The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-20
JOHN YOUNG BROWN ON BUTLER
1.-THE Official Report.1


As We have nowhere seen Mr. Browns re-
marks properly reported, we give the correct
text, taken from the Congressional Record:
Mr.. Brown-Mr. Speaker, thank the gen
tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Edridge) for
this courtesy in allowing me ten minutes of
bis time. 1t is not my purpose on this occa-
sion to discuss the legal aspects of this bill
| have done that heretofore in carefully pre-
pared speech, delivered during the last SEES
sion OF Congress. | had hoped that this
measure would fail; but it is now mani
fest to all of Us that it is q
toreGone conclusion that to-day's sun may set
upon 1t as law of the land. Men upon the
opposite side have been dragooned into its
support, and its success has been in meas
ure accomplished by daring and revolution
ary innovation on the time honorea rules of
thls House. It is the eliminating, crowning
lnlquity Of Radicalism. 1t is born Of malig-
MY; 1t VIII be passed in defiance and IN
violation OF the Constitution; and executed,
fear, IN violence and blood shed.
Mr. Hale, OF New York-Trise to a question
of order.
Mr. Brown hope 1 will not be inter
rupted.
Mr.. Hale, of New York. understand the
gentleman from kentucky to declare of the
bill now pending before the House that il was
born of malignity l raise the point of order
that the language is not parliamentary
Mr. Brown think the point is puerile
The gentleman was silent yesterday when
stronger language on his side of the House
was used on this floor
Mr. Hale, of New York; ask that the
words to which | have referred, aad tho 5e in
that connection, be taken down and read at
tho Clerks desk
The reporter wrote from his notes, and the
CLERK read the following:
1t is born Of mall guilty; it VII be pissed
III defiance ana n violation Of the Cons,itu-
ii, II ; and eXecu ed tear, in violence and
biood>hed"
Mr. Hale, Of New Y rl.-I raise the point
Of order chat taat language is unp .ranl4nt4ry
As applied to Il measure now pending before
tue House
Nj. Eidrilge :hiak you lad better expel
rs al, Ior we are al %. hnt opinion.
The Speaker -T4e Chair doe, not think
that language transcends the limit Of pa.lia-
men AIRY debate.
Alr. eplet j ba+ is an honest decision
Mn Brown-I regard it as part OF the ma
cAinsry which is to be set in motion in this
country ior the campaign of 1876. | believe
nov that a deliberate conspiracy has been |
formed for tue overthrow of our constitutional |
liberties. The people of the country do not
favor these Radical schemes; they have re-
puditted their originatogs. You men who
propose to pass them have been weighed IN
the balance and found wanting. Judgment
has been passed upon your political record,
AID nearly two-thrds Of that side of the House
retired to private life
The Speaker gentleman will address
.he Chair.
Mr.. Brown-As your conduct now in this
md other matters Mr.. Speaker, reminds me
of passage in Junius where he describes a
Dad tenant, having received notice to quit,
breaking the furniture, putting the premises
II disorder, and doing all he could to vex the
andlord. Gentlemen and Mr. Speaker, the
south is broken; it lies in its helplessness
md despair before you; homes dlapidated,
ie!ds wasted, bankruptcy upon it. Is there
lothing in its situation to touch your pity
md if your magnanmity can not be reached,
will you not be moved by sense Of Justice?
In 1872, by conspiracy between the At
orney General, Gov. Kellogg and drunken
federal judge, the sovereignty of a State was
,verthrown. That usurpation has been per-
,etuated since by bayonets. And bat re-
emily one of your generals entered the legis-
alive halls of Louisiana, like Cromwell when
le invaded the English House of Commons
With his Col Pride, and keeping touch and
ime to what had gone before III the sad his
DRY of that State, ruthlessly expelled its duly
qualified members.
Onward and onward You go in defiance of
he sentiment of the country, without pity
md without justice, remorselessy determined,
t seems, to devote these distressed Southern
people to complete destruction, to give their
roofs to the flames, their flesh to the eagles"
Your Lieutenant General but steps upon the
cene when he sends his dispatch to the world
hat they are banditti. We have heard it
echoed elsewhere that they were thieves, muir
lerers, night-riders. The clergy of that
State, Jew and Gentle, have denied it.
The business men and the Northern resi-
Tents there have denied it. \ committee of
our own House, majority of whom were
republicans, have given it their solemn and
mphatlc contradiction and nailed the SANDER
o the counter. But still it is echoed and re-
choed. Now again that accusation has come
rom one-I speak not of men, but Of Ian
,uage, and within the rules of the House
hat accusation against that people has come
rom one who is outlawed in his own home
rom respectable society; whose name is
anonymous with falsehood; who is the cham
ion, and has been on all occasions, of fraud;
'ho is the apologist of thieves; who is such a
PRODIGY OF vice and meannesseS that to de-
cribe him would sicken imagination and ex-
aust invective.
In Scotland, years ago, there was a man
hose trade was murder, and he earned his
velihood by selling the bodies of his victims
Or gold. He linked his name to the crime,
nd to-day it is known throughout the world {
S 'Burking" {
The Speaker Does the Chair understand
he gentleman to be referring in this manner
member of the House? Is
Mr. Brown-No, sir; am describing an in
ividual who is in my minds eye.
The Speaker-The Chair understood the
to refer to q member of the House
Mr.. Brown-No, sir; / call no names.
This mans name was linked to his crime {
nd to-day throughout the world it is known :
s "Burking" If | wished to describe all {
nat was pusillanimous in war, inhuman in {
eace, forbidden in morals, and infamous in
olitics, l should call it Butlerism." t
The Speaker The Chair thinks the gentle
ian from Kentucky did not reply in good {
nth to the question put to him. The Chair ]
egards the whole discourse Of the gentleman 3
rom Kentucky as referring