The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-07

COMRreoS-
Lovejsy and Pryor In tho Ring.
On Thursday the hall of the House of Rep
resentatives was again the theatre of most
disgraceful broil, the recital of which should
cause every good citizen to blush with shame
that the republic could elevate such men as
those who originated it to places of honor and
trust.
From the very full and graphic description
in the reports printed yesterday, it appears
that Mr.. Lovejoy member from Illinois, took
occasion, while the House was in committee,
deliver himself of very violent abolition
harangue, in which the shareholders of the
South were depicted, after the Garrisonian
fashion, as pirates, robbers, man stealers, and
so on. In the course of bis haraDgue Lovejoy
crossed over from the republican to the demo
cratic side of the house, shaking his fist at the
Southern members and proving himself to be
as thorough BLACKBOARD as ever was kicked
out of Five Points grog shop. Not to be
outdone in his speciality, the truculent Pryor
rose, and, departing from his place, ranged him
self in threatening attitude alongside of
Lovejoy. Hereupon number of other mem
bers, pupils in the PryorLovejoy school,
sprung to their feet, and the house was tho
roughly disorganized The more decent of the
members endeavored, but in vain, to preserve
order. After a number of alterations which
came quite close to the point where personal
violence begins, the Chairman of the com.
mittee left the Speakers place, which was
resumed by that fuuctionary, and quiet was
partially restored. Mr.. Sherman announced
that the House was now in order, which re-
mark created some daughter" the whole af
fair being considered doubtless, in the light of
very magnificent joke. The country will
look upon it in quite another light-that it is
an eternal shame and burning disgrace.
1t is not fair, however, to the better portion
of the members of Congress to charge the re-
sponsibility of such outrages upon others
than the riDgleaders and bottle hold
ers. Let us see who and what the
principal combatants are. Lovejoy belongs to
a miserable class of low politicians, representa-
tives of which abound in all the legislative
bodies in the Northern States, and sometimes
get into Congress, very much to the gratifca-
ton of their immediate neighbors. They are
generally briehess lawyers, or broken down
editors, or persons who have failed in some
honest pursuit. and take to politics for living
with the same views as they would have in 60
ing to rob on the highway. Lovejoy himself is
demagogue of the cast iron order. He is
broken down editor, niger stealer and niger
worsbipper. He steals his god before he wor-
ships him-a most economical arrangement.
His attack upon the shareholders was quite
characteristic. He was as we'll aware as
any one else that when he abused
the great landed proprietors of the
South every word that he uttered was
false in its spirit. The gentlemen of whom he
spoke are, as class, refined, cultivated, gen.
erous and far more considerate and humane to
their servants than many of the employers Of
white laborers at the North. All over the
civilized world the name of American
Southerner is synonymous with chivalry, gen.
erosity and good breeding. We are describing
now the STAKEHOLDER, not the poor white man
at the South. 1t is to that class that Lovejoy's
comrade, Pryor, belongs. They are, though
nominally opposed, in fact brothers-in-arms.
Pryor does not own slaves. He is, like Love-
joy, broken down editor and is not con-
sidered in his own State or elsewhere as gen.
tleman. He represents in an eminent degree
the poor white men of the South, and the
meanest of them-the noisy, ruf1ianly, needy
politician. Lovejoy is the type of the niger
worshipper; Pryor is the beau ideal of the
niger driver, distinct from the niger
owner. Lovejoy is republican border
rufian; Pryor occupies similar position on
the other side Neither the member from I'LL
nois nor he from Virginia represent, in any way
the constituencies which, unfortunately for the
good name of the republic and the boosted
civilization of the age, sent them to Wash
iDgton. Their conduct in the affair of Thurs.
day, in which they were the principal actors
Uhe others were merely bottle holders, having
undoubtedly emptied the bottles before they
came to the House,, was what might be expect
ed Of them. To gain notoriety they would
stop at nothing.
We are quite confident that the conservative,
law abiding people in all sections of the coun-
try will unite in severely rebuking the conduct
of the border rufian demagogues, Pryor and
Lovejoy. And we trust that the true repre-
sentative men of the South-the shareholders,
the men who have something at atake in the
country-will treat such enemies as Lovejoy
and such friends as Pryor with the con-
tempt they deserve; and that, South and North,
the feeling of the country will be as it always
has been, from the Sumner affair down to the
ruffianly exhibition of Thursday Zone that
would disgrace Five Points caucus), one of
strong indignation against the men who thus
disgrace the republic in the face of the whole
world This feeling should be so strong as to
compel the more decent of the members to
take very stringent measures to preserve some
semblance of order in the House.