New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-17
nav ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1876

beautiful speech here the other day. But,
Mr.. Chairman, what long days of summer
have l passed in the old church in Troy.
listening to line upon line. and precept upon
precept, from that gentleman telling me
that there could not and there should not
be any pardon except upon confession ana
repentance. l know we have not lived up
to that doctrine. [Laughter.1
The gentleman from New FORK Mr.. Cox
quoted Scripture here on one OF the ilrst
DAYS of the session, and agalu we had the
Scripture brought in here yesterday after
noon-tbe Old Testament both times. They
went back to the old dispensatlon; to
Greece and Rome, and the Old Testament;
and Eli III, and the Lord knows what. l
was taught to read that book ID my ooy
hood, and saw then the terrible things mar
rated in the Old Testament. l remember
that the people of God when in the wilder
u-ss murmured against Him. and that he
announced the decree that, of all who came
out of Egypt and murmured against HIM,
from twenty years old and upward. no man
should ever enter the promised land out
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. and Joshua,
the son of Nun. Add it did occur to me
the other day. when gentlemen were quot
ing Scripture, that it would not have been
Injurious to the gentleman from Georgia Ii
he had been left little longer in the wilder
ness. [Great laughter But we let them
come out of it, own and confess 1t before
God and man, and the other side OF the
House and the country.
Nor is that all the wickedness We nave
committed. We have done more. What
have we done to portion of these men OF
the South who went to Brazil after the sIr-
render at Appomattoxl Those men SAID
this is not our country; We won't live IN
it; we will 60 to Brazil, where in its Jungl
we can enjoy the benefits of the 'unbzoken
constitution and the principles OF 49,
They went there, and they had just as good
| a time of it as their friends have had here
| during the unpleasantness-only for little
longer period. And now this miserable re-
| publican party and Republican admiRlstra-
| ton have violated the constitution by send.
| ing "maliciousIy and fapatically" a ship OF
war to Brazil to bring these fellows home
| at the expense of the government. Laugh
| teri And when confess these things do
not much wonder at the feeling OF horror
and d-staton that seemed to fill the bosom
of the gentleman from Georgia the other
day. 1t is almost too muck for poor human
nature to bear, but hope he will live
through it.
There is ahother confession l want to
| make here: The dropping of OF the muz-
| zle of the OK that treadeth out the corn, the
dropping of OF the mnzzle from the work
| ing population at the South. has rendered
| il DOssible for seven cOlOred men to occupy
places on this floor. They represent just
about million OF the forty millions OF the
people of the United States. Now l am
bound to say that these men, during the
| time | have sat here, have come into this
| hall we'll dressed they assume the carriage
| of gentlemen; they insult nc man; they en-
! crOach upon no man; and IN the few IN
stances when they have arisen to address
the House, it has been done with an intelli
gence, Difference and consideration
| that might do credit to any states
man in any land. But l acknowledge
for them. in response to the jests thrown
out against them by the member fr0ga New
York Mr. Cox the other day, that their
| faces a not quite so light as the brilliant
Saxon color of the gentleman from New
York Laughter ] They are guilty OF that,
and hope they will not be punished Tor It,
| | hope that gentlemen On the other side OF
the House will treat with difference these
cuIored men just struggling into political
existence standing here, as they do. as the
representatives, not merely of their direct
| constituencies but of four million people
their kindred l hope that 40 gentleman
will again. while l have seat upon this
floor, pain me by abiding to the fact that
they are colored men. lApplause.l
| Now, Sir, l have gone over this matter
and want to make another point in refer
1 6OCo 10 II. WduI " pVS INC EOhelN Ah''AA
from Georgia (Mr. HID that if in future
| discussions he finds me 80 wicked. to spare
me- l am young and tmid. Laughter
And when q gentleman in the zeal of his
advocacy tells me what has never been
told before, that l have violated every
oath and been guilty of every crime" and
| advances hall step toward me shaking at
(! me his closed hand, it frightens me. And
| in the evening and in the night do not 9
the lovely coun,enance Of the gentleman
from Georgia, but l dream Of Preston
Brooks and that terrible bludgeon that he
| used to carry about the halls OF the Capitol
hope that in future the gentleman will
confne himself to debate and not to
threats, and not to go to war for the next
| half century whatever else he may do.
iLaughtei