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From the ScigiO Grzeife.
CRITTENDEN on ALLEN.


unparalleled in the annals Of barbarity.
We have SAID some hard things of windy
Bill Allen, in our day-none The less hard
because rue-bUt We take them all back
now. Contempt giVes place TO pity. DID
any enc ever feel iHcined to laugh al .
donkey cropped OF his ears, and minus his
tai2 Ofcourse not
Bat to retErn TO the barbarous affair in
the Senate. On Thursday last the debate
or Oregon lerminappd, and the Senate
proceeded to vote on the question OF the
notice" Alter it was apparent that Nc,
Crnlenden's ResoluITans elsewhere given
in ttis paper woHH pass, Allen arose and
undertook To rebuke the Senate for us
ceufse, He lecIured that body roundiy
for daring TO vete down recommends
rien Of The PresdeAs-lor daring to pass
by the House resolutions, and particular
ly Tor relusing 10 notice the resolutions
which he ~'had the honor to Offer, and
which were in the precise language Of Ma.
Pok"--in short he reflected Rlost grossly
upoa the action Of the Senate and Of SEN
ators, and talked OF tear OF England, and
"British feeling" inhis ususl poI-hOuse
style, This speech was received with un-
disguised disgust, and Senatoreseemedd dis
posed to pessit by in silent contempt, But
Mr.. Cgitrenden thought enough had been
endured frOa that quarter, and rose in re-
lPly, We give few passages from his
scathing speech. We incIiHe to the opinon
that we shall hear very little of Aliens
bombastrc Uproar, for the remainder OF the
session.
| Mr. CRTTENDEN rosa an reply. and said
he would moi suffer tmpUldtiona sHch as
those which the gentleman had made T.
ganst the action and character OF the Sc.
nate to pass altogether without nUtice.--
What asked Mr.. {. is his commissions and
whence is it derived! and who authorized
him TO assume here the sir and tone OF pre-,
eminence which so stru. 5Iy MARKS his IAN
guage when addressing 'he Senate! "On
what meat docs this our Cesar feed that
he is to rise here and lecture us for deci'
si0ns to which we have deemed il our du'
ty to come! Where dad he cone ironll-
is il he Mte petty e6ce Of chairman q th<
C0mmdee on Foreign Relations which war
rants bin, in his own opinion, to put Oh
these airs of authority! to assume this pre-
domnancel and to lecture us as to our ofl
cial duty, as he has now done! The Sen
ate had Just adopted Il resolution proposed
to il 10y The Senator from Maryland, (Mr. K
johnson) when the gentleman from Ohlt
gets up and says in his place that the Sen
ale has Inundated itseIt--t hat it has adopt
ed a miserable, feeble, paltering, contract
ed, and (aS he could have said) abjecl anC
sIavish resolution. Letme tell him that ht
does not know this uody, nor the materia
OF which it is composed, And let me add
there is another and more difficult lessoI
which fear the Senator has yet to learn
' and that is, to know hmselE When h,
! knows himself little better. he will I've il
t circumstances better to appreciate what i
due from him to the Senate, He may vaun
himself of his assumed Office OF exclusive
vindiCator of the President of the Unllet
! States, and defender oil the honor of tn
!! House of Representatives,; but that give
him no warrant TO treat this body with
want OF consideration. As a member o
; the Senate, feel that It's dignity has beci
assaed, and its character traduced. M,
own personal share in the remarks of th
gentleman, and my own personal sense o
injury and offence, are absorbed in lht
stronger conv vction Of the disrespect which
: has been manifested towards this body
t The Senate has adopted the substance Of I
, resolution which had myself The honor Il
offer, and the gentleman has felt hlmsel
authorized to characterize a resolution
which had just received the sanction o
this body, as poor, patry, taltering, timid
tremuous thing. | can tell that Senate
that the majority Of this Senate and th'
humble individual who now addresses /
are as little moved by the dread Of any re
sppnsibiIity, but that Of doing wrong, a
the chairman Of the Committee on ForegI
Relations.
Does it belong to this body to submit to re
marks, no matter with what folce or vehe
mence OF gesticuIaton and loudnpss Of tone
they may be delivered, which convey inju
rious mpu!ations on its official course and
public acts! |, for one, shall not stand here
to be rebuked, nor to hear this Senate
schooled or called to an account by any
such authority. The gentleman undertakes
to make hulset the advocate and defend
er Of the House of Representatives. Why
sir, who or what is The House Of Reprcsen.
tatives OF The United States that it stands
in need of such an advocated The gentle.
mans advoracy Of one of the Houses o
Congress is equally an act OF supereroga.
ton, shall say OF assumption, with his re-
huke Of the other. Who here has arragn'
ed the House of Representatives! Who is
there among us that does not think Of and
treat it with the most profound respect!
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