The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-19
Senator Brown on Massachusetts.

GRAFTON Of the Utah bill, Brown having
the floor.
Replying to Hoar, Brown said that
the Senator from Massachusetts had
charged him BROWN with having for
the greater part of his life sustained an
institution which prohibited legal mar.
riages among part of the people OF
Georgia. This was thrust ~ the peo'
pie Of Georgia for having held slaves
and at the Senator from Georgia for hav-
ing supported that institution. He
admitted that Georgia had been a slave:
holding State and that he had supported
the institution with all his power; and
while he would not now restore slavery
if he could do so by turning over his
hand, he claimed that there were many
excellent points connected with the
society and civilization of that period.
But he did not propose at present to enter
into any discussion of the morality OF
slavery or of the superiority and excel
lence of the civilization of the South in
slavery days. The system of slavery TO
which the Senator from Massachusetts
had called attention originated in Massa.
chusetts, and the South derived much OF
its slavery from that State.
Brown read from Elliott's History OF
New England to show that the people OF
Massachusetts bought and held as slaves
Scotchmen. Irishmen, Indians, negroes
and mulattoes, and that they sent car
goes of rum to Africa, exchanging the
rum for slaves, some of whom they sold:
That they kidnapped Indians and sold
them into slavery; that some prohibited
baptism to their slaves; that The marrl'
age relation was disregarded; that they
sold negro women and children in the
market and advertised women with
children six months old to be sold ITO
gether or separate, to suit the purchaser"
That they raised slaves for market, and
when they found it Improbable to raise
them in the climate of Massachusetts,
gave away the negro children like pup
pies to any one who would take them.
1.-THE charter of Georgia." Brown con.
tinued, Originally forbade slavery, and
while Massachusetts was importing gslaVess
and selling them for profit, the State OF
Georgia was refusing to hold them.
Finally, Georgia adopted slavery, pur-
chasing part Of her slaves from Massa-
chusetts. The Senator from Massachu-
setts had said there was large number
of mulattoes to be accounted for in the
South. He BROWN did not claim that
the South was guiltless in this particular
His effort had been to chow that no sec
ton of the country was guiltless." lie
read from various historical works to
show that large numbers of mulattoes
were always found in Massachusetts,
during the time that slavery prevailed IN
that State; and when in 1888 Massachu'
setts passed an Act expelling from the
State all negroes, the courts held that
the Act applied also to mulattoes. Ne
groes who were subjects of the Emperor
Of Morocco were, however, excluded
from the expelliDg clause, for the reason,
Brown supposed, that the commercial
transactions of Massachusetts with
Morocco were profitable to Massachusetts,.
AS nothing more could be made of the
negroes after they were set free, it may
have been very natural to expel them
from the State of Massachusetts,, but it
seemed q little unnatural to expel the
mulattoes-not that they were kin to the
people of Massachusetts,, but possibly
because climatic influence had changed
their color until-well they grew more
in the likeness of the good people of that
State. The cold. breathing winds OF
Massachusetts or some other cause had
modified the ebony color of the African
in that State and had infused tinge OF
yellow, so that they are no longer called
negroes but mulattoes.
After these mulattoes, whether natur-
ally or unnaturally, had been expelled
from Massachusetts, they doubtless took
refuge in the Southern States, and their
descendants there have multiplied, still
transmitting the modified color inherited
from the climate influence in Massachr.
sets. Any causual observer who would
90 into Massachusetts would see that the
proportion that the mulattoes now have
to the number of negroes in that State
was much greater than the proportion in
the South-again attributed to climate
influence. Thus Brown could account
to some extent for the mulattoes in the
South. When there was not slave in
Georgia, Massachusetts, was legislating
regarding mula.toes. They were numer-
Gus when they were expelled from her
borders. They had been prolific since
their expulsion, and they still retain the
compound of yellow inherited either from
climate influence or from some other
cause in Massachusetts. The influence
of climate had after the lapse of a long
time followed the mulattoes even into
the South. About twenty one or twenty
two years ago an immense cold wave had
swept down from Massachusetts and
other Northern States over the South, as
frigid and inhospitable as the dreary,
bleached large numbers of very young
piercing winds of Massachusetts, and it
children of the African race and made
them mulattoes. Replying to some
references made by Hoar upon the laws
of Georgia, Brown maintained that those
laws we're not, as claimed, similar to
those proposed against Utah. He also
insisted that laws for the con6scation of
the church property of Utah were in VIC:
lation of constitutional principles and
entirely different from the AVS of Massa-
chusetts. Two or three times in the
course of his remarks Brown regretted
that the Senator from Massachusetts
(Hoar) was not in the chamber to hear
what he BROWN was saying.
On the conclusion of Browns remarks
Hoar entered and remarked that it vas
hardly necessary to answer what his hon
orable friend BROWN had said, because
be (Hoar) had looked in while Brown
was speaking and did not see that sim
gle human being was listening to his
speech.
listen to it.
The vote being taken on Browns
amendment, permitting divorce only 70!
one cause in places where the United
States has exclusive jurisdiction, it was
rejected-yeas Brown, Butler, George
and Van Wyck), nays 42.
Hoar gave notice that tomorrow ne
would ask the Senate to sit until the