The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02

Mr.. EvARTs KNOCKS BINGHAM AND But
LER's HEADS Observation-Disclosures extract
from Mr.. EvART's speech of Thursday. All
these extracts are given, not as part of his
argument, but as his by-play. The argu-
ment is strong, convincing, unanswerable,
conclusive. But he sometimes needed lit
tie recreation. Mr.. EvARTs said:
We have also report in the House of Re-
representatives. of q very brief debate be-
tween two of the most distinguished mem
bers of that body, who can, as well as any
others, for the purpose of this trial, furnish
q standard of what is called by the honora-
BILE Manager propriety of Speech
Mr.. Bingham says: 81 desire to say,
Mr.. Chairman, that it does not become a
gentleman who recorded his vote fifty times
for Jefferson Davis, the arch-traitor in this
rebellion (roars of laughter), as his candi-
date for the presidency of the United States,
to undertake to damage this cause by at
tempting to fasten the imputation either on
my integrity or my honor. repel with
scorn and contempt any utterances of that
sort from any man, whether he be the hero
of fort Fisher not taken, or of Fort Fisher
taken" Continuous laughter].
Mr.. Butler, after some remarks, said !:
But if, during the war, the gentleman from
Ohio did as much as did in that direction,
| shall be glad to recognize that much. But
the only victim of the gentlemans proves
that / know of was an innocent woman
hung upon the scaffold-one Mrs. Surratt !;
and I can sustain the memory of Fort
Fisher if he and his present associates can
sustain him in shedding the blood Of o
woman who was tried by military COM
mission, and convicted without sufficient
evidence, in my judgment"
Mr.. Bingham, with spirit, replied: 81
challenge the gentleman dare him, here
or anywhere, in this tribunal or in any
tribunal, to assert that spoliated or mutt
lated any book. But such charge, with
out one title Of evidence, is only fit to come
from man who lives in bottle and is fed
with spoon. What that refers to I do not
know"
while the court and audience were con-
yulsed with laughter at the expense Of the
two Managers referred to, both those gen.
cerned and uninterested spectators.
Mr.. Evarts, continuing, said: This all
comes within the common law of courtesy,
in the judgment of the House of Represen-
tatiyes. We have attempted to show that
in the Presidents addresses to the people
there was something of irritation, some
thing in the subject, something in the man
ner of the crowd which excused and ex-
planned, if it did not justify. the style of
his speeches and you might suppose that
this interchange Of debate which ! have
just read grew out of some subject which
was irritating, which was in itself savage
and ferocious. But what do you think was
the subject that these honorable gentlemen
were debating upon? Why, it was charity.
A senator: What /?
Mr.. Evarts: Charity question of char
ity to the South. That was the whole sta
pie of the debate" charity which sufereth
oil things, and is kind" laughter
g Charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself; is not pulled up; doth not be-
have itself unseemly seeketh not her own;
is not easily provoked !; thinketh no evil;
rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth; beareth all Things; belieyeth all
things; hopeth all things; endureth all
things. Charity never fails"
But the Apostle adds-what may not be
exactly true in regard to the Managers-
: Tongues may fail. fLaughter.]