Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-17
The stock BOARD
wheat and Harley Market.
EASTERN.
Discussion ON the Utah Bill =
nrOMn Repliea TO NOnr.

nrown Replies to MOar.
WAsHINGToS, d. c., June l6.-SEN.
ATE. TE.-Consideration OF the Utah bill
was resumed, Brown having the floor.
Replying to Hoar, he said that the Sen.
ator from Massachusetts, had charged
him BROWN with having, for the greater
part Of his life, sustained an institution
which prohibited legal marriage among
a part of the people of Georgia. The
system of slavery to which the Senator
from Massac husetts had called attention
originated in Massachusetts,, and the
South derived much of its slavery from
that State. Brown quoted from Elliot's
History of New England to show that
the people of Massachusetts bought'
and held as slaves Scotchmen, lrishmen,
Indians, Negros aud Mulattoes, and that
they sent cargoes of rum to Africa, ex.
changing rum for slaves. some of whom
they sold; that they kidnapped Indians
and sold them into slavery; that some
of the people prohibited baptism to their
slaves that the marriage relation was
dsrsgarled; that they sold negro wo.
men and children in open market
and advertised woman with q
child six-months-old to be sold
together or separate, to suit the
purchasers" that they raised slaves for
market and when they found it unproiit.
able to raise them in the climate Of
Massachusetts, they gave away negro
children, like puppies, to any one who
would take them. The charter OF
Georgia, Brown continued, originally
forbade slavery, and while Massachusetts,
was importing slaves and selling them
for profit, Georgia was refusing to hold
them. Finally Georgia adopted slavery,
purchasing part OF her slaves from
Massachusetts.
The Senator from Massachusetts had
said there were large number OF mu.
httoes to be accounted for in the South.
He (Brown) did not claim that the South
was guiltless in this particular. His eff
fort has been TO show that no section 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 slavery prevailed there.
And when in l7SS Massachusetts passed
an act expelling from the State al
negroes, the court held that the act ap.
piled to mulattoes. 1t may have been
very natural TO expel negroes from
Massachusetts,, but it seemed little un.
natural to expel mulattoes, not that
they were akin to the people of Massa-
chusetts, but possibly because climatic
influences had changed their color until
they were more in the keness of
the good people of that State. The
cold, bleaching winds of Massachusett it's,
or some other cause, had modified the
ebony-color of the African in that State
aud had infused compound of yellow,
so that they are no longer called negroes,
but mulattoes. After these mula,toes,
whether naturally or unnaturally, had
been expelled from Massachusetts, they
doubtless took refuge in the Southern
States and their descendants there have
multiplied, still transmitting the modi-
lied color inherited from the climatic
Influence of Massachusetts. Brown, in
the course OF his remarks, regretted the
alb encs OF Senator Hoar.
Hoar entered and said it was hardly
necessary to reply to what the houora.
BILE gentleman had said, as on looking
into the Chamber during the course Of
his (Brown's) remarks, he had noticed
that scarcely human being was listen
ing to his speech.
Brown retorted by slying that the
country would listen to it.
Browns amendment, permitting di.
vorce for only one cause in places " here
the United States has exclusive control,
was rejected. Iens, 4-Brown, But.
Ter, George and Van Wyck; nays, ~.
Hoar submitted an or Ter to have
printed an amendment intended to be
proposed TO the bill, providing that no
building shall be forfeited that is held
and occupied exclusively for the pur-
pose of religious worship.
Vest offered an amendment providing
that in no case shall husband OF wife
be a competent witness, except as to the
fact Of a lawful marriage having been
contracted between the witness and
the party defendant. After short de-
bate, the Senate, without devoting. went
INTO executive session and soon adjourn
ed