The Hickman courier., 1872-02-24

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/ a personal EXPLANATION, he was accorded
/ chat privilege. He proceeded to yindi.
cate himseii at length against the attack
gu him yesterday by NIr Brownlow. lie
delivered powerful invective against
that Senator and the other Governors of
tie Southern States. lie said that thev
I had put Forward Nr Browuiow to attack
him, because be [Brownlow) was Grip
pie and an 'mbecile; bat that Bullock.
/ Reed aud Scott were not cripples. He
was ready to back what he had said in
the House or elsewhere lie was listen
ed TO with marked attention.
NR. BEcK 5 REMARKS.
He ala not intend, he said, to use any
/ billingssate OF slang, or to degrade the
House by any allasions which the mem
bers would say were not emiuenuy prop
er. ItNas more important to him that
he should be right, and that the House
should Tsy that be was right, in the re.
marks 81 which he had been arraigned
IL the sS;mte. In that speech he had
! said s h ~ e:sferror lsroyyrslvs7, ct. Ten
I nessee. had made a paudemonium Of
that Stde. he Beck) had been on the
committee to investigate the condition OF
the South and, when he had come to
look over the condition Of things in
Tennessee from the close of the war for
four years, he saw such state of things
as existed nowhere else on the American
continent And it was because he found
that state of things so existing that he
made the remarks to which exception
had been taken. It these facts did not
exist, then he was guilty Of SANDER; but
if they did exist, and il he should prove
20 the House that that State had been
by misIule made paudemonium for
years after the war closed, then he was
not guilty Of any SANDER lie should
either stand before the House as a willful
and malicious libeier, or he should stand
confirmed by the facts as be would show
them. Before he would say word as 20
the personal attack on himself, he want
ed to slow to the House that he was
right IN saying that Tennessee had been
"a pandmonium for four years.
INTERRUPTED.
Mr., Stevenson, Rep, Ohio asked the
chair, as a question of order whether in
a personal explanation, member had
night to proceed in a general discussion
on the State Of Tennessee.
The Speaker replied that it had been
repeatedly ruled that when a member
was permitted to make a personal cx
planation, he was not limited as to what
be should say, except that he must be
within the rules OF the House.
Nfp urrr--e uor,.r
After further Interruptions. Mr. Beck
resumed his remarks. and reported that
the great point which be desired to make
was that he had not falsely charged any
man when be said that a pandemouium
had been made ia Tennessee II he had
said that the condition of things IN Ten
nessee was he'll, he would have been
nearer the truth
Mr. Stevenson (excitedly) made
SO By demons Laughter
THE TESTIMONY.
AE,.- BeeL--I So. saa.s .ls.a.t "a. man can
ro ad over The record Of Teuue= see and
see how, step by step, that condition Of
things was produced. how men were dis
franchsed, how q militia was organized
and put over lie people, how military
orders were executed. how prOclamltions
were Issued how martial Jaw was decar-
ed and executed, without seeing that
whatI said Of the state Of Tennessee in
that connection was strictly true, and
that it ysas the worst governed State on
the continent. He proceeded to read
from the testimony Of witnesses, who. be
said, we're strictly loyal men. and said
that he would print the rest Of it in the
Globe
STEVENSON AGAIN OBJECTS.
Mr.. Stevenson objected to the printing
of anything that was not read.
WELL SAID
Mr.. Beck-Theu I will read the whole
of it. And / give notice that nothing
shall 60 in the Globe in future that is
not read
SOMETHING PERSONAL.
He then went on to quote from the
testimony of witnesses, and said "On
that was assailed. | was charged with
being the vilest Of men; with having
LETT livery stable and taken up the slave
drivers lash, and with deserving the
seorn and contempt of all decent men. | (
would not notice it but for the fact that
what has been said against me will 60 to (
all the world. | am willing to stand on /
my record before my people at home
They know me they have trusted me /
but they can not speak to the whole (
American people as | can speak to dav .
from this place and when gentlemen I
rise in their places-anywhere, do not
care where-and charge that I am man
who is not TO be trusted, because I am
20 vile and came from so vile quarters.
lnd am guilty Of such vile practices. I
ienoucee it here aud denounee it every
where.
5AUsE or THE ATTACK on MR. BECK
know why all these charges were
made. What [ said about pandemoui-
I'M 10 tennessee was said about all the
'ther southern States, and a good deal
more about some of them. One man
Davis, OF Texas was looking me in the
ace when said it. [ said more against
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, who sat
'y my side, and they are not all cripples;
lot all imbeeiles. [ have never told
ie, and am prepared to prove every fact
have stated here or elsewhere They +,
hought they would put man to speak
.gainst me OF whom they could say that
le IS cripple that he can not write;
hat he can not read that he can not
walk, and they shield themselves behind
lim ney are not all cripples all the
est OF them can walk. | will prove
what | said against every one of them.
nd 1t IS because they know that [ will do
t; 1t IS because Reed, of Florida, Scott.
# South Carolina, and Davis, of Texas,
nd all Of them know that [ will prove
I: because they know that l have been
10 getting up report which
Fill be before the country in less than
reek that they are trying to blacken me,
o that when the people take up the re
'oit ana read 1t they would say, "Oh,
is that fellow Beck who was negro
river tnat saws this y Tbot - 4Ia;r