Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-04-29
rrnln the Richmond Wing.


On Tuesday, Old Bullion made his long look 3
ed for speech against the Nebraska bill. II Is
entirely eharaeteristle-fu 81 wrath, yigor'wit,
historical alluson aud hard hits against men anu
things. lie de .cribes the Nebraska bill as "a
bill of assumptions and contradictpns-assu
ing what il unfonndcd, ant contradetlng whht u
assumes-nnd balancing ev9ry h'hrmauoh oy a
negation II Is Fee-saw bill . not the innocent
see.snw which children play on plank stuck
through n fence: but the up aud down game OF
politicians. PLAYED at the expense of the peace
and harmony ofthe Union, and to the sacrihee OF
all business in Congress. IL is an a.nphbologl-
cal bill stuffed with monstrosites, hobbed with
contradictions. and Badgered with proylso -
such is the Bentonian idea Of the Nebraska bill.
lie objects. he SAYS to such "shiy -shoy, willy
wonty- don'ty- oan'ty style of legislation
lie dcmolshes .'squntter sovereignty, ana
plnmps il into poor old cnss right under the fifth
rib. Hear the fierce Bullion Sir there II no
such prineiple. Territorial sovereignty is mon
strosity, born Of timidity and ambition, Matched
into existence in the hot incubation OF Preslden-
tinl canvass and revolving to the beholders when
first presented. Well do ! remember that day
when il was first shown in the Senate. MARX
Antony did not better remember the day when
Caesar first put on that mantle through when nc
was afterwards pierced with three and twenty
sonyous stabs" II was in 1915, aud was re-
rp1Ern
AS the anintessence of nonsense-as the hive
times distilled essence Of political nonsensicai-
ty.n Long live the feroeious and imperturbnbie
Bullion.
lie rcbnked also. H. savage and causiic terms
the President, and his "head clerks and his or
gans, for interfering with the Legislation OF Con
gress. Quoting the language employedb by Burke
in the House of Commons in repulsng, on one
occasion, the intrusive opinion OF the Loid IMAM
cellor, Bullion likewise declared that he 'dd not
care three Jumps Of "a louise" for the opinions of
the Presidents secretaries and fuglemen. lie
walked into the "organs,n and literally took the
skin from off their backs,-as witness the follow
ing
Still less do | admit the right of intervention
in our Legislative duties in another cass OF inter
and who might not be able TO NEEDLE
nt all with cur business were it not for the minis
trations 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
damnnton TO give in their adhesion TO every bill
which thov call administration" aud that in ey-
cry change it may undergo, although more chan
reable than the noon For that class of inter
meddlers | have no parliamentary law To adm in
isternor any quotation from Burke to nppy
nothing but a little table to read, the value of
which, us in all good fahleses i'll its moral. 1t
is in French aud entitled Lane ct son maitre'
which being done into English, signifies The ass
and his mastcr;" and runs thus
An ass took it into his head to scare his mas
ter and put on a lion : skin, and went and stood
in the path And when he saw his master com
ing he commenced roaring, us he thong t; but he
only braycd; and the master knew it was his ass
~ be went up to him with cudgcl, and beat him
nearly to DEATH
That is the end of the fable, and the moral of
tits "a caution to all asses to take care how they
to scnre their masters" Great ap
plansc
We hayeno space for further extracts from
Old Billions unique aud able speech. We may
give other portions of it hereafter.