The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-04-28

NJ. Phelps Dem. No. turned back the
macs bearer, with some remarks.
Mr. Kellogg (Rep., III, yociferated that
+ his colleague should NOS comniEs q breach
lcf ths rules, but should have al his rights.
TIE Speaker was called 10 70 resume bis
seat. when the Chairman reported that the
Committee rose owing 70 the disorder.
Finally comparative quiet was restored.
Mr.. Sherman rep, Ohio) said: We
are il good order now.
This vas succeeded By a burst of laughter.
The House then again went into Com
mittee Of the Whole. rrtrrx "a
Mr. Loyejoy took the stand atthe Clerks
desk, and resumed his remarks.~Hes spoke
about Northern Christian women. who went
to the South to prevent the people there from
returning to barbarism.
Mr.. Singleton Dem, Miss. said that he
would not allow such insiuations upon
southern women To- pass. If the member
persisted in that course, he (SingletoRl
would hold him personally accountable.
Mr.. Lovejoy said that. in four million of
slaves, there was not one legal husband or
wife, father or child; and spoke about q
Presbyterian Elder, down South, having
Tue OOoDCI WuippC0 Will Tie VI Osu
side of hand-saw, and of young girl in
Washington being whipped until the blood
came out of her nostriis, and then sent to
the gatret to die. He bad sworn to sup
port the Constitution because he loved it,
but he did not interpret it in the way south
erners lid.
Mr. Bcnham Dem, S. CT You violate it.
Mr.. Ashmore Dem, s. @. And perjure
C0nrSnIf 3
Mr.. Singleton--And are a negro thief in
to the bargain.
Mr.. Barksdale-I hold no parley with
perjured negro.
Mr.. Lovejoy said when Daniel Webster
spoke of the imposition of Austria on Hun
gary, ne remarked, the earth quake and the
tornado have power, and the thunder has
power, but greater. than these was the pow
er of public opinion, and before this he pro-
posed to afraign Austria. He Lovejoy)
proposed to hold up to the retribution Of
public sentiment slavebolding in all its
atrociiy and hideousness. just as gentlemen
had here polygamy. Public sentiment will
burn and scour out slavery. and 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 Mis-
souri, (Clark) or anybody else. You shed
the blood of my brother twenty years ago,
and am here free 10 speak my mind. The
Republican party would spring up in Ken
lucky, and gentlemen now here would find
themselves displaced by more moderate, and
if il were not offensive, he would add more
sensible, men. He wanted tosay in Charles
ton what he could say here.
Mr. Ronboy,o-Vo1, hod I,otkor fro 7
Mr.. Lovejoy-I can go to England and
there discuss the question of gehurch and
state, or any other British institution. But
if 90 into the slave States and talk against
slavery, where is my protection?
Mr.. Miles. Dem, S. CO. Can you go to
England and incite the laboring classes
there to assassinate the Queen?
Mr.. Lovejoy+I don't desire to do that.
claim the right to discuss slavery every
where under the stars and stripes 1 claim
it. l demand it. -
Mr.. Bonbam-We want you to assert it !!
Mr.. Lovejoy-When you call us small
farmers, and apply other epithets against
harm you. If a mechanic from Pennsyl
vania were to GO South and speak about the
superiority of white labor. he would be
held morally responsible. You would strip
him and scourge him by the hand of slave,
and perhaps tar and feather him.
Mr.. Barksdale-The meanest negro in the
South is your superior - I. =.
Cries of sOsderp from the Republican side
Mr.. Lovejoy, in speaking of John Brown,
said he would not curse him. He would
pour no excavations upon old John Brown.
He condemned what he Brown did. He
disapproved of his act. He believed, how
ever, that his purpose was . good one, and
his motives honest and truthful. John
Brown stood head and shoulders above any.
man here until he was strangled. Any law
to enslave man was as an arrangement among
pirates to distribute the spoils. By. what
right do you of the South get together and
enact laws that / or my child should be.
your slave? Every slave has right to run
away in spite of your laws, and to fight
himself away. Were he (Lovejoy slave,
and were it necessary to achieve his free
dom, he would not hesitate TO FIJI up the
cbasm and bridge it over with the carcass
es of the slain. He loved the South.
A Voice-We don't love you. - 3
Mr.. Lovejoy-So it was with the Savior ;;
they didn't love him. Laughter. Gentle
men who talked of dissolving the Union
could no more do it than they could stop
the shining of the sun. Virginia, instead
CT clothing herself in sleeps gray. should
clothe herself in sackcleth and ashes on ac-
count of slavery. and ought to drink the
waters of bitterness. sa.i q zgssr
Mr.. Martin Dem Va. If you will come
into Virginia, we will hang you higher than
we did John Brown.
Mr. Lovejoy-No doubt about it.
The Committee rose, and the House adj
journed.
ToUcHING OBIrUARY.-The State of In
diana has recently lost BY death one of her