Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-17

be trusted because am so vile AM
came from such vile quarters, an,
am guilty of such vile practices, de
nOunce it here and denounce il every
where. l know why all these charge
are made. What I said about q pan
demonium in Tennessee was salt
about all other Southern States, ans
a good deal more about some of them
One man Davis, of Texas1 was look
ing me in the face when I said it, and
said more against Gov. Bullock, o
Georgia, who sat by my side, and the,
are not all cripples-nOt all imbeciles
l have never told a lie and am pre-
pared to prove every fact stated here
or elsewhere. They thought they
would put man to speak against me
Of whom they could say that he is 8
cripple; that he cannot write, that hC
cannot read and cannot walk, and
then shield themselves behind him
they are not all crippled; the rest o.
them can walk. l will prove what
said against every one Of them, and il
is because they know I will do it.
1t Is because Reid of Florida, Scott Of
South Carolina and Davis OF Texas,
and all of them, know l have been
prominent in getting up a report
which will be before the country in
less than q week, and they are trying
to blacken me, 80 that when the peO-
pie take up the report and read it,
they may say; "Oh, it's that fellow
Beck, who was q negro-dTiver, that
says this" That is their game; that
is the reason why they selected poor
old imbecile to attack me.
Mr.. Stey enson again made a point
of order against Mr.. Beck, and was
again Overruled by the speaker, who
said he had been listening very atten-
lively, and that the gentleman from
Kentucky had not violated any par
uamentary rule.
Mr.. Beck resumed.
The people of his district had sent
him to congress three times-the last
time against his protest and after his
written declinatiOn. They had met
him with OvatioDs when he went
home. He was willing to stand on
their knowledge of him and his char
acter. He never was in any mans
livery stable, and had never whipped
any mans slave, nor his own slaves;
though it might have been better
for them and better for himself
il he had done SO sometimes.
The charge that he had bean q slave
driver was lie, and he hurled it
back on all those men with scOrn who
deserved it. He felt humiliated at
having to do all this, and he would
not have done 80 had the attempt been
made merely to iDjUre him personsl-
ly, but the object was to destroy the
power and effect of what he said and
OF what he would continue to say
against the carpetbag government of
the South, and all their frauds, all
their corruption and all their rascali-
ties. ne knew Wnat it was done for. /
He knew bow feeble the old man was
who had been selected to attack him |
by others who were more deeply i'm
plicated than he.
In order TO exhibit BrOwnioW's con- |
in attacking any man as a |
he read some extracts |
rom debate between BrOWnlOW and |
Payne twelve or fifteen years ago In |
Philadelphia, in which BroWnIOW |
took the position that American sla-
very ought to be perpetuated, that |
slavery YVES Inevitable to the eondi.
ion of human society, and that God |
Always intended the relation Of mas
.er and slave to exist. He LBeck |
commended these extracts to the 9TH
II side of the house. Laughter.
He then asked them to read Brown
0R's speeches made in 1860, in which
le denounced the sbolitiopists, and
poke of Vice. President Hamlin as a
rec negro. As to BroWpl9W's laying
he lash on his Beck'sl back Il
le were stronger than he was,
le said no man ever laid a lash on his
'ack or struck him q blow, and no
nan ever should and live; BrownIow
ould not say so much for himself, as
Fayette McMullin knew.
He Beck was no braggart and no
'lackguard. Any fish-wOman could
'eat him at abuse, but he Fepelled,
With honest indignation, the charge
made against him that he had ever
cen guilty Of anything unworthy Of
imseii, or his family, or his people.
I he had been, he would not be here.
1e represented the pro4dest district
4 America district that had more
apaclty to produce all that was re-
uisite for human life than many of
he States.
Mr.. Beck said be meant no disre-
peet to the senate by any aliUsiOn he
ad made TO it, but when he saw vul-
1res sitting In the nest of the eagle
nd balloons taking the place OF lions,
g protested against the outrage. He
7anted t. keep the senate pure and
igh-minded. He wanted to see the
tates represented by honorable men,
OF by men who forced themselves in
le senate by the point of the bayonet
+ by fraud. corruption, chicanery or
5tracism. That was the wy he looked !
it; that was why he felt like speak
g about it.
In conclusion he thanked the house !
r the courtesy that had been ex-
nded him. Is
Mr.. Beck was listened to with the /
-eatest attention by the members of 8
le house and crowded galleries. He
'Oke with rapidity and force, and was '
armly congratulated by mis- political c
lends when he concluded, 4