Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-04-25

/ Mr.. JOHN CocHRANE-The Committee
has risen; has it not?
The SPEAKER-The Chair requests gen.
tlemen to respect the authority of the
House, and take their seats.
Mr. BARKsDALE Dem, Miss. Order
that black-hearted scoundrel and negro
stealing thief to take his seat.
Mr.. MCQUEEN Dem., S. GIVE will
allow no body to come over from that side
of the House and bully US on this side
ICries of Sit DOWN. Sit down. from all
sides of the House.
The SpEAKER-The Chair desires gen.
tlemen to take their seats.
Mr.. BococK Dem, VAL, for one,
viii do so with pleasure, promptly, when
the Speaker requires 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.. BURNETT-I rise to privileged
question.
The SpEAKER-The Chair cannot recog-
nize anybody, until the gentlemen take
their seats.
Mr.. BURNETT-Then let everybody take
his seat and let order be enforced.
The SPEAKER-Gentlemen will take
their seats, without distinction.
Members gradually withdrew from the
open area in front of the Speakers chair,
and resumed their seats. Order being at
length restored.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE of Maine Chairman
of the Committee,) said-In the Commit
tee of the Whole on the State of the Un-
ion, disorder arose which prevented the
transaction of business. and the Chair was
compelled to call the Speaker to the chair,
and to report the fa@s to the House.
Mr.. ELY move that the House do
now adjourn.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE (Me.)-The Chairman
of the Committee states that if order is
likely to be preserved so that proceedings
can 90 on, the Chairman of the Committee
will resume the chair.
Mr.. SHERMAN-We are now in very
good order, and think we had better pro-
ceed and give the gentleman from Illinois
an opportunity to finish his speech. 1
move that the House resolve itself into the
Committee of the Whole on the State of
the Union, and l hope every gentleman
will keep his seat
The SPEAKER-0rder having been res
tored, the Speaker will leave the chair, and
the Chairman of the Committee will take
it.
Mr. WAsHBURNE. Ne. resumed the
chair; and announced that the gentleman
frem Illinois was entitled to the floor.
Mr.. LovEJoY-Mr. Chairman, l desire /
to violate no rule of the House.
Mr.. BoYCE GDem., S, C. Then behave
yourself.
Mr.. LovEJoY-I wish to learn whether
it is violation of the rules to occupy this
space in front of the Speakers chair, or
any portion of it? If so, will cheerfully |
yield; if not, claim the right to choose
my own position.
The CHAIRNAN-The Chair understands |
that the rules require that every gentleman
shall speak from his seat
Mr.. CURTIS Rep, Iowa. ]-Or from
the Clerks desk.
Mr.. BURNETT-The gentleman has
right to do that
Mr.. McCLERYAYD Dem, Ill. Let .
him speak from the Clerks desk.
Mr.. ASHLEY REP, o.]-It has been
the habit of gentlemen to come into the
aisle and choose their own position.
Mr.. ADRIAN-It is very bad habit,
and we had better change it.
Mr. 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.. ADRIAN-I hope it will be insis-
ted on.
The CHAIRMAN-The gentleman from
Illinois will speak from his seat
Mr. LovEJoY-I have no seat.
Mr.. AsHLEY-Nor any other member
Mr. LovEJoY taking his place in the
Clerks desk resumed-Mr. Chairman, /
was about stating, when interrupted, that
the principal upon which slaveholding was
sought to be justified in this country would,
if carried out in the affairs of the universe,
transform Jehovah, the Supreme, into an
infinite Juggernaut, rolling the huge wheels
of his omnipotence, ankle-decp, amid the
crushed, and mangled, bleeding bodies of
human beings daughter on the Democrat
side, on the ground that he was infinitely
superior, and that they were an inferior
race.
Mr.. GAKTRELL Dem. Geo., in his seat
The man is crazy.
Mr.. LovEJoY-The second ground upon
which it is attempted to justify Slavery, or
slayehOlding, is. that it is a mode of i'm
parting christianity and civilization to the
slaves. Mr. Chairman, would like to
know how slaveholding communities can
impart that of which they are not in the
possession. The truth is that the practice
of slaveholding has powerful tendency to
drag communities back to barbarism. 1t
is actually having that effect upon the Slave
States of this union; and were it not for
the Christian women that have gone from
Free States and intermarried in the Slave
States; and were it not for those noble wo-
men of the Slave States that preserve wo
manly purity and Christianity, in spite of
the unhappy influences of slaveholding. the
Slave States to-day would be as far back
IN DarDaflsm as Ine OCdIe OI MCAlcO- II Is
simply from the infltration.
Mr., SINGLETON Dem. Miss. II wish
to know il the gentleman intends to cast
any insinuatiOn or slur on the women of
the South. l want to know that distinct
ly and emphatically; because if he does,
will hold him personally accountable for it
Several MEMBERs-Oh, no. He gives
all praise to the women of the South. He
compliments them
Mr.. SINGLEToN-I repeat, that if he In
tended to asperse Southern women. or to
compliment the women of the North at
their expense, 1 will hold him accountable
for it.
The CHAIRMAN-The gentleman from
Mississippi is not in order. The gentle
man from Illinois will proceed.
Mr.. Lovejoy-It is simply by this con-
tact with free communities; it is, as l Said,
from the fact that Christian women went