Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-08-06
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OF Hon. John Hutchins, of Ohio, in
the House of Representatives. in
Reply to S. s. Cox.

t Of Hon. John Hutchins, of Ohio, II
The House of Representatives il
} Reply to S. s. Cox.
Mr.. Chairman, my colleague 1fr. Cox
from the Columbus district, on the 9Th O
June, in the Committee Of the Whole
made mast extraordinary speech, intend
ing thereby to damage the fair reputation
OF the Thirty-Seventh Congress, whose ep
ltaph. after fashion, he took the pain
10 write out. The most cruel epitaph h,
could have written would have been tht
following, inserted ut the close of hi
speech; This speech was listened to with
patience by the House" In Justice t.
the House, it should be stated that durin:
It's delivery there were but few member
present, and most of them his politica
friends. 're i one other fact that i
may r. mt to notice in connection
n; that il was delivered late
h Z, and that it was distribu
ted n. pamphlet form early the next NOR
ming, and consequently, | SUPP ose, mos
OF IT must have been in type before it wa!
delivered, and this will account for laugh
ter coming in reTy frequently, and at
proper places. 1t is sometimes difficult &c
| get the laugh in when one wants it, o il
] AOb dAhdlb COAuc at Il SIJtdhcE o blNl-
ding, and this mode of my colleague sup,
plies this defect, and shows when the su,
dltors should have laughed, if they did
not. will briefly notice some points OF
this carefully written out speech. / can
not consent TO follow its style of argumen-
tation, for ! cannot do ii without getting
INTO the muddy element in which he de
lights to sport. He takes 10 the turbid
waters Of low ridicule as naturally as the
polliwog does 10 the dirty Waters of the
d ,ch. In these riied waters he swimz
without rivalS and IS unquestionably
without peer in the Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress. he arraigns this Congress before
the grand inquest of the nation, and the
gravanen of his charge ie, that the inter.
est Of the white man is neglected for the
benefit of the negro; that Congress puts in
peril the Constitution and the Union 10
carry out the Utopian idea Of negro equ-
atty. Ny colleague, this session, has in
troduced gnd syoSen oftner than any
member on this side of the House. Ne
gro equality seems TO disturb ais medite-
tons oy day and his dreams by night.
Can 1t be that he fears the competitions
OF negro equality. The bitterness of some
men towards rival ia measured by their
fear of that rival. l will not say this is
the case with my colleague, bat a circum-
stance to which will soon refer gives
color to the suspicion.
My colleague, takes special pains and
peculiar delight, ON all occasions, to pref
udice and SANDER colored men, and 10
ridicule all men who are disposed 10 do
them simple justice. He is quick 10 take
advantage of prejudice which the accu-
mulated oppres sons and wrongs of ages
have created against the African to crush
him still lower in the scale of degradation.
He ridicules all efforts TO better his condi-
tlon by low appeals TO prejudice which
slavery has intensified, if it did not create.
His speech shows him to be in favor of the
perpetual slavery of the African He is
opposed to colonization or liberation of
the slaves of rebels, fearing il may result
IN general emancipation. He fears that
unless enslaved and held in the degreda-
tion of cast, Africans will somehow or other
work themselves into dangerous competi-
tions with the Anglo-Saxon. The justice
and the logic of his position are on par.
The bitterness and the nleanness of his
attack upon the colored race will appear
in few characteristic extracts from his
recent speech. which will demonstrate,
by the use of one of his classic expressions,
the 'cesspool of inieuity."
Speaking of the colored people of Ohio, |
he said "aa general thing they are vi
cious, indolent and improvident." After
my colleague said:
IF the Senator could visit Green's Row, |
within the shadow Of this Capitol, hence |
,LoS Iloo1- IL
the type of hell and note the squalor, |
destitution, laziness, crime and degrade |
ton there beginning TO tester; if he could !
visite the alleys in whose miserable novels |
the blacks congregate, he would hardly |
be reminded OF the paradise which Mil |
ton sang, with its amaranthine flowers, |
Laughter, its blooming trees of life, its |
golden fruitage, its amber rivers rolling |
over elysian flowers, its hills and fountains |
and fresh shades, its dreams OF love, and !
its alteration of God. Alas! he would find |
nothing here to remind him of that high !
estate in Eden, save the fragrance Of the |
spot and the nakedness of its inhabitan ts."
Laughter.
''If the rush of free negroes to this par |
adise continues, it would be blessing if |
providence should send Satan here in the
form of serpent, and an angel to drive
the descendants of Adam and Eve into the |
outer world. If it continues, you will |
have no one here but Congressman and !
negroes, and that will be punishment |
enough. [Laughter.l You will have to
enact fugitive law to bring the whites to
their capitol. Laughter.
Referring TO another colleague, Mr..
he said:
at is recorded that in this county a |
within woman of Akron sued out h1bsGs
,orpus(for the writ runs their yet. at least /
where there is color of right, TO take mu-
alto baby from a Mrs. Jones, negro wo-
nan under whose care it had become at
tached to the pickaninny. In the course
IF the discussion, Mrs. Jones told the
white woman that she thought, IF the
white folks were mean enough TO have
negro babies, they ought 10 let colored peo-
pie bring them up" Laughter. So
he judge decided. These little straws
how how to account for the preponder-
ince of mulattoes North"
Speaking of his new congressional dis
.rict and the Western Reserve, he said:
This new district, sir, is ritch in color
ID materials. a veay pretty mosaic
4 sweet fragrant nest! And this is the
Afric's coral strand to which my mission
nv labors are to be directed. Laughter.]
'One would suppose that, in the Wes-
ern Reserve, where the profession Of phi
anthropy is ever arising in prayer, in
peech, and in print, where for years they
cultivated no civil discipline which inter
cred with their notions of slavery, their
would be throngs of blacks. Is it sol
Thou iron-tongued census, speak !!
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