The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-19
senator BROWN On Nassaehusetts.

NtplylDS 10 hcaE, D!o"u salu tnal
the Senator from Massachusetts, had
charged him Brown with having for
the greater par: Of his life sustained an
Institution which prohibited legal mar
riages among part Of the people Of
Georgia. This was ,hru., at the peo.
pie Of Georgia for having held slaves
and al the Senator from Georgia for baY-
ing supported that institution He
admitted that Georgia had been slave
holding State and Il be had supported
the institution With All his power; and
while he would no, now restore slavery
if he could do 50 by turning over his
band, he claimed that there were many
excellent points connected with the
society and civilization OF that period.
But he did not propose ST present 70 enter
into any discussion Of the morality of
slavery or Of the superiori'. md excel
lcnce of the civilization Of tho South in
slavery days. The system Of slavery 10
which the Senator from Massachusetts,
had called attention originated in Massa-
chusetts, and the South derived much Of
its slavery from tha. State.
Brown read from EIliott's History of
New England TO show that the people Of
Massachusetts bought and held as Slaves
Scotchmen. Irishmen, Indians, negroes
and mu!attoes. aud that they sent car
goes of rum 10 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 marri-
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 "to-
gether or separate, to sui. the purchaser. y
That they raised slaves for market, and
when they found it Improbable 70 raise
them in the climate Of Massachusetts,
gave away the negro children like pup
pies to any one who would take them.
The charter Of Georgia." Brown con.
tinued, "originaliy forbade slavery, and
while Massachusetts WAS importing slaves
and selling them for profit, the STATE of
Georgia was refusing to hold them.
Finally, Georgia adopt slavery, pur.
chasing part Of her slaves from Massa.
chusetts. The Senator from Massachu
aetts had said there was large number
of mulattoe. 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." He
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 1883 Massachu.
setts passed an Act expelliDg from the
the Act applied also to mulattoes. Ne.
,,t &f ho
Of Morocco were, however, excluded
from the expelling 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 little unnatural to expel the
mulaltoes-not that they were kin to the
PEOPLE Of Massachusetts, but possibly
because climatic influence had changed
their color until 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 ere 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 Massachu.
setts. Any causual observer who would
GO iH,u AIsssa chnsetts 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 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 iuhospitable as the dreary,
bleached large numbers Of very young
piercing winds Of Massachusetts, and il
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 were not, as claimed, similar to
those proposed against Utah. He also
insisted that laws for the coniscation of
the church property of Utah were in vic.
latiou of constitutional principles and
entirely different from the laws of Massa.
chusetts. Two or three times in the
course of his remarks Brown regretted
that tho 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 was
hardly necessary to answer what bis hon.
orable friend (Brown) had paid, because
he (Hoar) had looked in while Brown
was speaking and did not see that sim
gle human being was listening to his
speech.
Brown replied that the country would
listen to it.
The vote being taken on Browns
amendment, permitting divorce only for
one cause in places where the United
States has exclusive Jurisdiction, it was
Brown. Butler, George
and Van Wyck), nays AZ.
Hoar gave notice that tomorrow he
would ask the Senate TO sit until the
Utah bill should be disposed Of
= The Springfield Republican says,
like Dean Swift, the Republican Party Is
dying at the top"
= Some Of tho negroes in York Coun-