The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-27

who refused to walk or be gallanted or courted or
the Lord knows what, by southern Senator, be.
cause he stakeholder. Col. Bssell said that
the Yankee girls or spnsters Z" full of no
tions =; one OF these being that Of doing about such
matters the gentleman related, just as they
pleased, as had probably been experienced by many
members OH the floor. He hoped they would
not have Trojan war about this modern Helen.
This created some hIlarity.
third hit, which came down with a crash, was
this The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr
Venable) had told the House day or two go. that
it, after The separation of the Union. an abolitionist
should be found South he for hanging him on
the spot. every WE'LL, said Colonel Bisscll. ~
presume the first man hung would be the mmor-
tai Mr. Clay, and some ten thousand Kentuckians
with him, who have voted for emancipation at the
last election. II would be fine spectacle, indeed
TO see 80 many men hung at once; and it would
produce such consumption of the Kentucky sta
pie, (hemp,) that it was hoped the delegation from
Kentucky would no longer require annual
contract for hemp with the Navy Department.
Here the ladies in the gallery almost cried but
the members on the floor, and great many Sena.
tors amongst them, almost burst out into horse
augh.)
Colonel Bissc levelled his cannon again. Said
he: The gentleman from North Carolina called this
washington city, southcrn ground, and that the
South could be able to maintain il against the
North and against all hazards. He had no doubt
they were brave and valiant men, and that they
had not deteriorated since 1914, when 1000 Eng
lishmen, tagged out by long cruise in the Puto-
mac, aUucu Will luTec pieces Ol drtllleTys pufnt
the archives, and left the Capitol smouldering
ruin. profound silence and internal reflections }
As TO the idea of wSouthern Confederacy,"
Col b. treated ii with ineffable scorn and con.
tempt, emphasizing it in most hateful manner.
Illinois, he said, had furnished nine regiments in
the with Mexico; she would double, nay triple
and quadrupe that number, to march wherever
the Government might direct TO preserve the Union
The hardest blow he struck was against "southern
chiraIry' He laughed the idea to scorn that one
portion of the Union had more courage than the
other. He did not doubt southern bravery, the
history OF the country gave abundant proofs Of it;
but he nevertheless believed the southern chivalry
guilty of two mistakes the first consisted in
undertaking. the bravery of others, the other he
need not mention.
In conclusion, he alluded to historical fact
which created come sensation. He spoke of the
battle of Buena Vista, where the gallant Colonel
had SO signally distinguished himself; but he was
careful not to introduC himself He merely spoke
of the fact that when the Indiana regiment, by the
awkwardness of its leaders, gave way, il was not
southern chivary which gained the day, but north
ern valor; the Illinois regiment and another lndi-
ana regiment, with portion OF the Kentucky reg
iment, coming 10 the rescue and driving back the
Mexicans; while the Mississippi regiment stood
mile off and had not pulled trigger. This was "a
little grape" into Colonel Davis's horse,
which at the same time is the Trojan horse of Mr..
Calhoun. Colonel Bssell ended in little uproar,
when Mr. Winthrop obtained the floor and com
menced beaboring the Free-Soil wing on the other
side. He did il secundens arfem, after all the ap-
proved rules of scientific tactics. He TO Bissel
as the scientific Scott TO the Rough and Ready Tay
lor. Root and Gddngs received Gaming; for
there is other figure of speech which can ade-
quately convey idea of the sort of chastisement
they received but that.
Root was overwhelmed, but not at once Mr.. W.
cut him to pieces by the inch; pausing every FIVE
minutes TO sharpen his knife, to recommence ope-
rations with additional gusto. He said that the
FreeSoil party, properly called, under the cloak
Of philanthropy, did more real intentional misc hief
were guilty of greater calumnies. and were inst-
gated by despicabie selhshness than any regu-
larly organized party that ever existed-[immense
applause from the galleries.l He compared them
(after Rurke) with half dozen grasshoppers, buzz
ing and hummng through field, and making
more noise than thousand head Of cattle quietly
feeding the grass. He would follow no such
lead-he had connexion with them, and he CON
sdered them nuisance even to the very principle
they proclaimed, merely to make capital out Of il
10 satisfy their sordid .selishncss.
On the whole, this good days work, and if
the belaboring of the two extreme wrongs will
bring the centre together, we need not regret the
severity of execution, which, a less serious occa-
sion, would, perhaps, be inexcusable.
OBsERyER