Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-14
Conversational Mus.

| ~ N"ShNdtiNtS Wtub lnLu COmI0lJtee OF Jnc
whole aud Mr.. Lovejoy of H. took the
hoor and said the House had been engaged
IN giving the death blow to polygamy. BY
the Philadelphia platform the Republican
party stand pledged as far as the Federal
government has the power to extricate
that tother twin relic of the barbarian
slavery in the Territories He wanted to
see them both strangled and 60 down to-
gether
Mr. Lovejoy, warming up with his sub
Ject' passed from his seat to the area in
front OF the Clerks desk in full view iof all
the members and spoke in a loud tone with
emphasis aud earnest gesticuation against
the ground on which it was sought to iusti.
fy slavery because the creatures are poor
ana the strong have power to oppress the
weak. The rich Oppress the poor. The
spirit of slaveholding being the spirit of
the devil. &c.
Mr.. Pryor said the gentleman from Til.
nois had no right to shake his fist at gen.
tlemen on his side. 1t was bad enough to
stand in his own place there aud talk his
treason and insolence.
Mr.. Barksdale-Let him keep on his own
side of the House.
The confusion soon became general and
the members began to press 10 the area.
Mr.. Cox said the gentleman from Illinois
ought to speak from his seat.
Mr.. Pryor-Let him stand there and talk,
he shan't come on this side of the Hall.
Mr.. Barksdale was seen shaking his cane,
and in the widest of the confusion was
heard to say "rasca" as applied to Mr..
Lovejoy.
Mr.. Adrian, as il TO quiet the tumuIt,
said the gentleman could speak from his
seat.
The Chairman, (Mr WaShburn, of Me. J
in vain raped to restore order.
Mr.. Adrian, in conciatory tone sup
posed nobody wanted tointimidate the gen
tleman.
Mr.. Pryor-No one wanted to intimidate
him.
Mr.. Lovejoy-Nobody can intimidate
me.
Many Republicans now crowded around
Mr. Lovejoy, who exclaimed to them-"Oh,
Pm safe enough |"
Mr.. Burnett, elevating his voice above
the Gin, said the rules require the gentle
man to speak from his seat He must and
shall do it He shall not shake his fist to
gentlemen on this side in menacing man.
ner.
The Chairman called loudly for the Ser
geant at Arms as if to attend to Mr. Bur-
nett, who said, "Y You may call the Sergeant
at Arms, but the members shall not do it."
The glttering mace of the Sergeant at
Arms did not quiet the disorder.
W., IL ill af
of his colleague, saying he should not CON-
nit a breach of the rules, but that he should
have his rights
A general fight at ono time seemed i'm
minent, and the widest excitement prevail
ed.
The Speaker was called in TO resume bis
seat, when the chairman reported that the
Committee rose owing to the disorder.
Finally comparative quiet was restored.
Mr. Sherman said, eve are in good Or
der now"
This was succeeded by burst of laugh.
ter.
The House then again went into the
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 prevent the people there
from returning to barbarsm.
Mr.. Singleton said that he would not al
low such insinuations on Southern women
to pass if the members persisted in that
course of remarks lie would hold him
personally responsible.
Mr. Lovejoy said that in the 1000, 900
slaves there was not one legal husband, ia
ther, wife or child, and spoke about Pres.
byterian Elder down South having the Cos
pei whipped into him with broadside of
hand saw, and of girl in this city being
whipped until the blood came out of her
noStrils, and sent to the garret to die. He
had sworn to support the Constitution be-
cause he loved it, but be did not interpret
it in the way Southern men did.
Mr. Benham-You violate it.
Mr. Ashmore-Aud perjure yourself
Mr.. Singleton-And are a negro thief
into the bargain.
Mr.. Barksdale-I hold no parley with a
perjured negro.
Mr.. Lovejoy said when Daniel Webster
spoke of the imposition of Austria on Hun
gary he remarked that the earthq uake and
tornado nave powers, auu tue lHuuueT mas
power, but greater than these was the pow
er of public opinion, and before this he pro-
posed to arraign Austria. He (LoVejoy)
proposed to hold up to the retribution of
public sentiment slaveholding in all its
atrocity and hideousness just as gentlemen
had here polygamy. Public sentiment
will burn and scour out slavery. The prop
er 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, aud
/ am here free to speak my mind. The re-
publican party would spring up in Ken
lucky, and gentlemen now here would find
themselves displaced by more moderate,
and if 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 il.
Mr.. Lovejoy-I can go to England and
there discuss the question of Church aud
State or any other British institution, but
Il Al.