Show description of the tha affray iii in the honse house of of ite its bev bey T ip I 1 i f fot jot the K euing eding jom pill pai pili c washington feb 6 1858 you rou tou bi have bave e ren rec received elved the details of the great Le lecompton compton fht fight iii in the twe house last wi higbe and the episodic ai at collision between grow of 61 pa arld and keitt os I 1 C Q to prevent a vote on harris mot motion on to refer the Le compton message to a select committee the pro slavery bide side af fabe the chamber commenced 11 asit as it is called i e calling the she th yeas and nays on all sorts of questions chiefly on adjournment the house kept its Us temper pretty well under the wearisome process till past midnight did you ever see lawrence al keitt did dit you xou ou ever watch him when parading the hall his is bead thrown back with the conceited air of a london cockney his aasc lascivious 1 ivious eye starl et aring nr brazenly at the ladies gallery his thrust out elbows seesawing see sawing like ilke 4 dancing neing jacks under a vigorous vigorous pulling putting of the string and daintily brezin treading the floor much as an a peacock macock with wide spread would do if suddenly stricken strick en with the spring bait wait keitt must have been a dri driver veril veryl ere ero he came to congress his vulgar swagger authoritative shake of 0 the head and whip ilke like jerk of the arm as he marches up and down the aisles on the democratic side of the chamber crying out to his party colleagues i in n sharp tones stand up go through the tel tei teller leral sl S sit it dowal dont vote vote no all indicate abathe that he has officiated as as a whipper in of abang a gang of slaves on a cotton or rice plantation last night during the ibe tiresome proceedings keitt was unusually ostentatious and noisy noisy nolby strutting 0 around arguna the area in front of the chair talking balkind and alid laughing loudly black guarding members and regulating things generally till he made himself so offensive that the speaker with marked emphasis repeatedly pronounced his trivial motions out of order while not a few far gentlemen in the galleries longed for the privilege of leaping on the floor and taking the conceit out of the gab gobbling bling popinjay below belove about half balf past one grow crossed over to the democratic side of or the chamber to confer with hickman douglass democrat of pennsylvania gyl gyi vania vanla having angshed finished his conference grow was passing down the side aide aisle to the ar area e a on bis his way back to his seat just then gen quitman asked unanimous consent to sub mit a motion out of order grow according to ta his usual custom objected saying gil 1 I object mr dir speaker ker let ils lis jis its go in the regu regular ar on order onier ier ter keitt who b 0 was sitting two 0 or three desks from fromi the th e aisle we whre where airow 13 row wab was pat pai passing said fo t grow ina the most insolent anner mannen darrin damn you go oyer over ayour ty oun our ov own side if it you want t chave no business here any way grow re replied iel led in an ail ofrinia n 1 l 1 abne abin e i i this is la 84 a free tree hallran 11 a malhas a r right i g h t t to a be b b re ihie ibie pleases in it still continuing to valk slowly down the aisle keitt rashed to theanea th earea and round faced up the tho aisle juat a t as G grow roli rolv reached leached the bottom of it wiza with a swagger geitt keitt patt said to asrow grow what do you mean by the thir answer you gave me grow groo coolly replied H I 1 mean andru just t what I 1 said that wa this isa iba is iba laa a free pall pali all ali andi andl if marl mari man has a right alight tobe tae to be where there he be leases inu in ink U it keitt ugilt teach leach E yuu you 11 and seized grow by the tha throat grow knocked away his hand stepp stepped iback back a foot or I 1 s go or and itea steadily dily dlly eyed hilno him keitt addressed hin bin in in intense anger saying baying ill let vou you know voit oi dalti damand d black republican hiippi puppy 1 I grow eow low ow retorted with emphasis 1 I have a r night right in 0 be what I 1 please hundlo be where cherre I 1 T please this hall aldno driver can come from ns is plantation and crack his bis whip 0 over oger r moe toe ither You youart iare lare not the regulator tt of this fail lail instantly