The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-17
JOHN YOUNG BROWN,
THE MAN WHO "sAssED' BUTLER-HIs FUTURE
FAME.

e. Washington Special to the Chicago Times.
John Young Brown came to Congress thi
, session with the deliberate intention of in
r sulting Benz amin Butler. When sense o
duty impels man to put an atfront upon an
, other, the act is stripped Of rutfianism. Brown
was vituperative because his training anc
conscience told him Butler was made to b.
insulted by honest men. In this view it was
just as heroic to push back gentlemanly in
stincts, assume the inevitable censure and
possible expulsion, and deliberately black.
guard the object Of his souls detestation as
it would have been to charge roaring bat
terry, or be burnt at the stake for religion
sake
The fact that the young Hotspur bad care
fully prepared his words, and reduced his in
vective 70 single well matured sentence,
proves his sincerity. There could be no ex-
cuse for member of Congress getting angry
| enough in the caloIic of debate to suddenly
squirt out such a sentence. But to prepare it
| cody in advance, and then try for several
days for an opportunity to hurl it at the vic
TINS head, eyinces the sense of moral obliga-
| ton which impelled it. John Young Brown
was ust as credltable in sacrificing his breed
| ing in order to deliberately insult a fellow
member whom he believed ought to be in
| suited, as John Brown Of Harper's Ferry was
| in laying siege to the whole State of Virginia.
What a man does for that which he believes
| to be his duty is something for which he
should be punished if it mandates law or de-
cency; but the man a man for a that. and is
entitled to the praise sure to be bestowed on
him whose acts tally with his ideas.
Brown came from a State where courage,
whether of voice or body, is passport to
position. Kentucky can stand a brave idiot
but has no comfort for an intellectual coward
Marry spunk to ability and Kentucky can not
find enough to give joined traits. Brown has
notified his Bluegrass constituency many
times in the past that he comes up to the
measurement they demand, both in intellect
and pluck. His Growing act, atfronting with
due reconciliation and elegant billingsgate
the person whom the South regards as twin
brother to the devil, sets him permanent
idol in their shrine.
He must be cleared from fishing for this
exaltation. He hanged Butler because he
ancied it his duty to do So not from an in
sane yearning for notoriety. But his fame is |
hencefoith eternal in kentucky. He will, on
his return home, be given distllery and
stud horse; Kentucky can do no less for him. |
Ii his conscience is now satisfied and for
bears making him an everlasting Southern |
QuiXote to tilt forever at unworthy wind |
mills, there is little of eminence for which |
John Young Brown may not hope. He is still |
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remarkable in State which gro VS. remarkable
men regularly as it does glorious women,
for nearly twenty years. He ran for Congress
before he remembered that he was not old
enough to take his seat if elected. He dis
tanced his competitor, and was then obliged
to wait until the second session of the term
gave him the requisite npness of years. Since
then he has squandered precious time by
fervid adhesion to doomed and sulky repin-
ing at a lost cause.
His abomination of Bu.lersm was so con-
centrated and engrossing that he would not
come again to Congress in 1863, though
elected so to do by persistent admirers. At
last he compromised with his conscience and
took reelection to the present body, stipu-
latlng to his soul that he would repay the
ludlSnlty OF sitting with Butler by insulting
him. This otfense against Responsibility was
lot so gross after all Brown came to Con- a
sress to insult Butler. A majority of Con- r
,reSsnen appear to come here as an insult [