TOM MARSHALL, OF KENTUCKY.
It "Tom Corwin, of Ohio," ever had a rival
Lis peculiar vein of oratory, it was "Tom
VnbhaU, of Kentnokr." They were very un
like In person Corwin waa bulky and pon
derous, Marshall tall, thin, and wiry (and, to
iun the contrast into the ground, Corwin was
in complexion naturally very dark, not to Bay
Had, and Marshall waa unnaturally red in the
face); but mentally they were exact counter
parts. Neither were hard students nor deep
thinkers, both were superficial readers, but of
quick perception and retentive memory;
neither were close reasoners, but arrived at
conclusions intuitively, as women are saidj to
do, but not with that almost infallible correct
ness with which women decide; both were
strongly predisposed to be satirical, and were
' full of a fine, pleasant humor; and, sad to say,
neither having aDy definite, fixed purpose in
life, accomplished no great work, and so
finally both came to be called partisans, not
statesmen stump-speakers, not orators, and
to have their stories preserved by tradition,
ot history.
Marshall had one defect which Corwin had
not. His satire had a sting in it, and there
was more of malice in his wit than in Corwin's
fan. Both were quick and hard hittera in
debate, but Corwin invariably fought with the
gloves on, while Marshall had no objection to
dropping them occasionally; and one only
"doubled up" his opponent where the other
insisted on knocking him down. Corwin never
sacrificed his good-humor to his wit, nor let
temptation lead him to indulge in asperities;
Marshall displayed his wit, no matter who was
hurt. The merry twinkle of Corwin's eye was
too often "a fierce glare in Marshall's, and Cor
win whispered his "good things" to the col
leagues immediately surrounding him, while
Marshall hissed his till the galleries heard.
There was a cause, and in a slight measure
an apology, for this bitterness in Marshall's
nature Corwin not having the fault, did not
need the apology. Marshall was early in life
disappointed in his ambition, while Corwin
was uniformly successful, as far, at least, as
it was natural for indecision to be successful.
Disappointment in his dream you can hardly
call it his purpose in life changed and embit
tered Marshall's disposition, and made him
somewhat malicious. The story of his disap
pointment in life is a singular one.
llenry Clay, it will be remembered, died in
"Washington City in 1.SJ52. llis remains were
taken to Kentucky for interment, more than
the usual honors being paid the body in the
various cities through which it passed. At
Louisville, Kentucky, it lay in state in the
depot of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad,
and the citizens in great numbers took their
last look at "Kentucky's greatest son." I had
seen the body, and had then retired to the
opposite side of the street from the depot to
watch, as many others were doing, the crowd
filing in and out of the building. While thus
engaged Tom Marshall, much the worse for
liquor, reeled towards a group of young men
who were standing near me, and said, inja very
loud tone :
"Well, boys, have you had your last look
at the old scoundrel 1 I hope I've seen the
last of him ! The Sage of Ashland !' Bah !
How I hated the old rascal, but" suddenly
changing his voice, and with a shrug of his
shoulders "but didn't I fear him though I"
Several years after this I became quite inti
mately acquainted with Marshall, and in
March or April of 1858, meeting him in Cin
cinnati, I learned why he hated Clay so in
tensely. I had been sitting for some time in
the rotunda of the Burnet House, when Mar
shall came in wearing one of his long faces
he always looked solemn when sober and
spoke to me. He had just returned, he said,
from Newport, Kentucky (opposite Cincin
nati), where he had been delivering a lecture.
un what subject v l askea.
"The dryest in the world Temperance."
I had known him to frequently reform, stop
drinking for a time, and lecture on temper
ance, and then just as frequently "fall from
grace" as soon as the course was finished.
"The fact is," ha added, "temperance don't
pay in Kentucky."
The conversation thus began led, somehow,
. away from temperance to politics, and at last I
found an opportunity to ask him the cause of
his enmity to Clay. I shall never be able to
give his words, so I tell, in my own, as nearly
as I can remember, the facts as he stated them.
Marshall was very successful in early life as
a lawyer a success due in some measure to
family influence and the aid of Henry Clay.
