tho New Yorker referred 10 some
personal illusions by the other, which,
with lofty mion anu Ia such torrent
OF burning lnyec.ive and whitening
scotn as no more than any other man
was master Of, he denounced as scurrl.
lous sand oowafdly. When Lamar took
the door to reply there was hush
within tde Senate chamber such as
sometimes precedes u battle or great
storm; oil knew that something beyond
the common was going 10 be said. BE.
ginning slowly and deliberately, with
the regular Southern drawl, Lamar
gradually became animated and select.
cd and sped his sentences across the
chamber with the precision and effect
Of Zulu chief throwing assegais.
Finally, % ollmsx, he ihun.
defed forth; "rhe words spoken
OF were used by mo aud
were meant In the sense that thuy were
received. 1 10 not wonder that the
gentleman from New York was dis.
tutbed at them, Tor they were meant
distinctly for him. They were such
words as no honorable man would de.
serve and no brave man would weari"
This was throwing down tbs gauntlet
with a meaning to It, but tue conlro.
yersy ended right there.