Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-08-12

slavery physical and moral impossibility.
To this, MIR. Maun, in his speech in the
House against the compromises and in re-
ply to Mr.. Webster's speech, said, that it
was undertaking TO settle by mountains
and rivers and not by the ten command
ments the question OF public duty--cease
to transcribe upon the statute book whatuour
wsest and best men believed to oe the will
OF God in regard TO our worldly affairs
and the passions which we think appropri-
ate to devils will soon take possession of
society,"" This Mr.. Webster regarded as
a total perversion of the meaning of his
remark, and spoke of Mr.. Mann with great
severity.
Mr.. Mann in his speech had also paid
his respects 10 Gen. Cass, and Mr.. Cass
had followed Mr.. Webster in some caustic
remarks on the Massachusetts representa-
tive, in The course of which he let off a pun
on Mr. Manp's name, which caused him
on a subsequent day to return the compli-
ment with interest. He commented upon
the Generals in four points of view-lst.
Phlologically; I'd. Numerically Sd. Chem
ically; 4th. Gastronomically. We trans
cribe the two first. "Small odds twixt
tweedledum and tweedledee. And Cass
means much the same without the G. This
Ass is very big then call him Cass. c.
Roman for l00-a hundred times an ass.
Many friends of Mr.. Mann questioned the
good taste of these lines, but he had been
first assailed, and he was one who always
gave Roland for an Oliver"
In the Drayton trial, which occurred at
Washington, December, 1913, Mr.. Mann.
who was counsel for the slaves, made the
point that the servitude of the negroes
ought to be proved by something else than
the claim of the master; apd likened il to
the case of am Indictment for stealing foxes
which held by nature must he shown to
have been caught and subjected. While
he was exercising this illustration, MIR Dis
trict Attorney Key, the same who was shot
last February by Daniel f. Sickles wrote
the following squib and handed it over to
the opposite counsel:
To Illustrate the point he's making:
In larceny, there must he taking
fox. he says, cannot be stolen,
Re he young, or be an old un;
Pursuing hounds, he's mistaken,
At eas so far as 10 the taking
1 1t was not long before the following bit
ter rctort by Mr., Mann was written on the
back of the same paper, which was left on
the table for the consideration OF tie Dis
trict Attorney. The allusion To ''ten dol
lars bill" regards the fee advice Mr.. Key
received on each of the three hundred and
/ forty-five indictments which he caused 10 be
i filed against the prisoners of the Pearl:
Fox-huntng abroad, and save-hunting in doors
4 beg leave 20 suggest do not ali-fours
Foxes do not eat ioxes-hrute natures haze bounds,
But MIR. District Attorney, out-houndng the hounds
Hunts men, women and children, his pockets to III,
On three hundred indictments at ten dolars bill
! There is much that conld be said to H.
4 lustrate the peculiar character OF The illus.
trious dead He loved to do good. lie
devoted his life to the Improvement of his
race. But his greatest glory is connected
with the Public Schools of his native State
4 There was something noble in his breaking
off his social and friendly relations in Mas
sacbusetts, giving up his seat in Congress
and foregoing a long and honored career
to exile himself to the West to take charge
Of new and untried experiment, and es.
\ lablishing new collegiate institution il
Ohio. There was no political office in this
State which he could not have reached
\ ct he gave up all, when near his sixtietl
year, to form new relations and assume new
duties in the West. How well he per
formed his trust the people Of Ohio know
He saw the College at Antioch assume /
prominence as an educational institution
second TO few in the Unit States. TIL,
institution has become free OF debt, and q
bright and glorious prospect is before ii.
At this moment the honored head of the
institute n has been summoned from among
the living and by the side Of the grave,
and beneath the old forest trees Of The
West, Horace Mann sleeps the sleep .ha
knows no waking,