Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-03-08

scorn it deserves but when 1t has been
used in a place and at time when the
whole American people can hear it,
and when the .
~ b sCURRILOUS REMARKS
bear upon what / may have said In
my official position here, and OH what
I am about to do or say and am doing,
as member of a great committee sf
this House, so as to be little and put
me down because of the ASSUMPTION
that the member who says it is unwor-
thy of confidence, consideration, and
the respect of honest men, then l say
that have right to stand up in my
place and say to the Representatives Of
the people and the country that the
statements made about me were
UNQUALIFIEDLY AND MALICIoUsLY
itE FALSE.
OF course | was an humble man; /
never denied it. My people Know that
| whatever l have acquired / have OBJ
tanned by the sweat of my brow. by
| the legitimate use of the intellect God
has given me, and By the labor of my
own hands. / went TO the State Of
Kentucky. hardly yet man, in the
fall of 1913, and was there just one year
and one day before the Presidential
election of 1874, when cast my first
vote for my great predecessor, Henry
Clay. .
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My people know me; they sent me
to this House three different times, the
| last time against my protest, and in
spite of written declaration that |
did not desire to be renominated.
They have met me with ovations at
home such as
NO CARPET-BAGGER IN THE SOUTH
EVER HAS OR EVER WILL RECEIVE,
no matter what position he may hold,
| and | am willing to stand upon their
knowledge of me and of my charac-
ter.
never was in any mans livery sta
bic. If. had been would not have
been ashamed of it. / never whipped
any mans slaves, not even my own,
though perhaps it would have been
better for me and them both if had
done so sometimes; and the charge
made against me that i was merely
cruel, degraded slave-Griver and a
bostler, is q lie, no matter IOhO says IL,
and IhurLH back ogaiRSt the man lVhO
says at, and my people lOiA hltrL it back
,Oith the Indignation and ScOrn that ii
deSeTUes.
/ regret, as L said, / feel humiliated
to have to state even this about myself
l would not have done il if it had not
been reflection on the people i repre-
sent, who would be disgTaced by such
a Representative as | am charged TO be;
and if it had not been that | know the
charge was made not so much against
me personally as to destroy before tEe
country the power and effect of what
l had said and what / intend to con-
tinue.tO say against these carpet-bag-
ger governments at the South, and all
their
FRAUDS coRRUPTIONS ANB RAsCALI-
TIES.
1 do not intend to allow it; that is
my excuse for Obtruding my personal
history on the House. L know the
combination that is doing it. 1t is not
one feeble old man only; he is merely
put forward and made to say mean
things, to become the mOuth-piece of
Others who are worse men and far more
deeply implicated than he,
IN REFERENCE TO HIS TALK ABOUT
SLAVERY.
I hold book in my hand which was
written in part by that old man, in
which he says:
Not only will throughout this dis
cussion openly and boldly take the
ground that slavery, as it exists in
America, ought TO be perpetuated, but
that slavery is an established and
inevitable condition to human society.
l will maintain that God always inten-
ded the relation of master and slave to
exist that Christ and the early teach
ers of Christianity found slavery, diff
fering in no material respect from
American slavery, Incorporated into
every department of society that in
the adoption of rules for the govern
ment of society, and of the church,
they provided tor the rights of owners
and the wants OF slaves +; that slavery
having existed ever since the first Or
ganizatiOn of society, it will exist to
the end of time.
Millions of dollars have been spent,
and hundreds of valuable lives sacri-
feed in the attempt TO evangellZe the
negroes of A frica, and yet slavery
the abhorred, cursed and reyiled in
stitution of slavery-has brought five
times more negroes into the fold of the
church than all the missionary opera
tions of the world combined. Slavery
has tanned, civilized, ChristianiZed, if
you please, the brutal negroes brought
to our shores by New England kid
nappers it has elevated them physi-
cally, mentally, morally, ana there
fore it has proved blessing TO them,
and ought to he perpetuated.
II RECOMMEND THAT BOOK
to the consideration of the other side
of the House. AS to the man who is
maligning me, it is a habit with him
to indulge in such things. ISyou will
read his speeches made in 1860 you
will find Mr.. Lincoln denounced as ali
AbOlitionist, and worse you will find
Mr.. Hamlin, then candidate for Vice
President, spoken of as "free ne
gro" could quote page after page of
charges made against him intimately
worse than any ever made. Yet this
| man talks OF laying lash over my
| back. No man has ever laid lash
over my back or struck me blow,
AND NEVER SHALL AND LIVE.
am no bully and no braggart. /
do not know that he can say as much.
Mr. Fayette McMullen knows wheth-
er he can or not, as / am informed.
do not intend, as have said, 10 in
dulge in any biliIugsate, am no
blackguard. do not is ht with
THE WEAPONS OF THE POLECAT.
The fish women Of the town can beat
at that. But l will repel with honest
Indignation charges made against me
come from what source they may. that
either in my personal or official char
aeter, IS a member of the House or as
gentleman, have ever been guilty
of anything unworthy of myself, my
family, and my people. If had been
the man i am charged with being, l