Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-05

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notice to quit breaking the furniture, put
ting the house in disorder and doing all
that be could to vex the landlord. Mr..
Speaker, the South is broken; it lies in
helplessness and Despair; with hcmes di-
lapidated, villages wasted, its people bank
/ ruDt; is there nothing in that situation to
/ touch your pity? If your magnanimity
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 SOW
/ ereignty of a State was OverthrOwn. That
usurpatiOn has been perpetuated since by
| bayonets. But recently one of our Gen
erals entered the legislative halls, as Crom-
well entered English Parliament with
Col. Pride, and ruthlessly expelled the oc-
cupanls. Onward and Onward you 60, ia
defiance Of the sentiment of the country,
without pity and without justice, remoTse-
! lessly 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 murderers and night
riders. The clergy Of tiIzt State, Jew and
Gentle, have-denied It. The business men
and Northern residents have denied il. A
committee of your own house, a majority
being Republicans, has given it is solemn
and emphatic contradiction and nailed the
slander to the counter. Now what should
be said if that accusation should come from
one-speak not Of men, but Of language
within the rules of this H0use-if that ac-
cusation against that people should come
from one who is Outlawed in his own home
from respectable society, whose name is syn
onomons with falsehoOd, who is the cham
pion, and has been such on all occasions Of
fraud, who is the apOlogist Of thieves, who
is such a prodigy of vice and meanness
that to describe him Imagination would
sicken and invective exhaust itself? In
Scotland, years ago, there was a man whose
trade was murder, and he earned his liveli-
hood by selling the bodies of his victims
for gold. He linked his name to his crime,
and to-day throughout the world il is
known as "Burking."
The Speaker-DOes the chair understand
the gentleman to be referring to member
of this House?
Mr.. BrOwn-NO, sir. am describing a
character who is in my minds eye.
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gentleman to refer to a member Of the
House.
Mr.. BrOWn-NO, sir; l call no names.
This mans name was linked to his crimes,
and to-day throughout the world it is.
known as ''BurkiDg.D If was tc desire
10 express all that was pusillanimOus in
war, inhuman, in peace, fOrb dding in
morals and Infamous in politics, should
q Ts~f1
The Speaker, inteuupting Mr.. Brown
The gentleman did not deal in good faith
with the chair. He did not answer in good
faith the question addressed to him.
Mr.. Hale, of New York, insisted that
Mr.. Browns language be reduced to writ
ing, and read from The clerks desk,
While the reporter was writing it down
excitement in the House was az red-heat.
The Speaker took occasion 60 remark
further that he had not been paying close
attention TO what the gentleman from Ken
tCcky had said, and had addressed an in
quiry to him which had been answered
either denyingly or evasively, the chair
could not tell which. Il would have been
inezcusable in the chair to have permitted
such language TO be used, and his exculpa-
tiOn rested on the evasive reply Of the gen.
tleman from Kentucky.
The report Of Browns Objectionable re-
marks having been read from the Clerks
desk, Mr. Hale, of New York offered 8
resolution that in that language, as well as
with the pTeyaricatiOn by which the gentle
man was enabled to continue the utterance
Of the language, the gentleman from Ken
tUcky was guilty OF violation Of the
privileges Of the House, aud merited the
severest ceDsure Of the House, and that he
be now brought to the bar of the House, in
the custody Of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and
there be publicly censured by the Speaker
in the name Of the House.
Mr.. Dawes offered the following as a
substitute for Mr.. Hale's resolution:
Resolved, that John Young Brown, a
member Of the House from the State Of
Kentucky, be expelled from the House for
a gross violation of the rules and privileges
Of the House, in the use on this floor Of
the language Just read by the clerk, and for
falsely stating to the Speaker Of the House
that he did not refer TO any member Of the
House.
Mr.. Hale declined to yield for DAVIS sub
stitute and moved the previous ques-
tiOn.
Mr.. Cox to Mr.. Hale-YOu cannot force
this thing on the House. There has been
prOvOcatiOn for what the gentleman from
Kentucky said.
The House refused to second the pTevi-
Gus question.
Mr.. Dawes said he regretted the neces-
siiy Of offering the resolution, as his con-
nectiOns with the gentleman from KentUc-
ky had been always kind. He had been
shocked and panied by what had occurred
to-day, and nothing but the belief that it
was imperatively necessary that the House
should vindiCate itself and its rules, would
have induced him to offer the resolution.
After an exciting debate, Mr.. Dawes
asked whether the gentleman from Ken
tucky desired to speak now.
Mr.. Brown, rising and speaking with
great deliberatiOn, said that this was the
first time that evasion or preyaricatiOn had
ever been attributed TO him. He had al
ways spoken in plain terms, susceptible Of
no misunderstanding, and he was willing.
to stand by the record.
Mr.. Dawes-I would enquire Of the gen
tleman from Kentucky whether he has any
remark to make in regard to the character
Of the language which he used.
Mr.. BrOWn-I stand by the record. Sen
satiOn.
MI. Il. H. boat Sdllls NltLutT tic OolAA-
monWealth of Kentucky would feel indig-
/ nant at a vote Of censure upon one Of her
representatives. He did not feel certain,
! but he knew the Kentucky character for
truthful aess to lie such that the COmmen-
wealth would spurn man from its borders,
/ who, for the sake of getting successfully
| through personal attack upon member,
would falsify when he was called upon by
/ the chair.
Mr. LAMAR have only one reply to
make to the gentleman from Massachusetts,,
! (Mr. HOar,) and l make it with great re
spect -. [AfteF pause.l On consid-
/ Grafton, / will not make it, will just say,
however, that he used, with reference to
the gentleman now on trial, language
which l think required neither courage nor
courtesy for man to use. Sensation and
increasing excitementl
Mir. HOar asked Mr.. Lamar whether he
meant to impugn his courage or courtesy
Mr.. LAMAR do not. But L say that
the remark which the gentleman used did
not require an exhibition Of either, and IN
my opinion did not cOmpOrt with the high
character which that gentleman bears.
Mr.. HOar-What remark do you allude
to?
BIr. Lamar-To the expression Of the
word classification"
Mr.. Hoar-I said that the question be-
fore the House was whether the gentleman