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 it
as the law OF the land. Men on the Re-
publican side had been dragooned into its
support. Its success had been in meas
ure accomplished by daring revolutionary
invasions of the time-henored rules of
the House. It had been born in malig-
nity, and would be passed in defiance and
would be executed in violence and blood
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 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 1875. He believed that delib-
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 ether 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 dilapidated, 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
5 generals entered the legislative halls, as
: Cromwell entered the English Parliament,
and ruthlessly expelled its 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
destruction; 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
= we're 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
9 it: committee of your own House, 8
. majority being Republicans, has given its
: solemn and emphatic contradiction, and
: nailed the Islander to the counter.
= ''BurIERIsx.'
Now what should be said Of that accu-
:, sation! speak not Of men, but OF Ian
guage, within the rules Of the House. i
. that accusation against the people shoule
! 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, o
= fraud: who is the apologist Of thieves
- who is such prodigy Of vice and mean
: ness that to describe him, imaginatio.
would sicken and invective would exhaus
;. itself. In Scotland years ago there was
- man whose trade was murder. and h
e earned his livelihood by selling the bodie
: Of his victims for gold. He linked hi
,f name to his crime, and to-day throughou
the world it is known as Burking.
\ The Speaker. Does the chair under
= stand the gentleman to be referring i
this language to a member Of the House
!. Mr.. Brown. Ne, sir: l am describing
a character in my minds eye.
= The Speaker. The chair understood
: the gentleman to refer to . member G
IF the House.
" Mr.. Brosn. No. sir call no names
= This rams name was linked to his crime
!, and ty the world it was known as Burl
= ing. If desired to express that whic
:. was pusillanimity in war, inhuman
:, peace, forbidden in morals and infamou
. in politics should call it "Butlerism.
il. RESOLUTION OF cENsuRE.
10 The Speaker (interrupting Mr.. Brown
W The gentleman did not deal in good iait
rs with the chair. He did not answer
~ EOOO latin the QueSsiOu auuI cSScO ~ "a ~
Mr.. Hale. Of New York, insisted tina
n Mr.. Browns language be reduced to wri
as ing and read from the clerks desk. VIII
ed the reporter Was writing it down. the e.
= citemement in the House Was red no
r. The Speaker took occasion to remark ful
N, ther that he had not been paying clos
" attention to what the ge1
at tleman from Kentucky had sal
and had addressed An inquiry to hi
az which had been answered either denyin
rs " or evasively, the chair could not t
,er which. It would have been inexcusat
in the chair to permit such language to
used, and his exculpation rested IN t
evasive reply Of the gentleman from He
lucky.
The report Of Mr.. Browns objectio
M able remarks having been read from Il
AZ, clerks desk, Mr.. Hale, Of New Yor
,cs offered . resolution that IN that languas
ter - well IS with the prevaricati'
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