New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-19
Senatorial science.

w e IDlNrA NltAtI VI liiN N'AN-~
our city makes a candidates stump speech
to his delighted auditors, wherein D. among
other sweeping reforms, he promises, II eject
ed, to "abolish Flogging in the Navy and
introduce it in Congress If he don't g
in soon, the Progress Of the Age VIII have
superseded the latter clause Of his Reform.
And certainly, if it is right TO trice up poor
Jack and whale his naked back into shoe
strings because he has oyerstaid his leave
ON shore, or got somewhat drunker than the
NAVY regulations allow, or Cooked nso-
lently at an officer" or any other OF the
thousand frailties for which the cat and the
colt are administered, Senators who black
guard. rush TO fight and draw pistols on
each other, ought to be strung up and wal
Ioped until thoroughly awakened to sense
of decency. And if the chief actors IN the
scene Of Wednesday in the Senate were tled
up. stripped and logged by the Scrgeant-at-
Arms on the raised platform at either front
of the Capitol, in the presence of fifty thou
sand deeply interested spectators, we have
no doubt that the ends of justice would be
quite AS well subscryed as they ever are by
human flagellations.
We should like to feel that the only man
who had disgraccd the Senate in tins na'-
ter is the one who could nj we'll disgrace
himself: but the accounts do not show It,
That Footc wa, abusing and blackgarding
Col. Benton is very likcly-he Is Just
the man 10 be doing it-but he has done the
same repeatedly to Mcssrs. Seward and
Hale. vet nobody has thought of lntiictng
personal chastisemcnt therefor. And ii Col.
Benton, stung by personal impn'auonS'
rushed upon the Mississippi Harlequin with
intent to inhict bodily harm upon him. then
the Col. is wrong-inexcusably wrong. lie
is the Oldest living Senator, Mr.. Clay ex-
cep.ed, and has been more years in the Sen
ate than any one else. 1t behoves him TO
set an example of selfcommand and re
spect for the proprieties of his station. II
he felt aggrieycd, he should have called to
order, and the Vice President would have
ordered Footo to take his seat. No; if Col.
Benton rushed forward to attack Fcote in
the Senate-chambcr he was deplorably In
the wrong, and furnished a prctext though
no excuse for Foote's cowardly display Of d
loaded pistol in that chamber TO the shame
OF our Country throughout the civilized
world.
We shall note especially who among th'
actors in and apologists for this disgraceiu
ARRAY vote to continue Flogging in the Navy
If a majority DO uphold il, and Yet neglect tn,
clowns hint Of introducing it in Congress
the Country viii want to know why.
~ Tie Express tries TO be severe on Ecentiou
AMI insdei literature, is very right bu, tspers Q;
- SLOWS:
Selfsoverumeat, the fundamental attribute O
RepQbhc snism. hold is imPossibiity wher
tho pvccepts OF the Christian system, have less en-
coaragement given them than the pesneroa
teachings Of a worse than lnidel literature. Whe
sssat is purified, publication Will allow else~ here
there VAL be no need then OF Communism or Fou
rierisni, - rcSeGerste "socisl system deplors
hy ia want OF az autld0te indeed, 10 the iNSldlOu
pcs.an which has been Infused into its every ven
shroash the chanaels OF hoentioas literature"
How is tbs, Italy and Spain have been YER
sarelaiy guarded against Inhde ltesstare for
sheos aud years more, and Yet. though " the pr
seP;s osthe Christian s. stem have been setalcu'
" Insulated in each s,ler fashion, they seem nc
~ have ou,growa the weed Of a snrlA renovation
a pEgc Literature isvery desirable be, more ,hS
this q aired to perie': Society and ensure punt
s1d Justice in all the relations Of men.
EE- Mrs Swlsshein is writing letters - IL
1is1sae from W sshinstoa. They are lively, iresl
asi dsliciousy psquant The Dough-Fsces Of II,
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