In lb40 he was elected to Congress from the
Tenth Congressional District of Kentucky by a
very large majority; and when he took his seat
in the Twenty-seventh Cougress on March 4,
1841, his prospects were very flattering: he was
hugely popular with his constituency, was a po
litical protiyt of Clay, then the great leader of
the Whig party, and with a fine voice, figure,
manner, and delivery, and a fame as a speaker
which had already reached the capital, he
only wanted and waited, as he thought, an
opportunity to make his mark in the House
of Representatives, though one may readily
imagine there wasn't much room for a young
aspirant of Marshall's calibre in the House in
which John Quincy Adams was the leader.
Shortly after the session began Mr. Adams
gave notice of his intention to move to rescind
the 21st rule of the House. This rule had
been adopted during the session of 1838, when
the "Locofocos" were in the majority; and in
ellect it prohibited the introduction of any re
solutions or petitions on the subject of slavery
in the District of Columbia. The proposition of
Adams was looked upon by all the Democrats
and by most of the Southern Whigs as the vir
tual reopening of the abolition question, the
agitation of which they were anxious to keep
out of Congress; and a vigorous opposition was
organized to defeat Adams and secure the re
tention of the rule of the House. Clay, then in
the benate, suggested to his prates, Marshall,
that here was his opportunity. Marshall
eagerly took the hint, and was among the first,
alter llearyA. Wise, to engage in the rather ran
corous debate which followed. He made seve
ral speeches at Adams during the session; but
Adams took no notice of him. Finally the
rule was retained, but only after much debate,
during which Mr. Marshall took frequent oo
casion to repeat his attacks on Mr. Adams,
with the same ill success of drawing out that
gentleman from his shell, l'eruistent abusa
Mr. Adams well understood was too valuable
in politics to lightly expend on an opponent,
or to hastily decline to receive. During the
second session of the Twenty-seventh Con
gress It was on January 2,r), 1842 Mr. Adams
introduced the famous petition of the citizens
nf Haverhill. Massachusets, asking Congress
in didxolve the Union, announcing that he did
so under protest, and only in deference to the
sacred right of petition, his great argument
when moving to rescind the 21st rule.
Preparations were at once made to
debate the subject with the ex-Presi-denf
and Clay advised Marshall to arraign
Mr. Adams before the House for censure, pro
mising to follow up his action in the Senate,
aad Utus between them demolish the great
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Abolition leader. Aa noon s Adams had In
troduced the petition, Mr. Gilmer, of Virginia,
the Whig leader in the HouHe, offered a reso
lution of censure; but Marshall, not deeming
It strong enough, amended it by a P'mblB
of great length and two resolutions one , threat
ening expulsion, the other ri
severe reprimand. He supported 1 his amend
ment by a long speech, in which he launched
his satire against Adams, much to his own
satisfaction and the amusement of his parti
sans. He was satisfied that his eloquence it
waa a splendid piece of invective had made
him, if not the head and front, at least a
man of mark in the body which he as
pired to lead. He was mistaken: he was
about to be violently expelled from it in dis
grace, lie had at length aroused the old Hon.
When Marshall had finished Mr. Adams arose
in a great fury and ordered the clerk to "read
for the benefit of this boy this puny mind,
which originates a crime, frames a law, and
provides a punishment in a breath, the second
clause of the Declaration of Independence.
"The second clause of the Declaration of Inde
pendence 1" he added, fiercely, rapping rapidly
and loudly on his desk, and then in his sub
lime anger repeating for the third time in hia
strident voice, "The second clause of the De
claration of Independence 1" Alas for roor
Tom's shallow eloquence I the grandeur of the
old man's anger and the vigor and force of his
ouotation demolished it utterly. No sooner
had the clerk finished reading than Adams,
now comparatively calm and in another
vein, but not with less relentless purpose,
quietly demolished the one or two feeble
arguments advanced by Marshall, and then
alter indulging in some personal allusions
to the young man who had been teas
ing him through a whole session, he suddenly
convulsed the House by some quaint allusion
to this raw recruit for the "Corporal's Guard"
(the name previously given by Mr. Adams to
the Whigs who sustained John Tyler), of which
John Tyler was Captain, and the gentleman
from Virginia, Mr. Gilmer, was First Corporal.
