The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-04-17

ern Charistian women who went to the South
to prevent the people there from returning to
barbarism.
Mr. Singleton said that he would not allow such
ipsipuations upon Southern women to pass. If the
member nersisted in that course Of remark he MIR
Singleton) would hold him personally accounta-
ble
Mr. Loyeioy said that in the four millions of
slaves there was not one legal husband or wife,
father or child, and spoke about Presbyterian
elder down South having the Gospel whipped into
him with the broadside of handsaw, and young
girl in this city being whipped until the blood came
out of her nosrils and then sent to the garnet to
die. He had sworn to support the Constitution
because he loved it, but he did not interpret 1t In
the way Southerners did.
Mr. Bonham (Dem.,) of S. C.-You violate
it.
Mr. Ashmore, (Dem.,) of S. C-And perjure
yourself.
Mr. Sineleton.-And are a negro thief into the
bargain.
MIR Barksdale-I hold no parley with perjur-
ed negro.
Mr. Loveiov said, when Daniel Webster spoke of
the imposition of Austria on Hungary, he remark
ed the earthquake and tornado have powers, and
the thunder has power, but greater than these was
the power Of public opinion, and before this he
proposed to arraign Austria. He (Mr Lovejoy)
proposed hold to the retrbutlOn OF public sep
timent saveholdng in all its atrocity and hldeous
ness, Just as gentlemen had here polygamy Pub
lie sentiment will burn and scour out slavery, and
the proper way is by the action of the slave States
themselves. He had endorsed the Helper book
because he wanted to do it. He did so without
asking the gentleman from Missouri (Mr Clark
or any body else. You shed the blood of my
brother twenty years ago, and l am here free to
speak my mind. The Republican party would
spring up in Kentucky, and gentlemen now here
would find themselves by more moderate, and If 1T
were not offensive, he would add, more sensible
men. He wanted to say in Charleston what he
could say here.
Mr. Bonham-You had better try it.
Mr. LovejOy-i can 90 TO Engl Gland and there dis
cuSs the question of Church and State, or any
other British institution. But if | 60 into the
slave States and talk against slavery, where is my
protection.
Mr. Miles, Dem, offs. C.-Can you go to En-
gland and inrte the laboring classes there to as
sassinate the Queen?
MIR Lovejoy-I don't desire to do that. claim
the righ; to discuss slavery everywhere under the
Stars aud Stripes. l claim It, demand it.
Mr. Bonham-We want you to assert it.
Mr. Lovejoy-When you call US small farmers,
and apply other epithets against the working peo-
pie of the North, we don't harm you. If me-
chanic from Pennsylvania we've to go South and
speak about the superiority Of white labor, he
would be held morally res ponsible. You would
strip him aud scourge him by the hand Of slave,
and perhaps tar and feather him.
MIR Barksdale-The meanest negro in the South
is your superior!
Cries OF order" from the Republican side.
Mr. Iovejoy, in speaking of John Brown, said
he would not curse him. He would pour exc
crations upon old John Brown. He condemned
what he Brown did. He dsaprrovcd Of his act
He believed, however that his purpose was good
one and his motives honest and truthful. John
Brown stood head and shoulders above any man
here until he was strangled. Any law to enslave
man as arrangement among pirates to dis
tribute the spos. BY what right do you of the
South get together and enact laws that | or my
child should be your slave? Every slave has
right to run away i'll spite Of your laws, and to
fight himself away Were he Lovejoy) a slave,
aud We're ii necessary to achieve his freedom, he
would not hesitate to ELL up the chasm and bridge
it over with the carcasses Of the slain. He loved
the South
CA voice-We don't love you'll
Mr. Lovejoy-So it was with the Saviour. They
didn't love him. Q4aughter.) Gentlemen who
talked of dissolving the Union could more do it
than they could stop the shining of the sun. Vir-
GINA, instead of clothing herself in sleeps grey,
should clothc herself in sackcloth and ashes, on
account of slavery, and ought to drink the waters
of bitterness.
Mr. Martin, (Dcm) of Va.-If you will come
into Virginia we will hang you higher than we did
John Brown.
Mr. Lovejoy-No doubt of it.
The Committee rose, and the House adjourn
ed.