Year: 1867

Letters from the People.
Two L. n. senators-One the Tallest


the Other the Heaviest Man In ths
senate.


Editor of the Register:


One of the inspired prophets say
somewhere in the good Book:


"If the righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and doeth that which il wrong
all the righteousness he hath done shall be for
gotten. and for the sin which he committed b.
shall surely die"


Now, we have no idea of preaching
sermon from this text, but have
quoted the words for the purpose Q
applying them to the political conduct
of two distinguished men in West Yir
ginia. One of these is said to be the
tallest man in the U. s. Senate, and the
other is described as being the hearies
man in the Senate. As to the former
he has .dOubly sinned, and therefore
according to the prophets must die
doubly or twice. He sinned grievously
if reports be true, at the breaking ont
of the rebellion, by openly espousing its
cause, and by manifesting warm and
determined purpose te get upon "the wal
path" against the Constitution and gov
ernment of his country. But, being
very tall, he could conveniently look
upon both sides of the fence without
exactly straddling it. And he no doubt
took long and penetrating glance at
the beautiful savannahs of the South
with their teeming black population
and their sparse and thinly settled
white people, and began to doubu the
success of the enterprise upon which
these white people were about TO EN-.
bark. In this state of mind, he turned
his eyes upon the large cities, the i'm
mense manufacturing establishments,
and the overflowing white population
in the Northern and Eastern States
Then he turns his face toward the set.
ting sun, and, as that grand luminary
sank brilliantly and gracefully into his
nightly chambers, brighter light was
shed upon the immense and fertile fields
of the West, and he was enabled to see
the greatness and glory of the "GIeat
West" as he had lever seen them be-
fore. His mind was at once made
up, that it would he safer for him
to seek comfortable six years posi-.
tion in the United States Senate, than
to hazard his life and his fortune against
such fearful odds. He acted according
ly. Tho result is known. He has held
his place in the Senate for several years
and during all that time he has sinned
as grieyously against the Constitution
and liberty regulated by law, as he wa:
wont to do in his proposed open out
break against his Government, by tax
ing up arms against it. He has, OF
course, died in the respect and conf
dence of his friends, and he has since
died in the good opinion of all true
lovers of the Uni0n-all who are de-
voted to the fundamental principles OF
our Government-andl lives now only in
the apparent respect and confidence OF
extreme radicals. He and they should
never forget that in all revolutions,
such as ours, reaction will sooner or
later take place, and when it does, all
such characters as he and they will have
to stand from under.


. The heariest man in the Senate is free
from the sin of rebellion, so far as we
know, and up to a few short months
just passed, maintained his charactef
for righteousness, in SO far as his votes in
the Sanate went, with tolerable con-
sistency. Some time ago, however, he,
too, began to look over the field, and in
his sleepy gaze, which enabled him to
see things but dimly, he came to the
conclusion, which Senator Wilson an
nounces az his honest conviction, that
the great Radical party which now
sways the destiny of this mighty coun-
try, must and shall continue to do so
ad infaitum. This being the case, how
would he hesitate to throw his immense
reight into the same scale which
held the towering form of his colleague.
He wouldn't do it; so in he went, and
ever since has continued to vote and act
with the most extreme ultra radicals in
the Senate. Thus having sinned, the
righteousness which he did for several
years is forgotten, and he has died in
the estimation of his former friends, and
his immense carcass stinks in their nos
trils. But reaction is coming on,
and it will be so terrible we fear that
even old Rip Van Wrinkle will be wax
ened from his slumbers, and made to
feel the truth and force of the prophets
words. Look out for squalls.