The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-02-12
THE SHIN BONE DEMOCRACY.

In the following running ridicule OF
Congressman Brooks speech against
the negro, the New York Tribune fur
nIshes the gist of the aggregate Cop
perhead clap trap upon the same SUBJ
lject. Says that paper
We have some compassion for a man who
makes speech in Congress, and then suffers
the misery of reading an abstract of it tele-
graphed to the New York papers. He is so
apt to say stupid things in the heat of debate,
and reporters are so apt to catch at the salient
stupidities and let slip the intervening para
graphs of sense. Therefore, when Mr.. James
| Brooks, the other day, made preposterous
speech about the Reconstruction bill, we re-
| Trained from comment because we doubted
| whether the Associated Press gave a fair
synopsis of it. But our doubts were unfourd
ed. Mr.. Brooks is so proud of his folly that
he has just written out his speech. and print
ed it at full length in his own newspaper. 1t
is twenty times worse than we supposed. If
the honorable Representative had made
late supper off few dozen volumes of
Blumembach Camper, Prichard, and Latham,
Mott and Gliddon on the indigenous Races
of the Earth" Mr.. Morton's lively work on
Crania Americana, and Martins 90 Natural
History of Man and Monkeys" this
speech is just such nightmare as might
have naturally followed it. The question
being whether ''nigger is fit to vote, Mr..
Brooks has vision of woody heads, prog
nathous jaws. thick skulls, and crooked shin
bones He dreams of a parcel of sharp ia
cial angles poking holes in the Constitution,
a pair of dingy legs, with ridiculous high
calves, walking into the private dining-room,
great big hands, with fat palms, and thumb
balls scarcely prominent" Selling upon all
the ballot boxes, and CHASTITY black figure,
with spreading femoral bones, and nostrils
which present only transverse aperture"
dancing diabolical jig over the grave of the
Democratic party. He beholds all the mig
ger spectators coming down out of the |
strangers gallery, and marching in hideous
by one door, while the gentlemanly white |
snatch their hats and rush madly
out at another. Then every black man on
the American continent instantly marries
wife Of the pure Caucassien race; Mr..
Brooks himself leads to the altar a daughter
of Africa; the population rapidly grows
brown; the national feet tatten; the national |
hair gets kink the national shin mounts I
gradually up to the leg, and the New York
Express becomes an organ Of "gris-gris.
jujus, and fctichism." Heed, oh heed "
cries Mr.. BROOKS, IN MS agony stTlke, out
hear. Nobody ever minds what say but
my sands of life have nearly run out, and
this is to be my last speech" Look at the
ringers" facial angle-only 70 at the capa-
city Of his skull-only 1871. And yet, oh
my country. there are Radicals who would
let this creature vote. Vote when his
hair, examined through 1.-The microscope,
and microtome Zine climax y
is seen to be nothing but wool with spiral
spring in it. Vote when "his teeth are
,bliquely inserted" Vote when "the mid
lie part of his foot does not touch the
ground" What will become Of the country
when the ballot is given to a man the middle
,art Of whose foot does not touch the ground?