Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-07
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THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

constituency. The bill was passed with YER
bal amendments -l49 to 60 The House went
into committee of the whole on the state of
Union.
Mr.. LOvEJoY said the House had been en-
gagged in giving the death blow to poygaDy.
BY tie Philadelphia platform, the republican
party stand pledged, SO tar as the federal gov.
eminent has the power, to exterminate the 9th
er twin relic Of barbarism, slavery, in the terri
tories, he wanted to have them both strangied
and go down together.
Mr. LOVEJoY, warming up with his subject,
passed from his seat to the area in front OF the
clerk desk in full view of all the members,
and spoke in a loud tone with emphasis and
earnest gcsticuaton against the ground ON
which it was sought to justify slavery, because
the creatures were poor and the strong nave
the power to oppose the weak, the rich to OPP
press the poor, the spirit of slayeholdnS being
the spirit OF the devil, sc.
Several gentlemen called him to order
Mr. PRYoR said the gentleman from Illinois
had no right to shake his fist at gentlemen on
the other side. 1t was bad enough to stand IN
his own place here and talk his violence anu
insdence.
Mr.. BARKsDALE-Let him keep on his side
of the House The confusion soon became
general, and members began to press into the
area.
Mr. Cox said the gentleman from Illinois
ought to speak from his seat
Mr.. PRYoR-Let him stand there and talk.
He shall not come ON the floor.
Mr. BARKsDALE was seen shaking his cane
amidst the confusion, and was heard to say
rascal us applied to Mr.. Lovejoy.
Mr.. ADRIAN, as il to quiet the tumult, said
the gentleman could speak from his seat. The
chairman, Mr. WAsHBURNE of Maine, in vain
raped to restore order
Mr.. ADRIAN, in a conciliatory tone, suppOs.
ed nobody wanted to intimidate the gentleman.
Mr. PRYoR-No one wants to intinidate
him.
Mr.. LovEJoY-Nobody can intimidate me.
Many republicans now crowded around Mr..
Lovejoy, who exclaimed to them, 90! am
safe enough"
Mr.. BURNETT eevating his voice above the
din, said the rules require the gentleman to
speak from his seat. lie must and shall do it.
He must not shake his fist at gentleman on
this side in menacing manner. The Chair
man called loudly for the sergeantatarmS as
if to apprehend Mr.. Burnett, who said "You
may call the sergeant-atarms, but the men,
Der shall not do it." The glittering mace of
the sergeant-at arms soon made its appearance,
but it did not quiet the disorder.
Mr.. KELLOGG of Illinois came to the sup
port of his colleague, saying, "He shall not
commit breach OF the rules, but shall have
nent, and the widest excitement everywhere
prevailed.
The Speaker was called in TO resume his
seat, when the Chairman moved that the com
mlttee rise, owing to the disorder. Finally
comparative quiet was restored
Mr.. SHERMAN said-We are good now.
This was succeeded by burst OF laughter.
The House again went into committee OF the
whole.
I -, ~ = al, -.
desk and resumed his remarks. He spoke
about northern Christian women, who went to
the south to prevent the people there from re-
turning to barbarism.
Mr.. SINGLETON said he would not allow
such lnslnuatlons to pass on southern women.
If the member persisted in that course OF re-
marks, he (Sngleton) would hold him person
ally accountable.
Mr.. LovEJoY said that in the four millions
of slaves there was not one legal husband or
wife, father or child, and spoke about a Pres
byterian elder down south having the gospel
whipped into him with the broad side of a
hand-saw, and of young girl in this city be-
ing whipped until the blood came out of her
nustrils, and then sent TO the garnet to die.
He had sworn to support the constitution be-
cause he loved it. But he did not interpret it
in the way southerners did.
MIR BuNHAM-You violate it.
Mr.. AsHMoRE-And peri ure yourself.
Mr. SINGLEToN-And are a negro thief into
the bargain.
Mr.. BARKsDALE-I hold no parley with
perjured negro.
Mr.. LoyEJoY said, when Daniel Webster
spoke OF the imposition Of Austria upon Hun
gary, he remarked, THE earthquake and tor
nado have power, but greater than these was
the power of public opinion, and before this he
proposed to arraign Austria"
MIR. LovEJoY proposed to hold up to the
retrbution Of public sentiment slaveholding in
all its atrocity and hideOusness, Just as gentle
men had here polygamy. Public sentiment
will turn and ScOrn out slavery, and the proper
way is by the action Of the slave states them
selves. He had endorsed the Helper book
because he wanted TO do it, He did so with
out asking the gentleman from Missouri Mr..
Clark or anybody 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 gen
tlemen now here would find themselves more
moderate, and (if it 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-You can so to England and
there discuss the questions of church and state
or any other British institution. But if | go
into the slave states and talk against slavery,
where is my protection?
Mr.. MILEs-Can you go to England and
incte the laboring classes to assassnate the
queens
Mr.. LovEJoY-I don't desire to do that.
claim the right to discuss slavery anywhere
under the stars and stripes l claim it, | de-
maud it,
Mr.. BoNHAM-We want you to assert it.
Mr.. LovEJoY-When you call us small
farmers, and apply other epithets against the
working people Of the north, We don't harm
yon. II a mechanic from Philadelphia, Pa,
were to go south and speak about the superior
ity of the white over the black, you would
strip him and scourge him by the hand Of
'sslave, and perhaps tar and feather him.
Mr.. BARKsDALE-The meanest negro in the
south is your superior. Cries of order from
the republican side.
Mr.. LovEJoY, speaking of John Brown, said
he would not curse him. He would not pour
excavations on poor John Brown. He con-
demned what Brown did. He disapproved his
act. He believed, however, that his purpose
was a good one, and his motives honest and
faithful. John Brown stood head and shout
ders above any man here until he was strang
led ANY law to ensave man was an ar
rangement among pirates to distribute the
spoil. 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 in spite of your laws, and to fight
himself away. Were he (Lovejoy) slave,
and were it necessary to achieve his freedom,
he would not hesitate to fill up the chasm and
bridge it over with the carcasseS of the slain
He loved the south.
A voice-We don't love you.
So it was with the Savior, they didn't love
him. Gentlemen who talked of dissolving the
Union, could no more do it than they could
stOp the sun VIRGINIA instead of clothing