The allusion was as neat and irresistible as his
extinguisher on "the late Mr. Crary," which,
it will be remembered, following on the heels
of Corwin's laughable description, drove that
worthy aspirant for military honors into an ob
scurity from which he is occasionally summoned
only to be laughed at. Adams' allusion to
Marshall on this occasion did the same for him;
the House roared at him; and though he came
back repeatedly to the attack with spirit, it was
only to be ignominiously deteated by tne vote
of the House on his resolutions. The political
capital he had thought to make proved "bo
gus," his grasp at the leadership fell short;
he found Uimselt every wnere nailed as "jur.
Adams' young man," and "John Tyler's raw
recruit;" he never held up his head again, and
could only look forward anxiously to Clay in
the Senate for support and rescue.
"He never budged !" exclaimed Marshall at
this point of his story "he never moved.
He feared the old lion even at the safe dis
tance of the other end of the Capitol. I was
ridiculed out of Congress. Clay deserted me
like a coward, sir, like a coward. I left Wash
ington, and never want to see it again. My
constituents at home laughed at me as much
as the House did, and I left that district and
politics, too, in disgust."
Marshall fell into what was evidently a
painful train of thought, and was silent for a
minute or two. At last brightening up, he
added:
"You see I bearded the old lion in his den,
and," his sense of humor getting the better of
his bitterness, "I got a d d sight the worst
of it 1"
Marshall never forgave Clay this desertion
of him, as he called it, though what action he
could have expected Clay to take I cannot
conceive. He hated the whole Clay family
intensely, and in his darker moods and condi
tions he never failed to pour out his vitupera
tion on their heads. As late as 1857 I saw him
spend a little of this venom on young Tom
Clay, a grandson of "the sage," on whom he
forced a senseless quarrel in a public room in
which they had met. Of course his feeling
against Clay was unreasonable. Not Clay's
desertion of him, but Adams' speech and final
success, when the resolution of censure was
forever laid on the table, put an end to Mar
shall's career as a politician, and, in fact,
ruined him for life. ' He brought it upon
himself; for from his first speech in Congress,
that memorable iWbut on June 10, 1841, which
he jocosely began by congratulating himself
on "having been in Washington only three
weeks, and had caught everything from a bad
cold to the Speaker's eye," he had persistently
attacked Adams and delivered a great deal of
cutting satire.
In those days the reporters of the Congres
sional Globe made only brief synopses of the
principal speeches, and they appeared in print
in the third instead of the first person. Much
of Marshall's wit was thus lost to us: but the
custom of the reporters gave rise to an incident
illustrating his manner. He closed his speech
on one occasion by ordering the reporters not
to publish his remarks, "as he could both
write and speak the English language, and
didn't want anybody's gibberish." The re
porters ever after omitted his speeches, and
alluded to him as "a Mr. Marshall, a new mem
ber from Kentucky." If Marshall had ever
given them an opportunity after the "old
lion" had growled at him, they would doubt
less have called him "Mr. Marshall, Mr.
Adams' young man," or "a raw recruit from
Kentucky."
Marshall never lost an otmortunitv to show
his hatred of Clay; and his passion, often de
priving him of some of his discretion, he fre
quently laid himself open to crushing retorts
from the "sage of Ashland." He was once
pitted againit Clay in an important suit in the
Kentucky Court "of Appeals. Clay was en
titled to the closing speech in the argument,
Marshall having to precede him. Marshall
never was great at an argument appeal was
his forte and Robert J. Breckinridge had
been engaged to do the arguments in this case;
but on tnis occasion Marshall toolc it into his
head to be argumentative. And singularly
enough he chose, instead of advancing new
arguments in his own favor, to enumerate the
strongest of those ukdy to be advanced by Mr.
Clay, and to answer them as if Mr. Clay had
already made thi'm. This he called "spiking
Clay's gnus." -
"Imngine my mortification," he said subse
quently, alluding to the case, "when Clay con
cluded a splendid speech without even alluding
to anything I hail said."
