The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-14

the most accomplished stat men of any age or country. The 'old man eloquent 'khe set fire to the fuse that spread the confiagra- ton from Bull Run to Appomattox, and. like Theodore Roosevelt. he was half south ern' cousin-german to R. Rarpwell Rhett. He had the pugnacity of the southerner, was born fighting and died lighting. We might have had our niggers yet if 1t had not been for him. with his right of peti- ton, thus batting Tom Marshall and Henry A. Wise to desperation and forcing Navery to paramountcy. Perhaps he stands first among Americas "commoners."
 Thad Stevens made the Lancaster district famous, He had the lame leg the imperious will, perhaps the genius for action of Tam erlape. the scourge of the East, Intellectual ly he was inferlpr to none. As parliament ary gladiator. he never met his match be- tween secession and his death. His creed would have been cana and was cant in the throat of Henry Wilson or Timothy O. Howe. He. too. tried to enslaye the white men, women,N and children of the south. and would have succeeded had 1t been pos sibie. ThAd Stevens was a elub-fo man. and David Phiipot warns us that 1t was e club foot that God gave Cain that all might ware of him.
 As for the Burnt" district. that was made illustrious by George W. Julian. the greatest orator Indiana ever produced. Could he and O. P. Morton have stalled to. gether in one barn, no Democrat could have got much higher than constable in Hoosierdom. But you could no more manage George W. Julian than you could stay Mag ara. He and Morton started Democrats and rivals; they entered the Republican party on the repeal of the Missouri restric- ton, falsely called compromise" n and .wege together in the earlier stages Of reconstrucE ton. Morton was an opportunist. essentially so; Julian was 8 doctrinaire, radically so. . IA. mN. A. A for the negro, he went back to the Demo- cratic party What sort of a campaign doc- ument would 1t make for the c. O. P.-ol- iver r. Morton's speech on negro suffrage made in lS66 or 1867?
 And now I come to the most illustrious of them alI--the Ashland district. Here are some of the men she has sent to council with the sages of the nation George M. Blob, William T. Barry Henry Clay, Robert P. Letches, A. c. Hawes, Richard M John son, Garrett Davis. Thomas Y. Marshall. Charles A. MOrehead, John c. Breckinridge, A. K. Marshall. James B, Clay. John J. Crittenden, Brutus J, Clay, James B. Beck. Joseph C. S. Blackburn, William C. F, Breckinridge, and numerous others.
 Where can you match them? More brains came out of that electorate to solonize in the councils of the Capital than any other district in all America can show. It IS the heart or the blue BFahSs Ihc uothe ol NAag7s BreckinrIdEes, Crittendens, and Marshalls. Talk about plumed knights-Henry Clay was the loftiest of them all. old Throck- morton of the Gait House, painted him when. in an ecstacy, he roared Take him in the Senate. take him at the bar. take him at Ghent patching up a peace after a disastrous war; take him on the stump, or in private station. drawing room, or in the throng of a court day street, and by God he's captain of every crowd he gets in. Henry Clay among men. Eclipse among horses--first, and the rest nowheref'
 Alexander Hamilton Stephens. Whig represented the Crawfordsville district six teen years before the war and ten years af- ter the war He was remarkable man run to intellect. His book. The War Between the States" is the best conception of the moving causes of that mighty struggle yet printed He made Charlottesville ilustriOus He shed luster Congress.
 had nearly forgot the Nineteenth