New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-06
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ceye such signal ay0rs from members oil congress as
speeches under their frank the stereOtyped Ian
euage Of acknowledgment ia that they are indebted
for the favor We must be permitted TO change the
phrase ology on this occasion, and say-We are
ashamed you, Mr. Straub, for your speech, and we
lament that the intelligent people of the Counties OF
Schuylkill and Northumberland should be represented
in Congress by man who knows no better, or know
ing better does no better, than make speech and
give vote in favor of the repeal OF the Missouri Com
promise O. Mr. c NJ. Strsub, fear you dull man.
of rude imagination, not stiff in the back, who has
been deludod by others into the performance of
wicked act We are sure you know that You have
voted wrong for we do not believe there ia a rascal
among the whole forty whose names we have
drawn black lines around. but feels Ike who
has been caught with sheep OIL his back No one
viii suspect you Mr. Straub, OF being leader in this
sOrrowil desortiOE from the duties you owed to your
constituents and to freedom. You are, We are sure,
not IN author and leader in the mischief, but dupe
of others. But cannot admit that you IN limo
cent dupe. No man from the North who hud brains
enough to find his way from Schuylkill County to
Washington, could be made to believe he was doing
right 10 vote to let in Slavery into territory from
which it was excluded by solemn compact.
You have not yet persuaded yourself that you were
right in doing this and it will be very long before you
Will persuade the independent citizens of YOUR district
that you were So 1t aillics us Mr. Straab, to inl
you in such bad company-to find any man. Indeed
from the State of William Penn and Benjamin Frank
lin going with the reckless northern politicians for
this measure. We know that of your respect
able colleagues who have voted with you, hate the
MEASURE and have vo,ed for it knowing it was
baro ea1
dentially with Mr.. Robbins of your own State, who
voted viii you, or rather whom you voted with, he
has told YOU so, or at least iutnated much this,
and we doubt not Mr.. Straub that you yourself have
ACKNOWLEDGED it to your own soul if you have never
Acknowledged it 10 any besides
You were elected, Mr.. Straub, " Independent
"Democr4t,' but you have proved yourself to be
ANYTHING but that The SEES vino sent you to
Congress by a small majority over your competitor,
among whom we fear there wee many Wings, have
tie best reason in the world for seeing how hollow
were your precbses TO be independent, and how vain
were professions of demo racy. Genuine demo,-
racy loves liberty and never deser it. Independence
consists in acting from cur own convictions. You,
Mr. Straub have deserted the cause of liberty, and
YOU have not voted as your judgment and conscience
dictated. TO your distinctive appellation you have
thus lost all the tile you ever had which. we fear,
WAS not much since YOU surrendered it for the asking.
But, Mr. Straub, we can bestow no more words upon
you. We deeply regret that you should ever have
come from obscUy only to perpetrate an act desery-
ing of censure and leaving only oboquy onyour name,
and we shall not lament your speedy departure into
private liiean event, We presume, not far distant
But we turn from Mr.. Straub to his speech from
which we propose to Gull few dainty extracts. lie
states in il that he is not educated man, decara-
ton which is quite superfuous Nobody would sus-
pect Linn of ever having been inside OF schcol-house
after reading few paragraphs of his discourse. Mr..
Straub however, is able to read TIE TRiBt NJ, and
is greatly exercised thereby. He quotes Fl ON 1t, and
excuses himself for doing by saying that il is il con-
sequence of 1.-THE speeches and writings contained ia
that exemplary sheet" This is good reason for
sraub to give 1t il not often he is sensible. But
let Us quote little at length:
Several newspapers have been sent 10 me, chiryiny
friendly the bill under liberation with DIS
honesty of purpose, bribery and corruption This vile
ny feet. pick II up and spH on IT, throw II down
and put my foot upon it, pick up again, and hull It
back from whence II came 10 the serpent under the rose
nee who il it, pGfcrnal JcAer
Mr. Chairman, in the outset OF my remarks, sail
could not divine tie reason Tor 80 much excited feeling
pom due reflection, however. think erred IN making
such statement. Pass the bill. and Oheos occupa
tons gone; the neck Of the hobty-ho!s- Will be- bro
ken and these sectional G-iHioss VIII DC politically
usolvent: aud they poor fellows, must 20 begging %
seek some other IDOL god worship, and % humbug the
psople with provided their desperation does not drive
them to seek IepOse in consuming the nscves ~ their
castles Ia, ing failed TO barn down ihe Capitol DC u
the papers have alluded TO is headed Mifgk Eli
hon.' No doubt il was printed al midnight, or the
Sabboih Treason is always perpetraed al midnight. -
lenco has ceased to be virtue and the sne has come
I when certain matters should moro be misnamei
Things be called 10y their night names The sympa-
tlN bear for those lbeGus CapifOburners and trea-
sor.corspators is such | have for tyrmt traitor
or despoi: and they viii be fortunate indeed, should
not the poical crave they have dug for the Senator
from Illinois in the end be used 20 bury themselves and
the remains their fansticai coadators. We cannot
draw black ues around thor names as they have around
our but We can pu. the mark If Cain upon their or
heads. Were these fanaiica be.ers ignorant men, one
might have sympathy for them; but when we coE-t3r
tlev are II cultivated minds not Inferior 20 any m the
country for ability and Intelligence. and American citizens
M that when all this done l. 10 not sine 10 pause,
trtt and 10 devise WAYS and Of deiense Hanan
wa, hanged the highest OF any ever known II graf
if,ng 10 know that the rngeader OF the Ehcegs now
swinging above Hanan in public olln.on-lei An hang
/ thue IL is fl food FOX buzzaTds
There is evidently tremendous malcdciion upon
somebody al the close of that last paragraph, but
straub ouis 10 tell Us who it is intended for. The
preceding portion is in style OF yrtlrOus Indignation
seldom reached The rhetorical touch about the ar
row il an illustration Of attempt to throw hot wa
ter TO wndward but the orator evidently seized upon
that weapon without any clear idea of what he was