Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-07
w p-lm N FAYETTEVILLE, TENN THURSDAY, MARCH I 1851

weeks, until Benjamin and Davis
and others LETT, and then be rose to
reply to their speeches. Why did
! he not answer them when they were
or eseut? When honest Jack Pals
taft, having counterfeiied death, rose
and found "gunpoHder Percy lying
near him, be said:
"Why may he not rise as we'll as
II" Therefore, sirfah, with
new wound in thy thigh, come you
falopg with me-" "lf our
father will do me honor. so; il not,
let him kill the mex. Percy himself,
| took to be either earl OF duke, | can
assure you.
Bat he rose here aud denounced
Jefferson Davis as disonicnisi per Sc.
That charge WIS once made against
that gallant soldier. He is absent.
I feel that ! cau speak Of him, be-
cause he is friend, and because ]
know him to be worthy OF the ian-
guags shall use. A man who from
bis youth upqards has followed the
flag Of bis country, and would follow
ii TO death as lcug as it WAS the flag
of his country; that never deserted
it; whose bloodgls shedin its defense;
whose body would hare been wrap.
ned I'M It's broad folds had be died
defending it-that man here de-
nounced as traitor. the ally Of Alb
olitionisis, The coadjutor Of Philips
and Giddings. and men OF that char
acterl The slander was uttered when
Davis vas not here to resent it.
Why, sir, of the four footed beasts, il
lis said that the iaekal preys only
upon The carcisses his royal master
has lett. i belongs to our own spe-
eies 10 feed upon the dead lion him
self. Davis is gone; lie is not here
to resent it. That charge was once
MADE against him. and he answered
iu emphatic language; be answered in
mouosyIlabIes; and it is the answer
ihat would have been made again here
upon this Goor, bid he charge been
made during lis presence. From
whatever source it might have come,
thus be would have answered:
From prince or from peer, or plebsian, from
Highlander from Lowland. from far or from
near
Lord Angus, thou hast lied"
GAppIause in the galleries. No
bosom ever con tanned heart
The Presiding Officer (Mr Foot in
the cbair The Chair takes this
occasion TO announce that on rep
etitiop Of the ofiehse in the galleries
they will be cleared forthwith.
Several Senators. Clear them nou.
Mr. Chandler. move that the
galleries On the right Of th, Chair be
cleared.
The Presiding Officer II islaovec
that ,be Chair direct the Sergeant
alarms to clear the galleries on the
right Of the Chair.
Tho mofion WAS agreed to,
THE "Ngw YORK rRIBUNEs' JOHNSON.
] suppose iba. in the remarks l
have made | shall be treated by
the Republican papers, as usual, WITH
denuneia ion. have spoken plain
!ly; | have spoken what thought
right: what believe to be the sentI-
ment of The section where l live
! see this in the Tribune Of yester-
day:
Andrew johnson, Of Tennessee,
made the strongest anti-seeesslor
speeeh in the Senate to day thai
has been delivered 10 That body
He oyerhauled some of his late po
Iljtical con feaerates, who bad turned
secessionists, with immense tGect.--
He confronted their recent acls ans
arguments With series Of votes OF
the Brown resolutions in favor OF con
pressionaI protection to slavery, gIvel
] last spring in the Senate, ana utterl,
i overwhelmed them by bis exposition
Joe Lane, Of Oregon, who was To-
Senator's candiaate for the Vic
Presidency. was badly smashed. !
is seldom that an argumsniative tfl
umph has been so complete in th
}, Senate.
}, But that is NOT all. The Tribar
bad to notice it tsiee; takestwo bite
, at the cherry. Again, The Tri6u'
. says:
IL aAndrew Johnsou's speech, in an
wsr TO the. attacks made upon hi
t by Democratic SSnator-, vas pc
a lectly scatifyiag. Nothi0g like