Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-14
Sam and sambO,


Senate.
A Reverend politician Of IOva, James
Harlan BY name, whom the mysterious pow
or OF Sam in 1855 suddenly transferred from
methodist pulpit TO seat in the Federal
senais---.his transfer being rather inezpli-
cable at the time, as the individual in ques-
tion had never before done any thing to
attract especial attentiOn--has, on the
fourth day Of the present year happily de-
livered himself Of what be called a speech.
In this speech the reverend Senator treats
not Of Sam, his political progenitor, but Of
his rSlative, SAMBo, thus showing an affinity
between the two subsis.ing not only par
italy 10 name, but in reality.
Were this the only noticeable fact how
ever, we would hardly have thought Il worth
our while editorially to refer to it, The
reverend Senator has thought TO approach
this question Of sAmbo or no samto in a
scientific manner, remarkable for the pro-
fundity Of research and clearness and sa-
gacity of reasoning, perfectly astounding
nay, amazing--in an individual whose
claims 10 Humboldian fame had heretofore
been entirely unnoticed.
We desire to be understood that we are in
earnest-as much in earnest as the Rever'
end Senator himself was when he told "ths
Senate and the cOuntryr--as the unchang'
ing phraseology Of our national legislators
will have it-that Professor Agassiz is an
ignoramus, that though the Professor, being
native of Switzerland, may understand
something ajoit the rocks and peaks Of his
own country, he knows nothing at all about
the "Hora and farm" of America, and that
American branch of natr raj science is unt
der the especial fostering care Of the Rever-
end Senator and Of that "gellOrious" indi-
vidual, dsnominated Sam, whom he repre-
sents.
True, the Reverend Mr. Harlan did not
use exactly these very words. He trans
crbed his meaning, and diluted the terse-
ness Of the intended rebuke with that char
acieristic meekness and sAintliness of style
so appropriate to his quOndam clerical posi-
tion. Nevertheless, the analytic reader Of
his speech viii easily perceive that the Rev.
Senator is after the Professor with sharp
stick, as sharp as his numerous quotations
of what Mrs Grundy said, Of what Mrs
Partingson said, what other individuals Of
like distinction said, could make it. indeed
it seems, that as the Professor used the ex-
preston "Bos Americans tho Reverend
Senator took this as a personal allusion to
himself and thought, as a true disciple ol
omnipresent Sam, he had a right to trans
form the known old Latin saying and make
it henceforth read as applicable to himself
and the Professor, "Quod licet bori non Ii
Get Jovi
As we said before, the Rev. Mr.. Harlan
approached the question of Sambo or nc
Sambo in a scientific manner. And he went
at it in good earnest to set all mankind right
about this question. He commenced by as
serting his privilege, as a Senator of the
United States, to legislate for and about
Sambo, and let the crisis come when it may
Now this is courageous, it's spunky, there
is pluck in it, so much so in fact that we
lnOuEuk AeONOEOuN hAhhOoh AhOupopAo VI wv
tering it, And he further asserts, that, If il
be true that a free negro will not work in q
warm climate, that white man cannot
work in warm climate, and tlAt these sta.
Piles. (cOtton, sugar, rice, &c) cannot be
dispensed with by civilized society, why
there is an end to the controversy
We see, from these three extracts, faith
fully reproduced, that the Reverend Senator
''beards the lion in his den.' he is no
satisfied with con6ning his logical and To-
gislative powers to Sambo in the territories
he marches his legions Of "irrepressible'
arguments into the sunny south"-also aI
expression entirely original with the Reve
rend Senator-iears not the proverbial las
situde of his "Gellow citizens of Congo ex
traction--lears not the Oppressive inhuenc
of tropical climate-fears not the coneentra
ted power of statistics-but to keep up tn
controversy, che, with a courage more I
be admired than initiated, "cares nothin
about all that, and with one fell swoop de
molishes all that may oppose the onwar
growth of his evergreen theory What
powerful mani OF course, were he to ad
nit as true what he said would lend th
controversy" would also be an en-
to his self-assumed mission. But he take
boldly the affirmative Of oil the three propo
sitions, and he claims that free negroes wi
work in warm climate, that white me
can work in a warm climate, and that thes
staples, as cotton, rice, sugar, &c, can b
dispensed with by civilized society. Ever
reader must bow with reverential awe be
fore the incOmprehensible sublimity and tn
intellectual grandeur of the Reverend senn
tor.
1t is the me plus nltra' Of mans reason
ing powers, and has not been equalled b
any human being who has ever climbe
the ladder of fame to its topmost round.-
What is the history of the West Indies, Q
Jamaica, of Hayti, to the reverend Sena
tor? What is the experience of ages
what the developments of science, natiOns
economy and Of human progress to him p
Nothing but the merest chat, to be blow
into oblivion by the very breath Ct biz lips
Indtel, Sam of Iowa ought TO erect monu
ment 10 the living representative of hi