Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-10-21
4 FAMOUS REJOINDER.
John Young Browns Sea hing Reply
 to General Blu Ter Recalled.

To many of the generation who are now discussing the chances of John Young Brown for the govern orshiD of Kentucky. MF, Brown is a new character on the public stage; but the older set of newspaper read CTS will remember him very well for his successful canvass for the gov ernorship in 1891, but better still for his share in a noteworthy scene on the floor of the House of R presenta- tiYes. says the Boston Transcript. Brown was elected ID Congress in 1859, before he had attained the con- stitutional age, but did not take his seat until he had passed his twenty fifth birthday, so that no one could cavil. He had already, in stumping Kentucky in behalf of the Douglas wing of the Democratic party, made himself famous as an orator of the natural school, to which Patrick Henry and some otker If our earlier agitators and politicians belonged At first he does not appear to have made marked impression in Con- grese, but his name became asso9iat- ed during the reconstruction .era with repeated attempts to be admit ted to the House on aregular official certificate, and wi failure in each effort through the untiring resistance of the radical leaders, headed by Ben Butler of Massachusetts. Br own laid this up against Butler, and waited patiently for an oppor- tunity tO make things even. It came one day, after he had succeeded in getting back into Congress, when Butler gave him text by delivering violent philippic against the south ern people, aud particularly against the people of Louisiana, who were just then in the midst of the struggle which ended with the overthrow of the Kellogg dynasty, Browns re- spoDse was as follows:
 "Mr. Speaker, the South is broken. It lies in helplessness and desp pair, with homes dilapidated, villages wasted. it's people bankrupt. Is there nothing in that situation to touch you with pity? Ii your mag nanimity canLot be touched, will you not be moved by some sense of justice? By conspiracy between the attorney general and Kellogg and a drunken federal judge, the sov- ereignty of State was overthr0wn. The usurpatiOn has been perpetrated by bayonets. But recently one of your generals entered the legislative halls as Cromwell entered the Eng fish Parliament with Colonel Pride, and ruthlessly expelled the occu- pants. Onward and onward you go in defiance O. the sentiment of the country, remOrselessly determined, it seems, to drive the Southern peo- pie to destruction, to give their roofs to the flames and their fl ssh to the eagles. A federal general steps on the scene and sends a despatch that the people of the State are bau- ditti. We have heard it echoed else where that they were thieves and murderers and night riders. The clergy of that State. Jew and Gen tile. have denied it. The business men and Northern residents have de- nied it. A committee of your own House, a majority being Republicans have kiven it solemn and emphatic contradiction and nailed the slander to the counter.
 Now, what should be said if that accusation should come from oue-I speak not of men, but of languaage within the rules of the House-.f that