The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-22
MIKE WALsn.-this distinguished

MIKE WAlsH.-thls distinguished
humorist-and representative in Con
gress from New York, has not lived
long life for no purpose. His speed
Oh the Nebraska and Kansas bill, wa
quite relief to the prosy patriotism
wasted on that occasion. We canno
refrain from making few extracts o
Mikes speech.
My friend who handed me that pa
per, said yesterday that he had moi
the advantages Of education which
other gentlemen had received.
think he is better off in that respect
than / am; for l never attended
school but three quarters, and I got
turned out once or twice. daughter
Yes, sir, | got tnrned out, for what the
schoolmasters in their benighted stu
pidity termed "bad conduct" but
which subsequent events have salts
factory proven to have been merely a
striking and precautions manifestation
Of genius. Increased laughter)
a man can be man Of education
without being drilled through college.
1t is far better to know the men among
whom one lives, than to know men
who have been dead three thousand
years. If | am deficient in classic
lore, l am pretty well booked in the
rascality of the age in which / live.
Uaughter.) 1t makes no odds how
a man gets up to the roof Of house
whether he climbs by ladder, or
goes up some other way l would
not barter away all the practical
knowledge l have received in lumber
and ship yards for all the latin that
was ever spoken in ancient Rome. l
would rather speak sense in one plain
and expressive language than speak
nonsense in fifty. Laughter) Mr..
Chairman how much time have | left,
as that appears to be the standing
question Laughter.)
Contrasting the slavery ofthe North
with the slavery Of the South, Walsh
said:
Why sir, poor man at the North
will work for fifty cents a day. drag
more in hand cart than three ne
grocs, with four mules will bring into
Washington, though they have white
man to watch them. Uaughter.) A
man at the South gives $1,000 for q
negro; he has to feed and clothe
him he has to provide for him in
old age to take care of him in his
sickness. and to bury him when he is
dead. In the North we have no such
bold, manly, open and above board
Oh, no sir. Here is a
specimen Of the cold, crafty, sneaking
of the North-an oppres-
sion which reaches and prays heavily
upon the unfortunate-upon many of
the purest and brightest spirits Of the
land. These are the boys exhibiting
a pawnbroker's duplicate amidst great
l will read it:
No. 1922. Joseph Simpson & Com
pany, 25 Catham street, July 1853.
Gold watch, So Mike Walsh, Not
in case of damage by fire
n ROBBERY; twenty-five per cent, per
.nnum. Great Laughter.
I could easily enumcratc sundry
,ther little items and deviscs which
20 to still further swell the measure of
lis gains; but even were it limited in
II cases, instead of not being so in any,
o the mere legal twenty five per cent,
lie has $500 year, and his $1,000
ats nothing, wears nothing, consumes
othing, and can be used for the same
instrument Of oppression after he is
cad. His children after him can be
sed as the same instrument of oppres-
ion among the children and grand
hildren of the survivor.
A lady correspondent at Paris writes: .
Among English ladies the mind is {
lie standard of man. Here, more nat c
rally. it is the foot, and a French :
ldv's climax of admiration is his foot -