The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-02-11
CIVIL RIGHTS
As illustrated in Congress,

The debate on the Civil Rights bill in
the House was continued on Thursday
the 4th inst, and after several minor
speeches pro and con, Mr.. John Young
Brown of Kentucky, got the floor.
Mr.. Brown opposed the bill, though he
acknowledged it was foregone conclu.
sion that to-day's sun would set upon il
as the law OF the land. Men on the Re.
publican side had been dragooned into its
support. It's success had been in meas.
ure accomplished by daring revolutionary
invasions Of the e-henored rules oil
the House. 1t had been born in malig.
nifty, and would be passed in defiance and
shed, as he feared.
Mr.. Hale, of New York, objected to
the last sentence as supplementary, but
it having been reduced to writing and
read from the clerk S desk, the Speaker
ruled it did not transcend the rules Of
parliamentary debate.
Mr.. Brown continuing his remarks said
he regarded the bill as part Of the ma
chinery to be set in motion in the cam
paign OF 1873. He believed that DELHI
crate conspiracy had been formed for the
owe rthrow of constitutional liberty.
You men, said he, who propose to pass
this bill have been weighed in the balance
and found wanting.
The Speaker informed Mr.. Brown he
must address the chair.
Mr.. Brown. Mr.. Speaker, your con.
duct in this and other matters, daughter
at the effect of Browns obedience to the
Speaker), reminds me Of the passage in
Junius where he describes bad tenant.
/ have received notice to quit breaking
the furniture, putting the house in disor-
der and doing all could to vex the land
lord. Mr.. Speaker, the South is broken.
1t lies in helplessness and despair, with
homes dlapidated, villages wasted, its
people bankrupt. Is there nothing in
that situation to touch you with pity
If your magnanimity cannot be reached,
will.you not be moved by the sense of
justice! In 1872, by conspiracy be-
tween the attorney general and Kellogg
and drunken federal judge, the SOW
ereignty Of State was overthrown. That
usurpation has been perpetrated since by
bayonets. But recently one Of your
generals entered the legislative halls, as
Cromwell entered the English Parliament,
and ruthlessly expelled it's occupants.
Onward and onward you 60, in defiance of
the sentiment Of the country, without
pity or justice, remorselessly determined,
it seems, to drive the Southern people to
distinctions to give their office to the
flames and their flesh to the eagles. A
federal general steps on the scene and
sends dispatch to the world that the
people Of that State are banditti. We
have heard it echoed elsewhere that they
were thieves and murderers and night
raiders. The clergy of that State, jew
and Gentle, have denied it; the business
men and Northern residents have denied
it: committee Of your own House., a
majority being Republicans, has given it's
solemn and emphatic contradiction, and
nailed the SANDER to the counter.
| ''BUTIERIsM.
| Now what should be said of that accu-
sation speak not of men, but Of lam
guage. within the rules Of the House. If
that accusation against the people should
come from one who is outlawed from re-
| spectacle society, whose name is synony-
mus with falsehood; who is a champion.
and has been such on all occasions. Of
fraud who is the apologst of thieves :;
who is such prodigy Of vice and mean
ness that to describe him, Imagination
would sicken and lnvective woulC exhaust
itself. In Scotland years ago there was a
man whose trade was murder. and he
earned his 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 Barking.
| The Speaker Does the chair under.
stand the gentleman to be referring in
this language to a mem Der of the House
! Mr.. Brown. Ne, sir; am describing
a character in my minds eve.
I The Speaker. The chair understood
the gentleman to refer to member of
| the House.
| This I-an's name was linked to his crimes
and ty the world it was known as Burk-
ing. If desired to express that which
was puSillanimity IN war, lnhuman in
peace. forbidden in morals and infamous
in politics | should call it ''Butlerism.
RESOLUTION OF cENsuRE.
The Speaker (interrupting Mr.. Brown
The gentleman did not deal in good faith
with the chair. He did no. answer in
good faith the question addressed to him.
| Mr.. Hale. Of New Y ork, insisted that
Mr.. Brown language be reduced to writ
ing and read from the clerk s desk. While
the reporter was writing it down. the ex-
citemement IN the House was red hot.
The Speaker took occasion to remark fur
Their that he had not been paying close
attention 10 what the gen.
tleman from Kentucky had said.
and had addressed an inquiry to him
which had been answered either denying
ly or evasively, the chair could not tell
which. 1t would have been inexcusable
IN the chair to permit such language to be
used. and his exculpation rested in the
evasive reply of the gentleman from Ken.
lucky.
The report of Mr.. Browns objection
able remarks having been read from the
clerks desk, Mr.. Hale, OF New York.
offered resolution that IN that language,
as well rs with the prevarication
1t Was accompanied the gen.
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