The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-09
Address by Cen. Itosseau.
HIS ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK UPON

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f. Ma5or-Genera4 Lowell III. Rossaau,
lately IL Representative in Congress
from the Fifth District of Kentucky,
has issued an address to his constitu-
ents IN relation to his recent affair in
Congress. It-isa somewhat singular
production, written in a lively STYLE:
I rasaned Gxinnell. He unresist-
ingly received the castigation, and re-
peatedly said it vas fsau right, .: and
promptly assured me he did not wish
to hurt me.
General Garfield appears to have
wounded his sensibiities still further.
''The speech, he says, .ewas vocifer-
GUS and feree; and like an actor
hired to pump up passion, he snorted
himself into d rage, and raved
through the case"
"And thus we see q late soldier. r.
general Of the army standing on the
hoor OF the House of Representatives
of the United Statess and attempting
to influence tsejuagment in the trial
OF a brother member, by creating u
sensation, and arousing the passions
OF his hearers by an exaggerated de-
tail Of q contemplate matter that
should never have been heard in that
bod y-an affair which would hardly
have disturbed tea party Of old
maids
''But all this, 81 wellas his gratu-
itous -denunciation Of O. former bro
ther-soldier, was of course prompted
by his friendship for me. Save me
from all such friends and friendship!
On the instant Of his Announcement
of the -6st-fght as bloody and
brutal outrage, Mr.. Alley, Of Massa-
ehusetts, with shivering limbs and
tremutous voice, and finely acted ar
tlstic emotion, introduced resolu-
ton that the young man, victor in
the fistieuff below, should be arrest
ed, and held for punishment by the
House. The effect Of this was dra--
npatic III the extreme; mems faces
paied, sad many seemed to think that
the world demanded an instant VIC
tim. The resolution was adopted,
and the arrest of the pugilist ordered.
This terrible interlude over, the par
tisan friends of Grinnel grimly bat
traumphantly proceeded to the im-
mense work before-them.
The General, after -exonernting
Gen. Garfield, next takes off Gen.
Banks. 1t lss to say the least, very
dramatic:
Gen. Banks sat in solemn silence
and looked on. with countenance of
gravity anI WISDOM during the
harangue. of Wilson, and even during
the magniticently dramatic effort Of
Garfield to achieve furry caused by
the announcement of fst-fght, but
finally, after the previous question
which cuts off all reply-was called
and seconded, arose to take his part
in the mighty affair. His voice. cul:
tivated and attuned to that of an nm
b1tous baritone, lacking only the
Italian melody and finish, rang out
In full but nnvarying and monoto-
nous notes, and penetrated every
nook and corner OF the amphithea-
tired hall, resounding back from the
furthest galleries, and heard by every
body in and about the building
except. perhaps, by the two chaps
engaged in the sanguinary fist-fght
III the basement of the capitol.
''The General was eloquent, and,
like Garfield and Wilson, ever strong
on the stronger side. In true TRACE
dian style, he informed the House
that this was a momentous period in
our history. The House did not
know, but happened to be informed
as to what he alluded. I had been
told that before the committee, he
contended that us the Southern rep
resentatives would soon be again in
Congress, it behooved the House to
set an example and make n precedent
IN my case, that would deter them in
all time to come from resenting any
offences, or supposed offences, that
might be offered them"
The next scene in the play was the
reprimand itself. He depicts scene
of confusion on the occasion of 8
general rush for law-breaks and pre-
cedents, and adds:
''The great and energetic Chair
man, in his inaudible efforts to keep
order-hammering away with his
mailet-wns quite as impotent over
the disturbed crowd as an automatic
figure would have been, or toy
speaker pounding on toy desk.
''Perhaps the victim might escape!
Rosseau, although censured in face
by the action of the House, might,
after all tho trouble and fuss, get rid
of the hanging and quartering that
were set down for him in the bill, and
which the Jealous prosecutors came