The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-07
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1866.
LARGEST CIRCULATION In THE STATE
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY.
Address by General Rousseau.

Address by General Rousseau.
H1s ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK UPON MR. aRINNBLL.
Major General LOWELL Fl. ROUSSEAU, lately a
representative in Congress from the Fifth District
OF Kentucky, has issued address to his.con-
stituents in relation to his recent affair in Con-
gress. 1t is q somewhat singular production,
written in lively style. The General explains his
difficulty with MIR. GRINNRLL, telling nothing new
except that GRINNELL was physi ally one of the
strongest men of the House. His description of
the assault is laconic
rataned Grinnell. He unresistingly received
the castigation, and rep ateuly said It was call
Tlght, and promptly assured me he did not wish
to hurt me-
General Ga, field appears to have wounded his
was vocierous and fierce and like an actor hired
70 pump up passion, he enorted himself into
rage, and raved through the case"
And thus we SEQ o late soldier, general of
the army, standing on the floor Of the House of
Representatives Of the United States, and at
tempting to influence Its judgment in the trial of
q brother member, by crea ing sensation, and
arousing the passions OF his hearers by an exag-
gerated detail OF CO, temptlble matter that
should never have been heard in that body-an
affair which would hardly have disturbed a tea
"But ali this, as we'll as lis gratuitous derun-
citation Of former brother soldier, was of course
prompted by his friendship fo- mo. Save me
from from al such friends and friendship! On the i'll
sn SSaS2 Of his of the shs as
chusetts, with shiveripg limbs and tremuous
voice, and finely acted artistic emotion, intro
duced a resolution that the young man, victor in
the tremendous tsticuff below, should be arrest
ed, and held for punishment by the House. The
effect of this was dramatic in the extreme; mems
faces paled, and many seemed to think that the
world demanded an instant victim. The resou.
ton was adopted, and the arrest of the pugilist
ordered. This terrible interlqde over, the parti-
san friends OF Griunen grimly but triumphantly
proceeded to the immense work before them"
The General, alter e1coristing General GAR
FIELD, next takes ff General BANKs 1t is, to say
the least, very dramatic
General Banks sat in solemn silence and look
ed on, with a countenance Of gravity and wisdom
ing the magnifcently dramatic effort Of Garfield
to achieve furry caused by the announcer mt
OF fist,fght, but finally after the previous ques-
seconded. arose to take his part in the mighty
affair. His voice, cultivated and attuned to Chat
a76aa OF an ambitious a baritone lacking only the Ita
and monotonous notes, and penetrated every
nook and corner OF the amphitheatred hall, re-
heard by everybody in and about the building
except perhaps by the two chaps engaged in the
sanguinary fist-fght in the basement Of the Capt.
"The General was eloquent, and, like Garfield
and Wilson, ever strong on the stronger side. In
true tragedian style, he informed the House that
TINS was momentous period In our history. The
House did not know, but happened to be in
formed as to what he alluded. I had been told
that TIM ID before the committee he contended that
the Southern representative would soon be- again
In Congress- 1t behooved hi, House to set an ex-
ample and make q precedent in my case, that
would deter them In all time to come from resent
ing any ofences or supposed offences that might
be offered them."
The next scene in the play was the reprimand
itself. He depicts scene of confusion on the
occasion of a general rush for law.breaks and
precedents, and adds:
The erect and energetic Chairman, in his inau-
dible efforts to keep order-hammering away
with his mallet was quite as impotent over the
disturbed crowd as an automatic figure would
have been, or a toy speaker pounding on toy
desk.
''Perhaps the victim might escape! Rousseau.
although censured in fact by the action Of the
House, might, after all the trouble and fuss, get
RID OF the hanging and quartering that were set
prosecutors came there to witness, and which
some of them predicted he would run away from
and avoid. The delight might not be experienced
OF seeing the victim march up with the Sergeant
alarms and be reprimarded, like culprit, at the
Bar of the House. Radical piety could no more
brook to be thus baff1td than could Shylock in the
play, or the good people Of the old days when in
tent on drowning q witch or Burning a heretic
In fact, the scene was not unlike Pope's descrIp-
tion Of an excited spinster
Then flashed the vivid lightning from her eyes.
And And screams Of horror rend tn. afrIshted skies;
NOT louder sbrieks to plying Heaven cast
"hen husbands or when apdogs breathe their last"
To avoid being led up by the sergeant-at-Arms,
the General says that he hastened to tho Bar alone
He concludes as follows:
II have no regret for my conduct in the matter.
l would have chastised Grinnell at every hazard.
ana would do it again tomorrow under similar
circumstances. No man shall ever insult with
impunity, my people or myself and on this issue
lsubmlt the case to your hands,
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