The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-18

the poor, the spirit of slaveholding being the
spirit of the devil, etc.
Several gentlemen called him to order.
| Mr.. Pryor said the gentleman from Illinois
had no right to shake his fist at gentlemen on
this side. 1t was bad enough to stand in his
/ own place and talk his treason and insolence.
| Mr.. Barksdale-He shall keep to his own
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 this side of the Hall.
Mr.. Barksdale was seen making a hostile
demonstration, and, in the midst Of the con-
fusion to denounce Mr.. Lovejoy.
Mr.. Adrian, as if to quiet the tumult, said
the gentleman could speak from his seat
The Chairman, Mr.. Washburnc, of Maine,
in vain raped to restore order.
Mr.. Adrian, in a conciliatory tone, sup
posed nobody wanted to intimidate the gentle
man.
Mr. Pryor-Nobody wants to intimidate
him.
Mr.. Lovejoy-Nobody can intimidate me-
Here many Representatives crowded around
Mr.. LOyejoy, who exclaimed to them, "Oh I'm
safe enough"
Mr.. Burnett elevating his voice above the
din, said the rules required the gentleman to
speak from his seat He must and shall DO
It. lie shall not shake his fist to the gentle
men on this SIDE in a rlenacing manner.
The Chairman called loudly for the Ser
geant-at-ATIns, IS if to attend to Mr.. Bur-
nett who said-You may call the Sergeant
at Arms, but the member shall not do it.
The glittering mace of the Sergeant at
Arms 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
his rights.
general fight, at one time, seemed immi-
nent, when the Chairman reported that the
committee rose owing to the disorder.
Finally comparative quiet was restored.
Mr.. Sherman said we are in good order
now. This was succeeded By burst of laugh
ter.
The House then again went into Commit
tee Of the Whole.
Mr.. Loyejoy took the stand at the clerks
desk and resumed his remarks He spoke
about Northern Christian women who went to
the South to prevent the people from return
ing to barbarism.
Mr.. Singleton said he would not allow such
insinuations on Southern women to pass If
the member persisted IN that course, he would
hold him personally responsible.
Mr., Lovejoy said that in the four million
SlasseS thene sEass lat enc lassl husband. faith
ref, wffe, Or etfid, and spoke about a Presby-.
terian elder down South having the gospel
whipped into him with the broadside of q hand
saw, and Of young girl in this city being
whipped till the blood came out of her nos
trilS, and then 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 way Southern men did.
Mr.. Bonham-you violate it.
Mr.. Ashmore-And perjure yourself
MI. Singieton-And are a negro thief into
the bargain.
Mr., Barksdale-I hold no parley with
perjured negro thief.
Mr.. Lovejoy said: When Daniel Webster
spoke Of the imposition of Austria upon Hun
gary, he remarked that 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. Mr. Loveioy proposed to
hold up to the retribution of public sentiment
slaveholding in all its atroc1ty and hideous-
ness, just as gentlemen here had held up po-
lygamy. Public sentiment will burn and
scour out slavery. The proper way is by
the action of the slave States themselves
He had indorsed the Helper book because he
wanted to do it. He did so without asking
the gentleman from Missouri Clark or any
body else. You shed the blood of my broth
er twenty years ago, and am here, free to
speak my mind.
The Republican party would spring up in
Kentucky, and gentlemen now here would
find themselves displaced by more moderate,
and if it were not inofensive, he would add,
by more sensible men. He wanted to say in
Charleston what he could say here.
Mr.. Bonham-You had better try it.
Mr.. Loyejoy-I can go to England and there
discuss the question of Church and State, or
any other British institution, but if l 90 into
the slave States and talk against slavery,
where is my protection?
Mr.. Miles-Can you go into England and
incite the laboring classes there to assassinate
the Queen?
Mr.. Lovejoy-T don't desire to do that
claim the right to discuss slavery everywhere
under the stars and stripes. | claim, de-
mand it.
Mr.. Bonham-We want you to assert it.
Mr. Loyeioy-When you call us small far
mers and apply other epithets against the
working people of the North, we don't harm
you. IF mechanic from Pennsylvania were
to go South and speak about the superiority
of white labor he would be held morally re-
sponsible. You would strip him and scourge
him by the hand of slave, and perhaps tar
and feather him.
Mr.. Barkskale-The meanest negro in the
South is your superior.
Cries of order" from the Republican side
Mr.. Lovejoy in speaking of John Brown,
said he would not curse him. He would not
pour out exccrations on old John Brown
He condemned what he, Brown, did. He dis
approved of his acts. He believed, however,
that his purpose was a good one, and his mo-
tives honest and truthful. John Brown stood
head and shoulders above any man here un-
til he was strangled. And law to enslave man
was an arrangement among pirates to distri-
butte the spoils.
By what right do you of the South get to-
gether and enact laws that or my children
should be your slaves. Every slave has a
right to run away in spite of your laws, and
| to fight himself away. Were ne Lovejoy) a
slave, and were it necessary to achieve his
| freedom, he would not hesitate to fill up the
! chasm and bridge it with the slain. lie loved
| the South
A Voice-We don't love you.
Mr.. Lovejoy-So it was with the Savior
They did not love him. Laughter.l Gentle
men who talk of dissolving the Union could
not do it anymore than they could stop the
shining of the sun. Virginia, instead Of cloth
ing herself in sleeps gray, should clothe her
self in sackcloth and ashes on account ol
slavery, and ought to drink the water of Bit
| terness.
Mr. Martin, of Va.-If you will come into
Virginia we will hang you higher than we did
John Brown.
The Committee rose and the House ad-
journed.
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