The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-05-27
A SPEECH BY MIKE WALSH.

| hiaue d spceeh Ill Tic mouse OF Representative
on the Nebraska Bill. Mr. Walsh has beer
heard of far and wide, and we print the fol
lowing extracts from the speech referred to
as well because of the various merits as cx
tracts, as to give some idea of the manner O
man Mike is:
Mr.. Walsh took the floor
Several members. Come up the aisle, whcr,
We can hear you.
MIR. Walsh. | do not desire. Mr. Chair
man, 10 leave my scat. as a good many gen.
t!cmon have done, and take my position ur
the aisle. thereby promising good deal, ant
not performing very much Laughter. dc
not wish to raise expectation too high.
Sir, do not need to stand here and make
any speech in yindication of nv course. Tha
is known, not only to tie rtople of my dis
t:.ct, but TO the people Of the whole country
have not been man of idle and empty pro
LESSONS; have been one Of performances anC
every act of my life has proved the sincerity
OF my motives. When was elected to rcn
recent my district in Congress, was asked
for no plrdgcs-no pledges but MY past life
n my present conduct The people of my
district know me- and believe they knew
the worst side of ne before they learned the
other. Laughter
l; was discussed thoroughly and ably by
tloic on tie side Of the question upon which
standby the gentleman from Georgia
weeks and weeks, if not months ago and |
will not attempt to traverse the ground owe,
again, for the purpose Of speaking for my
constituents. Whenever speak for them, |
speak to them. never write out speeches.
never correct one and never care a straw
what Lecomes of them after they have been
made
WI at then was the course Of ihc opponents
OF this bill after it was cxtrica-cd Here We
sat up for thirty-sx hours in parliamentary
'ntcst unprecedented almost in our lcgisla-
tive history.
| do not know but that the physical cndur-
aHce of that contest may have b, en- a very
great tial t. some gentlemen, but 10 one who
h; d gone through the drilling which have,
1t was source ofintintcamuScmont. Laugh
ter. ST., 'hirty-siy hours to a person who
Lad slept i'll engine bunk houses, aid gone
through the ''coic and cake shop" test, Sc, :
ng who could set up the latest and longest, it
was matter Of refreshing amusement: while
saw those who were the loudcst and most
determined to sit it out, stretched out, and
covered up with cloaks and shawls. Laugh
tor
Now, sir, the whole Of that scene was gross
~ mlsrcprcscnt,d, as everything upon this
side of the question has been. As single
illustration Of the gross perversion which has
taken place with regard to it, | will simply
refer to an account of little night scene
Which took place between the grntl,man from
Virginia MIR. Edmundson and the sontle
man from Ohio, Mr.. Cam pbcll, which re-.
minded me very forcihly Of a mold artist cs-
tab!islnmont i'll Canal street, where mtn work
IN stahl, during Tic day and represent the
gods at night. The one is represented by a
Geographic dispatch as rushing down upon
the Other alm,d TO the teeth, like Sampson
Staying the Phlislincs. Why, sir. so far from
carrying knife or pistol, he never carried a
tallor's bcdkin. The other is represented as
standing with his arms thrown behind him in
position similar to that of Ajax ddying Tic
ligh ming. Great Laughter.
Now, ST. hom tie comm, nc,mtnt of this
discussion, What were the an Gals that were
made to gen 'cnen upon onr side Of the cues
ton Were they such as should lie made by
one honorable Ian to another; or were they
the al pas made to a craven dog Z? Appeals
to the fears ofgentcmcn And we have heard
about the trumpct-voicc Of the people. The
people! happen to know something about
the poole: not tic people who have learned
their politics in ivcrled carriages, nor in their
furnished rarlors; but, sir, happen to know
melting about the PEOPLE of thisland in the
posi- ion of cabin boy. ard of deck hand upon
the Mississippi, Of fireman, working bare
headed and bar,footcd. lam in the position
Of man who never had dollar from thu,
earnings of any HI man loing but mystlf l.,
sir, cannot be accused If anGcring of AFRO.
gancc. |, sir, cannot lie Justly accused of
landcring to the slave rowc,. | have never
Il rec times III my life known what it was to
be worth 800. have always been the en-
ployce, and never the employer.
And, sir, this opposition now cone from
the same source. 1t canes from mon whose
object is to reyouti nize the land. know
them-a set of peanut agitators and Peter
Funk philanthropists. RNolutionize Why.
tn tt u'ard of them could not rcvolutionizc
a BARRIERS shop oran oyster box. Loud and
piolongt d laughter. Now, gentleman, this
is no sub,ec; of laughter. LR'n'wtd laugh
This docs rot conflict withwhat 7 have been
saying. My friend who handed me that pa
per, said yesterday that he had not had the
advantages of education which other gentle
men had received. think he is better off in
that respect than am; for never attended
school but three quarters, and then | believe
got turned out once or twice. Laughter. |
a man can be a man of education without be-
ing drilled through college. 1t is far better
to know the men among whom one lives, than
to know of men who have been dead three
thousand years If am deficient in CLASH
cal lore, am pretty well booked up in the
rascality of the age in which we live. Laugh
ter. 1t makes no odds how man gets up
to the roof of a house, whether he climbs by a
ladder or goes up some other way. would
not barter away all the practical knowledge
have received in lumber and ship yards for all
the Latin that was ever spoken in ancient
Rome. had rather speak sense in one plain
and expressive language, than speak nonsense
in fifty.
Sir, Goldsmith, in one of his admirable es-
says, makes Chinaman say to an English
man, that 'you punish vice, but we do more.
We reward virtue" The present Admins
tration, at least in the earlier stages of its
power, seems to have repudiatcd both of these
maxims by bestowing its blandest smiles and
richest favors upon men who had rendered
themselves cminently conspicuous, and infa-
mously conspicuous, rs traitors to the Demo-
cratic party of the Union. ask no favor Of