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Show Just a Common Blackguard THE speech of Representative Willett, of New York," assailing the President, lost all its force by the nature of the arraignment. The speaker speak-er simply established that he is a natural blackguard black-guard of the vilest oider of police-court billingsgate billings-gate vendor. The House should have stopped sooner than it did, should have stopped him as it would had he been deformed physically and had insisted upon disrobing to show to Congress and the world how hideous was his nakedness, only that a deformed soul is a more fearful thing to contemplate than a deformed body. Whatever he said will not much affect the President, but It showed that the speaker has no conception, of his duty as a Representative, and it was a disgrace to the constituency that elected him their Representative, for above all things, the House of Representatives should be. made up of gentlemen, and the speech of Willett makes clear that he has notitha slightest conception of the constituent attributes of a gentleman. |