, 1863-02-12

prisoners! Do you suppose you can exchange
white Southern prisoner for one? No,
your niggers will get shot down and you will
have no redress.
All this with scor,1ful and dtsdainfnl mir,
that would be most provoking if it were not
most ludicrous. Put him on stump before
d crowd Of the faithfal, and 1t would have
been capital speech for stimulating their
Congress of the nation 1t Is simply laughable.
The old gentleman tcs LIZ refuses all efforts
to ask questions OF make explanations. tsYou
kept me up too late last night to answer
yonr questions this morning" The grabbed
refusal is worth remembering as we go along.
Mr.. LoyEJoY's REJoGDER.
Like an ancient aud venerable bull when q
red rag Is thrust before his eyes, Mr. Wick
life always commences paving and believing
to do the latter gentleman full credit, be isn't
very far behind Each serves as the rcd rag
to stir the other up. loyejoy never says any
thing WicklifIe don't feel called upon to an
swcr; Wicklife never gets of ono Of his
offensive, arrogant speeches without being
broad grin with which Loyejoy Invariably rises
to poke fun land pinsl into HIM.
To-day, MS always, Mr. Lovejoy is true to
the rule. He is on his legs and claiming the
floor, almost before Mr. Wicklife's closing
sentence has been uttered Everybody
He begins, gradually, mcasuredly, in de-
nouncing the fictious opposition to this
bill. Pretty soon Mr.. Wick1itfa gets blow,
and the very first one brings him to his feet,
begging permission to interrupt The gen
t1eman from Kentucky has been consistent as
we'll Us persistent, for from the first outbreak
Of this rebellion every note aud speech Of his
has proclaimed that he would r.ther see the
Union perish than slavery injured.
The first cut has brought blood. Mr.
Wicklif1c roars out something in response in
accents SO cnragcd rs to show that the words
reached the quick Loyejoy instantly re-
torts, "Wiu the gentleman say now, il one
must necessarily be lost to save the other,
which would he saye, slavery or the Unlon:''
Wickli1e, Instead Of answering, tries to par
r. the thrust, BY asking question OF his own,
to which Loye5oy promptly hurls back az ,@ an
makes no reply. -.
Soon Lovejoy touches on Wlckliffe's con-
temptuous way Of speaking of Hunter and
Butler, and his courteous allusion to the trail
tor TwiVggs; and coolly adds. "Qh sir! I fsl.
House and galleries {by this time crowded)
unusual vigo1, exclaims, tsT6e gentleman win
ALLOW me '::No, SIR SAYS Loyetoy with
oP 5ted r3ess soae ef ns
country knows yon. and it Knows nc tooi''
ayes, limits true, thank God for it,' returns
Loyejoy in his blandest tones and with his
most provoking smile
In u moment he has touched the raw again.
The gentleman has said that the command of
| negroes has demoraliZed Butler. lfso short
| contact has had such serious effect, what must
| be the result Of lifelong command Of a
plantation Of them? Another question.
When Robert Small look a rebel vessel out Of
received that Southern property from the
| LANDS OF that - runaway niggcr:'' "Just as
| soon as would receive any thing from you''
spits out the ancient gentleman with Ids most
offensive emphasis. . There's another Illus
tra,ion,'' philosophica1ly remarks Loyejoy,
on natural history, and found the gentleman
from Kentucky an interesting specimen,
"thcre@s another Illustration Of the degrada-
tion. this thing. works!" And tue roars Of
laughter seem Like SO mnny nctt1es in the
uneasy seat Of The irate defender Of slavery.
But" continues Loyejoy, "it would be
| really pleasant to hare an answer. Would
| the gentleman hare sent back that runaway
slave to his masters'
s'1'lI answer no more Of your questions"
roars Wicklif1e, like sulky schoolboy.
"TLe gentleman from Kentucky shows
| tions than he has manifested on any occasion
since be has been member of Congress !"
Aud again the laugh Is against the testy Ken
tuekian.
Pretty soon Loyejoy is at him again. "The
gentleman sneers at the mid Of these sambos.
1would like to see some of these Democrats
out in the stream, sinking for the third time,
and black man on shore throwing a rope to
linn. I would like to sec the Democrat that
would push it away!" "And,' he tartly adds,
as ehuckling OYER the decided point subsidss,
wouldn't be doing half as good service as ifhc
were shooting rebc1s!''
The ponderons frame OF the baughty old
gentleman from Kentucky quiyers with rage,
and the grabbed wrinkles Of his face work re-
t but he teenn the game himself, and he can't
! complain if le is beaten in playing it.
The impcrturbable radical" continues:
"Wouid / arm negroesy Az, sir, not only
| would arm negroes, but I would arm mules
and, and make q then them ;, shooting machines to kill
| He Is Interrupted from another quarter. A
portly 1ndianian, in the back part Of the hall,
Of commanding presence, and fine, thinking
face, to whom Wlcklihe had refused permis-
sion to speak, would like to make few re-
marks rig ght here. "Certainly, the gentleman
can have ten minutes Of my time, :" and with
a courteous wave of the hand, the radical Dir.
Loyeloy yields the floor to the conservative
Mr.. Dunn.
I'VE have already published the capital and
telling speech Of A1r. Dunn.
He drives the last bolt home with blow
that resounds in applause through the
chamber and galleries, and with courteous
thanks OF lie gentleman from Illinois, resumes
bis seat- IL has spoken Int ten minutes, but
he has covered the whole ground, and made
the best speech Of the debate. -
The gratiied Republicans th5ong around
him to grasp his hand and tender their con:
gra,ulat1ons. "That was glorious, Dunn
Tou couldn't have done better III whole
afternoon, Dunn"
a general turning Of smln,ng mee5 e. to~asa eT a',a
each other oyer the Republican side OF the
Hall, a general han.wn1speslng eHeaangs o.
Mas " eaRta, mnsh hiotr ana fro,n n y the
rIrht auartcF:" and the members turn again
ID hear the witty Illinoisian conclude 1,aYfns
lis respects to III. Wicklif1e.
The tirst blow "gcts home" again on the
sorelv bclabored Kentucky Comprehend. ~
wanted to ask the gentleman another qucs-
ton, but 1 hare worse luck with him than
Balaam had with the dumb animal he be-
stroden Wick]if1e's facc works savagely,
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