The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-24

the North to Cape Horn on the South
ern verge ofSouth America. They set
tied Mexico and Venezuela, New Gre
NADIA and Chill, and Peru, and coast
ing all the Northern Pacific. imprinted
the holy classic names of old Spain up
on the now golden mountains ant
wine covered valleys of the State o
California. They climbed the snow
cordilleras, and planted their banner OF
every hill and every valley Of Mexico
Peru and Chill. They drove Montezu
ma from the halls Of his Aztec ances
tors, and under Cortez and Pizarro
Peruvian, Mexican and semi barbarian
civilization fell before the mighty prov
ess of therarms. Their heroic deeds
their lofty chivalry, their Christian 10y.
atty now read more like the romances
Of Froissart than as they are, the true
records Of History.
Our Anglo Saxon fathers started Ia.
ter from the shores Of England and
landed upon the rock Of Plymouth OF
upon the flats Of jamestown. The
Puritan himself, trembling overhis rock
for awhile, in terror of the tomahawli,
yenturcd ut last on what was deemed
gigantic heroism. He crossed the Con-
nccNicut and the Hudson and slowly
cropt up the Mohawk and halted fol
years, and years upon Lakes Erie, On
tario, and Huron. The cavaliers o.
jamestown threaded their way up the
river James, stealthily wound over the
passes oftho Alleghanics, and Looked
down at last with astonishment and
alright upon Ia belle riviere of Ohio.
But all this time these heroic Hidalgos
of Spain were spreading the name and
fame of CASTLE and Arragon tn rough
out the whole American continent,
from Florida on the North TO Cape
Horn on the South, and from Cape
Horn to California, while our Anglo
Saxon race stood shivering upon the
Ohio and Lake Erie without the cour-
age to advance further. What, sir,
happened then? What has produced
this difference between us and the lof-
ty 1Iidalgo? Why are they fallen,
these men Of the Armada, so exalted
among all the nations Of the earth, who
made our ancestors in the days of
Queen Elizabeth, tremblc on the
throne! Why was it that in the Mex
lean war one regiment Of our Anglo
Saxon, Celtic, Tcutonic blood, again
and again, put whole regiments of
these once noble lIidalgos of Spain to
tIght at Chapultepcc, the Garila and
elsewhere? will tell you why. Sir.
The Latin, the Spaniah race, freed from
,hat instinct Of ours, which abhors all
hybrid amalgamation, reve e | in IA
tally tempting admiNturo of blood
indulgcd in social and governmental co
partnership with Aztccs, Indians, ne
grocs, ,onc and all. The pure blood,
the azure blood of the old hidalgos Of
Spain, lost and drained, dishonored
and degraded, has dwindled into moth,
ing, while the pure blood of the Anglo.
SaXons, the Celts, the Tcutons, abhor
ing all such association and amalgama-
ton with the negro, or the Indian, has
leoped over Lake Erie, crossed Ia belle
rivicre, the great Father of Waters, the
Mississippi, crowded the mountain pas
ses Of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and
Montana, rolled over the Rocky Noun,
tains, and spread for hundreds of miles
on the Pacific Oceail--carrying not on.
ly there, but everywhere, triumphant,
from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the
glorious flag Of our country, that EN-
blcm of a pure race, and ever contrast
ing the glory and honor, the prowess
Of tliat race, with the degradation of
the race Of these once noble hidalgos of
Spain.
Sir, You are on the eve now of an
association and copartnership with o
like inferior race, which, if the people
do not drive you from this capital, will
he destructive Of us all, as has been q
like co-partnerslip to the Spaniards,
the Turks, the Moors, and til Arabs.
! have recalled these sacred lessons of
history, and hold them up to you for
your a,lmonition and warning. Heed,
oh, heed Strike but hear! | have
sir, and will publish, in a note II table
OF the different admiyturcs of races
which have brought about the utter
degradation Of the white race in parts
of Spanish America, and | hold them
up to You as what you are legislating
to make of US.
Here AIr. Brooks exhibited a list show
ing eparentagc ofthe different variety of
half-castes. and also their designations,
which we have not room for in the Home
Journal.l
Now, Sir, this may be the last time
in this Congress, when l shall have TN
opportunity thus at length to address
a white audience upon the floor of
this House. (Laughter.) Aye, you
are so hurrying up this reconstruction,
as you call it, that the African will soon
come down from your galleries, and
make his appearance here upon the
floor, side by side with you, as a man
and u brother. He is soon to be with
IN you,and part you, a representative
upon this floor. l tell you, gentlemen,
that you make fatal political mistake,
for it will not be acquisecod in by the
Northern people, and your violent,
revolutionary acts here will be resistcdI
in the elective Tribunals, elsewhere.
In order to obtain few additional me-
gro representative votes upon this floor
from the South, you are jeoparding
the domination Of your party in the
great North and West. The Northern
people are sound upon the subject orl
race, and where Ethnology is discussed I
scientifically in the primary assemblies
Of the people, they will become more
and more sound and become more and
more converts to the principles have
been laying down to-day. But know
Sir, that it is vain for me to invoke
the majority Of this House to nanse