This waa a candid admission on Marshall's
Part- still he had vanity enough to conceal the
fact that Clay, avoiding the points answered
by Marshall advanced arguments of great
force which his illogical opponent had iever
Shortly after this trial Robert J. Breckin-
rmge, nis associate, lett the bar and adopted
the pulpit as a profession. Meeting him
years after this change Marshall accosted 1dm
with: ;
"Well, Bob, you and I have never recov
ered from our attack on old Clay. That defeat
drove you to tUVi pdlpit and me to the bottle.
Bob, Bob, I'm sorry to have to say it sorry
for both our sakes; but I've stuck to my text
closer than you have to yours."
Unfortunately this waa true as far as Mar-
dhall was concerned; how far it Is true of Mr.
Breckinridge Is another matter. That gentle
man, In his duplex character of preacher and
politician, exercised a weighty influence in his
State during the era of secession; and no man
did more by advice and counsel to save Ken
tucky to the Union than did the Reverend
Robert J. Breckinridge. Full of prejudices as
great minds ever are, violent and bitter in his
denunciation of wrong and wrong-doers, even
indulging in perhaps too sharp personalities,
he made many enemies; but his arguments
were too strong and too forcibly put not to
have been effective, and, scattered broadcast
through Kentucky during the war, they made
much Union sentiment of the true and radical
BNot only "the sage," but many other less
able" speakers of Kentucky caught Marshall
"on 'the hip" in consequence of his many in
discretions. During the famous Matt Ward
trial in Kentucky in 1853 or '54, Marshall, as
one of the counsel for the prisoner, indulged
in many bitter personalities towards R. B.
Carpenter, one of the prosecuting attorneys.
It was many years before Carpenter got an
opportunity for revenging himself, but at last
Marshall's indiscretion furnished it. It was
during one of Marshall's periodical fits of tem
perance. He had delivered a lecture
at Covington, Kentucky, the residence
of Mr. Carpenter, on his temporarily
favorite topic, and, in concluding it, called on
anybody present to answer Ins arguments, "if
he could." Carpenter accepted the challenge,
and, springing upon the platform, gave a full
account of all of Marshall's sprees, concluding
by admitting that Marshall was the most
powerful lecturer on temperance whom he had
ever heard and so n; "for, " said Carpenter, "ho
not only depicts the evils of intemperance in
glowing words, but strikingly illustrates them
in his own personl" Marshall never attempted
to answer that argument.
I became acquainted with Marshall in 1857.
The manner of the introduction was odd enough
to be interesting. Marshall had engaged to
deliver a course of lectures at Louisville, Ken
tucky, on the "Popes of Rome;" and during
the fortnight employed in their delivery and,
indeed, whenever in Louisville he made his
home with his brother-in-law, Judge Caleb
Logan, of that city. I resided at the time in
the adjoining house, and only a party-wall
separated the rooms occupied by Marshall and
myself. These were at the rear of the build
ings, and when the windows of both apart
ments were open voices in one could be
plainly heard in the other. My business
kept me up late at night; so did Marshall's;
and thus it frequently happened that we
found ourselves busy in our respective rooms
at a very late hour of the night. Midnight
was Marshall's favorite hour for study, and
I could sit at my window and hear him read
ing aloud. I found alter an evening or two
that he was thus studying for his next lec
ture. One night I heard him, in thus declaim
ing, frequently use the names of "Bourbon,"
"Montpensier," "Marguerite de Valois," and
being at that time engaged in writing an arti
cle based on the history of Charles de Mont
pensier, Duke of Bourbon, and Marguerite de
Valois, I was naturally interested in catching
the thread of bis remarks. I went to the win
dow, and, leaning out, listened to him. ' He
was half-reading, half-declaiming, and was re
lating the very episode in their lives on which
I had been writing. While thus talking aloud
he came to the window and leaned out; our
eyes met, and, naturally enough, we spoke, he
asking if his loud voice disturbed my slumbers.
