The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-01-26
NUMBER 4e.

raging in this senate. How, sir, is he met? His
sacred profession which he honors, is even ieered
at, because he can so far lower himself so to at
tempt to protect the injured and vilifed, against
his accusersl And was it wrong in the senator
from Jefferson, man, christian and christian
minister, to attempt to bring the minds of excited
senators the other side to slow returning sense
of duty and propriety? Have they gone so far in /
the downward course of wrong doing, that it was
improper fol him to follow them with his expostu-
lations
Why, sir, remember the other day when that
senator, in his ministerial capacity, preached to
the spirits in yonder prison, and will gentleman
say he goes beyond the dignity of his sacred pro-
fession, when he makes calm dispassionate effort
to break up the thraldom of their bad passions p
"Were those eighteen on whom the tower in Sloan
fell greater sinners than all the dwellers in Jeru-
salem" " Ought not the senator from Jefferson to
have raised his warning voice, and said to these
senators, "Itel you nay, but except gre repent, ye
shall all likewise perish?" Universal applause.
Now, sir, heard with astonishment the senator
| from Cuyahoga announce this morning that he
had not Intentionally induged in any language, or
epthets, improper for SENATOR or improper in this
investigation. Has the Senator SO soon forgotten
his exitemen as to forget the sentence accurately
taken from his lips by the pen of the Phonograph-
err and published with such notes of admiration in
the Organ of his party?
Shall we recall a specimen of that language?-
Said Mr. Payne, as reported in the Statesman Of
Jan. Sd:
81 have to do with false representation and false
inducements by which you gained your elevation
to the Speakers chair. Without those solemn
pledges you well know you could never have reeeiv-
ed the vote Of the senator from Summit-he would
as soon have voted for a serpent And now, that
plghted faith and honor you have broken-with-
out excuse. or shadow of excuse-6asely, meaaly,
and disgracgatlly All moral sense and apprecia-
, ton of good faith appear TO have fed from your
breast Have they taken up their abode with brut-
es? No. The very brutes would turn away their
nostrils from your loathsome carcass in disgust
You are a dishonored mana perJfdioas wretch
and while you liveyou must be object Of execra-
E ton among all honorable men.
!, "And has it come to this? Can confidence no
longer be placed in the acord Of man? Are we
no longer to rely on the honor of senotorss And
you after obtaining your selfish ends glory in
the falsehood and perJfdy for which, in all after
time, you are rendered Infamous. Your perfdious
bartered soul cannot rise to code of honor recog-
nized among thieves, even"
4 That, sir, read as a simple specimen of those
! epithets to which have alluded, employed here
by senators in their official capacity, against sena
tor simply accused not conpicted and that senator
the presiding officer of this body! Is it strange
that self respect should impe senators this side
: knowing nothing caring to know nothing about
"violated contracts'-to stand up for what remain,
ed of the dignity of this senate? But sir another
5 specimen; When the speaker, compelled to sit IN
the chair, to maintain his position---in the Ian
guage of one SENATOR "to face the music'-wher
he attempts to ward off the envenomed shafts ol
}, the senator from Fairfield, land am sorry, sir
that the senator is not in his seat while al
t lude to him, but shall do him no injustice for
0 well remember he said she cooler in his
life" than at the moment Of that attack) when,
say, the speaker met the boastfu severity of tina
senator, with the simple, cool retort, @3on are no.
d hdrSh at all sir," what was the response of that
f senator? Said he, "there are men in yonder peni
r tentary, sir who could make the same reply
e Men so stepped in degradation that they know no
e even when they are obusedp' Sir it was my priv
iege, on Yesterday to see those convicts at the
: chapel service, and with the strong impression lef
: on my mind by the remark of the senator from
: Fairfield gazed intenty those unfortunate men
scanned the countenances of that large concours
: of condemned criminals, to see if there were mel
: among them who could sympathise with the feel
ings that must have prompted the attack and mould
ed the epithets of the senator from Fairfield And
sir in attempting to read the character as impress
n ed on the countenance, saw one,-a man with
cold, aOhite eye, with knitted brow, with q snee
# curling around his lips and chilly smile playing
It over his features which told that murder had bec
in his heart and the blood of his victim his hands
it and said to myself there is who is capa
BILE of hurling at his victim epithes such as wer
S hurled at yoM But | must say, Mr.. speaker 70
the honor of the convics in the Ohio Penitentiary
is that while | saw such man, saw but only
'r Mr. Speaker, have portrayed, know very fee
n bly,, the impressions made upon my mind by tn
G extraordinary conduct and language by which thi
i whole matter has been characterized. propose
Il srn giving my refectons,t to appear neither as tn
S advocate nor the defender but l wish to defen,
S, my own position, by presenting the impression
made upon my mind while the investigation ha
!: been progressing. 1t is claimed in these charge
d that an approved and binding contract has beel
e made and violated, under circumstances authoris
/ ing gentlemen, who claim have been deceived
s to heap upon you epthets of the worst character
n | understood the senator from Cuyshoga to say
l. that you were unworthy to associate with gentle
e men-a man who should be thrust beyond the pal
n of decent society-a man unworthy to appear il
n any transaction, no matter how SMALL among hon
orable men. And yet the senator from Cuyahog
claims that the violated honor of the senate shoulC
y be vndicated and for what? Why; sir, for thu
= breach of contract made by man utterly un
worthy Of confidence, man from whom "brntt
i nostras would turn away"
! And how can the senator after voluntarily plac
l. ing himself in that position after deliberately enter
ing into arrangements for the organization of th'
It senate with such man, how can he claim protec
il ton? Why, sir remember among the Erst thing.