The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-04-11

posed nobody wished to insimidase the gen.
| tleman.
Mr.. Pryor" Nobody wants to insimidase
him. @
MIR. Lovejoy.--" No body can insimidsts
me-
Republicans now crowded around Mr..
Loveioy, who exclaimed 60 them, sob, Pm
safe enough.
Mr.. Burnett elevated his voice above the
din, saying that the rules OF the House re-
CURED the gentleman TO speak from his seal.
He must and shall do it; be shan't shake HE
fist to gentlemen on this side in . smsnacing
manner.
geant alarms, AZ il 10 attend TO Mr.. Bur
nett.
Mr.. Burnett said: aYou may call the
Sergeant at Arms, but the members shall
not"
The sergeant-at- Arms did not quiet the
disorder.
Mr.. Kellogg came to the support OF his
colleague, saying: she shall not commit =
breach OF the rules, but he shall 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, and finally comparative quiet was re-
stored.
MIR. Sherman said eve are in good or
der now"
This remark was succeeded by burst OF
laughter.
Mr.. Loyejoy took the stand at the Clerks
desk and resumed his remarks. He spoke
of Northern Christian women, who went to
the South to prevent the people from return
ing to barbarian.
Mr.. Singleton said that be would not al
low such insinuations on southern women to
pass. Ii the member persisted in that course
of remarks be would hold him personally re-
sponsible.
Mr.. Lovejoy said that Of the -four million
slaves there was not one legal husband, faith
err, wife or child, and spake about Presby
terrain Elder down South having the Gospel
whipped into him with the broadside of
handsaw, and OF q young girl in this CITY be-
ing whipped till the blood came out of her
nostrils, and then sent TO the garrett to die.
lie bad sworn to support the Constitution
because be loved it, but he did not interpret
il in the way Southern men did.
Mr.. Bonham-"You violate ito
Mr.. Ashmere-"And perjure yourself"
MIR. Singleton-"And are a negro thief
into the bargain"
Mr.. Barksdale---ssI hold no parley with .
perjured negro"
Mr.. Loveioy said When Daniel Webster
spoke of the impositions on Hungary, be re-
marked 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 be proposed TO ar.
raign Austria. He (Lovejoy) proposed TO
hold up to the resribution Of public senti-
ment slaveholding in oil it's atrocity and hid I
eousness, just as gentlemen had here polyga-
my. Public sentiment will burn and scour
out Slavery. The proper way 10 by the ae-
ton of the Slave States themselves. He had
Endorsed the Helper book because he wanted
to do it, He did ii without asking the gentle
man from Missouri (Clark) or anybody else.
years ago, aud am here free to speak nv
mind" The Republican party would spring
up in Kentucky, and gentlemen now here
would find themselves displaced by more
moderate, and If il were not offensive, he
would say more sensible men. lie wanted
TO say in Charleston what he could say here.
MIR. Bonham--ssY on had better try it,"
MIR. Lovejoy--s'I can 90 TO Epgland and
there discuss the question of Church and
State, or any other British institution, but if
| go into the Slave States, and talk against
Slavery, where 10 my proteotionp
Mr.. Mallor5-"Can you 60 to England and
incite the laboring classes there to assassi-
nate the Queen2o
Mr.. LoveIoy-sI don't desire to do that.
| claim the right to discuss slavery every
where under the Stars and Stripes. | claim
i'll demand it.''
Mr.. Bonham-"We want you to assertit."
MIR. Lovejoy--sWhen you call as small
farmers, and apply other epithets against the
working people Of the North, we do'nos harm
you. If mechanic from P Pennsylvania were
to 90 South and speak about the superiority
Of white labor, be would be held morally re-
sponsible. You would strip him and scourge
him by the hand Of a slave, and perhaps tar
aud feather him." s3 gqr
MIR. Barksdale-aThe meanest negro in the
South 10 your superior"
lCries of s.Order," from the Republican
side.1 @
Mr.. Lovejoy, in speaking Of John Brown,
| said be would not curse him he would not
pour excavations on old John Brown. He
condemned what he tBrown) did; he disap-
proved Of his acts. lie believed, however,
that his purpose was . good one, and his
motives honest and truthful. John Brown
stood head and shoulders above any man
here until be was strangied. Any Law to en-
| slave man was an arrangement among pi-
rates to distribute the spoils. SPY what
right do you of the South get together and
| enact laws that or my children should be
| your slavess Every slave has right to run
away 10 spite Of your laws, and to fight him
self away" We're he (Lovejoy) 9 slave,
and were it necessary to achieve bis freedom,
| he would not hesitate to Gil up the ohssm
and bridge it with tina slain. He loved the
South. A voioe--"We don't love you.")
| MIR. Loyeioy-"So il was with the Savior,