Daily gazette and comet., 1860-04-27

joys brutal speech in Congress are
from that just, conservative and im-
partial Northern journal, the Boston
Cour,sr. They are emiuently truth
full
We have read with great disgust
the speech. delivered by Mr.. Lovejoy,
of Illinois, In the House of Represen.
tatives, April 9th, on the wearisome
and intermipnble slavery question. -
Disgust itself, however, is an emotion
that has distinctions and degrees.
There is an active disgust aud a pas
sive disgust: quick disgust and a
dead disgust: a disgust that stirs aud
a disgust that paralyzes. The dis
gust that Mr.. Lovejoy inspires, is Of
the latter kind; for his speech is as
stupid as it is brutal. Mr.. Lovejoy
is first blockhead and then a ruffiau.
Reading his speach Is like sitting
through play which is so bitter bad
that the desire to yawp and the desire
to hiss keep up an ''irrepressible con-
flict' 10 the muscles of ones face.
The staple consists Of the dreary, jaw.
dislocation trash--the inane common
places-the obvious moral truisms-
the sentimental half trutbs-wbicb
form the basis Of pretty much every
snti-slsvery speech it was ever our
bad fortune TO read embelished with
fustan defamation and tawdry rhet-
orio, such as IL would be an insult
to any sophomore to call sopbomoric
There is in the whole speech not one
token or sign Of the statesman no
recognition Of the essential difficult
ties of the question no intimation of
and practical solution Of the tremen.
dous problems involved in the subject
Of slavery; there is no knowledge, no
grasp, no moral thougutfulness il il,
in short, from beginning to end, an
eructatiep Of bad manners, bad taste
and bad temper.
And Mr.. Lovejoy's purpose and
aim in making the speech were as
bad as the speech itself. lie had no
other intent than that to exasperate
and ipAsme the Southern members,
to arouse their evil passions, to pro-
yoke i'll blood, to SOW strife between
the North and the South. And in
this Christian, humane and patriotic
object he appears, naturally enough,
to have succeeded. In the course Of
his speech he was constantly inter.
rupted and the interruptions were
expressed In language as intempera,e
and offensive as his own; and by the
time he had got through, the ball of
the House of Representatives was the
scene of passions not higher in dignity
and decorum than those awakened BY
drunken brawl in grogshop or q
brothel.
Are not snch things humiliating7
Are they not degrading 7 Shall
we never live TO see the end of
themi viii the North never cease
to seud TO Washington such shal.
low, vulgar brawlers as Mr.. Love
joy ? Will the South never learn
the true way of dealing with them,
in case they should be sept9 These
men would be nothing, if tho South
would but lay aside their uuwise
sensitiveness and irascibility. All
their prosperity lies In the storm
of recrimination they awaken. AS
sail them with silent contempt.
and they will go out like q tallow
candle did in an exhausted receiver.
~ There never was more gamb-
ling in Paris than there is now
Every winter it increases more and
more. As an instance of this fever.
l may mention speculation of
some exchange-brokers on the Bou.
levard. The Credit Fancicr, to stim-
ulate speculation in its shares, peri
odically draws lottery for the
benefit of its shareholders. Some
of the prizes are valuable, aud they
range from 800, 900 to $50. The ex-
change. brokers above mentioned,
advertised in the newspapers that
they would sell their shares Of 50Of
at four francs premium, and encour-
aged the public to take the chances.
Every body who had money to
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