Litchfield enquirer., 1837-05-18
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,,osf memorable scene is from the speech
 Henrv A. Wise, of Virginia, recently dellVcr
 ed at a dinner given to him at Norfolk
 The scene of the 18th of January, lSS6' IT the Senate of the U. States, never has peer and never will be described as 1t was. Ina day the Senate fell trampled under the ice of a tyrant's slaves. About or o'clock r M. the House of Representatives adjourned The members generally, all of the mess t
 which belonged, hastencd to their dinner as usual. Judge White (of Tennessee) wa of my mess, and we waited for hlm-W waited until it was concluded the Senat
 would sit until the night; and sit ever so late it was known by all who knew him that h never left his seat until the Senate adjourned
 When had finished my meal I looked ou
 towards the Capitol and saw the Senate flag still flying. What can detain them so! was the question; and-They are upon the FIX
 punging Resolution, was the reply. Is It pos sible that they treat the farce so seriously as to burn a candle over it! Yes, lndeed' tnls night Benton is determined to play the play out. Then determined to see the play. NO
 play did find it-no farce in fact; 1t was Solemn, affecting tragedy it was the obse- u,,ies of record, oftruth, of fthe constitution of tke Senate. | went up to the senate Chamber, the candles were lighted-the light of day was not the light to shine upon the in- fernal orgies of erasing truth from record which men were sworn Y" to keep" When l entered the room where once Senate sat, l :heard-if there be any true hearted North Carolinian present beg his pardon-l heard a Strange voice from the Land of Sleep. It came upon my ear in feeble, broken tones, incoherently, as from a man muttering he knew not what, in dream, as if he were rid den by the nightmare. After this feeble voice had ceased, the strong and manly voice of mind always wide awake-the mind ot a man who might be presented to the world as specimen of America's sons-strong m frame wrought into labor's mould-a labori- ous man, always practical-a son of Virgin ia, Senator of Ohio, a scion of the West, a man truly of the people, who has done more honor to them than they can do to him he has vindicated his origin and their character. Thomas Ewing spake, as man should, every argument or pretence of argument to shame for doing a shameful deed.
 When he had concluded, Daniel Webster, who when you have said the worst of his poli- tics is the same giant of intellect still Dan iel Webster rose and read for himself, and solemn protest, which for simplicity and 
 and clearness of argument, for tone and tenn per, for dignity of thought and expression, and for elevation of moral feeling, is unsur- passed, venture to say, by any State paper of any time for any occasion. Whilst read ing this paper there was not whisper si- lence seemed to approve every word and ev- cry sentiment; deep and even painful at- tention seemed to promise that conviction was wrought in the minds of many, and all seemed as if just arrested in the act ofperpe- trating some horrid deed, unintentionally, from which their minds for a moment seem- ed to revolt. Hope rose up within me that is the word, that is the speech, that IS the paper, nothing more, nothing less than what l prayed for then. If any thing could have touched the minds and hearts of such men, the protest of Daniel Webster, and John Davis, of Massachusetts, would have wrought upon them. Never, never shall forget the manner in which he uttered the word-" we have collected our- selves to witness this scene" He spake tri- umphantly of fMassachusetts-shes stood erect -she had not bowed the knee or the neck her soil was mired with the best blood of the revolution. was losing myself-I wildly looked to the seats of Virginia Senator's Where was Leigh? Where was Tyler? I could have shrieked from them-the genius of Virginia did agonize. No Leigh, no Ty- Ter was there-they were already. dragged out from those seats snatched from the de. fence of the journal, of the Senate, of the Constitution.
 No such deed could be done with such men there. No, never, never; for we'll do remember the speech of Leigh it can never be forgotten by Benton, or Rives, or any one who heard it. It made Rives look like he did during the actual scene of expunction- like what Judge Wilkins called Johnny Nea said he" Johnny Neal you are a smal man ;" he made Benton look like he felt il the Chapel when he was expelled from col lege at the age of 20, weighing 16O pound nett. for petty larceny. Yes, sir, MT. Leigl was giving many beautiful and appropriate pathological illustrations from the holy Scrip lures, to show the meaning of the verb "tt keep"-at last he paused, raised his specta cles, settled himself back upon his short leg caught his left wrist in his right hand, anC fixed his eye directly and fully on Tom Ben tcn-he seemed to pierce him through ant through. l had seen the painting of Adam and Eve, the picture of the Temptation.
 had criticised that painting for the attempt tt paint visibly the iyauence of the Serpent upor the fair mother of us all. had thought tha an influence could not be painted. But whel saw Leigh look at Benton, at once yield ed the criticism could see something going straight out of Leigh's eye directly through him. If it had been keen, cutting, two edg ed sword, piercing to the dividing asundel of his joints and marrow. he could not have winced more {; he shrunk up to one half his dimensions. He covered his face with his hand he felt and could not conceal it |; and if Leigh had aimed pistol at the time, and fired a ball true into his side, he could moi have hurt him worse than when he termina. fed the awful pause by saying" And, MT