Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-01-19
Morrissey makes a Speech.

The Philadelphia Bulletin publishes "spe-
cial " report of speech which Hon. John Nor
rissey is supposed to make Immediately after tho
opening of the 4Oth Congress-Mr. Wood, of New
York, in the chair The appropriation for the
Freedmen's s Bureau being under discussion, Mr.
Morrissey, stripped to the buff" (his favorte
bull pup seated on his desk) rises:
Mr.. Morrssey, (Dem., N. Y.)-Mr. Speaker, I
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. l think it is high time that side of the
house should be heard upon this subject, and all
want you to do, sir, is to keep them felers quiet
and don't let them come the gag over me with
their " orders and previous questions" I
don t ask no odds from no one. This is free
fight l take it, give fair show and the devil
take the hindmost can charge around in my
own high grass and fight my own flies. D-n
nigger Mr.. Speaker, the glorious character of
our liberties, the Constitution of the United
States, says that all men are erected equal, and
now, sir, should like to know where in that
docume at you can find one word about the mig
ger d-n the niger Just tell me that, will
you? Is the nigger mentioned at all? and
wouldn't our forefathers have said something
about him if they thought he was worth men,
tioning at all D-n niger Mr.. Speaker,
George Washington niger? Was Cen
eral Putnam, or any hero of the Revolution, ex-
cept Benedict Arnold, who ought to have been
one? And anybody who says the Gar of Russia
or Queen Victoria is niggers lies and he knows
it. D-n nigger. [Cries of 90 order."]
Mr.. Morrissey-If that red-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 his face. D-n niger
amt afraid of man in this House. | have
H. of. hrt-a
wharf rat chicken thief, prize-fghter gambler
and member of Congress. | have gone round
the circle and left Constitution and flag with my
constituents and d-n the niger Small boy
in the gallery Hail Columbia
Some one has said that Fred Douglass was
filter for this seat than l am. | can lick the
Abolition cuss that said that and can get back
ers hundred to one You can't come the guy
goggles over me, so you needn't try it on. am
free American citizen, and I'll bust the head
of that grinning chap from Iowa, if he don't
shut up his ty-trap-d-n nigger. Mr.. Speak
er, believe in the American eagle, the glorious
feathered songster, who rises on pinions of FIRE,
from the lofty mountain top, and piercing the
skies, scars among the bannery stars, and-and
-d-n the bird We got him up there and cam
get him down-anyhow, d-n nigger Why
don't them as loves niger so much go to
Africa they enjoy their society there we
can spare them, and the country be better off
without them. Andy says so, and he speaks 10y
the book. The pure Democrsy, undehled, can
take care of the country without their help.
Fernandy Wood and | could run the machine
better than five hundred nigger-loving. human
itarian, free-loving, bloomerite ID Abolition
lists, with their Internal bureaus and civil rights
bills
If any gentleman the other side wants his
constitution amended, just let him step out into
the rotundy and III give him ten articles that'il
give him the dyspepsy the rest Of his natural
life. D--n niger The man from Massa-
chusetts trots out bis Latin. That don't skeer
me. | amt such fool as some people think.
Z plurisy zenith ct Jroad-az', ct tu brute,
MULE prosegui rumJusque ct diaphragm! No use
trying to come the school learning dodge over
me-d-n nigger Mr.. Speaker, we as Dem
ocrats are sick and tired of hearing about the
ngger. Why don't they say something about
the white man? I'm a white man, and so is my
constituents. D-n nigger
Mr.. Speaker them are my sentiments as a
Democrat. Mr. Speaker
The allotted fifteen minutes being expended
the hammer fell, and Mr. Morrissey resumed his
seat.