Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
TWO WORD LASHINGS.
Judge Schofeld's Attack Upon James
Bleoks in Congress.
NOTHING RUFFIANLY ABOUT 1T.
Ignatius Donnelly's Speech on Elihu B.
Washburn Not 30 Neat.
BOTH REMARKABLE EFFORTS, HOWEVER
rwRrrrEN ron THE prsPATcH.I

by Judge Schofeld, of Pennsylvania, to
james Brooks, of New York. Schofeld
was possessed of an exceedingly terse and ep-
igrammatic style which he used with telling
effect. 1t was an artistic job. There was
no mauling nor pounding about 1t. His
sentences were like sabre cuts, and every
one of them cut to the quick, and
the worst Of II was that there was moth
ing to do but to hold still and take it.
Sehofeld had no patience with those who
favored q temporizing policy in dealing
with the Rebellion. The question of the
amendment of the Constitution go as to
abolish slavery was before the House.
Brooks had made violent speech against
II, and had advised concession, and the ex-
tending of the olive branch, etc, as was
very common in the speeches of certain
class of politicians at that day, and had rec
commended, If not new safeguards for
slavery, at least the continued federation of
1t as measure Of concilistion, and had de-
clared in emphatic tones that we could
never subjugate 5000, 900 Of people of the
same race or lineage with ourselves. He
announced himself, however, as opposed
to dissolution of the Union, and claimed
the whole country as his own, and that 1t
was his right to travel from one end Of it to
the other without being compelled to sub
NIT to an inspection of his baggage in cross
ing any division line. Schofeld, in reply,
after commenting on the exaggeration of
statement that We were contending with
5000, 900 of enemies, said:
VERY NEAT FLAGELLAT1oN.
With half the white and all the black
population of the seeded States, it would
be very strange If the Government was not
strong enough to compel submission from
the rest. The gentleman himself gives us
some little encouragement. This little State
Of Maine Tin which he tells us in this con-
nection he was born), is a match for Eng
land, France and Russia, and he finally
adds, for all Europe combined. Now sir, If
this little State, which bad only the honor
Of rocking hts cradle, that claimed him only
in long frocks and petticoats, could with
stand all Europe single-handed. is it not
reasonable to suppose that, combined with
the State Of his adoption, the great State of
New York, that possesses him in al the
the world and the rest of mankind, in which
I suppose the rebels would be included?
Maine can be relied on for the contest; so
New York, since no perf1dious hand now
holds the helm, and the gentleman himself
gives some hope that he may vet be goaded
into the support Of his struggling, suffering
country,
There is a point, he tells us, beyond which
his forbearance will not go. It was not
reached when the rebels seized our forts,
navy yards, arsenals, ships of war, mints
and custom houses, mails and postoff1ces. 1t
was not reached when they put pirates on
the ocean to seize, rob and burn the peace
full merchant vessels from our own city 1t
was not reached when they raised the black
flag and shot down our patriot soldiers after
surrender and then burned the hospitals
over the heads of the sick and wounded. 1t
was not reached when they murdered
women and children and unarmed men, and
burned the villages on the border without
military motive. 1t was not reached when,
by the slow torture OF hunger and cold, they
murdered our dear, brave boys-prisoners OF
war in their hands
But he has an ultimatum Notwithstanding.
He announces 1t from his place in this hall
and boldly hings it in the teeth of the rebels,
and has the courage to hope that they may
hear him. They must not go too far, not
presume too much on his forbearance. He
will not stand everything. The insults and
crimes ] have named he can endure, forgive,
forget; but If they dare to inspect his bag
gage as he travels South he will not submit.
Never! Never! he repeats. "W1ll you fight
then," inquiries the gentleman from Iowa
(Mr. Wilson). Mark now the pluck of his
will be ready to mark out the course will
pursue" Cambronne alone can answer
that.
CIPHER DONNELLY'S GREAT EFFORT
Another fearful faggellation, though not
so neat by any means, was administered by
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, to Elihu
B. Washburn, who had made charges re-
fecting on Donnelly's personal integrity.
1t was, as Speaker pro tenn once expressed
1t on another occasion, decidedly more pun
gent than parliamentary, and it is doubtful
If the House would have permitted it ex-
cept that Washburn had provoked good
deal of personal animosity by his overbear-
ing manner, and members were delighted at
Donnelly's castigation, and no one raised a
point of order to warrant the Speaker in
stopping him. Donnelly said:
What is the meaning of this attack, Mr..
Speaker, because there must be some mean
ing to it9 There isa very simple explanation
which has come out in my district, and
which is one of the great arguments why
they should send to this House the brother
he owns General Grant; that he carries
Ulysses Grant in his breeches pocket.
Why Mr.. Speaker, has he not lived In
the same town with General Grant? And
should he not therefore perforce be War
wick: the power behind the throne? never
could account, Mr.. Speaker, for the singular
fact that the gentleman did live in the same
town with General Grant except by refer
ence to that great law ofcompensationw which
runs tliroughout the created world. The
town of Galena, having for so many years
endured the gentleman, God Almighty felt |
that nothing less than Ulysses S. Grant could
balance the account. Josh Billings beauti-
fully illustrates this law of compensation
when he says that it is q question whether
man for the pain of having the itch. leave
the gentleman's constituents to apply the
parallel
LITTLE COARSE But POINTED.
Mr.. Speaker 1 bow humbly before the
genius Ulysses s. Grant. ! recognize him as
tho greatest, broadest, wisest intellect of
this generation. 1 cannot believe that he
will degenerate into puppet to be pulled
by wires held in the hand of the gentleman
from Illinois; that he will suffer himself to
be made kind of hand organ to be toted
around on the back of the gentleman from
Illinois while his whole family sit on the top
of the machine, grinning and catching PEN
MES like q troop Of monkies, If it were in
3ns IN ID
tell him to take counsel from that profound
remark of Aminidab Sleek, when he said
'you all expect to go to heaven by hanging
ON to my coat TAIL but will fool you all by
wearing q monkey jacket" Why; sir; we
had General Grant up in Minnesota, and of
course the distinguished gentleman from
Illinois was with him, and when Gen.
eral Grant was serenaded the gentleman 4
from Illinois stuck his head out of the win
dow and thanked the crowd, and when they
rode in an open barouche together and the
nois laid his hand upon his breast and bowed
profound acknowledgements. Why. sir, tile
people were In great doubt as to which was
Grant and which was Washburn: they
naturally concluded that the quiet little
gentleman must be the fourth-olass politi-
clan, and that the preten tious, fussy indi-
yiGual must be the conqueror OF Lee. Shall
the two names go down in history together
Grant and Washburn? What u combina-
toni Why, Mr.. Speaker, the intellect of
Grant is like some of those ancient ware
houses in the great cities of the older conti-
nent, where floor rises above floor, and cellar
descends below cellar. all packed with the