Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-10-26
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tie citizens If Eaton ROUGE, IN accord
allee, as he said, Witha written invitation,
on Thursday evening last Tie audience
wbs quite large, considering the short
notice given, and every attention seemed
70 be Fai1 to the prominent Senator.
We havesneithef the time; The inciina-
tiUii, or the room in DIR paper, to go into
tn extended review Of the honorable gen
tlefhan's remarks. Like some STORES of
others we repaired to the Court House,
determined to be pleased with the ofatory,
NO matter how much we might detest the
principles advocated by the speaker. We
had never seen Or heard Mr.. Soula
before. His reputation led us to expect
perhaps too much. We expected to hear
something resembling those glorious bursts
of genius with which the latnentea PREM
TIss wa won't to electfi}y the heart a.
well as the intellect. We hoped to hesr
from the Senator a massive, powerful arr
| gtllneut (eVell if it were III q had eause)
such as would have fallen from The lips Of
RANDALL EIuNf, enforcing respect, if it
did not carry conviclion We looked for
the tersptless, vigor, and beauty, Of J. r.
BENJAMIN, and-were most wofuIly dis
appointed Neither the liglltnil4a Of
Prertiss's el~oquence, The siren It'll of
Hunts argument, or the vinur Of Benja-
minis eloctition, sllone forth in the effort
Of the honorable Senator. We, in com
mon with almost every one with whom
we have eotvarsea, were Disappointed in
his speech. From 4 young lawyer, or
All utlfledged politician it might haze beer
considered creditable-btit nothing more
But, for a lnan Of Ms. Suula's experience
and reputation, it was, i'll orr opinion, q
miserable failure. If his effort on Thurs
day evening is to be taken as a fair spec
men OF his powers, we only wonder how
he obtained his reputation. Baton Rouge
&
can furnish 2 better speaker, as far as ell
oquence and power of argument are con
cerned, az will lie seen by reference 10 n
speech delive5el before q COMPROMISE
meeting held some months since. and pub
lislled with warm expressions Of COM
mendation, in the Democratic Advocate.
We shall allnde to- but few Of the
points attempted to he made by Mr.. soule.
He started ont very handsomely, telling
his hearers that he was unwell, that he
didn't want to make q speech, and that
he would be very brief and to the poiut
Notwithstanding all Of which he spoke
some two hours, and seemed at the con
clusion just rs vigorous, physically, rs at
the commencement. The audience at
tentively listened to him, but very little
apPluttse was manifested.
The Senator first bore down upon The
press, which he asserted had calum-
mated and abused him. with b few honor
able exceptions. This assertion Of Mr..
S. is simply the reverse Of the truth lie
did not mention the "few honorable eS-
%eeptions," however. We oline thisI
would be Il hard matter 10 d., for, rs far as
orr personal knowledge goes, every press
i'll tie State has sustained NTr. Downs.
and with Il greater OF less decree Of vigor,
rebuhed, by implication, or otherwise, the
policy pursued by Mr.. seuls Il is our
opinion Tint the press Of Louisiana will
survive ETr. 8. denupciationz, aud, there
fore pass over that portion of his remarks
as unworthy Of comment.
We were agreeably disappointed in the
miltiness Of the tone ISSUED by Mr.. soule.
lie didn't propose to kick t'the Yankees
ont of Loulsiana. ngleas 1olcuS, didn't
invoke the liglitnitgs Of heaven to blast
peTli1iols foreigners, didn't stlpulatise
Henry Clay as an ''areh traitor" didn't
denounce Daniel Webster as All abolition
ist, and, III fine, didn't assume that every
body who disagreed with him deserved
the Peuitentiary. The arrogance of tone
aud Of manner, assumed by Mr.. Sou'e,
was, however, very offensive. He ASH
that his audience were entireiy
Of the measures Of COMPROMISE,
that not half a dozen of them had proba-
bly, studied it, and that the people, gener-
ally, blinded by the press, went In favor of
measures calculated to destroy utterly their
most sacred rights! lie might as well
have called his audience miserable fools,
lolts, beings devoid of intelligence of any
description, as to have used such Insulting,
such aristocratic, such by the Grace of
kingly language. Had Mr.. soale
bee,u addressing an as~semblage Of slaves
bis words, perhaps, would lave not been
90 censurable. But lie should have borne
in mind that he was speaking to intelli-
gent, reading, and enlightened American
3itizens, who would a thousand times
ooner submitto death than a dictator.
One or two remarks more, and we are
lone, for the present. Mr.. Soule speaking
If the Texas Boundary Bill stated that
leventy-three thousand square miles oil
,erritory had been stolen from Texas and
Slavery, and given over to free soil. He
'epeated the word stealing three times
who were fire tIle,,es In This matterl I