Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-01-26
. Dsuoteo TO Constitutional lbertu uuiol, auo tuerp
John G. Davis.

i. f.
: This gentleman begins to feel by this time tina
playing the bully ispretty much the same as payin.
the fool. So universal an expression of condem
nation and contempt has rarclyfollowed the expo
sure of duplicity and meanness The Sullivan
Democrat, Democratic paper, and in Mr.. Davis:
district, says: at seems to be the general impres
sion that our representative goth best of the fight
He called 'em liars and slanderers and such like
and as they submitted quietly without retaliatina
with the same eloquent and refined language, Of
course we must conclude that our distinguished
representative got the best of it - II then saws
that an intimate friend of Mr.. Davis in that county
reported speech for the editor, who was sick and
the report says: "Mr. Davis -esuming, repudiatcd
'he Dred Scott decision except so far as it tdeclares
a negro no citizen" This is pretty direc testimo-
nv. u a,f .,emsl
The Louisville Journal says of him: fll sos
Mr.. Davis of Indiana used "fghtins words the
other day in the House of Representatives He
gave an exhibition OF what be intended should pass
as chlvary, keeping his eye all the time upon his
friends the fre-caters, as much as to say-"Won't
l do, gentlemenr' "Dont you think am one of
you?"a e1 r.--...,s ~. --.
Poor Dvis's chivalry a sorry imitation of tho
genuine article of Southern manufacture.
The Baltimore Patriot savs:
There can be no doubt that Mr.. Miles intended
to nominate Mr. John G. Davis, and that the whole
Administration would have been concentrated up
on him, with the expectation that the whole South
American vote would have followed, together with
all the anti-Lecomptonitesw who have been hitherto
on the fence. But Mr.. Miles failed in "making a
spoon" while Messrs. Porter and Dunn succeeded
most admirabiyin ''spoiling horn" Poor Mr..
j. G. Davis. --f r--t
The Philadelphia Press has very graphic de
scription ofthc scene between him and his col
leagues, which we copy: tl
Then came up John G.. Davis, of Indiana, who
by his speech dragged up phiscolleagues Porter and
Dunn. who both declared they heardhim in Indian
apolis during his canvass denounce the Dred Scott
decision, and deliver eloquent speech, which en-
trely met the approval ofthc Republicans. Indeed,
1t was a Republican speech. Davis, evidently
'rled, denied it by every possible means-denied /
It emphaticay earlessly, furiously, and denounced
those who made the charge that floor as slander-
crs anu utterers OF what was not true. This fell
upon the House with effect and force, and Davis
VAS cheered by the Administration side But
udge-you are a lover of the drama--of the effect
when Mr. Porter, in the coolest manner possible,
put his hand in his pocket and drew therefrom the
Indiana State Sentinel. the Democratic organ of the
State with report of the speech alluded to.
"A perfect hush--then a murmur--thcn mingled
'ries OF 'Read it," "Read it," and 81 Object, 81
,lyect,' while for moment Mr. Davis-announ ,
ing that he was cool, never more so-scemed non ,
'lussed. Quickly regainiDg himself, he denoun- .
ed the editor ofthe State Sentinel as personal {
opponent. After considerable skirmishng the pa /,
er was read, and subsfantiated think, the state
nents made by the other Indiana gentlemen, when :
he House adjourned Mr.. John Cochrane being v
ut too glad to compromise the re ,dng of the pa
er and the personal explanations by Messrs. Por- Il
er and Dunn with the proposition to adjourn imme-
lately after w