I explained that I had been writing, and singu
larly enough, upon the same event in history
upon which he had been declaiming. After
talking over the singular coincidence, he ex
plained that he had been engaged in studying
for his lecture for the ensuing night. He stated
that he habitually read, on the night previous
to delivering his lecture, some standard history
of the events which he proposed to describe,
and without further preparation, and without
notes, he would mount his rostrum and deliver
his discourse. His memory was so great that
a single reading of his authorities in tlm man
ner would enable him to recall and relate every
event and incident and date bearing on the sub
ject of his discourse. Of course his present
reading was merely to refreshen his memory;
he had long before the delivery of this course
of lectures made himself thoroughly acquainted
with the history of the Popes. Indeed, there
were few better-read men than Mr. Marshall
in all departments of literature. He had the
salient points of the histories of all nations at
his finger-ends; and though a superficial reader,
he had a thorough acquaintance with the great
characters or the past. His knowledge of the
Bible was very great, and Bible characters
were favorite studies with him.
I, of course, went to hear his lecture on the
night following this conversation. The sub
ject, as announced, was Pope Clement VII ;
but Marshall hardly mentioned that worthy,
though he animadverted on. the character of
his uncle, Lorenzo de Medici, at great length.
The loves of Marguerite de Valois and the Duke
of Bourbon; the character of Francis I and
Bayard; the intrigues of Louise de Savoie and
Duprat; and the history of that legal, politi
cal, and religious persecution which sepa
rated the lovers, banished Bourbon and his
Protestant followers from France, produced
the war with Charles V, and drove Bourbon
to besiege and sack Rome my subject, in fact
was really that of Marshall, and the Pope was
forgotten.
Marshall frequently flew off from his subject
in mis manner, but it was generally wuo
had been "indulging." This, unfortunately,
was frequently the case, and invariably inter
fered with his success in every city which he
visited. It did not always, however, detract
from the interest of his ell'orts, for, no matter
how tipsy he might be, he was always fluent
of speech, and clear-headed. One of his
most remarkable leotures was delivered when
in this condition. He was announced to lec
ture on "Napoleon Bonaparte," and a very
crowded audience assembled to hoar him.
Shortly after the hour at which he was to
begin Marshall entered the hall very much
intoxicated, threaded his way with
some difficulty through the audience,
and fairly reeled to the stand on the plat
form. While he was laying aside hia
hat, gloves, and overcoat, hebegau an apology
for delaying the audience, all the while show
ing clearly by his manner tho condition he was
in. Many of the audience loft during his open
ing sentences, but the majority remaiuea,
anxious to hear him on his interesting i1'
but they were doomed to be pleasantly ais
apfiointed; Marshall never once reurM
Bonaparte.- In his apology he in some way
ii j be flew off
at a tangent about this first couple "the granu
old gardener and his wile" and EaTe
lysis of the characters of "the beautiiul Lr
and her henpecked husband." lire was painted
In hardly less glowing colors than those oi
Milton; but Adam was made out a very poor
spirited wretch, indeed, who fully de8rl(J
his fate. By easy transitions he left our nrsi
parents to their fate, and began to analyze
the characters of their most distin
guished children. I cannot now , reea"
his analysis of each of the Biwe
characters to whom he referred. Abraham, 1
rtimembtr, waa Lkt up as "a jcodel ft young
gentlemen of the present day." Joseph, of the
coat-of-mnny-colora notoriety, was character
ized by Marshall as "one of the most con
temptible characters in sacred history." At
this declaration there was considerable stir
among the audience, and quite a number of
ladies, fearing that Marshall's love of a good
thing, or possibly his condition, might lead him
Into an indiscretion, arose and lett the i hall.
Marshall, undismayed by this Interruption, qui
etly remarked that the ladies evidently agreed
with him in hia estimate of Joseph'a moral
character, and added, that he proposed to In
quire only into hia career as a politician and
speculator 1 Joseph waa denominated by him
as "the first speculator in sacred history;" and
he drew a parallel between his practices and
those of the modern school of operators. There
was prevalent in Louisville at the time this
lecture was delivered a scandalous and doubt
less unfounded story relative to the prac
tices of a former Treasurer of the United
States, who was represented as sending -all
bullion of the Government, in transit from
and to any point of the Union, by way of Lou
isville, in order, it was asserted by the jour
nals of the opposite party, that it should pass
through the hands of, and be used for a time
by, a banking-house in which the Treasurer
was a partner, the shrewd operation costing
the Government very roundly in the item of
transportation. Marshall alluded briefly to
this well-known story, and likened Joseph to
a sort of sub-treasurer who indulged in like
operations, and who "heartlessly put his own
brothers to the cost of double transportation
for the corn they had purchased !" Naturally
this local allusion produced great amusement,
and put the audience in the best of humors,
and the laughter inspired the speaker anew.
