The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-05-15
"PRoPRIETY OF SPEECH

"PRoPRIETY OF SPEECH"
Evarts Rasps the Woman Hanging Bing-
lam and the spoon-stealing Butler.
Upon the charge of CONGRESS HANGING
ON THE VERGE OF GOVERNMENT" SO much
objected to by the Radical managers, after
quoting severe personal invectives against
the President by Senators Sumner and
Howard, Mr.. Evarts goes on:
"We have" says he, ga report in the
House of Representatives of debate be-
tween two of the most distinguished mes1.g
bers Of that body who can, as well as
Nsips the purpose of this trial, furnish
II yhatls called by the honora-
riety of speech"
Id:
81, Mr.. Chairman, that it
gentleman who recorded
snes for Jefferson Davis, the
Of d the rebellion Eroars of laugh
tar |, asthis candidate for the Presidency of
the United States, to undertake to damage
his cause by attempting to fasten the impu-
tation either on my integrity or my honor.
repel with scorn and contempt any utter
ances Of that sort from any man, whether
he be the hero of Fort Fisher not taken, OF
Fort Fisher taken" [COntinuous laugh
ter.
Mr.. Butler after some remarks, said :
But If during the war the gentleman from
Ohio did as much as did in that direc-
ton shall be glad to recognize that much;
but the only victim of the genlleman's PROV
ess that I know of was an innocent woman
hung upon the scafold, one Mrs. Surratt,
and can sustain the memory of Fort Fish
er. if he aud his present associates can sus-
tain him in shedding the blood of an inno-
cent woman, who was tried by a military
commission and convicted without suffi-
cient evidence in my judgment.
Mr.. Bingham with spirit replied
1 challenge the gentleman, dare him
here or anywhere in this tribunal or any
tribunal, to assert that spoilated OF mutt
lated any book but such a charge with
out one title of evidence, is only fit to come
from a man who lives in q bottle and is fed
| " ith a spoon.
What that refers 10 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
gentlemen were debating upon Why, it
was charity.
A Senator-What?
Mr.. Evarts-C Charity question of char
ity to the South. That was the whole sta
pie of the debate. "Charity which suffer
eth all things and is kind" daughter. }
"Charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself; it is not pufed up doth not be-
have itselfunseemly seeketh not her own
is not ca silly provoked; thinketh no evil
reioiceth not in inequality, but rejOiceLh in
the truth beareth all things believelh
all things; hOpeth all things; endureth all
things charity never fails" But the
apostle adds, what may not be exactly true
in regard to the managers, tongues may
fail" (Laughter.) But noW--to be Sc
rious In free republic who will tolerate
this farfarnade about speech making?
When Cromwell, in his career through
Ireland, in the name of Parliament, had sci
himself down before the town of Ross, and
summoned it to surrender, this Papisi
community, exhausted in it's resistance
asked to surrender only on condition o
freedom of conscience. Cromwell replied
GAS to freedom of conscience, I meddle
with no mans conscience, but If you near
by that, liberty to celebrate the mass,
would have you to understand that in NJ
place where the power of the Parliament o
England prevails shall that be permitted ,
So the honorable managers do not com.
plain of freedom of speech, but if any mar
says that the House of Representatives ii
hanging on the verge of the government
We are to understand that in no place where
the power Of the two Houses of Congress
prevails. shall that be permitted, although
they meddle with no mans property oI
freedom Of speech.
Mirabeau, when asked by a friend which
was the better, the single or the married