The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-02-11

trated upon the people of portion Of
this Union; and now the crowning
act of all their villanies, was consul
mated last Friday by the passage of
that monstrous iniquity, the Civil
rights bill.
Let them do their worst, they have
but a few more days in which to
consumatc their evil designs in the
legislative branch of the government.
They have been repudiated by the
people; and after the 4th of March
next, honest Democrats will occupy
their seats, when these abominable,
odious, and oppressive laws, passed
by vindictire, Radical Congress, to
degrade and humiliate the Southern
people, will be repealed, and then
the whole country will say Amen!
The speech is as follows:
Mr.. BRowy d. of KY, opposed
the bill although he acknowledged
that it was a foregone conclusion
that to-day's sun would set upon it
as law of the land. Men on the
Republican side had been dragooned
into its support. Its spucess had
been in q measure accomplished by
daring and revolutionary invasions
on the time-honored rules of the
House. 1t had been born in malig-
nifty, would be passed in defiance and
violation of the Constitution, and
would be executed in violence and
in bloodshed, as he feared.
Mn. HALE Rep.,) of New York,
objected to the last sentence as IN
parliamentary, but it having been
reduced 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 that he regarded the bill
as part of the machinery to be set in
motion for the campaign of 1876.
He believed that a deliberate consDi-
racy had been formed for the over
throw of constitutional liberty.
you men," said he, "who propose to
pass this bill, have been weighed in
the balance and been found wanting"
The SPEAKER informed Mr.. BROWN
that he must address the Chair.
Mr.. BRowX-Mr. Speaker: Your
conduct in this and other matters
Laughter at effect of Mr.. Browns
obedience to the Speaker, reminds
me of a passage in JuniuS, where he
describes a bad tenant, having re-
ceived notice to quit, breaking the
furniture, putting the house in dis
order, and doing all that he could to
vex the landlord. Mr.. Speaker, the
South is broken. 1t lies in helpless
ness and despair, with homes dilapi-
dated, villages wasted, its people
bankrupt. Is there nothing in that
situation to touch YOU with pity? II
yourmagnanimity can not be reached,
viii you not be moved by some sense
of justice? By conspiracy between
the Acknowledgement and Kellogg,
and drunken Federal Judge, the
sovereignty ola State vas ovc.thrown.
That usurpation has been perpetual
ted since by bayonets; but recently
one of your Generals entered the leg
iSlative halls as Cromwell entered
the English Parliament, with colon
ial pride, and ruthlessly expelled its
occupants. Onward and onward YOU
go in defiance Of the sentimental the
country, without pity, and without
justice, remorselesSly determined, it
seems, to drive the Southern people
to destruction, to give their roofs to
the flames, and their flesh to the
eagles. A Federal General steps on
the scene, and sends a dispatch to the
world that the people of that State
are ''banditti." We have heard it
echoed elsewhere that they were
thieves, and murdercrs. and night
riders. The clergy of that State, Jew
and Gentle, have denied it. The
business men and northern residents
have denied it. A committee your
own House, majority being Repub-
lican, has given it its solemn and
emphatic contradiction, and nailed
the SANDER to the counter. Now
what should be said if that accusa-
ton Should come from one q speak
not of men but of language, within
the rules of this House, if that accu-
satlon against that people should
come from one who is outlawcd in
his own home from respectable socic-
ty, whose name is synonymous with
faslehood, who 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 meanness that to describe
him Imagination would sicken and
invectives would exhaust itself. In
years ago, there was man
whose trade was murder, and he
earned his livelihood by selling the
bodies of his victims for gold. He
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