He rattled on through the Old Testament and
the Apocalypse, singling out the most pro
minent characters, and alternately making
his audience roar with laughter at his
comical analysis of the solemn characters, or
thrilling them with wonderful paraphrases of
Biblical descriptions or narratives. He talked
of the prophets as if they had been his personal
friends, and ought to be those of the audience
too. I cannot recall how he ever introduced
the subject, but I remember he compared Saul
to nimselt each being bead and shoulders
above the people taking care to repudiate the
Witch of lindor, however, and then flew off
into some theory about the inequality of men
and races, as shown by blood and color and
figure. Solomon did not meet with his un
qualified commendation; he was "doubtless a
very reverend, grave, and wise old signor," he
tnought; but, lie added, "ins choice of his
lady friends, and their number, does not prove
it to we." In this vein he ran on for nearly
two hours, winding up with a brilliant
anal j sis of the character of Christ, and
description of the scene of the crucifixion,
of fine pathos and great power. He
had talked himself thoroughly sober by this
time, and stopped, closing with an apology for
the unintentional change of programme and
the announcement of the lecture on Napoleon
ior tne ensuing evening.
Marshall too frequently permitted his habits
to interfere with his lectures in this manner:
he was not always as happy in his efforts when
intoxicated as he was on the occasion to which
I have just referred. But he was never posi
tively bad, even when very much influenced
by liquor. His flow of language was too easy
to leave him entirely helpless; his active brain
found wine a stimulant, and it never confused
it. He was not the more profound or accurate
or elegant after his indulgences; but neither was
he, on the other hand, less voluble or origi
nal. He had an odd way and a forcible way,
too of putting familiar ideas, and the drunker
he was the odder was the expression. He was
once engaged to deliver a course of lectures at
Lexington, Kentucky, and made his appear
ance for several evenings in a state of intoxi
cation. Naturally the audiences dwindled
down until only about a score of people assem
bled to hear his fourth or fifth lecture. Num
bers were of little consequence to Marshall.
He would have lectured to a single person had
there been but one present, and if none had
"put in an appearance" I doubt not he would
have lectured to himself on the unapprecia
tion of genius (and possibly the depravity of
nature). When he had finished his lecture to
the score present on the occasion alluded to,
Marshall, not yet quite recovered from the
effects of the wine he had imbibed, suddenly
concluded by saying, in his quiet way:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you will all
come again to my next lecture. Do not weary
of well-doing. Do not be discouraged by the
smallness of your numbers. I am not. Come
again. I'll lecture to you no matter how few
of you may be present; for, as was said on a
more memorable occasion, 'where there are
two or three gathered together- in my name,
there will I be in the midst of them.' "
It is not to be inferred from what I have said
that Marshall had no veneration for sacred
things. There were few better Biblical stu
dents there were few divines more thoroughly
versed in sacred history than he; but he knew
and cared very little about religious theories
and arguments. He did not lack veneration,
and he insisted on looking at and talkiug about
prophets and saints as human beings, and
thought nothing more ridiculous than the
prevalent custom of writing about such char
acters in the titled style and sonorous sen
tences of King James' age.
Marshall was particularly happy at repartee,
and, next to Gough, was the quickest at reply
ing to a question or interruption from his audi
ence whom I have ever heard. Most orators
have their set retorts for interruptions. Mr.
