The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1860-04-18
A Scene in Congress.

4 diAN ~ uCNH OOBCSnoIs
Mr.. Lovejoy, warming up with his sub
ject, passed from his seat to the area in
front of the Clerks desk, in full view of
all the members, and spoke in loud
tone, with emphasis, and earnest gesticu-
lations, against the grounds upon which
it was sought to justify slavery because
the creatures are poor, and the strong
have the power to Cypress the weak, the
rich to Cypress the poor-the spirit of
slayeholding being the spirit of the dew
il, &c.
Several gentlemen called him to order
Mr.. Pryor (Va.) said that the member
from Illinois (Mr. Lovejoy) has no right
to shake his fist at gentlemen on this side
1.-THE Democratic) of the House. 1t was
bad enough for him to stand in his own
Iplace there and talk his treason and insO-
lence.
Mr. Barksdale Miss. Let him keep
on his own side of the House.
| The confusion soon became general,
al d the members began to press into the
area.
Mr.. Cox (ohio) said the gentleman from
Illinois ought to speak from his seat.
Mr.. Pryor-Let him stand there and
talk. He shan't come on this side of the
hall
Mr.. Barlzsdale was seen shaking his
cane, and amid the confu. ioL was heard
to say. "You rascal /" as applied to Mr..
Lovejoy.
Mr.. Adrian N. j. as if to quiet the tu-
multi, said the. gentleman could speak
from his seat.
The Chairman (Mr. Washburn. of
Maine in vain rapp d to restore order.
| Nj. Ad Ran, in a colciliatory tone, sup
1 ,,nual that = oholvr orofal - ~. ,,,f,lafa
the gcntlenfn
Mr.. Pryol-Nobody wants to intimidate
him.
Mr.. Loyejoy-Nobody can intimidate
mel
Many Republicans crowded round Mr.
Loveioy, who exclaimed to tFem, "Oh,
I'm safe enodgh"
Mr.. Blu. nett (Ky.) elevating his voice
above the Gih, said the rules require the
| gentleman to speak from his seat. He
must and shall do it, He shall not shake
his fist at gentlemen Oh this side in a
| menacing ma1 Ter.
the Chair1lrh called loudly for the
Sergeant-at-Arms, as if to attend to Mr..
Burnett, who said,
'.Vou may call the Sergeant-at-Arms
but the member shall not DO it,"
The differing mace of that officer soon
made its appearance, but it did not quiet
the disorder.
Mr.. Kellogg (nl.) came to the support
of his colleague, saying that he shall rot
commit a breach of the rules, but at the
same time shall have his rights.
| A general fight at one time seemed i'm
mir ent, and the widest excitement pre-
vailed throughout the chamber.
| The Speaker was called in to resume his
seat, when the chairman of the committee
reported that the committee rose, owing
to the disorder that prevailed. Finally
comparative quiet was restored.
Mr. She man said-"We are in good
order now" This was succeeded by
laughter.
The House again went into committee
when Mr. Lovejoy took his stand at the
| Clerks desk and resumed his remarks
He spoke about the northern Christisn
women, who went to the South as pre-
venting the return of the people there to
barbarism.
Mr. Singleton Miss said he would not
allow such in.inuat ions on the southern
women. If the ILember persisted in that
| course of remarks he would hold him
personally accountable.
Mr.. Lovejoy said that of four millions
of slaves in the south, there was not one
legal husband or wife, father or child,
and spoke about a Presbyterian elder
down south having the gospel whipped
into him with the broadside of a hand
saw-and Of young girl in this city being
whipped until the blood came out of her
nostrils, and then sent to the garnet to
die. He had sworn to support the Con
stitution because he loved it, but he did
not interpret it in the way the southern
ers did.
Mr.. Bonham, Is. .)-You.violate it.
Mr.. Ashmore-And perjure yourself
Mr.. Singleton-And arc a negro thiei
into the bargain
Mr.. Barksdale-I hold no parley with
perjured negro thief.
Mr.. Lovejoy said that when DAME
Webster spoke of the impositions of Aus
tria on Hungary, he remarked, the earth
quake and tornado have power, and the
a | thunder has power, but greater than these
was the power of public opinion, and be
f fore this he proposed to arraign Austria
He (Mr. Loveioy) proposed to ho'd up to
: | the retribution of public opinion slave.
: holding in all its atiocity and hideous
ness. Just as the gentlemen here held
. | polygamy. Public sentiment will burn
and scour out slavery, and the proper way
= is by the action of the slave Sta,es them
selves. He had endorsed the Helpt
!, book b. cause he wanted to do it. He die
: so without asking the gentleman from
Missouri, (Mr. Clark, or anybody else
h You shed the blood of my brother twenty
years ago. and | am here now free to speak
q my mind. The republican party would
IS spring up in Kentucky, and gentlemen
/ now here would find themselves displaced
n by more moderate, and, if it were not of.
i L IL I Il l.
h He would like to say in Charleston what
he could say here.
Mn Bo- Nam-You had better try it.
Mr.. Lo;eioy-I can go to England and
L there discuss the question of Church am
State. or any other British institution
But if | go into the Slave States and talk
: against slavery, where is my protection
: Mr.. Miles, Is. C.l-Can you go to Eng
: land and incite the laboring classes to as
sasSinate the Queen.
Mr.. Lovejoy-I don't desire to do that
y l claim the right to discuss slavery every
where, under the stars and stripes.
:. claim it; demand it.
- Mr.. Bonham-We want you to assert it
9 Mr.. Lovejoy-When you call us small
farmers and apply other epithets agains
~ the working people of the North, we don
~ harm you. But if a mechanic from Penn
= sylvania were to go South and speak abou
:. the superiority of white labor, he would
- I. be held morally responsible. You would
- strip him and scourge him by the hand o
of a slave, and, perhaps, tar and feathe
~ him.
: Mr.. Barksdale-The meanest negro il
- the South is your superior.
no TCries of order from the Republican
~ side.
or o. Mr.. Loveioy, ia speaking of Johl
Ia Brown, sara he would not curse him. H
"a would not pour his execrations on oil
:, John Brown. He condemned what JohI
Brown did-he disapproved of his act
i, He believed, however, that his purpos
was a good one, and his motives homes
and truthful. He stood head and shoul
ne ders above any other man in Virginia ur
IN til he was strangled. Any law to enslay
man was an arrangement among pirate
on to distribute the spoils. Bv what RICH
ee do you of the South get together and Ell
act laws that | or my child should b
ry' your slave? Every slave has the right I
Or run away in spite of your laws, and I
fight himself away. Were he (Mr. Love
hu ioyl a slave, and were il necessary I
,oi achieve his freedom, ne would not hes
III tate TO fill UP the chasm and. bridge
gu over with the earcasses of the slain. II
p. loved'the South.
NE A voice-"We don't love your
W Mr.. Loveioy-So it was with the S,
as viour. They didn't love him. Laugh
OF ter. Gentlemen who talked of dissolvin
III the Union could no more do it than the
cdAld stop the shining of the sun. VII
ar ginia, instead of clothing herselfin sheep
OF gray, should clothe herself in sackclot
of and ashes, on account Of slavery, an
OF ought to drink the waters Of bitterness.
ST Mr. Martin, tNa.l-If you come int
-. ue Virginia we will hang you higher than'w
IT did John Brown
y. Mr.. Lovejoy-I have no doubt about i
~ ~ The committee than rose and tn
IS House adjourned. "
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