Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-23


the gallery cheers the rencon're-your very
IN igistrates OF the law stand aioot TO witness
the scene, or keep out of the way that the COM
bat may proceed; and set some OF you circulate
documents To brand me with murder, Tor being
concerned in dueli You even arraign me for
a breach Of privilege for which You never
n can't 10 try me. You will III. aaforce yonr
Avs, either to prevent or punish. ou should,
then. be silent with shame yourselves. ana
n I'VE NJ right to con denim until you have tried,
hsarl ana a6ir.iged. You shall not taunt me.
WAT arc you doing nowp You have just passed
= nenlfeuti..rY act. You then bound TO take
tie drfcace Of character into yonr otcn hands, as
go4 hare taken arms from the hands Of the car
alicr Will Won do it. No. You at iiis
,ppsucn, lndulging members III scenes OF abuse
and ,iolence from which more than one duel
would In my country, necessarily ensue You
know what Is likely to follow beiofehand-
You forbid, under severe penalties, the challenge
and meeting in this Ten Mile Square You
will know il, fail 10 take prev entative meas
ures. You might, by your censure, deprive
either party, for instance, in the wrong, from
claiming the privileges OF the code OF honor else
where But you will not DO it, and what Will
be the result! Hostilites will be suspended here,
and the scene of blood will occur, perhaps, OH
the deck Of some steamboat on the ONO river.
or At some woodward where passengers may land!
You will do nothing to prevent this-nothIng-
Your proceedings will lead TO it, III fact. You
is too late when two three members haV,, been
ma imed or killed, shot or hewed to pieces by the
Bowie knife-oh, then, not until then, will You
only preach and pray again over dueiiing! IL is
hypocrisy gross, rank hypocrisy! scorn
spit upon it! | call upon you, l cal upon socie-
arms
In the face of an approaching election, say
to my good constituents have many very good
and pious people in my districi-peopIe who
pray for me daily would obey their wishes
sooner than your law agains: duel!ing,--i say to
them now, If you are determined shall not de-
-end myself when assailed, like true knight, !
10 not send me to Congress, for | shall just as
surely fight, If occasion Is given, as you send
ne: and SO | shall ever continue until the holy /
eligon of the Cross takes possession of my soul
which may God grant right carly
have been dono great in Justice. My friend /
rom Kentucky (Mr. Graves asked you only
o print the testimony in the Cilley affair yon
rinted the reports Of the committee, and you
ave up to this moment, refused his request.
IN that testimony | take my stand before the
rorld--I will transmit it to my children as a
&c aorial of the fact that no dishonor can attach
, No carried challenge from one gentleman
, ah.osier--noi from member of this House
, another. The House had nothing TO do with
| thought then, and think still On my
9TH purged myself Of all contempt TO its priv
eyes or authority. was reported, however, !
Ity of a breach OF privilege. Why do not :
ou, then, proceed to i've me fair, open trial, I
.e men, gentlemen, and judges, instead of ..
uniting me, as the gentleman from New York L
Is done, with obique a!lusionse Is it not eyre =
ously unjust that Judge should pursue
is course? demand of him trial. Come :
hen it may, will show who are the guilty
he most guilty were the very busies, IN ar
inping me the most hypocriticai IN the hue
ID cry after the most innocent IN that trans
tion--ap I'd the most bitter and unjust In their I,
ntnusd prosecutions. Put me on trial, Ii
ID | will then drag from their seats hero and in S
e ether House the real cuiprits. The very n
rctches who instigated that duel who wept
ocodile tears over the bier of poor Cilley-Ond II
40 90, an up excitement the most ohsome for no il
d whatever of religion or morality, but Tor the S
lest of political purposes: wretches WHO would o
We dragged the corpse of the victim OF their S
achinations from Washington to Maine, with j,
; heels to a chariot, and head apon the fnty ;.
ok, ir it would have served the sinister and NJ
ia nous designs of a party. n
Sand then may gid his grave.o m
But, sir, if / ever fall the field of honor a,
ills, a member of this House, | now beseech n
, friends whose tears, though few, will be al
merely she'd not to permit political par re
e to be made over my dead body; to quietly til
er nv remains, as [ should have buried my al
END had he fallen, in becoming privacy, with bl
I the gided Congressional cofin-the silk vel eli
THE armorial bearings-the crape--the hon
1bIc funeral--the mock mournlng--wih oe- ga
acy and without political effect, where no IN an
ding hypocrte might ever tread upon the grass tn
my grave! This much would be due TO vIo- pi
ed law, and would be consistent with an I'M ITS
pned adherence Of dueIng. as
But try me. | repeat Send me home, If you by
,demn What then? ] will tell you. If my ex
,stituents see nothing dishonorable in my con- in:
t, they will not think of your precious prlvl-
es-they will take care that shall be dealt if
h as all others have been. In six days after ma
election to fill the vacancy of my seat here pc
viii appear at that door again, make you a lar
lie bow. Mr.. Speaker, and present myself, ed
DIV to take the oath TO support The Consiitu- sci
, Of the United States. co'
do not mean 10 boast 1mean only TO COM Ist
in of your course. You, who dare not try
mid not taunt me. You shall not. up
from New York says that, on one ito
aston, refused to rote. This, also is quoted lor
another example to Justify his friend. did the
,se to vote. Why? Because you called on Br
to Iegislato where Congress itselfhad no con- ouI
utional power twas matter of conscience. fiit
I'd sworn 10 support the Constitution. A re- TO
4 to nv oath forbade to vote Was this no the
use9 Was regard of my oath disorder?- pos
v will this justify his friend, if he has been kee
ty as charged? the
Ie saws the Speaker himself has been aenoun the
as a supple tool of the Executive. This, too, IS
Their example to Justify his friend. Yes. the cor
aker has been told to his face worse than that lie:
and know Mr. Speaker) what said. An be
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