even in the absence of conscientious principles, to restrain other men from outrages.  Our National Legislature is a fit illustration of this.  Slaveholders have converted the Congress of the United States into a very bear garden.  Within the last three years some of the most prominent slaveholding members of the House, and among them the late speaker, have struck and kicked, and throttled, and seized each other by the hair, and with their fists pummelled each other’s faces, on the floor of Congress.  We need not publish an account of what every body knows, that during the session of the last Congress, Mr. Wise of Virginia and Mr. Bynum of North Carolina, after having called each other “liars, villains” and “damned rascals” sprung from their seats “both sufficiently armed for any desperate purpose,” cursing each other as they rushed together, and would doubtless have butchered each other on the floor of Congress, if both had not been seized and held by their friends.

The New York Gazette relates the following which occurred at the close of the session of 1838.

“The House could not adjourn without another brutal and bloody row.  It occurred on Sunday morning immediately at the moment of adjournment, between Messrs. Campbell and Maury, both of Tennessee.  He took offence at some remarks made to him by his colleague, Mr. Campbell, and the fight followed.”

The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat of June 16, 1838, gives the particulars which follow: 

“Mr. Maury is said to be badly hurt.  He was near losing his life by being knocked through the window; but his adversary, it is said, saved him by clutching the hair of his head with his left hand, while he struck him with his right.”

The same number of the Huntsville Democrat, contains the particulars of a fist-fight on the floor of the House of Representatives, between Mr. Bell, the late Speaker, and his colleague Mr. Turney of Tennessee.  The following is an extract: 

“Mr. Turney concluded his remarks in reply to Mr. Bell, in the course of which he commented upon that gentleman’s course at different periods of his political career with great severity.

“He did not think his colleague [Mr. Turney,] was actuated by private malice, but was the willing voluntary instrument of others, the tool of tools.

Mr. Turney.  It is false! it is false!

Mr. Stanley called Mr. TURNEY to order.

At the same moment both gentlemen were perceived in personal conflict, and blows with the fist were aimed by each at the other.  Several members interfered, and suppressed the personal violence; others called order, order, and some called for the interference of the Speaker.

The Speaker hastily took the chair, and insisted upon order; but both gentlemen continued struggling, and endeavoring, notwithstanding the constraint of their friends, to strike each other.”

The correspondent of the New York Gazette gives the following, which took place about the time of the preceding affrays: