The Stark County Democrat

MR. WOODWORTH, OF OHIO.

The Boston (Mass.) Herald Washington correspondence of a week or two ago thus dishes up the eagle orator who lives at Youngstown, and represents this district in Congress. This line of spread eagle oratory should be kept up. Woodworth's predecessor was Ambler, who succeeded Eckley. Who shall be the spread eagle to follow Woodworth?

Don't all speak at once. We give the extract from the Herald, which is good:

MR. WOODWORTH OF OHIO, is a member of the House of Representatives, and he is one of the loyaliest gushers who ever flung his fists and dishevelled his hair in this hall, where loyal gush has been so often poured out in the last twelve years. Mr. Woodworth is a friend of President Grant, and therefore does not believe in limiting the Presidency to one term. The proposition to do that thing was what brought out Mr. Woodworth's gush. His evolution was attended with a great deal of noise, and perspiration, and in order that you may know just what we have to listen to a good deal of the time in the galleries of the House, and just what sort of a man the Hon. Mr. Woodworth is when he lets the eagle soar, I forward a single paragraph of his Columbian oratory:

'By the Declaration of Independence so much in all our mind in this centennial year, and so much in all our utterances, too, I might add; by the achievements, both in Congress, where the experiment of self government was fashioned in the anxious minds of men, and upon the field where armies 'threw the iron death-dice' for human rights; by the convention of 1787 mentioned a moment ago, where all the experiences of the past and all the possibilities of the future were brought together and made to join hands to work out the problem, the mighty problem of how may this thing known as the rights of the people, so long hidden beneath the bald absurdity of the divine right of kings, be most surely realized—by these, sir, was our nation planted upon the foundation rock of self-government by the people; and this foundation-rock has become to be to us a political 'rock of ages,' upon which let no man, or body of men, lay desecrating hands. Upon this foundation-rock our governmental superstructure rests—a superstructure so magnificent and grand that in this hundredth year we exult that it is ours, realizing that it is the acme toward which struggled the noble ambitions of the past, and that within it now the century aloe of human hope is blossoming, filling the earth with incense. Its base is the divinity of human rights. Its area is the breadth of a gigantic continent. Its bulwark is 40,000,000 of undaunted hearts. Its dome is crowned with the achievements of 100 years. Thus, sir, it stands to-day the boast of Americans, the wonder of mankind. It is the temple of refuge for the oppressed of every clime, and is ere long to become the model upon which the artists and the artisans of Old World politics shall fashion a hundred emulating structures in a hundred lands. The beneficence of its example must be felt. This year, thanks to the patriotic city of Philadelphia; thanks to the grand Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; thanks to the country loving men and women of the whole Union who have stretched a hand to aid our proposed centennial jubilee; and thanks, too, to the action of this House, taken but a few days ago—this year there shall go out from it, as well as from where the Golden Gate stands open to the lisping southern sea as from where old Plymouth Rock still beats back the angry Atlantic, a voice saying to the nations of the East and to the nations of the west, 'Come up higher!' and that voice shall be echoed and re-echoed over the craggy continent and sea-girt isles of Europe, and wafted even into the slumberous haze of 'farthest Ind,' until one day the response, 'We come!' shall float back, and the divinity of human rights, overthrown ten centuries ago by Charlemagne and the conspiring prelates of that era, shall be reproclaimed on the ruined walls of many a dynasty, and planted a star, high up in heaven, there forever to remain a political guide star for human kind.'