Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-04-27

and take their seats.
Mr.. Baksdalc = Order that black hearted
scoundrel and nigger.thiet to take his seat
and this side Of the House will do it.
Mr.. Ne Queea--We will allow nobody 10
: come over from that side of the House and
bully us on this side. (Cries of .Sit down r
=" Sit down." from all sides Of the House. }
| The Speaker-The Chair desires gentle
men 10 take their seats.
! Mr.. Bocock-I, for one, viii do so with
pleasure, promptly, when the Speaker re-
quires it. ! only ask that everybody shall
do so. ] think this whole matter can be
settled if the gentleman speaking and every
other gentleman will take his seat
| Mr.. Banett--I rise to privileged ques-
ton.
| Tile .Speaker--The chair cannot re,og-
nizc anybody until gentlemen take their
seats.
NJ. Burnett Then, let everybody take
his seat, and let order be enforced.
/ The Speaker-Genlemen will take their
seats without distinction.
Members gradually withdrew from the
open area in front of the Speakers chair
AMI resumed their seats. Order being re.
stored,
Nr. Washbune of Maine, Chairman Of
the committee) said: In the Committee OF
the Whole on the state of the Union disor-
der arose. which prevented the transaction
of business, and the Chair was compelled
70 call the speaker to the Chair and TO re-
port the facts to the House.
Mr. Eiy-I move that the House do now
adjourn.
Mr.. Washburne of Maine The chair
man Of the committee states that if order
is likely TO be preserved, so that proceed
ings can 20 on, the chairman of the COM
mittee will resume the chair
Mr.. Merman--We are now in very good
order, and | think we had better proceed
and give the gentleman from Illinois an OPP
portunity to finish his speech. move that
the House resolve itself into the Committee
of the Whole on the state of the Union, and
| hope every gentleman will keep his seat.
The Spedker-Order having been re-
stored, the Speaker will leave the chair,
and the chairman of the committee will
take it.
Mr.. Washburne of Maine resumed the
chair, and announced that the gentleman
from Illinois was entitled TO the floor.
M. Lovejoy-Mr. Chairman, desire to
violate no rule of the House.
Mr.. Boyce-Then behave yourself.
Mr.. L0rejoy-I wish to learn whether il
is violation to occupy fhis space in front
of the Speakers chair, or any portion ct
ii? If 50, l will cheerfulIy yield; if not, ]
claim the right TO choose my own position.
The Chairman The Chair understands
that the rules require that every gentleman
shall speak from his seat.
/ Mr.. Curtis Or from the Clerks desk.
Mr. Bunea-The gentleman has the
right TO do that.
Jfr. Ne Clerand-Let him speak from
the Clerks desk.
Mr.. 4shley-lt has been the habit of gen.
tlemen to come into the aisle and choose
their own position. 1t is very bad habit
and we had better change it.
The Chairman-The Chair is aware that
such has been the custom; but if the rule
is insisted on, it is the duty of the Chair to
enforce it.
Mr.. AdrGin-I hope it will be insisisted
Tie Chairn,an-Thc gentleman from
Illinois will speak from his seat.
Mr. Loreioy-I have no seat.
M. Ashtey-Nor any other member
Mr. Lorejoy-Sir, if you step into the
! Smithsonian Institute, or into the Patent
Office, you will find implements of husband.
ry imported from Japan and China, show
ing Just about the same development in civ
ilization as the implements that you find on
the plantations. Now, sir, the truth is, that
the practice of slaveholding drags slave
holding communities further below the
plane of the Christian civilization Of the
age than the civilization which the slave re-
ceiyes elevates him above the plane of
heathensm, by being held in these Christian
communities. Sir, how do they impart civ
ilization and Christianity ? 1t is strange
mode of outstanding race, to turn them
over into brutism without any legal mar
riage. Among the four million slaves in
this country, there is not a single husband
or wife. There is not legally a single father
or child. There is not single home or
hearthstone among these four millions.
And you propose to civilize and christian
ize people without giving them homes,
without allowing them the conjugal and pa
rental relations sanctioned and protected by
law.
Mr.. Chairman, no community can make
one step of progress in civilizing a race till
you give them homes; till you protect the
sanctity of the home, as we held it should
be projected in regard to these Mormons
on the plains of Utah. Outstanding them,
sir! Christianizing them by new process.
The slave States have a right to an exclu-
sive patent for it. Taking them ont in the
siaht of the church as one was taken out
not long ago in the State of Tennessee, by
a Presbyterian elder, and laid down on his
face on the ground, his hands and feet ex-
tended TO their utmost tension, and tied to
pickets, and the gospel whipped into him
with the hroadside of a handsaw, discolored
whelks of sanctifcation being raised be-
tween the teeth every time this gospel agen-
cy fell upon the naked and quiverin- flesh
of the tortured convert. Langh.er.)
A Democratic member-Did he get the
gospel in? Laurhter.)
Mr. Lorejoy-Christianized as young
girl was christianized in this city since the
session of Congress, by being whipped and
sent to the garret, and found dead in the
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