The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-01


cULE.-Mr. Boutwell, having said in his
speech that there was in the southern
heavens spot across which no planet or
body of any sort moved, and that the earth
ought to upheave itself and send him to
this desolate region for punishment, Mr..
Evarts thus takes down the other Massa-
chusetts Hedging: @
81 may, as conveniently at this point as
afterwards, pay some attention to the astro-
nomical punishment which the learned and
honorable Manager (Nlr. Boutwell) thinks
should be applied to this novel case Of i'm
parchment. Cicero / think it is who says
that lawyer should know everything, for,
sooner or later, there is no fact in history,
in science, or in human knowledge, that
will not come into play in his argument.
Profoundly sensible of my ignorance, being
| devoted to profession which sharpens and
does not enlarge the mind, [ can admire
without enyying the superior knowledge
eYinced by the honorable Manager. \
But, nevertheless, while some of his col
leagues were paying attention to IN unoccu-
pied and unappropriated island on the
1 s
we'll, more ambitious, had discovered an
untenanted and unappropriated region in
! the skies [laughter], reserved, he would
have us think, in the final councils of the
Almighty, as q place of punishment for
convicted and deposed American Presidents.
[Laughter.l Now, at first thought that
his mind had become SO enlarged, that it
was not sharp enough to observe that the
Constitutions had limited the punishment
laughter; but, on reflection, saw that he
was as legal and logical as he was ambi-
tious and astronomical; for the Constitu-
ton had said removal from Office and
has put no limit to the distance of removal.
TGreat laughter.] So, without. shedding a
. drop of his blood, or taking penny of his
property, or ironing his limbs, he is SEN
fenced to removal from office and transpor-
tation to the skies. [Laughter.] This is
the great undertaking; and if the learned
Manager can only get over the obstacles Of
the laws Of nature, the Constitution won't
stand in his way. [Laughter.] | can think
of no method but that Of o CONFUSION
of the earth that should project the de-
posed President to this infinitely distant
space but q shock of nature of SO
vast an energy and so great. result
might unsettle even the SO firm members Of
Congress. Laughter. How
shall we accomplish it? Why, in the first
place, nobody knows where that space is
but the learned Manager himself Qaughtefl,
and he is the necessary deputy to execute
the Judgment of the court. Let it, then,
be provided that in case of your sentence of
deposition and removal from Office, the hon
orable the astronomical Manager shall
take into his own hands the execution of
. the sentence. With the President made
fast to his broad and strong shoulders, and
having already essayed the flight by imagi-
nation, better prepared to execute it in
Formulating advantage of ladders, as far
as ladders would go, to the top of this high
capitol, and spurning then with his feet
the Goddess of Liberty, let him set out
\ upon his flight laughter, while the
Houses of Congress and 'all the people
of the United States shall shout - Sic
itaw dd astro!' b Laughter, loud and
strikes me. How will the Manager get back
How, when he gets beyond the power of
!. grayitation to restore him, will he get back
And so ambitious wing Us his could never
stoop to a downward flight! No doubt, as
,, he passes through the expanse, that famous
question of Carlyle, by which he points out
the littleness of human affairs, What
thinks Boots of them, as he leads his hunt
ing-dogs over the zenith in their leash Of
sidereal fire p will occur to the Managers,
What, indeed, would B6otes think of this
new constellation [laughter] looming
through space, beyond the power Of Con
gress to ssend for persons and papers Z
[Laughter.] Who shall return, and how de- d!
eide in the contest there begun, in this new
revolution thus established? Who shall de.
eide which is the sun and which is the
moon /? Who shall determine-the only
scientific test-which reflects the hardest
upon the other 2" [Laughter.]
THE RIGHT SPIRIT. The Petersburg IN
des-of yesterday says t4