The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-11
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Last Thursday, in the debate on the civil
rights bill Hon. John Young Brown, of KY,
opposed the bill, although he acknowledged
that Il was a foregone conclusion that to
days sun would set upon It as law Of the
land Men on the Republican side had been
dragooned into It's support Its success had
been in q measure accomplished by daring
and revolutionary invHsiOns on the time
honored rules of the House. It had been
born in malignity, would be passed in def
ance and violation Of the Constitution, and
would be executed in violence and In 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 Clerks desk, the Speaker ruled
that it did not transcend The limits Of par
liamentarY debate
Mr.. Brown, continuing his remarks, said
he regarded the bill as q part of the mschin-
cry to be set in motion for the campaign of
1875. he believed a deliberate conspirancy
had been formed for the overthrow of Cen
stitutional liberty. You men, said he, who
propose to pass ghis bill, have been weighed
in the balance ard found wanting.
The Speaker Informed Mr.. Brown that he
must address the Chair.
Mr.. BroWE-Mr. Speaker, your conduct in
this and other matters, daughter at the
effect of Mr.. Browns obedience to the Speak
/ err reminds me Of q passage N Juuius,
where he describes bad tenant having re-
i celFeQ notice 70 quit breaking LUe luIulLuTbg
putting the house in disorder and doing all
that he could TO vex the landlord. Mr..
| Speaker, the South is broken; il lies in help
| lessness and despair. with homes dilapida-
| ted, villages wasted, its people bankrupt.
| Is there nothing in that situation to touch
YOU with pitys If your magnanimity can
not be reached, will you not be moved by
some sense of Justice! By the conspiracy
/ between the Attorney-General and Kellogg
and q drunken Federal Judge, the sover-
eighty of a State was overthrow. That
usurpation has been perpetuated since by
I bayonets; but recently one of your Generals
| entered tho legislative halls as Cromwell en-
| tered the English Parliament, and ruthlessly
/ expelled the occupants. Onward and on
ward you 70 in defiance of the sentiment of
he country, without pity and without JUS
| tee, remorselesly determined, 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 weird that
] the people of that State are banditti We
have heard it echoed elsewhere that they
/ were thieves, murderers and nightrlders.
! The clergy of that State, Jew and Gentle,
have denied it. The business men and
/ Northern residents have denied it.
A committee of your House, a majority
being Republicans, has given it its solemn
and emphatic contradiction and nailed the
| Islander to the counter. Now, what should
/ be said if that accusation should come from
/ one. speak not OF men, nut OF the Ian
| guage within the rules of this House. If
! that accusation against that people should
| come from one who is outleWed in his own
| home fro IN respectable society, whose name
| is synonymous with falsehood, who is the
| champion, and has been s1ch on all occa-
sions, of fraud, who is such a prodigy of vice
! and meanness that to describe him imagina-
| ton would sicken aud invective would ex-
hRust itself. In Scotland, years ago, there
was a man whose trade was murder, and he
/ i L. -THe II
| his victims for gold. He linked his name to
his crime, and to-day, throughout the world,
| it is known as "Burking."
The Speaker-Does the Chair understand
the gentleman to be referring in this Ian
| guage TO a member of the Housel
Mr.. Brown-No, sir, I describing &
| character who Is in my minds eye.
rhe Speaker The Chair understood the
gentleman to refer to u member of the
House.
Mr.. Brownie. sir; call no names. This
! mans name was linked to his crimes. and
to-iay throughout the world it is known as
"Burking.t" If was to desire to express
all that was pusillanimous i'll war, inhuman
in peace, forbidding in morals and infamous
in politics, shonld call it 'Butlerizing."
Here the excitement was intense. Mr.
| Hale, of n. Y. offered a resolution of censure
for Mr.. YOung's remark. MIR Dawes wanted
| TO expel him forthwith, and offered a resolu-
ton to that effect, but afterwards withdrew
IL, ana supported MI. h2le's, winch was car
ried by strict party vote.
In the coloquy when preceded the eensure
Mr.. E. r. Hoar said whether the Com
| monwealth of Kentucky would feel indig-
nant at vote of her Eepresen tatives he did
not feel certain, but he knew that the Ken
lucky character for truthfulness was such
that the Commonwealth would spurn q mar
from its borders who for the sake of getting
successfully through personal attack upor
a member, would falsify when he was called
upon by the Chair.
Mr.. Lamar have only one reply to make
to the gentleman (Hoar) and make it witt
great respect. After a pausel. On consid-
aratiOn, will not make it. l will just say
however, that he used, with the gentleman
now on tnal, language which 1 think re
quired neither courage nor courtesy for mar
to use. Sensation, Increased excitement
Mr.. HOar asked Lamar whether he mean
to impugn his courage or courtesy.
Mr. Lamar do not, but l say that the
remark the gentleman used did not require
the exhibition OF either, and in my opiuio1
did not comport with the high character
which that gentleman bears.
Mr.. Hoar-Wlat remark do you allude to
Mr.. Lamar-To the expression of the wore
Qualification"
Mr., Hoar-I said the question before tn,
House whether the gentleman had falsi
fed. have made no statement that he did
Mr., Lamar Then / withdraw the remarl
and beO Vour DardOn. I ADDlauseI