The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-04-05
The Constitutions Amendment.
From the Globe Of March 10th.

From the Globe OF March 10th.
I wish to call attention to the speech
that under The head Of argument was
made by the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts,. On this subject think
he has occupied about eight or nine
hours OF the time Of the Senate, and on
the last occasion, while saying that prin
ciples were to be considered, he has I'M
dertaken to designate the character of
this proposed amendment. i have all
ready stated who the men were who are
in favor of it. What does the Senator
call =, have chosen a few, and but a
few flowers Of rhetoric from the speech
of the honorable Senator: ''Compro
mise of human rights violating the
national faith, z'dishonoring the name
of the republic" ''bad mutton new
muscipular abortion" "a new anathema
maranatha," determination" paragon
and masterpiece of ingratitude,' ''abor-
tive for all good shocking to the NOR
al sense" ..the very Koh moor of black
ness" essential uncleanliness, .'dis
gushing ordure," 'loathsome stencil,
and the men who support it, if they pass
it, will be "Harpies," ''Pontius Plate
with Judas Iscariot on his back" l
think / cannot do better than read few
extracts from the honorable Senator's
speech.
'Looking at this compromise in its
most general aspect, it reminds me, if
you will pardon the illustration, of that
leg OF mutton, served for dinner on the
road from London TO Oxford, which DIR.
johnson, with characteristic energy, de
scribed cas- bad as bad could be, ill fed,
i'll killed, ill-kept, and addressed So
this compromised adopt the saying of
an eminent friend, who insists that it
cannot be called an amendment" but
rather ''detriment'' to the Constitution
is as bad as bad can be; and even for
its avowed purpose it is uncertain, loose,
cracked and rickety"
Again:
Regarding it as a proposition from
Congress to meet the unparalleled ext
gences of the present hour, it is no bet
ter than the "muscipular abortion sent
into the world by the 'sparturicnt noun
tain.
This is specimen Of composition that
very few of US would attempt Again
adopt this proposition, and you will
be little better than the foul Harpies who
defiled the feast that was spread. The
Constitution is the feas. spread for our
country, and you are now hurrying to
drop into its text political obscenity,
and to spread on its page disgusting
ordure
"Deflng all you find,
And parting leave = loathsome stencil behind. :"
And what do you think the honorable
gentleman calls this He says:
If use plain language, it is because
the occasion requires it."
Plain language. Again
1T was no such thing. 1t was COM
promise; and such is the precise charac-
ter of the present proposition, which, by
its very words, is plain license to o
disgusting tyranny in consideration that
the tyrants pay in political power. The
primary element in the case, which
stands out in darkness visible, is the
license; the secondary element is the
pay. Here is nothing less than n mighty
house of ill fame, which it is proposed
to license constitutionally for political
consideration"
will quote no more of these flowers
OF rhetoric. The application of these
phrases and epithets to q proposition
coming from a committee of the Sena-
tors own political friends, and most of
them his personal friends, one of them
certainly his very intimate friend and
colleague, passed by more than two
thirds of the House of Representatives,
among whom were the greater number
Of his colleagues in that House, support
ed by large majority of this Senate,
among whom is his colleague, who sits
by my side, not applied in the heat of
debate, but prepared in the closet, print
ed, the proof corrected and brought in
here to be retailed before the country up
on the men with whom he is associated,
is a matter the propriety of which must
be left to himself to Judge. l only al
Jude to the fact that such is the attack
made upon this body and upon the House
Of Representatives.