Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-06

he shall n.t shake his fist to gentlemen on this
side in menacing manner.
The Chairman called loudly for the Sergeant
at Arms as if to attend TO Mr. Burnett who
said, "YOu may call the Sergeat at Arms. bnt
the msmb rs shall not DO it"
The glittering mace Of the Sergeant at Arms
did not quiet the disorder.
Mr.. Kellogg, Of III came TO the support Of
his colleague, saying be should not commit
breach Of the rules, but that be should have
his rights.
A general fight at one time seemed immi-
nent, and the widest excitement everywhere
prevailed.
! The Speaker was called in to resume his
seat, when the Chairman reported that the
Committee rose owing to the disorder.
Finally comparative quiet was restored
Mr. Sherman said, owe are in good order
now,"
This was succeeded by burst Of laughter
The House then again went into Committee
of the Whole.
Mr. LovejOy took the stand at the Clerks
desk and resumed his remarks He spoke
about Northern Christian Wome, who went 10
the South to prevent the people there from re
turning to bsTbarism.
Mr.. Singleton said that he would not allow
such insinuatiOns on Southern women to pass
if the members persisted in that course Of
remarks. He would hole him personally re-
sponsibe
Mr.. Lovejoy said that in the 4. 600 900 slaves
there was not one legal husband. father, wife
or child, and spoke about 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 nostTils, and sent TO
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the Constitution because he loved it, but he did
not interpret it in the same way Southern men
did.
Mr.. Benham-YOu violate it.
Mr.. Ashmore-And peTiure yourself!
Mr.. Singleton-And are negro thief into
the bargail
Mr.. Barkesdale-I hold no parley with a
periured negro.
Mr. LOvejOy said when Daniel Webster
spoke of the imposition Of Austria on Hunga-
~ 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. He (Lovejoy) proposed to hold up to
the retrbutiOn of public sentiment slayehOlding
in all its atrocity and hideOusness jus! as
gentlemen had here polygamy. Public senti>
nent will bum 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 I 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 il it were not offensive, he |
would add more sensible men. He wanted to |
say in Charleston what he could here.
Mr. Benham-You had better try it.
Mr.. Lovejoy-I can go to England and there |
discuss the question Of Church and State, or
any other British institution, but if 90 into
the slave States and talk against slavery, where
Is my protection.
Mr. MiIler-Can you 90 to England and
incite the labOring classes to assassinate the
Queen!
Mr. LovejoY-I don't mean to do that;
claim the right to discuss slavery everywhere
under the Stars and Stripes. I claim it. I
demand it.
Mr. Benham-We want you 10 assert it.
Mr. Lovejoy-When you call US small farms
ers and apply other epithets against the work
ing 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 response |
bic. You would strip him and scourge him by !
the hand of a slave and perhaps tar and ieath-
er him.
Mr. Barksdale-The meanest negro in the
South is your superior
(Cries Of Order from the Republican side.
hlr LOvejoy, in speaking Of John Brown,
said he would not curse him; he would pour no
exeerations upon old John Brown. He cons
dcmned what he (BrOwn) did He disapproved |
Of his acts; he believed, however, that his pur-
pose was good one and his motives honest |
and truthful. John Brown stood head and |
above any man here until he was |
strangled. Any law to enslave man was as an |
estrangement among pirates to distribute the |
spOis. BY what right do you Of the SOnth get |
together and enact laws that or my children |
should be your slaves. Every slave has !
right to run away in spite OfyOur laws and TO
fight himself away. Were he (LOvejOy) a |
slave and were it NECESSARY to achieve his free
dom be would not hesitate to fill up the ehasm
and bridge it with the slain. He loved the 1
South
A Voice-"We don't love you"
Mr. Lovejoy-So it was with the Saviour. |
They didn'i love him. [Laughter.1 Gentle> |
men who talked of dissOlving the Union could |
not do it any more than they could stop the |
shining of the sun. Virginia, instead Of
clothing herself in sleeps gray, should elOthe |
herself in sack cloth and ashes on account Of
slavery, and ought to drink the waters Of Bit |
terness.
Mr. Martin, of Va.-If you viii come into |
Virginia we will hang you higher Than We did
John Brown.
Mr.. Lovejoy-NO doubt Of It.
The Commit ee rose, and then the House |
adjourned.
SENATE.