The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-20

orv.stabic and taken up the slave-drivers
lash and with deserving the
scorn and contempt Of all decent men.
would not notice II, but for the fact that
what has been said against me will go TO
all the world. / am willing to stand forth
on my record before my people Mt home.
They know me. They have trusted me,
but they cannot speak to the whole Amer
lean people as / can speak to-day from
this place, and when gentlemen rise in,
their places anywhere, do not care where
and charge that am not a man to be
trusted because / am so vile and came
from so vile quarters, and am guilty of
such vile practices, denounce it here, and
dcnounce it everywhere. 1 know why all
these charges are made. What l said
about pandemonium in Tennessee was
said about all the other southern states,
and good deal more about some of them.
One man, Davis of Texas, was looking me
in the face when l said it. l said more
against Governor Bullock, of Georgia, who
sat by my side, and they are not all Grip
Piles, not all imbeciles. l have
never told lie, and 1 am
prepared to prove every fact that l have
stated here or elsewhere. They thought
they would put man to speak against me
of whom they could say that he is a Grip.
pie, that he cannot write, that he cannot
read, that he cannot walk, and they shield
themselves behind him. They are not all
cripples. All the rest of them can walk.
/ will prove what said against every one
of them, and it is because they know l
will do 1t, it is because Reid of Florida,
Scott of South Carolina, and Davis of Tex
as, and all of them know that will prove
it, because they know that / have been
prominent in getting up report which
will be before the country in less than a
week, that they are trying to blacken me-
so that when the people take up that re-
port and read 1t they may say, 40, he is
That fellow Beck, who was a nigger-driver,
that says this. That is their game.
That is the reason why they selected q poor
old imbecie to attack me-
Mr.. Stevenson again made point Of Or
der against Mr.. Beck, and was again over
ruled by the speaker, who said he had
been listening attentively, and the gentle
man from Kentucky had violated no par
liamentary rule.
Mr.. Beck resumed: The people of Lex
ington had sent him to congress three
times; the last time against his protest
and after his written decination. They
had met him with ovations when he went
home. He was willing to stand on their
knowledge of him ard his character. He
never was in any mans livery stable, and
had never whipped any mans slaves nor
his own slaves, though it might have been
been better for himself and them had he
done so sometimes. The charge that he
was slave-driver was a lie, and he
hurled it back on all those men with the
scorn 1t deserved. lie felt Inundated at
having to tell all this, and he would not
have done SO had the attempt merely been
to injure 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 carpet-bag
governments OF the south, and all their
frauds all their corruptions all their ras-
calities. He knew what it was all for. He
knew that this feeble old man had been
selected to attack him, by others who were
more deeply implicated than he.
In order to exhibit Mr. Browlow's con-
sistency in attacking any man us a slave
driver, he read some extract from the de-
bate between Brownlow and Pruyn, twelve
or fifteen years ago, in Philadelphia, in
which Brownlow took the position that
American slavery ought to be psrpetuated
of human society, and that God always in.
tended the relation of master and slave to
exist. He (Beck) commended these ex.
tracts to the other side of the house.
Laughter. He then asked them to read
Mr.. Brownlow's speeches made in 1860, in
which b. denounced tho oboIitionist, and
spoke of Vice President Hamlin ms a free
negro. .
As to Mr.. Brownlow's laying the lash
on his (Becks) back, if he were stronger
than he was, he said no man ever laid
lash on his back or struck him blow,
and no man ever should and live Mr.
Brownlow could not say so much for him
self as Fayette McMulen knew. He
Beck was no braggart and no black
guard. Any fish woman could beat him
at abuse, but he denied with honest indi-
gnation the charge made against him that
he had ever been guilty of anything I'M
worthy either of himself his family, or his
people. If he had been, he would not be
here. He represented the proudest dis
Lrict in America; district that had more
capacity to produce all that was requisite
for human life than many of the States.
Mr.. Beck said he meant no disrespect to
the senate in any allusion he had made to
1t, but when he saw a vulture sitting in
the nest OF the eagle, and balloons taking
the place of lions, he protested against the
outrage. He wanted to keep the senate
pure and high minded. lie wanted to see
the states represented by honorable men,
not by men who forced themselves on them
Mt the point of the bayonet, or by fraud,
corruption, chicanery or ostracism. That
was tho way they looked at it. That was
the way he felt like speaking about 1t.
In conclusion, he thanked the house for
the courtesy it had extended him.
Mr.. Beck was listened to with the great
est interest and attention by the members
Of the house and crowded galleries. He
spoke with great rapidty and force and
was warmly congratulated By his political
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