The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-12
Exciting Debate i'm Congress.

Exciting Debate i'm Congress.
Mr.. Lovejoy, a member of the House
of Representative from the State of H.
linois, on Thursday last stirred up the
proslavery element of the House, so that
it became absolutely furious. Mr.. Love.
Joy the member from Illinois, is broth
of the Lovejoy,who started an anti sla-
very paper at Alton, Illinois seine TWEEN
ty years ago, and was shot by prosla-
very mob, while attempting to protect
his office from being destroyed.
Mr.. Lovejoy said the House had been
engaged in giving the death blow to
Polygamy. By the Philadelphia plat
form the Republican party stand pledg-
ed as far as the Federal Government
has the power to extirpate that other
twin relic of barbarism, slavery, in the
Territories. He wanted to see them
both strangled and go down together.
Mr.. Lovejoy, warming up with the
subject, 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 gestic-
ulation, against the ground on 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
devil, &c.
Several gents called him to order.
Mr.. Pryor said the gentleman from
illinois had not the right to shake his
fist at gents on his side. 1t was bad
enough to stand in his own place there
and talk his treason and insolence.
Mr.. Barksdale-Let him keep on his
own side of the House.
The confusion soon became general
and members began to press into the
area.
Mr.. Cox said the gent from Illinois
ought to speak from his seat.
Mr.. Prior-Let him stand there and
talk, he shan't come on this side efthe
Hall.
Mr.. Barksdale was seen shaking his
cane and in the midst of the confusion,
was heard to shout Rascal" as applied
to Mr.. Lovejoy.
Mr.. Adrian, as if to quiet the tumult,
said the gent could speak from his seat.
The chairman, Mr. Washburne of Me.
IN vain raped to restore order.
Mr., Adrian, in conciliatory tone,
supp ed 1obody wanted to intimidate
the g IT., ta
Mr.. Pfior-No one wants to intimi-
date him. SAT-.
Mr.. loyejoy-.-"Nobody can intimi-
date me-
Many Republicans now crowded
around Mr. Loyeioy, Who exclaimed,
ooh am safe enough"
Mr. Burnett, elevating his voice above
the din. said. ssTheR. rules require the
gentleman to speak from his seat he
must and shall do it j; he mnst not shake
his list at gentlemen on this side in a
menaclng manner"
The Chairman called loudly for the
Sergeant-at-A Arms, as if to attend to Mr.
Burnett, who said, ''You may call the
Sergeant alarms, but the member shall
not do it."
The glittering mace of the Sergeant
at.Arms did not quell the disturbance.
Mr.. Kellogg (Ill,) came to the support
OF his colleague, saying E'He shall not
commit breach of the rules, but shall
have his rights
A general fight at one time seemed
imminent, and the widest excitement
everywhere prevailed.
The Speaker was called in to resume
his seat, when the chairman fthe com
mittee rose, lowing to the disorder
Finally comparative quiet was restored.
Mr.. Sherman said, eve are in good
order now"
This was succeeded by general 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
women who went to the South to pre-
vent the people from returning to bar
barism.
Mr.. Singleton said he would not allow
such lnsinuations on Southern women
to pass. If the member persisted in
that course of remarks, he (Singleton)
would hold him personally responsible.
Mr.. L. said that in the 100000 of
slaves there was not one legal husband,
father, wife or child, and spoke about
Presbyterian elder down South being
whipped with the broadside of hand
saw, and of yonng girl in this city be-
ing whipped until the blood came out
of her nostrils, and then sent to the gar
ret 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-"Y GU violate it."
Mr.. Ashmore-"And perjure your
self.
Mr.. Singleton-"And are negro
there into the bargin.''
Mr.. Barksdale-"I hold no party with
a perjured uegro'
Mr.. Lovejoy said when Daniel Web
ster spoke of the imposition Of Austria
on hungary, he remarked that the earth
quake and tornado have powers, and
thunder has power; but greater than
these was the power Of public opinion;
and before this he proposed to arraign
Austria. He Uovejoy) proposed to
hold up the retribution Of public senti-
ment, slaveholding in all its atrocity
and hideousness, just as gents and here
polygamy- Public sentiment will burn
and scorn into slavery The proper
way is by the action of the Slave States
themselves. He had endorsed the Hell
per book because he wanted to do it.
He did so without asking the gent from
Missouri Clark or any body else.