Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-11
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Mrs. Swisshclm's Lcllcrsn~No, II.

Ross's Speech Compromises genualJ-HaI-
ris's Speech.
IRvINa HOUSE,, Washington, April IL.
Correspondence of1hc Tribune.
DEAR Mn. GREELEY: While /
sat yesterday and heard the honorable gem
tleman explain his views, lost the entire
run of shawls aud lnantillas, beside esca-
ping nervous fever, by moi hearing the first
part of Mr. Ross's speech. When he rose,
some one whispered me, It's only Dough-
faces" and ns have no particular fancy for
uhbaked bread, and n column hid him from
view, did not choose TO interrupt the con-
yersation of the worthy substitute of "the
old man eloquent" to peep round at a mass
OF flour aud water. One can see or hear a
Northern trucker almost any day away out
m the West, but only hero could ] listen 10
Hornce Mann. the friend Of Humanity, and
so / listened, and did not hear the man OF
Ross" until friend came up and whispered,
Just listen TO your PENNSYLVANIA toady.'-
Then started up, looked round the column,
aud saw the genleinan. II his tace is dough,
there is entirely too much saleruts in il, for
II is as yellow as guinea. Some QUE shaslld
add iit,lc acid, both 10 help the color aud
produce efferyescence. This would answer
the purpose of yenst, aud make him rise"
-
he is too fiat to be wholesome.
What the first part of his speech was
know only,by the reports which you already
have. These make him say the Constt,I-
ton recognizes Slavery; but he would vote
for no bill recognizing or prohibiting H. OF
course, then, lie would not vote for the Con-
stitution. My attention was called in time
10 hear him sobbng aud groaning over the
Union-inploring, with hysterical gasps, that
Members would calculate lis yalue-its pa
trlotic valuc--and that Northern Democrats
and agitators would pause ain their mad ca
reer before it was TOO late" Many appeared
inclined 10 profit by his exhortalion, stopped
talking, and kept watching tie clock 10 see
If II were time for him TO quit lie objected
TO the admission of California, because she
is four times as large os Pennsylvania, but
said nothing about Texas, nearly four times
as large us California. On the same princi-
Pile, New York should be thrown ont of the
Union for being four times as large MS Rhode
Island. The reported accounts OF tie speech
say he replied to the speech of his colleague,
MIR. THADDEUs STEVENS. This is n mistake.
lie merely occupied fifteen minutes in per-
sonal abuse Of MIR. SrEvENs-raking over
the ashes of old party squabbes in State pol
tues, and denouncing his Inconsistency in
supporting Gen. Taylor instead of Cass. lIo
shook his finger, worked his body up and
down as though he had been chlrning on an |
old-fashioned Dutch churn, quyered in every
muscle, suffered and sputtered, as he emu |
merated the wrongs MIR. STEVENS had com
mitted against his native State, and declared |
she was ashamed Of having given him birth. |
II is rather odd she should have sent him |
here, and so MIR. STEVENS appeared TO think,
for he stood up before the Speakers desk,
laughing heartily at the exhibition.
This Ross is reported to have said, the |
South had never aggressed on the North;
but the reporters forget TO add, what he did |
say, that the North had been continually ag-
crossing upon the Ssouill-that Pcnusylvania
herself led the way by presenting Anti-Sla-
very petitions to the very first Congress tliat
met after the adoption OF the Constitution
Then he declared that aggressions must be
stopped, and the South protected in her Con-
sttutional rights
a few moments before he had been Won
dering how MIR. STEVENS could have uttered
bis speech while the portrait OF WASHINGTON
hung before him?-llow he could dare de-
fame the fathers of the Constituton-sucb
men us FRANKLIN. Wonder ii he forgot that
FRANKLIN himself was one of the most ac-
tive OF these Anii.SlayeTy petitioners whom
he was now stgmatzing as aggressors upon
tbe rights OF others? lie INDUCED in large
amount Of gasconodng about his own Stute
his own gallant liIlle County OF Leligll."
II the folks there are so smart us he pretends,
they will give him his next Office in coal
mine, until his complexion is Of the proper
tint for the chattel market, then send him
South to fetch what he will bring. lie should
never be permitted to live above ground in
the State he has dsgraccd.
There is one thing Mr. GRFHIPy fl,ot
strikes my mind very forcihly; this is the
constant and gratuilous Qualifications of the
Constitution. have heard four speeches
two Pro-Slayery, OH the Loco-Foco side, and !
TWO Anti-Slavery, OH the Wing side but
about one-fourth lof every one has sour
glorious Constitution its compromises