The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-03-16
Mr. MOrrissey

Catches it on all sides. There seems to be
10 end to the squibs and burlcsquos on him
Well, il a blackguard will go to Congress,
he must expect to be handled without gloves.
80 here goes u type satire form The Phila,
delphia Bulletin.
XLrf CONGRESS-. FIRST SESSION.
4 Special Report.
| Evening Session. Mr.. Wood ofNew Y DIRK
/ in the chair.
! The appropriation for the Freedmen 5
Bureau being under discussion, Mr.. Elliott
oil massachusetts, having concluded his re.
marks, Mr.. Morrissey Of New York obtain.
cd the floor.
! Mr.. Morrissey Dem. \. Y. Mr.. Speak
CT, | arise on the present occasion, sir, to
say my say with regard to this Bureau con,
Germ, about which we have already heard so
much from the other side. | think it is
| high time that our side of the House should
he 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 "ordcrs'' aud 'prcvous ouus
TONS ! don't ask no odds from no one.
This is a free fight | take it: give us fair
show, and the Dcvcl take the hindmost.
can charge around in my own high grass,
and fight my own flies. D-n Il niger.
Mr.. Speaker, the glorious charter OF our
liberties the Constitution Of the United
States, says that all mcu are created equal;
ri -, 7 i.
IN that document YOU can find one word
about the nigscr? just tell he Mot. will
you? Is the Niger mentioned at ali? aud
wouldn't our torefathcrs have said some
thing about him ifthcy Thought he was worth
mentioning at all? Mr.. Speaker, was
George Washington a niger? Was General
Putnam, or any hero Of the Revolution, eX.
cept Benedict Arnold, who ought be one?
And any body who says that the Gar of
Russia or Queen Victoria is niggcr, lies,
and he knows it. [Cries of order
Mr.. Morrissey. that rcd headed cuss
from Wisconsin don't stop his jaw, II catch
him some night in Snad's oyster. cellar, and
spread his nose all over his face. | AIM
afraid of no man in this House. | have
reached the hight Of my ambition. l have
bccn IL wart rat, c,lickcn.thicf, prize fighter,
gambler, and member Of Congress | have
gone round the circle, and left the Constitu.
ton and the flag with my constituents. -
[Small boy in the gallery, "!Iail Column
bia!1l
Loan, of Missouri.-Mr. Speaker, | trust
we shall not longer be insultcd by the vul,
garity and profanity Of the gentleman from
the Fifth Point District, New York.
Mr.. Morrssey. If that yellow, mugged
fat nosed cuss from the State of MISERY
does not shut his yaup | viii latlen his
pug nose all over his suilron cheeks, and
make a wall.hower of that figure head OF
his.
Some one has said that Fred. Douglass
was filter for this seat than | am. | can
lick the abolition cuss that said that, and
get hackers hundred to one. You can
come the guy goggles over me, so you nccdn't
try it on. am free American citizen. and
III bust The head Of that grinnng chap from
Iowa, if he don't shut up his tly.trap. Mr..
Speaker, believe in the American eagle.
the glorious tcathered songstcr, who rises
on pinons of fire from the lofty mountain.
top, and, piercing the skies, scars among
the bannery stars, and-and -he bird: I've
got him up there, and can't get him down
anyhow. Why don't them as loves the
| negro so much 90 to Africa? they can enjoy
their society there we can srarc them, aud
the country be better Off without them. -
Andy says SO, and he speaks by the book.
The pure Dcmocrisy, undcGled can take
care of the country without their help.
! Ecrnandy Wood and could run this ma.
chine better than five hundred niger. LOVING.
! humanitarian, frccloying, bIoomcritc alb.
olitioniStS, 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 | II give him ten
articles that'll give him the dyspcpsy the
! rest Of his natural lite. The man from
| Massachusetts trots out his Latin. That
"oh eAtCl mt "iu eucl Il lpuI as some
| people think, Z plurisy ncnman, .caiM ct
/ broad are, ct tn brute, MULE froseQvi rom.
| buSqm ef diaphragm' No use in trying to
come the school learning dodge over me. -
Mr.. Speaker We as Democrats are sick and
! tired Of hearing about the Niger. Way
| don't they say something about the white
man? I'm a white man, and so is my CON
! constituents. D-n a niger!
! Mr.. Spcakcr, them are my sentiments as
a Democrat. Mr.. Speaker. -
The allotted fifteen minutes being cxpcnd
! cd, the hammer fell, aud Mr. MorrisScy re.
Sumed his seat.