Andrew Johnson used to have a standard and
favorite reply for all interruptions, and he never
failed to use it whenever opportunity offered,
ior inougu noi original, perhaps, it was always
quite effective. Whenever an interruption
occurred and in Mr. Johnson's early career
these were very frequent he would stop for a
moment until his silence had drawn attention
to him again, and then say, very slowly,
"There are but two things in animated nature
which hiss, the serpent" a long pause
"and the goose." I don't think this is original
with our present President; but I believe his
right and title to his famous retort when on
tho funeral excursion to Chicago, "You area,
mean-looking man!" has never been disputed.
Marshall had no stereotyped reply; his retorts
were made on the spur of the moment, and
were always most effective. One of1 these
attributed to him (I do not know how truly,
but it sounds like him) rather contradicts
what I have been saying about his reverence
for sacred things, but it is too good an example
of the retort to lose. He wad just opening a
lecture one evening, and was speaking in a
rather subdued voice, when he was interrupted
by sonio would-be familiar friend by e- tarna
tions of "Louder, Tom t louder I" He stopped
a full minute, until tho audience, after a
slight laugh, was as hushed as death. Then,
in a strong voice, and with an unusually grave
and impressive manner, he said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, at the last day,
when the angel shall proclaim that time is
ended and eternity begun, when the quick and
dead, the just and the unjust, shall appear
before the mercy-seat of God to be judged,
doubtless the solemnity of that dread and
awful occasion will be interrupted" here he
changed his tone of voice "by some con
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founded fool on the outskirts of the crowd,'
crying, 'Louder, Lord I louden' "
The bad taste, the near approach to blas
phemy, were forgotten In the 'humor of the
rebUKP, ana me auuieiice weru uri)inou vj
the climax into shouts of laughter.
Marshall died in Kentucky in In great
poverty and misery. He abandoned his lec
tures on "Temperance and History" in 18G1,
and advocated for a time the cause of seces
sion. The natural result of a youth of folly
and an old age of secession was poverty and
death; and so he passed away, "having," aa
some one has put it, "represented for thirty
years, without interruption and without a
rival, the genius, passion, wit, and worst fol
lies and weaknesses of Kentucky." IIarper'$
Magazine for August.
FINANCIAL.
TE UNDERSIGNED IIAVE
PURCHASED THB
NEW SIX PER CENT.
REGISTERED LOAN
OF IDS
LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGA
TION COMPANY,
DUE IN 1807.
I STEM NT PAYABLE QVABTKEIT,
FREE OF UNITED STATES AND STATE
TAX EM,
AND OFFER IT FOB KALE AT THE LOW
PBICE OF
NINETY-TWO,
AND ACCRUED INTEREST 1KUH MAT 1,
This LOAN Is secured by a first mortgage oo the
uompany's Railroad, constructed and to be con
atructed, extending from the southern boundary of
Uie borough or Mauch Chunk to the Delaware iver
at Eastern, Including their bridge across the saldrlver
now In process of construction, together with all the
Company's rights, libertless. and tranchliwa appertain
ing te tne said Kailroad and Bridge.
Copies ot the mortgage may be bad on application
at the office of the Company, or o either of the under
signed.
DBEXEL A CO.
E. W. CLARK CO.
J AT COOKE CO. 91HI
XV. II. NEWKOLO.NON AGKTSE.1
BANKING HOUSE
OF
JayQoxe&(jp.
112 and 114. So. THIRD ST. FHILAD'A.
Dealers in all Government SeouritieB,
OLD C-20. WANTED
IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.
A LIBERAL DIFFERENCE ALLOWED,
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
INTEREST ALLOWED CN DEPOMITS.
Collections made. Stocks bought and sold on
CommlssAon.
Special business accommodations reserved fox
ladles. fo 24 Sin
7 3-10s,
ALL SERIES,
CONVERTED INTO
Five-Twenties of 1865,
JANUARY AND JULY,
WITHOUT CHARGE.
BONDS DELIVERED IMMEDIATELT,
DE HA YEN & BROTHER,
10 2Jrp
HO. 0 K. THIRD STREET.
Jm G. GECURITIEG
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS AND BEOKEHS,
NO.lflS THIRD 1ST., j NO. 8 NASSAU ST.,
FHJLADIXPHIA. j KIW YOBK
ORDERS FOR STOCKS AND SOLD EXB
cuted in philadelphia and new
York ijj
NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD
FIRST MORTGAGE
SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS.
