The weekly Butte record., 1867-01-19

WHAT JOHN MoRRIssEY MAY SAY
IN CoNGREss.-The Philadelphia Bull
letin gives the following special report
Of Mcrrissey's supposed maiden speech
in the first session Of the Fortieth Con-
gress:
Evening Session Wood, of n. Y,
in the Chair.
The appropriation for the Freedmen's
Bureau being under discussion, Eliot,
Of Massachusetts,, having concluded his
remarks, Morrissey, of New York, OBJ
tanned the floor.
Morrissey Democrat, New York;
Mr.. Speaker: | arise on the present
occasion, Sir, to say my say with re-
gard 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 l
want you to do, sir, is to keep them
quiet, and don't let them come the gag
over me with their ''orders" and ''pre-
vious questions" | don't ask no odds
from no one. This is a free fight, |
take it; give US fair show, and the
devil take the hindmost. | can charge
around in my own high grass, and fight
my own flies. On a Niger! Mr..
Speaker, the glorious charter of our lib
critics, the Constitution of the United
States, says that all men are created
equal, and now, Sir, | should like to
know where in that document you can
find one word about the Niger; d-n
the bigger! Jus tell me that, will you?
Is the niger mentioned at all? and
wouldn't our forefathcrs have said
something about him if they thought he
was worth mentioning at all! D-n a
niger! Mr.. Speaker, was George
Washington niger? Was General
Putnam, or any hero of the Revolution,
except Benedict Arnold, who ought to
have been one? And anybody who
says that Gar of Russia or Queen Vic
toria is nigger, lies, and he knows it |!
DIN niger! Cries of "Order."
Morrissey-If that rcd-headed cuss
from Wisconsin don't stop his jaw, I'll
catch him some night in Shad's oyster
cellar, and spread his nose all over his
face. D-n niger! amt afraid
of no man in this house. have reach
ed the hight of my ambition. have
been wharf rat, chicken thief, prize
fighter, gambler, and Member of Con-
gress. have gone round the circle,
and left the Constitution and the flag
with my constituents, and d-n the
niger. Small boy in the gallery
''Hail Columbia -
Some one has said that Fred. Doug
las was filter for this scat than | am.
can lick the Abolition cuss that said
that, and get hackers hundred to one.
You can't come the guy gugles over
me, so You needn't try it on. | am a
free American citizen, and I'll bust the
head of that grinning chap from Iowa,
if he don't shut up his fly-trap; d-n
a niger. MIR. Speaker, believe in
the American eagle, the glorious feath-
cred songster, who rises on pinions Of
fire from the lofty mountain top, and
piercing the skies, scars among the ban
merry stars, and-and-d-n the bird /;
I've got him up there and can't get him
down, anyhow. d-n Niger! Why
don't them as loves the Niger so much
so to Africa; they can enjoy their So
eiety there; we can spare them, and
the country be better off without them.
Andy says so, and he speaks by the
book. The pure Democracy, indebted,
can take care Of the country without
their help. Fernandy Wood and
could run the machine better than FIVE
hundred niger loving, humanitarian,
free-loving, Bloomerite d-n Abolition
lists, 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
In give ten articles that'd give him the
dyspepsy the rest of his natural life.
D-n a niger. The man from Mass
achusetts trots out to his Latin. That
don't skeer me. amt such fool as
some people think. E pl'risy uelcman,
zenith ct brodddre, ct tn brute, MULE
proseqai, rombusque ct diaphragm =
No use trying to come the school learn
ing dodge over me--d-n 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 white man, and
SO is my constituents. On niger.
MIR. Speaker, them are my senti-
ments as. Democrat. Mr.. Speak
The allotted fifteen minutes being ex-
pended, the hammer fell, and Merrissey
resumed his seat.