Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-27

menis which belong exclusively to the
7negro--these furnish a field of labor that
the white imam never invades.s or if he
does he is not tempted there by gal
Why, sir. it would take you longer to q n
awhile man, in my State, who wonl
hire himself out as a boot black, or
white women who would go to service as
chambernaid than it took Captain Cook
to sail around the world. For myself, in
thirty years, I have not found single
one.
Would any man take his bootblack
would any lady take her chambermaid in
to compromising? We do not, in the
South, for they are always negroes. Me-
cnanics, overseers, and honest laborers, of
every kind, are taken into companionsnip
and treated, in all respects, as equals 1t
is their right and no one thinks of deny
ing it."
/ was in the Senate when this rhapsody
was uttered, and was not surprised when
Senator A. G. Dodge, of Iowa, a young
msn. not older than Brown, AID Demo
crat without reproach, took the floor in
prompt reply. He was very much ex :
cited. His straight Indian figure, his
strong features; his defiant air, added ef-
feet to the loud tone which rang like u
trumpet calfthrough the chamber:
Mr.. President: have heard. with ming>
led feelings of establishment and regret,
the speach which has just been made by
the Senator from Mississippi. [Mr. Brown
No sentiments to which have ever list
ened during my senatorial career haYe
ever made so unfavorable an impression
as those which have just fallen from him
With perfect respect for the Senator and
| Senate, desire that he and it shall know
my opinions upon some topics connected
with the subject under consideration, and
to which think he has most improperly
alluded. Upon those matters l wish to
say, then. | differ from him as wide
ly as the poles are asunder and if any
thing were wanting now to satisfy me
that there was imminent danger that, al
some period in the history Of this counts
ry, it is to be brought to the shock ofarms
which he has avowed, and the antagonist
| ic ones, going to an entire equality be
| tween the white and black races which have
been uttered by ireesoilers upon this floor,
| would satisfy ne of the fact beyond
doubt. Sir, teltthe Senator from Mlssis>
sippi-I speake it from the floor of the
American Senate in presence OF my faith
| or who will attest It's tru;h-that have
performed and do perform when at home
all of those mental services to which the
senator referred III terms SO grating to my
feelings. AS general thing | saw my
own wood do all my own marketing
| never had a servant to wait upon
me day in my life. / have driven teams
horses, mules and oxen-and considered
myself as respectable then as | now do, OF
as any Senator upon this floor is
Brown replied at once in his best temp
CT, and the exclamation was rec i've,
What added to the interest Of the coca
sion was the fact that, as the son spoke
these glowing words he called as his wit
ness his venerable father, Henry Dodge,
then Senator from Wisconsin who could
not have been less than seventy i've
and had been an Indian fighter in the
Black Hawk war, colonel in the army
Governor of W iconsin, and DELEGATE
when it wasa Territory. His romanti,
history, white hair and Roman dignity
formed striking contrast with the impet
eous manner and vigorous elo luence Of
the young. black haired Senator, his iav-
Orite and devoted SON