Having purchased 9600,000 ot the FIRST MORT"
unr?ur(fODPON ONDe OF THE NORTH MI
vvu KIllA1LKOI COMPANY, BKAitINQ SEVEN
. 1 CJLNT INTEBEfciT, having 80 yean to run, we
are now prepared to sell the same at the low tale ol
And the accrued Intercut from this date, thus paying
ine investor over 8 per cent. Interest, which la pay,
ble .eml-annually. ;
CoIu!l?iiv.n i? Tcurd b7 FlrB Mortgage upon the
aua In T.w,itU"ro'"1 n"lM already coueiruoted
the cilv at tt t" ?r.t ' October Dttsl. exteudliig from
iouri. U lAmU lul Worinexu aud Central Mi-
e.thUeio,?It.I,u,l!rrs.rue,db' 00 WPUoalloa to
K.W, CLARK A CO.
JAY I'OOUH A CO.
., u DMIKXKL CO.
u,.. ''rt, holding otbwr eMsuritlae. and Wlahlnr
financial:
JJ O T 1 C E
TO THE HOLDERS
VP TBI
LOAN OF THE COMMOTOLTH
OP PENNSYLVANIA-
DUB AFTER JULT 1, 18B0, AND BEFOBB
JITLT 1,1960.
Holders of the following LOANS OF TBS
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
are requested to present them for payment
(Principal and Interest) at
Tta Farmers' and Mechanics' Jfatlasal
Dank of Philadelphia.
Loan of March 80, 1830, dne March 4, 1858.
' February 18, 1833, due July 1, 1858.
" March 27, 1833, due July 1, 1858.
" January 26. 1839, due July 1, 1859.
" June 7, 1839, due Aueust 1, 1859.
" Maroh 80, 1832, due July 1, 1880.
" April 6, 1832, due July 1, I860,
Also, all BANK CHARTER LOANS due
prior to July 2, 1800.
All of the above LOANS will cease to draw
Interest after August 15, 1807.
JOHN W. OEABT, '
GOVERNOR.
JOHN F. nABTBANFT,
AUDITOR-GENERAL,
WILLIA9I II. KIBBLE,
l6ntutb W15 STATE TRBABTJREit.
TO THE HOLDERS
OF THB
LOANS
or jus
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
DUE JULY 1, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING
FUND WILL RECEIVE PROPOSALS UNTIL
SEPTEMBER 3, 186T, FOR THE REDEMP
HON OF
ONE MILLION OF DOLLARS
OF TUB
Loans of this Commonwealth
DUE JULY 1, 1868.:
i
Holders will address their proposals to the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, Harris
burg, Pennsylvania, and endorsed "PROPO
SALS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF LOANS
OFises."
rBANCIS JOBDAN, J
SECRETARY OF STATE.
JOHN F. IIABTBANFT,
AUDITOR-GENERAL.
WILLIAM II. KEHBLE,
7 2 tuthstO STATE TREASURER.
RATIONAL j
MK OF THE REPUBLIC,
809 and 811 CLTESNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL.
..1,000,000
DIRECTORS.
Joseph T. Bailey,
.ttUiiii Killns.
lieul. Kowlmid, Jr.,
bmuuel A. Blnpham,
juiward.B.uriitt,
William Krvlen,
Osgood WelHh,
Frederick A, Hoyt,
Win. H, Khawn.
WM. H. BHAWN, President,
lat OuMer of (to Oaxtral National BanMi
JOS. r. MUMFORD Cashier,
( 12J Jate of the Philadelphia National Sank
rpiLE INT Ell EST IN GOLD
OS tub
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
OF THI
UNION PACIFIC BAILWAT COMPANTi
EA.VTEBN UIVISION,
DUE AUUUST 1, 1867,
Will be paid, on presentation of tho Coupons
therefor, at the BANKINO HOUSE pF
DABNET, MORGAN A CO.;
NO. DS EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW TOBH
On and after that date.
(SJuned) . WM. J. PALMER,'
7 23tQlhsI0t ' TreasiueiV