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

dental canvass. and revolving 10 the heholders
| when first PR santed.
ven o., remember that day when IL was firsi
shoNe. IN the Senate. Mark Antony did not bet.
'e' remember the day when casar first put on
:, that mantle through which be afterwards
| pierced with three and twenty "enyions stats
1t was in tho Senate in ISIS, ind was received a.
nonsenso-as the essence of nonsense-as The
| uuintessence of nonseuse-as the hFe-tifnes us
| titled essence Of political nonsensieality. " ny,
sir, the Territory itself i the property 81 the
States, and they do what they please with it
permit il to be settled or not rs they please; cut
Il up BY lines. they please sell IT. or give It
/ away, a they please; chase white people from IT,
as they please. After this farrago-fhs oHapo
drida-eomes little stump speeeh' injected III
the belly of the bill, and which must hive prod
gous effect when reoited in the prairies, aud
out towards the frontiers, and up towards the
heads Of the creeks.
object 10 this shily- shally-willy won'ty-
don ~ ean'iy style of legislation II i not ie-
gislative II IL not parliamentary. II Is mol
manly II is not womanly. No woman would
talk that way. VI shilly shally in a woman.--
Nothing of the female gender was ever born young
enough. or lived long enough, to get beiogged III
such quandaly a. this, II is one thing or the
other with them, and Whit they say they stick
to. No breaking bargains with them. But the
end Of the stump speech il the best OF the whole
Different from good milk, IN which The cream RI
sos To the top, II here settles tn the bottom.
Three dogmas now ailct the lnnd pideticst;
sqnaiter sovereignty, non-interyention, and no
power in Congress 10 legislate upon Slavery IN
Territories. And this bill asserts the whole
three, and beautifully illustrates the whole three,
by knocking each one on the head with The other,
and trampling eaeh under foot IN If turn sir,
the bill does deny squatter sovereignty aud II
does intervene, and it does legisate upon slaye=
~ in Territories and for the proof OF that, sec
the bill: and see il the lawyers say, Pnssim
TINT Is To- sny. here. and there, and everywhere.
1t Is n bill of assumptions and contradiction
assuming what Is unfounded and coniradieting
what it ussumes-and balancing every affirm
ton by IA negation. II il a see-saw bill but not
the innocent see-saw which children play on Il
plank stuck through fence but the up aud
down game Of politicians, played at the expense
Of the pence and harmony of the Union, aud To
the sacrifice Of all business in Congress II is
amphbologiehl bill, ST fled with monst osites,
hobblrd with contr .dietions, and Badgered with
n proYiso.
Amphl ology is ennse for the rejection Of
bills, mol only 10y Congress, but by the President
when carried 10 him Tor his approval General
Jack son rejected one for Tint cause, aud II WINS
less amphibelogcal than this ii was the lust
day of his last administration, and quarter be-
fore midnight. Congress hnd sent him bill 10
repeal the specie circular, and tn inaugarate the
paper money of thousand loeul banks as the
currency Of the Federal Government II WIS nm
object II 1t Ia be uYowcd, nor to be done III my
direct palpuble manner. Parnphrases, cir
eumloeation. ambideNteritY, aud ambiguity, we're
necessary Ia cover up the design; and il
piled ON until il WAS nnintelligible. Tho Prosi-
dent read IT, and could mike nothing of it, he
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