Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-25

COUNTY, MINN.. WEDl
THE LovEJoY AFFA1R.
Cor. Ohio Statssman.
WASHINGTON, April 7.
DEAR Col We had q scene in
the House Yesterday, for the pencil
of Hogarth. It was full of grotesque
comicality. Yet like Hogarth's pic
lures, there was q serious side and a
sad moral in every delmeation. After
the House refused to pass Mr.. Nc
Clerland's bill to eaectually throttle
polygamy by dividing Utah between
the gold territory Of. Jefferson and the
silver Territory of Nevada; after they
had pompously PASSED fxw to allow
Mormons to punish polygainy by
Mormon grand and petit Juries, 1t
was fit that another farce of q low
ey style should end the days drama.
Accordingly Mr.. Sherman proceeds
to accommodate Lovejoy. Lovejoy is
the Abolition leader who wears the
mantle Of Giddings. Sherman moves
to go into the committee Of the whole.
One Of the Washburnes, of Maine,
not bad family either-was called to
the chair, He is the smallest Of the
family but the eldest. He is the
smartest; but he talks so much that
some cali it chatter. Hence his name,
Jocko. Kinder men to distinguish
him from his Brothers call him tone
story Washburne." He gives the
floor to Lovejoy. Lovejoy is full
bodied man. He is not fat but has
em1onpo;st. His neck is bovine; His
voice ditto. Hitherto he has been
led about by Sherman, like a prize
Durham with a ring IN his nose, and a
rope in the ring. Sherman had hold
of the tip end Of the rope during the
contest for speakership. When the
animal got little ugly T; when his
hair seemed to kink little saucier ;
when his nostrils dilated; when little
silver threads of delicate froth hung
pendent from his chops, Sherman
kept his distance at the full length
of the tether. Only once during all
the Philippics on the Helper book and
signers did he below. 1t was a little
noise much like s'baa!"
= Transformed into the Bull Of
Basham, he began his antics in the
Hall. The performances Of relative
Of bis in a China shop, was no cir.
cumstance compared to his in the
Hall. Lovejoy is something of a rhe.
torician. He intended as q Repub.
lican member told me, to get up a
muss. He lacked some personal per.
secution and abuses to make him run
we'll at home. So he took his stand
on the left Of the speaker among the
seats. As he began to reach his eli
max of abuse on slaveholding- -charg-
ing them with being murderers, polyg-
amists and all the rest of the worst o1
crimes and insults after defending
Helper and his worst designs---aftel
gforyfying John Brown and calling
the Democrats devils incarnate, and
piling up many other tit bits of Chris.
; tian and clerical rhetoric, in order to
reach the climax of his theatrical ar.
rangement Of style, manner and mat
ter---he began with upraised arm
clenching and shaking his fist, and
, with many bovine demonstrations o1
; head and coat tail to walk out ot
his place into the arena in front of the
speakers chair. He walked as he
talked. He shook his fist, SIS his poi
sonous spittle few about. Democrat
ic members sat without umbrellas
Over he came within reach of the
Democratic benches--when he was
met with defiant and derisive threats
and cries Of "negro thief,' peuured
william" )" and other delicate reminders
of his original SELF But on came this
electrical bovine, until all the hot blood
of the South, was up. Red flags were
Aourished in thick profasion. Tha,
was what he wanted. He then threw
himself into an attitude, ,~--put his head
back and snuffed several cubic feet OF
hot atmosphere! Pryor, Mcqueen,
Barksdale and Others Of the "sweet
SOUTH" gave him notice, amidst ges.
turing and uproarioes hubbub--.to go
back to his owa side. Members cal.
led on the sergeant alarms. At length
chairman Washburne called on that
officer. 1t was like calling on spir.
it from the vastly deep. He was ab.
sent. His assistant, who looks like
the jolly fat boy in Pickwick, rushed
out with hair on end and with the
mace in hand. The eagle on it, fut.
tered about in utter dismay. The
area was a jam of disorder, noise and
, belligerenee. Kellogg, Of Illinois,
came down and roared in pure sym.
pathy. He did not know what he
was roaring about. Burnett, next in
lungs, but far, far, above in ability
roared in defiance, members put
on overcoats--mysteriously. Literally
inferno was to pay. No lack of ho1
pitch, either to discharge the obliga
Itions. At length Washburne deserted
the chair. Pennington took it. Quie1
: was restoaed. The clerical bully wa.
allowed to go to the clerks stand--
according TO- the rules-to finish his
Z ,Inorfs,rinonco an6 tho houao a6ionrnod