Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-05-31
that syllabus issued but recently, with

of religion, at the freedom of repre-
sentative government, and at the
rights OF the people to establish and
maintain their own forms of govern
ment; in short all advanced and ac
cepted ideas of the nineteenth centu-
ry. and he did not believe that any
gentleman on the opposite side OF the
House would dare this day to repub-
lish that syllabus and declare that he
accepted it as his creed, either moral
ly or politically.
Mr.. Dawes, referring to Mr. Brooks,
said he knew he denied having ever
been in Know Nothing Lodge, but
that did not alter the fact of his hav-
ing been an advocate Of the Know
Nothing doctrine.
Mr.. Brooks-It is not so; it is not
true. (Excitement.)
Mr.. Dawes, not noticing the inter-
ruption, said that Mr.. Brooks had un-
dertaken to derive all the benefit from
the Know Nothing organization while
keeping his head out of the halter
AS to the gentleman from Indiana
CMr. Voorhees, and his talk about
the burning Of converts and witches,
he would not be provoked into re-
ply. That was an old story, all worn
out.
Mr.. Voorhees,, in reply to Mr..
Bingham, reminded him that he (Bing-
ham) had charged the Democratic
side Of the House with trying to win
votes by their position on this sub
ject, and that in deliberative bodies,
when blows are struck, they are apt
TO be returned. As to the remarks
Of the gentleman from Massachusetts
Dawes that the burning Of Massa-
chusettS witches and converts was an
Old story and mean story, and that
/. did not improve with time. When
the gentleman representing communi-
ties which had signalized their bigotry
in that way, and came here to put
that bigotry iato practical action, he
thought it fair to remind them of their
previous history. AS for the syllabus,
/ he said, what care for the syllabus
Of the Pope of Rome, or his promulga-
ton Of it, or for his followers. 1t is
bis right to do so. 1t is their right
to believe, and it is not my right to
sit in Judgment on him. Mr.. Brooks,
referring to the charges Of Know
NothiaCism, said that he had stated
over and over again in the House that
he had never been in a Know Moth
ing lodge, and had never belonged to
the Know Nothing party. had never
advocated its principles and never
believed in them, and was iourneying
in foreign lands during a large part
OF the time OF that unhappy agitation.
Mr.. Hoar declared that the state
mcnt as to the burning of witches in
| Massachusetts is entirely false-that
no human being had ever been burned
st the stake within the limits of the
/ Commonwealth ofMassachusetts.
Mr.. VOORHEES, (excitedly)--That
is not true.
Mr.. HOar went on to say that 24O
years ago, when the whole civilized
world believed in witchcraft, on the
authority of the books of the Old
| Testament, the Courts of MaSSachu.
/ setts condemned and executed some
/ 19 or 20 persons Of both sexes; but
/ it was also true that, first among men
the people Of Massachusetts, had seen
the error and wickedness Of their pro
ceedings. 1t was her love of liberty
daughter on the Democratic side
that first exposed the error and wick
edness Of Furnishing human beings fol
that; the ministers of the gospel, ,ju
rors and counSels had formed an al
most repentant procession, and haC
asked the pardon of God and theil
neighbor5 for it. Laughter on the
Democratic side.) The distinguished
Chief Justice Sewell has stood up il
his place in the church, bareheaded
and acknowledged his error, while
his contemporary, Sir Matthew Hale
never saw the folly and wickednes;
Of his proceedings in the courts Q
England, and in the diary of Chic
f Justice Sewall was found opposite tht
record of those trials the Latin words
o. sorrow, Vac, vac, vac! (woe, woe
woe , As to the burning of converts
in Massachusetts, the matter was sim
ply this : in 36,the rumor had spreat
on the evening through the streets 0
Boston Of some terrible cruelty prac
tised in the neighboring town 0
, Charleston on some young woman
who had been placed there, and th'
, mob in the dusk of the evening hat
! passed over the bridge and SOM
! wicked men, such as are always foun,
: in large cities, set fire to that convent
: But what had Massachusetts done
, She has arrested, tried, sentenced an
, punished the criminals and the Grim
+ was no more to be imputed to he
than any crime ever committed with
= in the limits of the civilized commu
= nifty. In conclusion, he said it di
, not become the political friends c
: the man who had burned alive ou
, soldiers at Fort Pillow, or of thos
men who had burned the orphan asy
lum at New York and had hung NJ
+ groes on lamp posts, to talk of tn
:, cruelty in the past age
t Before Mr.. Hoar could finish hi
c sentence, Mr.. Voorhees, and severs
5 other Democratic members vocifer:
y ted "Order, order" rose, and NJ
5 VOORHEES, exclaimed, at the top of hi
t voice, and in highly excited manner
every word he said was false, an
be knows it," At this time man
). members were on their feet maxim
excited gestures and motions of var
], Gus kinds, amid which nothing coul
}, be distinctly recognized by the chai
Y Mr.. Hoar was rigidly cool and ser
! Gus after having launched the dal
! which had so stung Mr.. Voorhees,
(? Mr.. VOORHEES, was repeating th
If charge of falsehood against Mr. Hoa
h and refusing to take it back or mod
O fly it, Messrs. Stevens, Cox and other
= demanding that the offensive wore
q be taken down.
r Finally, Mr.. Voorhees's remark
o having been written out by the of
l. cial reporter and read, were declare
I b1, tbo obo,rp,ap mr. TprarcnIlN q