The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12

he people from empiricism. DIR. Boyd has
ong since quit the practice of medicine,
but he was one of our most eminent prac-
.itioners, and this fact enables him to
know the great damage done to the health
and life of the people by quack. doctors.
The Way They Are Doing i'm
Congress.
Below we give some extracts to show
how the Congress of the United States
does business Wegive them more espe-
cially to show how unfairly the Radical
majority deal with the Democratic minor
ity. Mr.. John Young Brown, of Ken
lucky, was carried before the Bar Of the
House, and publicly censured, for COM
hitting no greater offense than Ben Butler
has committed on several occasions, as
the intelligent reader will readily see
Mr., Brown undoubtedly transcribed parli-
amentary usages and was blameable; but
we certainly do not think he committed a
greater offense than Butler, who goes un-
punished. Brown borrowed the very idea
that he was trying to carry out from But
Ter, in his dispute with Mclean, of Tex
as.
We quote fro the proceedings Of Con
gress. Mr.. Butler having characterized
the Southern people as murderers, thieves
and banditti hot discussion ensued be
tween himself and Mr.. Mclean.
Mr. Mclean made a remark audible
only to those persons close to him, but
which turned out 70 be that Mr.. Butler,
of Massachusetts,, was the only murderer
that he knew on the floor, as he murdered
a man in New Orleans.
After Mr. Butter had yielded the floor,
this remark of Mr.. McLean's was re-
ported to him, when Mr.. Butler again
took the Eour, and characterized Mr..
Mclean language as improper, ungen-
tlemanly and rufhanly, and said The time
had gone when such language could at
feet him.
Mr.. Lamar asked the Speaker whether
the language of Mr.. Butler was parlia-
mentary.
Mr.. Butler-I have applied it to no
body. | say the day has gone when that
kind of language can affect anyone.
NJ, McLean-The gentleman Butler
spoke of the Southarr people as banditti,
horse thieves and assasSihs. If ! mis-
understood him withdraw my remarks,
but if | did understand him, then | reiter-
ate NY Femarks, and do not retract any
thing. Let him uuderGtand that.
Mr. Butler-Can it be possible that
any man on this floor could have under
stood me as saying that all the people of
the SGgth were murderers or horse
thieves? / said minority there was at
tempting to rule by such I4eaps,
After a scene of excitement ana COZ
fusion, the Objectionable words of Mr..
Mclean were reduced to writing and read
from the Clerks deck, when the Speaker
ruled them out of order. and remarked
that if he had heard them uttered, Ae
would necessarily have called the gentle
man to order.
Mr.. kGLean-I addressed the remark
to the gentleman EiE2self, and not to the
House.
Speaker-The gentleman had no right
whatever to do that.
Mr., Butler-I think ought to be per-
mitted to state that if | had understood
the remark, so far from taking any Ofense
at being told that | had hung a man at
New Orleans, should have glorifed in
it.
The trouble with the country is that l
did not hang ii.o ore as ought to have been
done Applause ana cFiaa ct that is
good.
Mr.. Lamar insisted that the Speaker
should rule on Mr.. Buffers language
characteriziag Mr. McLeans as rufian-
ly.
The Speaker remarked that the eeutie-
man, Mr. Butler, himself, must know it
was not parliamentary
Mr., Butler pleaded that his words were
a characterization of language and not Of
man.
Mr. Lamar asked the Speaket whqther
a member had right to characterize the
language of another member as imprOp-
er, ungentlemanly and ruifanly. He
made the point from no other motive than
that o. Feg4lating the decorum and pro-
prieties of debate.
The Speaker remarked tlat II gas
clearly unparliamentary, no matter what
the provocation was
Mr. Butler-Which of the gentleman
(Mr. McLean's) associates called HIM to
order?
Mr.. Glover-Which of the gentleman's
assoaiates (Butler's) called him to order?
Mr. COx-Ar, Tbompsou--an allusion
TO Buffers successor.
Feb. Mr.. Brown, in his speech On
the CiviI-rights question, said:
"Mr. Speaker, the South is broken, it
lies IN helpnessness and despair, with
homes diiapidatad villages wasted, its
people bankrupt; is there nothing in chat
to touch your pity? If your magnanimity
cannot be reached, will you not be moved
by some sense of justice? BY the conspi-
racy between the Attorney General and
Kellogg a,4d ? drunken Federal Judge,
the sovereigntysofa State YES overthrow.
That usurpation has since been perpetual
ted by bayonets. But recently one Of our
Generals entered the legislative halls, as
Cromwell entered the English Parliament
with Col. Pride, and ruthlessly expelled
the occupants. Onward and onward you
go in defiance of the sentlment Il the
country, without pity and without Justice,
remorselessly determined, it seems to
drive the Southern people t. destruction,
to give their roofs to the flames and their
flesh to the eagles 4 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 are thieves and murder
ers and night riders. The clergy of that
State, jew and Gentle, have denied it.
The business men and the northern resi-
dents have denied it. 4 ccmmittee Of
your own house, a majority being Kepub-
icans, has given it solemn and emphat-
ie contradiction and nailed the Islander
to the counter. Now what should be said
if that accusation should come from one
speak not of men, but oflanguage with
in the rules of this House-if that accuse
ton against that people should come from
one who is outlawed in his own home
from respectable society, whose name is
synonymous with ialsehood, who is the