Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-02-18
John Young Brown.

JOuu 1OuuS DIOWu.
/ Extract from a report OF the
debate on the Civil Rights Bill ]
Mr.. Brown, Of Kentucky, op
posed the bill, although he &C.
knowledged that it was a foregone
conclusion hat to.day's sun would
set upon it as the law of the land
Men on the Republican side had
been dragooned into its support
Its success had been in measure
accomplished by daring and revo
Iutionary invasions on the time
honored rules of the House. II
had been born in mAlignity and
would be passed in defiance and
violation of the constitution, and
would be executed in violence and
bloodShed, as be feared.
Mr.. Hale, of New York, object
ed 20 the last sentence as unparli-
amentary, but it having been re
dnced to writing and read from
the Clerks desk, the Speaker ruled
that it did not transcend the limits
of parliamentary debate.
Mr.. Brown, continuing his re
marks, said he regarded the bill
AS part OF the machinery to be
set in motion in 1876. He be
lieved deliberate conspiracy had
been formed for the overthrow OF
constitutional liberty. You men,
said he, who propose to pass this
bilI. have been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting.
The speaker informed Mr.
Brown that he must address the
chair.
Mr.. Brown--Mr. Speaker, your
conduct in this and other matter;
! laughter at be effect of Brown;
obedience to the Speaker reminds
me Of passage i'll Junius, where
he describes bad tenant having
received notice to quit breaking
the furniture, putting the house
in disorder and doing all that I've
could to veX the landlord. Mr.
Speaker, the South is broken il
lies in helplessness and despair
with homes dilapidated, village
wasted, its people bankrupt, is
there nothing in that situation tc
touch your pity If your magma
nimity cannot be reached, will
you not be moved by some sense
Of justice BY the conspiracy
between the Attorney General
and kellogg and the drunken
Federal Judge, the sovereignty of
a State was overthrow. The u.
surpation has been perpetuated
since by the bayonets. But ie-
Gently one of our Generals enter
ed the legislative halls, as Crom-
well enter, d English Parliament
with Col. Pride, and ruthlessly
expelled tho occupants. Onward
and onward you 60, in defiance of
the sentiment of the country,
without pity and without justice,
remorselessly determined, itseems,
to drive the Southern people to
destruction, to give their roofs to
the fumes and their flesh to the
eagles. A Federal General steps
on the scene and sends dispatch
to the world that tie people of
that State are banditti. We have
heard it echoed elsew here that they
were thieves and murderers and
night riders. The clergy OF that
State, Jew and Gentle, have de-
MED it. The business men and
Northern residents have denied
it. A committee of your own
house, majority being Repub-
licms, has given it solemn
emphatic contradiction and nailed
the SANDER to the counter. Now
what should be said if that accu.
sation should come from one
speak not of men, but of language
within the rules OF this House-if
that &C usation against that PEG,
; pie should come from one who is
outlawed in his own home from
respectable society, whose name is
synonymous with falsehoo6, VIII o
! is the champion, and has been
such on all occasions of fraud, who
is the apologist of thieves, who is
such prodigy of vice and mean
ness that to describe him imagi-
nation would sicken and iuvective
exhaust itself? In Scotland,
years ago, there was a man whose
trade was murder, and be earned
bis livelihood by selling the bodies
Of his victims for gold. He linked
his name to his crime, and to- day
throughout the world it is known
as "Burking."
The Speaker-Does the chair
understand the gentleman to be
referring to a meml er of this
House?
Mr.. Brown--No, sir. / am de-