Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-05-01

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and VIII entertainment of The tcs ',er merely,
will n fun confidence fthat no sensible mind
a. .,e Influenced b. The extravacaut language
I'D distempered view, of the pragmatie speaker,
~e extract few of the most characteristic sen
tenees fror. the late speech of Mr. Benton. They
viii he recognized as having the true Bentonian
impress
Mr.. Benton said If any bill 10 impair the Mis-
sour Compromise line of Is20 had been brought
into this House by member from slave State,
or under the administration of fresi lent elect
ed from slave State, | should have deemed II
my duty to have met it at the Threshold and 10
have made the motion which the parliamentary
law rreseribes for the repulse of subjects which
are not fiji 10 be considered. ! should have moved
its rejection at the first reading But the bill be-
fore US, for this too may be considered as one,
does not come from that quarter Ii comes from
free State, and under the administration OF
President elected from free State, and under
that aspect of its origin deemed it right 10 wait
and hear what the members Of the free States had
10 say to il. Ii was proposition from their own
ranks. to give up their half of the slavery com
promise Of 1520, and If they chose 10 do 81,
did not see how Southern members could refuse
10 accept it.
1t is not bribery alone attempted upon mem
Der which constitutes a breach of the privileges
on members vote by any consideration Of
hope or fear favor affection prospect of re-
ward. or dread of punishment. This Is parlia-
mentary saw as old a. the English parliaments,
constantly maintained by the British HoHse of
Commons, and lately declared in most signal
manner. Il during the reign of our old mus
ter, George the Bird, and in the famous ease of
Mr.. Fox's East India bill. \ report was spread
in Parliament by one oil the Lords of the bed
chamber. that the King opposed IL the bill
that he wished il defeated. and said that he would
consider any member his enemy who should vote
for il. The House Of Commons took fire at this
report and Immediately resolved. "1hat to re
port any opinion or pretended opinion OF h1s NM
esty upon any bin depending in either House Of
Parliament is high crime and misdemeanor, de
rogatory 10 the honor OF the crown, breach Of
the fundamental privileges Of parliament. aud
sabversiye II the constitution Of The country"
This resolve adopted IN full house, by
majority of seventy three votes, and was only
declaratory of existing parliamentary law. such
as it had existed from the time tho English ooun.
ties and boroughs first sent knights of the shire
and bargesses TO represent them IN Parliament
House. II Is an old English parliamentary law,
and is 50 recorded by Ilatsell and all the writer's
ON that law. IL is also American law old as
Congress. and as such recorded IN Ielier
sons Manual. II is honest law, and rs such ex
istani in every honest heart
Sir suppose | can be allowed 10 repeat ON
this floor any degree of comparison figure Of
speech which Mr., Burke could use an tlie floor oi
the British House of Commons. He q elns.
sic speaker and besides that the author of trca-
tse on the sublime and beautiful. though do
not consider the particular figure which ] hive 10
repeat, although just and picturesque IN itselftp
BE- perfect illustration of either branch Of his
admired treatise. Ii in reference e. Lord
Ihurlow who had INTERVIEWED IN some Legislative
business contrary TO the orntor's senre At right
and deeeney. Mr.. Burke repulsed the intrusive
opinion and declared that he did not care three
jumps of louise for il. Sir. ! say the same Of
any opinion which my be reported here from
our Secretaries, ON any bill depending before as,
and that in any form in which i may come from
them, whether as unit integers.
Still less do ! admit the right OF Intervention
IN our legislative duties in another class of inters
meddlers, and who mightnot be able 10 medde
at all with our business were If not for the min
istration of our bounty. speak Of the public
printers who get their daily bread and that but
tered on both sides, by our daily printing, and
who require the Democratic members Of this
HOUSE, under the instant penalty Of political dam
nation, to give IN their adhesion 10 every bill
which they call administration, and that, in eve
~ change itmay undergo. although more change
able than the moon For that class of informed
oilers have no parliamentary Inv to administer
nor any quotation from Burke TO npply,-noth-
ing but little fable 30 read the value OF which,
as in all good fables, lies in its moral II Is in
French and entitled Lane ct maitre' which
being done into English, signifies Thu ass and
his master p and runs thus
IAN ass took ii into his head 10 scare his mas
ter, and put on lions skin, and wont and stood
Ia the path. And when he saw his master COM
ing he commenced roaring, as he thought; but be
only brayed and the master knew il was his ass;
so he went up to him with cudgcl, and beat him
nearly to DEATH
it Is, "a caution to all asses to take care how
they undertake to scare their masters Great
applause.
Mr.. Chairman, this House will have fallen far
below its constitutional mission, ii it suffers it
self to be governed by authority, dragooned
by its own hirelings. ! am n man of no bar
gains but act openly with any man that acts for
the public good and in this spirit offer the
right hand of political friendship to every mem
Der OF this body that will stand together 10 vim
dictate ITS privileges, protect its rospectability
and maintain 1t in the high place for which it was
intended-the master branch of the American
Government.
Five times in the beginning of this century did
Congress refuse to impair the slavery compro-
mise OF 81 ; and now, in the middle of the
century. and after thirty years of peace under
the Missouri compromise--the offspring aud con
tnuation OF that of 'S7-we are called upon, not
merely to impair, for season. but 10 destroy for
ever, a tar greater compromise--extending to far
more terrltory-and growing out of necessity far
more pressing. And how called upon Not by
the inhabitants--not by any one human being
living, or expecting TO live on the territory to be
afferfad-huf m MOTTO -,