Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-06
'sPROPRlETY OF SPEECH"
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bingham ana the SpSOn.SfeaIing
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Evarts RnsPs the OsnRn-HanKihg
bingham ana the SpOOn-SteaIinG
ButleF. $50
Upon the charge of "CoNGREss HANG.
ING on THE VERGE OF GoyERNnEkF," 50
much objected to by the Radical man
ayers, after quoting the severe personal in
yeotives against the President by Senators
Sumner and Howard, Mr.: Evarts goes on /:
1--WE have" says Mr.. E., "a report in
the House Of Representatives of debate
between two Of the most distinguished
members of that body who can, as well as
any Others for the purpose of this trial,
furnish a standard of what is called by the
honorable manager "propriety Of speech"
Mr.. Bingham said
desire to say, Mr.. Chairman, that it
does not become a gentleman who recorded
his vote fifty times for Jefferson Davis, the
arch traitor of the rebellion roars of
laughter, as his candidate for the Presi-
dency of the United States, 10 undertake to
damage his cause by attempting to fasten
the imputation either on my integrity or
my honor. / repel with seorn and con-
tempt any utterances of, that sort from any
man, whether he I've the hero of Fort Fisher
not taken, or Fort Fisher taken. Con-
tinuous laughter -ai.
Mr.. Butler, after some remarks, said:
But if during the war the gentleman
from Ohio did as much as did Ia that di-
rection | shall be glad to recognize that
much but the only victim of the gentle
mans proves that know Of was an inno-
cent woman hung upon the scaffold, one
Mrs. Surratt, and can sustain the memory
of Fort Fisher, if ne and his present asso-
ciates can sustain him in shedding the
blood of an innocent woman, who was tried
by a military commission and convicted
without sufficient evidence in my judg-
ment.
Mr.. Bingham with spirit replied
/ challenge the gentleman, dare him
here or anywhere in this tribunal, or any
tribunal, to assert that I.spoliated or mutt
lated any book but such a charge without
one title of evidence is only fit to come
from a man who lives in bottle and is fed
with a spoon
What that refers to do not know.
Mr.. Evarts, continuing, said:
This all comes within the common law
of courtesy, in the Judgment of the House
OF Representatives. But what do you
think was the subject these honorable gen
tlemen were debating upon? Why, it was
charity.
A SenatOr-What?
Mr. Evarts-Charity question of
charity to the South That was the whole
staple of the debate. CHARITY which suf-
fereth all things and is kind" daughter
" Charity enVieth not charity vaunteth
not itself; is not Puffed up; doth not be
have ltselfunseemly; seeketh not her own
ia not easily provoked thinketh no evil;
reloiceth not in inequality, but reioiceth in
the truth; beareth all things belieYeth all
things; hopeth all things; endureth all
things; charity never fails" But the apos-
tie adds, what may not be exactly true in
regard TO the managers, Tongues may
fail" (Laughter) But now-to be Sc
rlous. In free republic, who will toler-
ate this fanfarnade about speech making?
When Cromwell, in his career through
Ireland, in the name of Parliament, had
set himself down before the town of Ross,
and summoned it TO surrender this Papist
community, exhausted in its resistance,
asked to surrender only on condition Of
freedom of conscience. Cromwell replied,
As to freedom of conscience, l NEEDLE
with no mans conscience, but if You mean
by that, liberty to celebrate the mass, /
would have you TO understand that in no
place where the power of the Parliament
of England prevails shall that be permit
ted" SO the honorable managers do not
complain of freedom of speech, but if any
man says that the House of Representa-
tives is hanging on the verge of the gov
ernment,' We are to understand that in no
place where the power of the two Houses
of Congress prevails, shall that be permit
ted, although they NEEDLE with no mans
property or freedom of speech.