Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-29
XII CONGRRss-FLRsT SESSION.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin
IA SPECIAL REPORT.

n DIT 4
Evening Session-Mr. Wood, of New
York, in the chair.
The appropriation for the Freedmen's
Bureau being under discussion, Mr.. FL
lott, of Massachusetts,, having conclud-
ed his remarks, Mr.. Morrissey, OF New
York, obtained the floor.
Mr.. Morrissey, Dem. N. Y.)-Mr.
Speaker, | arise on the present occasion,
sir, to say my say with regard to this
bureau concern, about which we have
already heard so much from the other
side. think it is high time that our
side of the house should be heard upon
this subject, and all | want you to do,
sir, is to keep them fellers quiet and
don't let them come the gag over me
with their "orders" and ~"previous ques-
tons" don't ask no odds from no
one. This is q free fight take it, give
us a fair show and the devil take the
hindmost. can charge around in my
own high grass and fight my W flies.
D-n a niggerl Mr.. Speaker, the glori-
Gus character of our liberties, the Con-
stitution of the United States, says that
all men are created equal, and now, sir,
| should like to know where in that doc
ument you can find one word about the
niger; d-n the niggerl Just tell me
that, will you? Is the niger mentioned
at all? and wouldn't our forefathers have
said something about him if they thought
he was worth mentioning at all? On
q niger Mr.. Speaker, was George
Washington a niger? Was General
Putnam, or any hero Of the Revolution,
except Benedict Arnold, who ought to
have been oue2 And anybody who says
the Gar of Russia or Queen Victoria is
niggers lies and he knows it. On II
niger. [Cries Of ~"order."1
Mr.. Morrissey-Ifthat red-headed cuss
from Wisconsin don't stop his jaw I'll
catch him some night in Shad's oyster
cellar and spread his lose all over his
face. On a niggerl amt afraid Of
no man in this House. have reached
the hight of my ambition. have been
n wharf rat, chicken thief, prize-Ggher,
gambler and member of Congress. |
have gone round the circle and left the
Constitution and flag with my constitu-
ents, and d-n the niger! CSmall boy
in the gallery-"Hail Columbia!"1
Some one has said that Fred Douglass
WAS filter for this seat than | am. can
lick the Abolition cuss that said that,
and can get hackers a hundred to one.
You can't come the guy guggles over
me, so you needn't try it on. am n
free American citizen, and I'll bust the
head Of that grinning chap from Iowa,
if he don't shut up his fy-trap-d-n II
niger. Mr.. Speaker, I believe in the
American eagle, the glorious fcathered
songster, who rises on pinions Of fire,
from the lofty mountain top, and pierre
ing the skies, scars among the bannery
stars, and-and-d-n the bird; I've
got him up there and can't get him
down-anyhow, d-n q niger! Why
don't them as loves n niger so much
go to Africa; they can enjoy their soci-
ETY. there; we can spare them, and the
coutry be better off without them. An
dy says so, and he speaks by the book.
The pure Democrisy, indebted, can
take care Of the country without their
help. Fernandy Wood and ! could run
the machine better than five hundred
nigger-loving, humanitarian, free-lov-
ing, bloomerite id Abolitionists, with
their internal bureaus and civil rights
bills.
If any gentleman on the other side
wants his constitution amended, just let
him step out into the %rotundy, and III
| give him ten articles that III give him
the dyspepsy the rest Of his natural life.
D-n a Niger! The mar from Massa-
chusetts trots out his Latin. That don't
skeer me. ain't such II fool rs some
people think. E plurisy nerpan zenith
ct 6road-dre, ct III brute, MULE proscqui
~rom6Hsque ct diaphragm! No use trying
to come the school learning dodge over
me-d-n a niger! Mr.. Speaker, we as
Democrats are sick and tired of hearing
about the niger. Why don't they say
something about the white man? I'm a
white man, and so is my constituents.
D-n a niggerl
Mr.. Speaker, them are my sentiments
as a Democrat. Mr.. Speaker
The allotted fifteen minutes being ex-
pended, the hammer fell, and Mr.. Nor
rissey resumed his seat.