The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-22
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BLACKGUARDIsM.
We have room only for a few extracts
from Senator Brownows attack on Con-
gresham Beck, the whole of which Is
found in the Congressional Globe. Brown
low, who is unable to walk or speak, wrote
the vituperative address, and IL was read in
the senate by the secretary:
Mr.. President, speak to question of
privilege and ask permission Of the SEN
| ate to reply to some aspersions on ny |
| character made by member of the house |
of representatives on the 22d ultino which |
appear in the Congressional Globe of the |
23d. The secretary will find them on page |
7 of that issue, under the name of "Mr. |
Beck -
| "No Sir; I have not time. When |
Georgia elected legislature which was |
democratic, the president through General
Terry and his soldiers, reconstructed that |
state, and put into the legislature ineteen
republicans who had been defeated, turn
ing on, the drly elected democratic MEM
bers, so AS to make 1t republican leg'sia-
ture. The result is that her debts and liza
bilities, as Mr.. Angler, the treasurer shows
were $50, 100000 when Bullock left, many
millions Of which have been stolen, and
|
Those two great states have thus been
pit ndered by the men imposed upon them
by congress and the president against
their will, and so it has been in nearly all
the southern states. Virginia, IL is true,
escaped, as my friend from Indiana Mr..
voorhees, says she never fell under radi-
cal rule and Mississippi happened to
elect one of her own citizens, which par
TALLY saved her for time. In North Car
DINA, Gov. Holden was successfully inn
peached for high crimes and misdemear.
ors he is now editor of the government
organ at Washington City. Gov. Bullock
of Georgia, resigned his position, and fled
from the state to prevent certain convic-
tion for like offenses. Gov. Smith, OF AL
ALBANIA, retired in disgrace, proved to have
officially plundered his state by the illegal
and corrupt issue of $500, 900 Of her bonds
to the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
company Scott, of South Carolina, prov
ed by his own partisans to be public
plunderer, who if he escapes impeachment
must buy his corrupt Legislature; Reed o.:
robbed his State by illegally by the plac.
ing millions Of her bonds in the hands of
such n thiefas Littlefeld is shown to he |;
Clayton, of Arkansas, charged by radical
officials with all sorts of corruption, aud
indicted in q radical court by u radical
gcand jury for the most fragrant offenses ;
Wsrmoth of Louisiana, if half that is said
against him by his own party friends be
true, is worse than any of them; Brown
low, while in Tennessee, making pande-
moniun of that State; Davis of Texas, a
tyrant and usurper, who is denounced by
, his people, regardless of party, AS n fend
in human form, whose orders and acts are
disgrace to American civilization-these
are the men placed by Congress over
seven million people in nine once free and
independent States men who are loathed
and execrated by the people whose rights,
liberty and honor 1t was their, duty ia
protect. Retributive justice is on their
tracks; some have been overtaken, the
Others will be. Hated and despised, their
only refuge, if they can escape the peni-
Tertiary, Seems to be in the Senate of the
United States"
l beg leave to state that some ten days
had elapsed after the utterance of these
remarks before they were called to my at.
tention aud rs they assaulted my official
ntegrity while Governor of Tennessee
hrve delayed my response in order to re-
ceive ION home some facts which prove
their
RECKLEssNEsS AND FALsITY.
The charges of Mr.. Beck are, in genera
terms, that the Southern states have beer
= plundered by men imposed upon them by
congress and the president against theil
will, with particular reference to mysel
;. vs. "Brownlow, while in Tennessee, making
n pandemonlum of that state and in or
der that / may not escape the imputation
of want of integrity or unmitigate'
scoundreism which he hurls at the south
ern governments, he further says:
These are the men placed by congress
over seven million people in nne once fire.
Is and independent states; men who ar
# loathed and execrated by the people who's
IS rights, liberty, and honor it was their dut.
i TO protect. Retributive justice is on thci
r track; some have been overtaken, tn
S others will be. Hated and despised, thei
W o " refuge. if they can escape the peniten
s tiary, seems to be in the senate of the L nj
n ted States. "
At AS am one of the two governors al
D. luded 10, now senators of the United State
1t these general charges apply to me, and
IT cannot permit them to go unanswered t
N the country.
II have had nothing to do with the at
s. minstration of any other state than tn
r one have the honor to represent in pal
,e in the senate; and shall therefore contin
n my reply to that portion of Mr.. Beck's n
ID marks which asperse the government an
r. myself personally.
There was time in the history of IN
no life when Mr.. Beck would not have dare
C. to put this or any other insult upon m
ne for fear / would have taken from his han
ne the slave-whip with which, as an ovel
I'd seer on IL Kentucky plantation, he was a
A customed to
De WHIP NEGROES FOR PAY,
~ and laid it across his own back. The coo
8 by which the gentlemen of Kentuck
en were governed in those days, having in
:" certain principles of honor, would M
~ have reached low enough down in the s.
re- cial scale to find his level; for when
~ Abandoned the honorable pursuit of no
W tier in the livery stable to become sla'
~ ~ driver, he betrayed the possession of qua
"a ties which the gentlemen of old Kei
~ lucky never ceased to despise.
10 If the oyerseers of Kentucky whippe
IN the negroes under their slave system
TX labor, the gentlemen from Kentucky
ne il said to their credit, sometimes whipp'
gu the overseers they did not fight wi
cs- them. Their code of honor forbade
III But both of these methods have gone o
on of date, and in the upheavals of the CT,
On war we find men who were once ovs
seers aspiring to the seats formerly NIL
by Clay and Crttenden, announcing t
senate as a house of refuge for thieves, al
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