The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-21
PLANTATION MANNERS.

No Southern member OF Congress
can resent a personal affront or SIAN
der OF the Southern people without
hearing the stale reply about planta'
ton manners. When the debate be-
comes personal and the Republicans
get hard pressed for som sthing to say,
they invariably fall back on the cd
device-plantation manners. But it
seems plantation manners are prac-
ticed now by Republican members of
Congress. Van Wyck OF Nebraska
and Hswley OF Connection. are two
leaders ia the party OF moral ideas
and which has grea, aversion to plan
tation manners. The rec ant scene bs-
tween these Republican Senator'S is
thus reported in the Congressional
Record,
The Presiding Officer, Mr.. Hawloy-The
Mr. Van Wyck-I am not through.
The Presiding Officer The Chair thought
the Senator had concluded and was sitting
down.
Mr.. Van wyck-Oh, no, do not think
the Chair thought 20. lle knew differently.
The Presiding Oficer-The Chair heard the
Sen ator from Nebraska make some remark
to the effect that that was all he had to say,
and the Chair, thinking he was sitting down,
proceeded to state the pending question. Tho
Senator from Nebraska, the Chair takes the
liberty of saying. in his present position,
has no right as Senator or gentleman, to
make the remark he did.
MIR Van Wyok-That does not interfere
with my saying 1t.
The Presiding onicsr-The Chair has no
doubt Of that.
Mr.. Iloar,,T call the Senator from Ne
braeka TO order.
The Presiding 0nicer-The Senator from
Nebraska will take his seat. The Senator
from Mass chusetts Will state his point OF
order.
Mr.. Hoar-Thc point of order Is that the
Senator from Nebras ga is not justified in the
remark he made 10 the Char whom the Chair
stat cd that he thought the Senator had con
cluded that he believed the Chair thought
something different,
The Presiding 0iiicer-Ths point Of order
is well taken. The Chair cares nothing
about pursuing tho matter any further.
Plantation manners are not only
pTacticed in the Senate by Rspubli-
cans, but by Northern members OF
Cong ess in the House OF Representa-
tive5. On Thursday last Rspr ssenta.
tivss Cobb, Of Indiana, aud Laird, Of
Nebraska, resorted to plantation man
ners and one distinguished himself
with his mouth and the other with
his fist. The Hon. Mr.. Laird sIavely
remarked to the Hon. Mr.. Cobb:
"Well, you are id liar, any way"
ard the Hon. Mr.. Cobb, not to be
backward in the courtesios of debate,
replied: "Aud You ara a perjurer, and
l can prove IT," Up to this poiut the
Hon. Mr., COBB seemed TO have the
advantage Of his honorable friend
from Nebraska, iuasmuch as perjury
is lying intensified by an oath TO the
lie, though the expletive in the
Nebraska gentleman's remark glvs
it viyidness which was want
ing in tho reply. Blu. Mr.,
Laird had another argument on
hand he proceeded to apply with
crushing force. 1t took the i)rm of a
blow with the left hand straight from
the shoulder at the Indiana members
face, and though its force was partly
broken, it succeeded in drawing the
first blood in favor OF Neb aska. Three
of the blackguards who engaged in a
practical illustration Of plantation
manners are Republicans and all four
are northern men. II four S)uthern
members of Congress had engaged in
such disgraoeful scenes much would
have been said by the Republican
newspapers about plantation man
ners,