Inet antly keitt again again seized grow by be he throat throaty and grow as quickly kno knocked wed AS is hand with bib bis left arm which slewed keitt ebitt artly round and at the same time de dealt ailt lit git him t L heavy blow with his right fist ahil which cir clr bit eitt just behind the left ear keitt fellas isif struck with anabe an axe As A helas he was i oln bing oin down grow gavel gave him lim tim an emphatic shove e tween the shoulders ch caused caused him to I 1 inke frike headforemost with his big heels beels upwards les resenting enting to the galleries he appearance of a i lan aan an trying to plu piu plunge ige ime through the floor of the louse into the za vaults bl beneath ennath A hundred ed accounts of this affair have gone mt the above abda i I 1 ave k seon neon on the very best bt author i ty y the slaveholding version of keitts fall 0 ith athe dripped inep ed and fell he waa knocked awn own by grow grom land and now the th e puce became ger general gerneral lerAl teral As keitt raitt eitt fell feil grow was seized by half a dozen southerners outher ners among whom was of they asbert assert that their sole object ras rab to stop the hig fig haht ht some believe them but blit the twinkling of an edep from forty too t fifty republicans calne came dashing across he hall bal to the llene liene dene of the encounter tied tieS headed deok deOL by joha john F pot r rot 01 wi who ibo leapt leant ovir over oven into the midat if f the night right b by tiie the side aide of grow lound jound of a tiger and arid commenced hitting right b iad ind left amo othe the pa patriarch tri trl arch great vigor lot I 1 fot ot exactly appreciating the pacific nature of demonstration potter potier gave him wo ro or three ll settlers 11 which aich bark BarA barksdale barnsdale sdale eddle in he lie pell going on around him H supposed lip tip posea posed tere fere we deale dealt by filihi chuu t wash washburne burney burner who just then I 1 appended to bd hover ingin that dicinit i whereon apon patria patriarch ch barksdale Bark sdale adale set himself in in hostile irray rray tray iga against dinst puritan el elihu ellhu h u just at this thia ji juncture rie ric ile re the maag of belll belligerents rants and arid peacemakers peace makers were r e crowding between between barksdale and potter te the latter tatter in the lne meantime having seiz selz seized e d I 1 the he merby tor lor or the hair which by the oy by proved bot not tobe ahe he bona bow pule fide hair of the said barksdale but a wig which the said potter had bad torn t aff T and for the time bein being converted to his art usg usi cadwallader C Wash bume of wis con ton cokalo siti alti these Wash burnes are all 1 bloods 11 teeing the bald baid Barksdale bark Baik sdale in conflict conni conui ct with his brother elihli elihu ellhu felt his hia hi paternal spirit stirred within him and ruling upon Bark barksdale barkasdale adale brot down eown one or two blows on the top his head hedd where there the wool ought ough r t to grow 11 what at became of keitt after grow set the w of gravity in motion upon himy him nobody beema items able abie ablerto to tell teil tel tei except keitt himself and he lie wont the first that was seen of him after his hia headlong plunge he be wis was sitting silting on a silfa ofa in a safe corner of the hali hall pale and anghag haggard looking like a rooster no position disposition to po go in and renew the fight S at this time the speaker was calling loudly ta 0 o order rapping tapping incessantly with his gavel nd sho shouting u ting for the ser sergeant emit at af arms this s coll osal functionary seized the mace which looks lidean like jike an indian war club with a small metallic eagle perched thereon and rushed the tha struggling surging tossing members potter cotter seeing a big by fellow with 4 bludgeon joining in the melee metee was about to wrench it out ai of hia his hands bands when the abrill shrill voice of the i speaker speaker 1 col orr has a voice like a steam whistle his tle tie urging on oil the sergeant suggested that the individual might be Glosa brenner where tipon tiron he struck out in another direction potter is la an athletic withy man at home lna ina in a muss W he got one ortho or two hard hits himself which he promptly repaid on the spot and it II 11 believed beli bell believed ever evey that