Year: 1879

HILL, BECK, VOORHEES,, GORDON, EATON,
and others entered the field under the ban
ner of State sovereignty, with cleaning
swords of rhetoric, to make war upon the
Constitution and the majesty of the Fed
eral power Each in turn entered the lists
aud waved the Confederate banner and
welded the weapons of State Rights with
all the ability that had been given them
as champions of bad cause,
but each in turn left the field
in damaged condition. They en-
countered CHANDLER, WINDOW, CoNK-
LING, BLAINE, EDMUNDs, and other cham
pions. of the Union, the Constitution, and
equal rights, who rallied under The flag OF
national supremacy, and not one Of the ma
jority champions escaped overthrow in the
tilt. HILL performed his part and precipi-
lately fled TO Georgia for safety and re-
pose but he tore his own uniform, damaged
his own sabre, and left the field in sorry
plight as viewed by the popular eye. He
brought serious damage to his own cause,
and gave hope and courage to the minority
by display of disloyalty and inconsistency
which has stamped him as an unprincipled
and rather weak adversary. VOORHEES,,
the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash stepped
into the arena with a naughty mien and
nodding plume, but his want of dexterity
in welding his weapons led to his own seri-
GUS discontinue. His plume was dislodged
and laid in the dirt, his spear was broken,
and his shield was fractured, TO say nothing
of his war clothes. When he was through
with his part OF the drama he began to sigh
for q horse-race or some other exhibition of
power and speed that might divert his per-
turbed spirit from the scene of his sad dis
comfture.


But none of the henchmen of " the Car
of the Caucus" Jared as sadly as did
EATON, Connecticut's filvorite son, who en-
tered the list as the especial champion of
the Southern doctrine of State Rights as
supreme above the national power. EATON
contended valorously for the wrong, but
BLAINE found many an opening in his mail
through which the point of his incisive
lance entered, inflicting serious wounds
upon the blue light body of the resisting
hero. EATON fought manfully, and when
he received damaging blow he received
ready succor from the Confederate reserves,
HAMPTON, MORGAN, aud VANCE, who
rushed into the fray with more in
trepidity than discretion, and all shared
u like discontinue in the encoun-
ter. EATON was seriously damaged and
was borne from the field ON a theoret-
ical stretcher in pitiable plight, accompa-
MED by his Confederate friends, who were
not without wounds to bind up and griefs
to assuage, under the consultations of II horse
race.


Pending this struggle Mr.. BECK bore a
conspicuous part on the side of the Conied-
eracy, for, since this session commenced, the
controversy has been between the Union
forces in Congress on one side and King
Caucus and his Confederate Brigadiers ON
the other. BY dint of disciplinary drill these
confederated forces have been kept in con-
certed action until the three bills for the
passage of which Congress was specially
convened have been worried through both
Houses, and two of them have encountered
the fatality of the veto power. Whether
the last is to share the fate of the former two
time will determine; and whether or not
the Government is to have the constitutions
al appropriations for the next fiscal year is
still shrouded in doubt, for, as yet, the ma
iority afford no assurance i'll their action
that the Government is not to be subjected
to revolution of starvation. The surest
thing now is that horse-race is Of more
consequence than the interests of state