Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-04

Senator 1mpaIed-An EExfrnordinary
Exposition.
On Saturday last the Hon. w. Mungen,
| OF Ohio, addressed the House Of Rcpre-
SSentatlEes on the question of Cuban bel
I1gerency, but before concluding his
speech he asked and Obtained leave to
upilsn hls views In full in che Globe
The speech accordingly appeared in tbc
Globe OF the both inst. La advocating Che
granting OF belligerent rights s'to the
struggling patriots of Cuba, :" Mr.. Mupren
accidentally ''pitched into'' Mr.. Sumner
OF Massachusetts,, and by the severity Of
his criticism has evoked resolution of
censure. which is noticed elsewhere. To
crafty the curiosity Of the public We COPY
from the published report in the Globe
those parts Of Mr.. Munyon's speech
which have produced the Congressional
sensation:
Mr.. Mupgen, in the outset OF his philiD-
&c against MIR. Sumner, charges him with
| manufacturing a stOIy rs an excuse or
apology for his Infamous course against
the Cubans." Further OH, after recurrin@
to the history Of the Hungarian struggle
with Austria, he asserts that 'fthe Senator
was the untiring eulogist and apologist OF
Russian policy and the insidious indus
trlous opponent of the Hungarian cause
r. 1t is natural that tho apoIogist Ct
Russian and Austrian despotism should bo
the defender of Spanish cruelty and tyran-
n.y." Next comes the main count in the
Indictment, which we copy entire:
When we find persons destitute Of physi-
cal and moral manhood, what can we ey-
pect of them? Some Of tho worst tyrantq
In history, despots, leaders OF factions
and religious zealots remorselessIy crushed
and bloodily prosecuted their opponent.
who, when opportunity offered often re
taliated in kind. Yet, in the midst Of their
excuses, deeds OF daring and CLEANS OF
magnanlmlty and mercy threw occasional
light on the sombre acd sanguinary pic
ture. Some unknown hand, it is record
ed, even streW9d flowers upon Nero's grave.
But the rule of unsexed men in the de-
clining periods Of the Roman and Bryan
tine empires, through effete princes, led
to more profound decentralization than
was ever before known. "Ihe influence
OF these beings" says o French writer,
was more fatal than that OF the most
fanatical or ascetic monks" To the latter.
indeed, We're by their VOWS denied the
joys of r1atrimony and the feelings Of
paternity. Yet the instructive aspiration
was in their breasts nd prccluded
from lavishiDg itself on the individual
family it sometimes touchingly expanded
so as to comprise in ita benevolence the
wide family Of the human kind, and to
produce Las Casas or Il Eenelon. In
their worst phase of character the mis-
guided and atlociOus zeal which led them
to doom others to the stake induced these
prosecutors when prosecuted in turn fear
Iessy to face it. The eunuch not only had
no experience Of those feelings, but lie
even had no conception. A sad mons
frosty Of mans creation, lie could not
rise to the level Of human sympathies.-
He was inspired only by the most most
groveling passions, and enYious OF ali
virility, physical and moral, worked out
his insidiOus policy by intrigue and craft.
Not his ever the direct, plain road, but
the tOrtuous, shiny path, the devious ways
Of deceit and perhdy. Not his the tiger
like spring of brute force, the violence OF
massacres and ostentatious executions
frlgldly vindlctlve he craWled pcrsevcr-
ingly but surely to his end, the lifelong
qualification OF envy and misanthropic
spite. His was the ingenious caIumnv,
the private denunuiation the poisoned cup,
the secret strangulatiOn, the noiseles8 iUu-
muremenG in the dungeons depths and
the frightful tOrturings which solaced hi,
malignlty and unforgiving spirit. His
policy, more cruel and more fatal than
that of the violence which inflicted bleed
ing gashes, sometimes to be cicatrized.
upon generation, emasculatod nations
after his own image leaving them and
their posterity hOpelGssly degraded and to
become the prey Of the barbarian. Worse
still, during centuries and down TO orr
own time, this spirit and this unsexed
policy has found inlitators. It Was policy
congenial to all coWardly despotisms
There is only one instance in history
sacred or prOfane, where an Unsexed per,
son was Christian that is the fellow who
went down into the water with Phillip
Again, the malignity Of these unsexed
creatures is historic
! : During the late war the peopIl
had tyrants both in the North ana South.
Il 1t should DO our misfortune ever to have
tyrants again let them be manly tyrants OF
brute force, not those who took their in
3plratiOnS from the eUnuchs Of the Byzan-
Inc empire, which Russia, of whose
policy the Senator is the chief eulogist.
'epresents, and which policy combines the
Drute tyranny Of England over Ireland
With the traditions OF the contemDtible
byzantine empire.
: This pretentious Senator. ..tlso
apostle Of great moral ideas, " imposing Gil
he unwary by attitudinizing superior
,irtue, elevated aspirations. and forensic
Lightly, IS in fact only political mixture
# the characters of PecksniT and Turvcv-
rOp, Of the can't of one and the deDort-
cent of the other.
: Of course all OF these eunuchs
'ere men of "high moral ideas, " and had
4 active and insidious finger in the sec
1rian disputes of Arians and Athanas;ans
nd were successful instigators of the san
uinary prosecutions to which these dis
utes gave rise.
In one of his Washington letters. Mr..
teorge Alfred Townsend says: Senator
bbotts Who lately challenged Senator
prague to fight duel and beat q retreat
ON his own echoes" and els now in the
position asking for q nation
ponce force to keep order in the South -