The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09
r,v,, Rights in the d. 8. Senate.

The DEBATE OIL Iho OA'A. AS1s5u.o oAAt III
the House was continued on thursday
the 9TH 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
A. the law Of the land. Men on the Re-
nnhI;can side had been dragooned into its
eunnort It's success had been in a meas
nre accomplished by daring revolutionary
;nv.s;ons of the time-honored rules of
The House. 1t had been born in malig-
n;tv. and would be passed in defiance and
wonld he executed in violence and blood
shed, as he feared.
NJ. Hale, Of New York, objected to
the last sentence as supplementary, but
= having been reduced to writing and
taad from the clerks desk, the Speaker
r,,1ed # did not transcend the rules Of
parliamentary debate: -.
Mr.. Brown continuing his remarks said
he regarded the bill as part Of the ma
chinerv to be set in motion in the cam
naien Of 1875. He belieyed that DELHI
crate conspiracy had been formed for the
owe rthrow Of constitutional liberty.
You men, said he, who propose to pass
this hill 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 other matters, daughter
At the effect of Browns obedience to the
Speaker), reminds me of the passage in
Jnn;us where he describes bad tenant.
Thave received notice to quit breaking
the furniture, putting the house in disor.
der and doing all could to vex tho 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 overthrow. That
usurpation has been perpetrated since by
bayonets. But recently one of your
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 tc
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, j CIV
and Gentle, have denied it; the business
nlen and Northern residents have denied
it; committee Of your own House, q
majority being Republicans, has given its
solemn and emphatic contradiction, and
nailed the SANDER to the counter.
''BurLER1sM.'
Now what should be said Of that accu-
saton! speak not of men. but of Ian
guage, within the rules Of the House. II
that accusation against the people should
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, OF
fraud who is the apologist of thieves
who is such prodigy of vice and mean.
ness that to describe him, imagination
would sickcn and invective would exhaust
itself. In Scotland years ago there was a
man whose trade was murder, and he
earned his livelihood oy selling the bodies
OF his victims for gold. He linked his
name to his crime, and to-day throughout
the world it is known as Burking.
fknn SnnaE nooc thu chair or.
stand the gentleman to be referring in
shis language to a member of the House :?
Mr.. Brown. No, sir; am describing
character in my minds eve.
The Speaker. The chair understood
the gentleman to refer to member of
the House.
Mr.. Brown. No. sir call no names.
This 1@an's name was linked to his crimes
and by the world it was known as Burk.
ing. If desired to express that which
was pusillanimity in war, inhuman in
peace, forbidden in morals and infamous
In politics should call it ''Butlerism.'
RESOLUTION OF CENsURE.
The Speaker (nterrupting 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 clerk s desk. While
the reporter was writing it down, the ex.
cltemement in the House was red hot.
The Speaker took occasion to remark fur
ther that he had not been paying close
attention to what the gen.
tleman from Kentucky had said,
and had addressed an inquiry to him
winch had been answered either denying.
~, or evasively, the chair could MOI" tell
which. It would have been inexcusable