A Scathing Speech.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4341, 29 November 1882, Page 2

A Scathing Speech.

The following is an extract from a speech made in New South Wales Par-:.;. liament by Mr David Buchanan. He ■'■'■ said " it was with feelings of indignation and anger that ho looked on at this savage pursuit of the hon. member for South Sydney, Mr Davies, with charge after charge of the most frightful character, every one of (hem aiming a deathblow at his honor, and then withdrawn—when they turned out to be sheer falsehoods— with a flippancy and thoughtlessness ab*o lutely criminal. He said he felt disgusted with and loathed all this slander of an honorable and upright man, assailed, as he had been of late, confessedly with a tissue of falsehoods. No character was so hateful as the common slanderer. Hon. members would, he dare say, ha»e found in / the course of their experience ithat there i were in existence certain savage animals .' which fed upon corruption, whose ; richest repast was derived from the offal of the grave-yards, who scented the putrid carcass from afar, and hastened to appease their loathsome ap- ' petites with the festering filth of the those animals were, there was a two-legged charnel house. Savage and revolting as human animal of the same species, equally savage and equally loathsome, whose breath was poison, and who lived only to sully and pollute every* thing he touched. The growth and offspring of the cesspool, he was reared amidst every physical and moral contamination; continually fattening on the rottenness of obscenity, slaoder and foulmouthed calumny were to him the breath of life; within his ignominious skin no generous pulse ever beat, but his venomous heart leaped with joy, and gloated over the prospect of scabbing with his foul and pestilent tongue the weak and def. nceless. The four-legged brute was surely hateful enough, but the two-legged monster in human shape called for a deeper and more inveterate detestation." (Hear, hear.)