Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-03-12

Sir, | will speak, tits my turn
Then turn him out
Order order question question chair chair
| chair!
All takers and no hearers. till the forums like
fair.
Order gained thrsugh the chairman's all
! tl.ority,
Seconded by the majority,
Gives season
For reason
And quaint speculation
With Wanting
And painting
And dull defamation:
With fury aud fuss,
| The cause to discuss;
To twist and To Irvine,
Perplex and define;
| WIN paradox, punning, bad grace and worse
grammar
Spoken, in sereral roices.
Mr.. President, % this question, mucl,
may be said on both sides, though amde.
cisiveiy on one side; and, notwithsra ndiuo
that any other gentleman may say on the
other side, shall back my arguments with
such breastwOrks, that / shall have him
on the hip, and leave him not leg TO
stand upon.
MIR. President,-I am clearly in favor of
values. Waltzes come from Germany,
| with whiskets, sausages, and melodrans.
with many other drains equally efficacious;
waltz Is dance, an innocent recre alton,
| conducive both to health and cbeerlnlness;
aud what, sir. can be more favorable to
reason and morality? A welsh wig is
what IS 1t! "a mean covering for :he head
bestowing, not wisdom like lawyers wig
bronze, like Brutus-gravity, like a
Itie-weigh, like full bottle or smart.
! ness. Ike scratch--but is. as 1t were, n
mere night cap, fit only for qnizzes, quid.
nuncs, watchmen, and, what's all the same,
old women.
Personal personal
l beg pardon, sir did not know any
old woman was present.
Mr.. Psesideht,--I maintain that waltz
es are immoral.
No! no! sir the morality Of the cues
ton depends on the question and Iques-
ton if that question is at all unqucstiona.
Bile. Is morality an active or inactive
principle II active, we must decide for
waltzes; ard if inactive, we must decide
for WEIGH wigs and have no doubt but
that every gentleman who is of NY mind
will be Of the same opinion.
Sir,-A learned author, whose name
have forgotten, and whose words don't
recollect, asserts what | shall not waste
your time by repeating but, on the sub
Ject Of debate, the enlightened DR. Dunn
:uzzle, in his dissertation on Dunder-
heads, has, in the most elegant Latin
these words:
Comparaband ns-ham wiCsum cum waltzo,
Describusque, ium pusque, waltznm cum wggo
Knock down Mr.. Dumfuzzle-
Order, order. &c.
The hubbub at length being paralyzd,
| The question il further analyz'd
81 move sir,
| To prove sir,
| That spite Of all quarrel,
| Welsh wigs, sir,
Are gigs, sir,
! And waltzes are moral.
Let those who can't
From envy advance
An argument CON-
And thus he goes on
Till above all the voices another exalts his,
10 prove that Welsh wigs are more moral thar
wsltzes.
| Spokun, in several roiees.
| Mr.. President,-I aver that values, be
ing more expensive than Welsh wigs, thu
latter are most agreeable to moral ecopo
my though values. by overhca,ing peo
I, pie and giving them colds, are more ser
viceable to the physical faculty, who are
often obliged to prescribe Welsh wigs Il
restore the intellectual energies for thu
purpose OF reciprocal ratiociDation.
Sir,-As to the morality Of values,
shall prove that Welsh wigs-,hat is, tia
waltzes, compared with WEIGH wigs, be
ing comparatively, by comparison, simila
TO Welsh wigs compared with waltzes, al
lowing for the morality Of the one and tn
ratiociDation Of the other -
Nonsense nonsenseI Silence n
interruption the President speaks.
GeDtlemeD,-To stop all this heterogc
neous hurly-burly, the SECRETARY sha
read some Of the fundamental rules Of ,h
society.
| 1t is not required that any gentlema
should be obliged to understand himsel
or make any body else understand him
for, as every gentleman has his opinion.
he is satisfied with it, that is enough; q
no man, who is a man, ought TO give u
his opinion to any mao, for 10 man.
| Any gentleman may 90 to sleep durin
The debate, provided no wakes time {