Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-02-23

guish the light of truth wherever he can
extend the finger of power. Let him do
one thing mcre-aided by his minions,
no matter where-let him persuade the
people, that the honest, the Independent
papers of this country, are vehicles of
falsehood and mere rumor; let them be,
as they have been, on this floor, branded
as false, foul and dirty; and let the men,
Der who quotes from their pages the his
tory and impress of the times, be re-
preached asa blockhcad blacHguard,
a slandcrer-and what moro could the
Secretary of State desire, which he would
not be sure to obtain? Sir, such con-
summation would have saved to Charles
the throne of France, and to the patriots
Of that country, their revolution.
did quote for the secret article, in
the Turkish treaty, from the newspaper;
dares the gentleman question the truth
of the quotation? Had | drawn bow
with a more advised aim, could the pig
con on the pole have huttcred more man
ifestly? The gentleman has, notwitl-
standing all these assertions, accused
me Of drawing my facts from perjurcd
OendtOT. US III COtllc 10 lnlS! w us IL
found necessary not to commit our first
treaty with fhc Great Disciple of Mahom-
ct to the Christian Senators of the Uni
ted States, until their lips were sealed
by the solemnitics of an oath? 1t is a
new formula in the Executive Depart
ment of the Senate; and will appear by
the published journals of that body to
have had no place in their proceeding
until the present session. When treaty
in 1895 was published by Senator a
gainst an Injunction of that body, who
accused him of perjury The gentle
man whose mission is now under consid-
Grafton, did, on this floor, pronounce a
studied culogium on Stephens Thompson
Mason, the Senator who published that
treaty. Would he culogize perjury?
Sir, the secret article was published be-
fore the treaty was announced the house
or sent to the Senate. The corrcspon-
dence on the West India question was
published in the same manner. Has the
Secretary of State adopted this method,
and put out his leelers, to take the nation
al pulse?
do not ask what warranted, but who
authorized or instructed, or encouraged
the gentleman to connect perjury with
that vencrated word which dcsignates
the members of National Council, the
most dignificd and honorable on earth
How could ! shun insult when such
men are rcvied? do not ask by what
statesmen or gentleman, but by what a.
pology for a man. In what other assem-
bly, on earth has "thc hoary hcad'' been
used as term of rcproach? Has the
gentleman passed so far beyond the vi
gor, and bloom and modcsty of juvenes-
cencc, that he has forgotten the amiable
instinct of our nature which warns our
youth to pay in advance that consdera-
tion to age which it may come to desire
, for itself Though grey hairs have
been held in respect by -barbarians in all
countries, and by even the most profit
gate and unmanncred in all ages, yet,
knowing that Cab ovo ad plumas) ! am
not disappointed in the language or de-
mcanor of the gentleman from NewY ork.
Men, better than am, have been rcvil-
ed by men no better than he is. WASH
ington was called "hoary headed inccn-
diary" by vagabond of almost unpar-
allcled mcndacity and impudcncc.
The "bald head" is | assure the gen
tlcman, no joke; though he seems to be
original in using it as such. This incon-
vcniencc, or if you please, imperfcction;
has been suffered by some very great
men; but quite rarely, fever, has it been
experienced by any very little ones.-
fn to the Roman People, for granting
him the right to wear the laurel crown
than for any other of their gifts; because
the wearing it enabled him to conceal the
exterior badness ofhs head. lfit be true,
as Shakespear tells us it is, that what ma
ture has scanted men in wit, she has
made up TO them in hair, then the gentle
man | believe, should he win laurel
crown, would never like Cesar have oc-
casion to wear it, for any lack of that
commodity.
Who rcvlcd the prophet, returning
from the blazing translation of hls mas
ter, with countenance bright with the
glories Of opening Heaven and wrapt in
the mantle of Elijah; who, sir, rcvilcd the
prophet for his "bald head" Pronigatc
young mon, boys, children as they are
called; the scum and sweepiags of.he city,
and as we find by the historian, .tH only
for tood for those animals which arc Jed
on o6al
The gentleman is equally out in his or
anthology, as in every thing else The
bird of Jove, not the vulturc, is that soar
ing wonder, by men called the "Bald