ohn Randolph. Contrasting
widely in size was the burly Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, who
had won laurels in the Mexican War, as had the gallant General
Quitman, a Representative from Mississippi. Henry Winter Davis,
of Baltimore, and Anson Burlingame, of Boston, were the most eloquent
and enthusiastic of those who had been washed into Congress by the
Know-Nothing wave, and with them had come some ignorant and bigoted
fellows. Equally prominent, but better qualified, on the other
side was John Kelly, who had defeated the candidates brought out
by "Sam" and "Sambo" to oppose him. The venerable Joshua R.
Giddings, of Ohio, who led the abolition forces, was as austerely
bitter as Cato was in ancient Utica when he denounced the Fugitive
Slave Law, under the operations of which many runaway slaves were
captured at the North and returned to their Southern masters.

The eloquence of Mr. Clingman, who represented North Carolina, was
alternately enlivened by epigrammatic wit or envenomed by scorching
reply. Mr. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, was commencing a long
and useful Congressional career. Mr. Schuyler Colfax, an editor-
politician, represented an Indiana district. The veteran Mr.
Charles J. Faulkner, with his choleric son-in-law, Mr. Thomas S.
Bocock, and the erratic and chivalrous Judge Caskie, represented
Virginia districts. Mr. Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, sat near
his brother, Israel D. Washburne, of Maine. Mr. Lyman Trumbull,
of Illinois, was then an ardent Republican, and so was Mr. Francis
E. Spinner, of New York, whose wonderful autograph afterward graced
public securities.

Mr. Albert Rust, one of the Representatives from Arkansas, won some
notoriety by attacking Horace Greeley at his hotel. The next day
he was brought before Justice Morsell, and gave bonds to appear at
the next session of the Criminal Court. He appeared to glory in
what he had done. Mr. Greeley was evidently somewhat alarmed, and
during the remainder of his sojourn at Washington his more stalwart
friends took care that he should not be unaccompanied by a defender
when he appeared in public.

The Territory of Utah was represented in the House by Mr. John N.
Burnhisel, a small, dapper gentleman, who in deportment and tone
of voice resembled Robert J. Walker. It was very rarely that he
participated in debate, and his forte was evidently taciturnity.
In private conversation he was fluent and agreeable, defending the
peculiar d