Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-04-12

and shall do it, He shall not shake his
fist TO gentlemen on this side in menac-
ing manner. 80 = .ss.aAys- -
The Clsirnan caned loudly for the
Sergeant At Arms as If to attend to NJ.
Burnett, who said, aaYou may call the
Sergeant at AIMS, but the members shall
not do it.'' :. y -
The glittsring mace of the Sergeant at
Arms didrotquiet the disorder.
Mr.. Kellogg, of H., came to the support
Of his colleague, saying be should not com
NIT breach of the rules, but that he
should have his rights.
A general fight at one time seemed i'm
minent, and The widest excitement every
where prevailed.
The Speaker was called on to resume his
seat when ths Chairman reported that The
Committee rose owing to the disorder.
Finally comparative quiet was restored.
Mr.. Sherman said, 'sWe are in good
order now" s--.fsb ss.s.,-a..T ,.--sv +.
This was succeeded by burst of laugh
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The House then again went into Com
mittee of the Whole. e alssfE 9a'G
Mr.. Levejoy took the stand at the Clerk s
desk and resumed his remarks. He spoke
about Northern Christian women who went
to the South to prevent the people there
from returning to barbarism. ,r
Mr.. Singleton said that he would not
allow such insinuations of Southern women
to pass if the members persisted in that
course of remarks. He would hold him
personally responsible. b ~
Mr.. Lovejoy said that in the 1900, 900
slaves there was not one legal husband,
father, wife Oh. child, and spoke about a
Presbyterian Elder down South having the
Gospel whipped into him with the broad
side ola hand saw, and of young girl in
this city being whipped until the blood
came ont of her nostrils,, and sent to the
garret to die. He had sworn to support
the Constitution because he loved it, but
he did not interpret it in the same way
Southern men did. - -.-....
Mr.. Benham-You violate it. --.s.-.-
: Mr. Iassshmore-And perjure yourself.
Mr.. Singleton-Anaa are negro thief
into the bargain. A - ..sslas ell
= Mr.. Barkesdale-I hold no parley with
a peVured negro. .noj
Mr.. Lovejoy said when Daniel Webster
spoke of the imposition of Austria on Hun
gary he remarked that the earthquake and
tornado have power, and the thunder has
power, but greater than these was the pow
er Of public opinion, and before this he pro-
posed to arraign Austria, He (Lovejoy)
proposed to hold up 10 the retribution of
public sentiment slayeholding in all its
atrocity and hideousness just as gentlemen
had here polygamy. Public sentiment will
burn and scour out slavery. 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, or anybody else. You shed the
blood of my brother twenty years ago and
| aun here free to speak my mind. The
Republican party would spring up.in Ken
lucky, and gentlemen now here would find
themselves displaced by moro moderate,
and if it were not offensive, he would add
more sensible men. He wanted to say in
Charleston what he could here. m
Mr.. Benham-You had better try it. "a
Mr.. Loyejoy-I can 60 to England and
there discuss the question of Church and
State, or any other British institution. but
if I 90 into the slave States and talk
against slavery, where is my protection.
Mr.. Millsr-Can you go to England and
incite the laboring classes to assassinate the
Queen? ai-jaas9 ir ta
Mr.. Loveioy-I don't mean to do that !;
4 claim the right to discuss slavery every
where under the Stars and Stripes. ]
claim it. l demand it. .s677ss strcau
Mr.. Benham-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 you. If mechanic from
Pennsylvania were to 60 South and speak
about the superiority of white labor he
would be held morally responsible. You
would strip him and scourge him by the
hand of a slave and perhaps tar and feath-
er him. s. ,ad sas .ss7 eds lsf9i1 - 4
MIR. Barksdale-The msanest negro in
the South is your superior. asal fasL
Cries of "0rder" from the Republican
side. 1is 4ssf zsas5 4 .sssa. ..o osv
Mr.. Louejoy, lin speaking of John Brown,
said he would not curse him; he would
pour no exertions upon. p.old John Brown.
He condemned what he (Brown) did. He
disapproved of his acts he believed, how
ever, 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 was as an estrangement
among pirates to distribute thespoils. By
what right do you of the South get to-
gether and enact laws that I or my children
should be your slaves. Every slave has q
right to run away in spite Of your lawsand
to fight himself away. We he lLovejoy)
slave and were it necessary to achieve his
freedom be would not hesitate to fill up
the chasm and bridge it.withl the slain.-
He loved the South. ,- smsEs asi- r.ya
A Voice-"Wed don't love you." lo
Mr.. Lovejoy-So it was with the Saw
our. They didn't love him. Laughter.
Gentlemen who talked of dissolying the
Union could not do it any more than they
could stop the shining of the sun. Virgin
ia, instead of clothing herself in sleeps
gray, should clothe herself in sack cloth
and ashes on account ofslavery, and ought
to drink the waters of bitterness. bsnsss