tte the chivalry will avill give him a wide berth durin during 0 the remainder of the session in the thickest of the fight was seen parson lovejoy and quaker mott molt ging to keep tha the lb peace though there was a lurking sance dance in Love loys joys eye which tended to tp prove that on due provola provocation ti to I 1 1 he would like him film of old try iry his bis hand at hewing again C pieces before the thi lord As evidence of 0 the spirit which pervaded ilie tiie hie free men in the tm hall I 1 will relate a scene which is said scald to have occurred between montgomery of pa and bog Boe bocock ock of va their peats deats adjoin and are near the spot of the en counter io lo unter ivi montgomery is a douglas democrat an hn able lawyer ard a guiet quiet gentlemanly per mn ion bocock 1 13 a a good b hearted carted fell feil fellow ow but b be e the blood of the virginia F F P a s cou coursing esing Ms veins As barksdale Barks dae seized grow montgomery lomery started towards the aisle bocock seiz selz td him by the arm turning fiercely upon him lal ial i al ia is a very large man he be r said sald aid said ici to B yow you nay aay fill the blank biank with with a most mast fhi fit intense tense phrase M let et RO go my arm alln or 1211 irli knock you townie towal I bocock abstained elsome some hands bands were laid on oi knives and pistols but nono none were drawn one republican mem lr r with a colt in hla hia pocket anticipating a mood tood loody issue mounted ae a hair chair so that be could iba lea to 0 do good service without bitting his itri a I 1 reporter in thega I 1 iker to fiad a long knife knific in bla lis li foco poco pock a 4 iv upon pi ef looi d ting ring ibi g thib thia he to drop hta knife down aown When a friend agg suggested a tha th it jula might ht fall into the bands hands of hib his ene enemies niles whereupon he laid wd laidlow dawg dow 1110 hi knife and adl took up his pento aebi mail detail all this takes take s some som sometime etim time e and nd yet the fhe whole occupied only three or four minutes after it was waa over a feeling that a great danger had haa been beell shunned and barely shunned gave aa a to thoughtful thou hatful faces face s when aberi all had ba d pass pabs pa ss edthe 1 aker who had borne ili lii himself firmly firel y through the wild scene was pale aid ald nervous T the ilg ily lips of lii iii many any anu ahti were coiner compressed haedl ans and and the responsive yea or r nay pay duding during the remaining hours of the night was hissed through 4 acme teeth rather than uttered from the mouth if the i mortal etra struggle le which atone moment waa was anticipated 1 h had ad commenced kand tand d blood had been shed the ariti L would have made a clean sweep of the hu uail all concerned may know tb that at these gentlemen dr are wre in no frame of 0 mind min d to submit quietly to insult the south Is cowed 7 I 1 know what at I 1 say cowed the promptness with which grow knocked keitt down in iti lh the i very midst pc pt the southern side of the chamber chambe r and andice she the alacrity andoire and fire with which some fifty republicans i bounded lioun ded across the baleto ball hall to join the struggle appalled ip palled the siave slave holders father GO aing ding 0 said today to day 1 I have sit sat irimia in thia house twenty years and I 1 never baw saw the I 1 slav slave e p power powen ower BO so completely bama baff baffled aad idd and this fifteen hours contest this is 14 the first time the hew bew new republican members have been undene fire jire this se season lson ison they stood to thein their guns guna without flinch mg all the new york republicans were present except murray and Matt matteson eson eaon kelsey keisey and Thoin thompson pon were very sick bick and were obliged to leave lease the I 1 hall early in the evening but they paired off 0 ff the leco lec mp admit that the proceedings ings of last night might damaged them thern seriously bly aly the T hypocritical h y ta the other othet end of the avenue with his hib white alte arvit cravat and white liver his bis bi head a crooch and ad his bis heart awry I 1 is very mich disturb disturbed pd about the tho perversity of the tha democratic malcott malcontents jn th the house eHouse so stands freedoms battle a the close giose af pf fhe first re regular ular riar encounter with the slave power |