The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-17

| hcSSSc1 VI III tudt CunueCuOHI was StftCtll
true, and that Il was the worst governed
State on the American continent II,
proceeded to read from the testimony ol
the witnesses, who, he said were truthful
men, and that he would publish the res
OF them In the Globe. 10 'st.H HH
MIR. STEVENSON objected to the print
ing OF anything that was not read.
MIR. BEcK-Then will read the whole
OF it, and | give notice that nothing shall
go in the Globe in tho future, that Is moi
read. lie then went on TO quote from the
testimony Of the witnesses, and said, on
that was assailed. l was charged with
being the vilest Of men, with having left
the livery stable and taken up the slave
drivers lash, and with deserving tho
scorn and contempt ofall decent men.
would not notice It, but for the fact that
what has been said against me, will 90 to
all the world. am willing TO stand on
my record before my people ut home;
they know me; they have trusted me:
but they cannot speak 10 the whole
American people as l can speak to-day
from this place, and when gentlemen rise
In their places anywhere, I do not care
where, and charge that am man who
is not to be trusted, because am SO vile
and came from so vile quarters, and am
guilty OF such vile practices, I denounce II
here and denounce II teverywhere. Iknow
why all these charges were made. What
l said about q pandimonium In Tennessee
was said about all other Southern States,
and good deal more about some of them,
One man DAVIS of Texas) was looking
me in the face when / said it. Isaid more
against Gov. Bullock, Of Georgia, who's at
by my side, and they are not all cripples
and not all imbeciles. l have never told
lie, and am prepared to prove every fact l
have stated here or elsewhere They
thought they would put man to speak
against me of whom they could say,
he is a cripple, he cannot fight, he can.
not read, he cannot walk, and they would
shield themselves behind him, They are
all cripples, yet all Of them can walk. l
will prove what said against every one
OF them, and 1t is because they know
will do it,-It is because Mr. REED, of
Florida, ,ScoTT, OF South Carolina, and
DAVIS, ,of Texas and I'LL Of them know
will prove it. Il is because they know
that lhaye been prominent in getting up
a report which will be before the country
in less than week that they arc trying
to blacken,meso that when the people take
up the report and read 1t they may say:
"Oh! its that fellow BECK, who was nc
gro driver, who says this" That is their
game. That is the reason why they se-
lected poor old imbecile TO attack me.
MIR. STEVENSON again raised the point
of order against Mr.. BECK, but was over
ruled by the SPEAKER, who said he had
been listening very attentively, and the
gentleman from Kentucky had not VIC.
lated any parliamentary rule. :.
MIR. BECK rcsumed-The people of Lex.
ington had sent him to Congress three
times-the last time against his protest,
after his written Geclination. They had
met him with an ovation when he went
home. He was willing to stand ON their
knowledge of him and his character. He
never was in any mans livery stable, and
had never whipped any mans slave nor
his own slaves, though itmight have been
better for them and himself il he had done
so sometimes. The charge that he had
been slave driver was q lie, and he
hurled II back on all those men with the
scorn it deserved. He felt humiliated at
having TO tell all this, and he would
not have done so had the attempt merely
been TO injuro him personally, but the
object was to destroy the power and effect
OF what he had said and Of what he would
continue to say against the carpct-bag
governments Of the South, and all their
frauds, all their cOrruptions, all their ras-
calities. He knew what it was all done
for lie knew why feeble old men had
been selected to attack him by ,6thers
who were more deeply implicated than
he. In order to exhibit Mr.. BRowNLow's
inconsistency in attacking any man as a
slave driver, he read some extracts from
q debate between Mr.. BRowNLow and
MIR. PRUYN some 12 or 15 years ago, in
Philadelphia, in which BRowNLow took
position that American slavery ought to
be perpetuated, that slavery was an in.
evitable condition of human society, and
that God always intended the relation of
master and slave to exist. He (BECK)
commended those extracts to the other
side Of the house. Laughter. He asked
them to read BRowNLow's speech made
in 1859, in which he denounced abolition
ism, and spoke of Vice President Hamlin
as o free negro. AS to BRowNLow's lay
ing the lash on his (BEcK's) back, if he
were stronger than he, was, no man had
ever laid lash on his back, or struck
him a blow, and no man ever should and
live. AIS 70 q Eas "A
Mr.. BRowNLow could not say SO much
MIR. BECK said he meant no disrespect
tothe Senate in any allusion he had made
toit, but whenhe saw the vulture sitting
in the nest;sof the eagle and balloons
taking the place of lions, he protested
against the outrage. He wanted to keep
the Senate pure and high.minded. He
wanted to sec the States represented by
honorable men-not by men who forced
themselves in at the point OF the bayonet,
or by fraud, corruption or ostracism.
That was the way he looked at it, and
that was the way he felt like speaking
about it. In conclusion he thanked the
House for the courtesy It had dcXtended
to him. ~ - Z fltiti ~ lt n
MIR. BECK was listened to with the
greatest interest and attention by the
members Of the House and the crowded
galleries. He spoke with great rapidity
and force, andwas warmly congratulated
by hispolitical friends when he shadeon-
cluded.
The House AGterward passed n large
number of private bills, but did no pub.
lie business, and adjourned 1t three
o'clock.
The session tomorrow is for general