New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-26
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book by collecting together all the cases in which
the decorum of our National and State Legislature
has been violated by harsh language and persona
violence. We advise no one, however, TO undertake
such task thoughtlessly, but to consider long anc
carefully what be may have before him and to wha
II may LEAD him. He would probably set out with al
idea that the material out Of which bis book was &c
be made would prove rather abundant, but that with
moderate exercise Of skill In the way Of compression
and condensation be could easily embrace it in q
readable volume of eight hundred or q thousand
pages. Due reflection. or what would be better, a
! little research among the archives at Washington
would quickly disabnse him of this notion and il ht
attempted the job at all after he had fully informed
himself Of its magnitude, he would periodically make
up his mind to devote his life to it, as other great
men have devoted their lives to other great undertake
iDgs. Col. Benton's Thirty Years View and conden
sation Of Congressional Debates, and Baron BIacau
lays mammoth History of England, would be mere
thumb-papers compared to such a work, when com
pleted in all its particulars, with all embellishments
Of notes, references, explanations, moral comments
etc., etc.
We can fancy before us the ponderous volumes OF
such work, by the side of which websters massive
tome is dwarfed to a ridiculous ttleness. We behold
set forth the long array Of kicks cuffs canings blows
" from the shoulder wrestling matches, and other
delightful exercises peculiar to the prize ring and to
American Legislatures. And fancying the book
completed up the present time We read in its last
pages the story of the late dsgraceful melee on the
floor OF the House Of Representatives in Washington,
and the following account Of later affair Of the kind
in the Tennessee Legislature. 1t is taken from the
Nashville Union of the l6th
Mr.. Walker, QAterruptng) called the Senator TO
order. He had arisen to a point of ord r, but in
stead Of stating his point was giving the history of
the bill. tH
Mr.. Whitthome- That shows how little the Sena
tor knows about IL.
VIZ. Walker lin bis seat.) You were drunk all the
morning, and suppose you think am also.
Mr.. Whitthorne--It Is Cd d-n lie.
Mr.. Walker, who was seated Immediately in front
Of Mr. Whitthorne, took hold of book upon his desk,
and rising, with somewhat of backhanded stroke,
struck Mr. Whitthorne with the book In the face,
saying be would take the lie from nobody. They i'm
mediately clinched but were speedily separated and
business proceeded.
The future historian of legislative combats WILL If
he be on impartial writer, find himself in trouble
when he comes to narrate the circumstances of the
affair between Kett and Grow. He viii of course
seek for his data in the newspapers Of the day in
such records official reporters may choose to leave
of the occurrence Now every letter writer in Wash
ineton has given his own version and the poles are
not more opposite than these epistolary statements
in the North and in the South. While the Kett
men ayow that their champion took the impudent
Grow by the throat and choked him into lamblke
meekness the Black Republican scribes swear, and
stouty stick to it. that the heretofore peaceabe
yea, Quaker like Grow, displayed extraordinary pu-
gistic science, and with one tremendous blow
stretched the niger driving" Carolinan prone
upon the floor A correspondent Of the Albany
Evening Journal an Abolition paper strings the
story out a column long, and makes it general con-
Aict between the Black Republicans and the South
en MEMBERS in which the latter were sorely discom-
fitted and in which Keitt, Barksdale of Mississippi
Bocock Of Virginia, and Others of the South are
as having been terribly punished or
badly frightened. Potter, the two Washburnes,
"Parson Lovejoy,n "Quaker Mott, >
and other Northern members, are painted in a most
heroic light, and represented performing eats Of
extraordinary daring and prowess in rescuing the
immortal Grow, who it is stated a. was seized by
half dozen Southernersr This yeracious ehroni-
rler concludes bis story with the following choice
Some hands were laid on knives and pistols. But,
Colt in his pocket, anticipating a bloody ISSUE
mounted chair, so that he could to do good ser
vice without hitting his friends. A Republican re-
porter in the gallery, who happened to find long
knife In his pocket, tried to climb down upon the
floor; but finding this van he proposed to drop his
knife down, whena friend suggested that it might fall
into the hands OF his enemies whereupon he laid
down his knife and took up his pen.
The lips OF the many AntiLecomptonites were
compressed, and the responsive Yea or Nay, during
The remaining hours Of the night was Kissed through
some teeth rather than uttered from the mouth. Ii
The mortal struggle which at moment was antci.
lated, had commenced, and blood had been she'd the
Anti accompanies would have made clean sweep
1f the Hall. All concerned may know that these
gentlemen are in no frame of mind to submit quietly
10 insult
The South is cowed. know what say-cowed.
The promptness with which Grow knocked Keitt
Town in the very midst Of the Southern side Of the
chamber and the alacrity and fire with which some
itty Republicans bounded across the hall TO Join the
trugge, appalled, the shareholders. Father Giddings
aid to-day, have sat in this House twenty years,
Ind never saw the slave power so completely hafhed
Ind cowed as during this fifteen hours contest"
The contemplate fellow who penned the above,
md the Abolition miscreant who published itwould,
PROFESSIONALLY, use their legs with wonderful readi.
ness and aacry to get away from well deserved pun
shment, and would howl Justify on receiving it.
When miserable poltroon receives a merited casti-
CATION he is sure to speak of afterwards as an affair
which did him infinite credit
The accounts given by letter writers for the South.
ern press none Of them that we have seen ridcn
ous and nonsensical like the one above alluded to
but they of course directly contradict the Northern
statement, and therefore, have said, the impair
al historian will be sorely puzzled to determine who
came off second best in the Armsgeddon Of the
Thirty Fifth Congress.