Year: 1866

which he knew 10 be positive falsehood-
He also charged that / moved the previous
question on the Negro Testimony bill for
the purpose Of cnttiDg of Hoods amend
ment. That 1 did, and 1 did it TO prevent
the passage Of the bill but the motion
failed, and Hood s amendment was adopted.
And thus secured, the passage Of the bill
without the amendment the bill could not


have passed the House. So my object was
to defeat the bill by keeping of the amend
ment while the gentleman from Washing
ton was for the amendment, and thus Sc
cured the passage Of the bill Now I ask
who was for the negro, he or II


The gentleman from Washington charged
that was acting with rebels and eoppsr-
heads that I was voting with rebel Col
onel who is limping about with Yankee
lead in him, and acting with q certain Doc
tor who was rebel guerrilla he also
charged that / roomed, eat and slept with
copperheads, and that a man could not
sleep with hogs without getting lice on
him. Now sir, the fact is have slept with
no one since have been here but the gen.
tlemen from Carter end johnson, and so far
as voting with the above named gentlemen,
suppose / have in some instances, and so
has the gentleman from Washington, done
so too.


Mr.. Speaker, the gentleman from Wash
ington charges me with acting with rebels
and eopperhesds. Now sir, I propose to
look into his past record and see who he
has been acting with. He has been nnfor-
tunate enough to have made an old Legis-'
lalve record heretofore, and l want to know
who he acted with on that occasion with all
his seeming extra loyalty. Sir, he was in
the rebel Leg slatUresof 1861 and 1862, took
the oath to seppOrt the Constitution Of the
lOnd HE'D crate States nf


While that treasonable Legislature was
in session here at Nashville, the Federal
army was approaching this place, what did,
he do? Did be wait mere for his friends to
come No sir, he, with all his extra loyal
ty, took up his documents and trudged off
down TO Memphis with that rebel Legisla-
ture; and, sir, while that body was in ses-
sion at Memphis, g proposition was intro
duced to move the Bank of Tennessee be-
yond the limits Of the State. Sir, how did
the loyal gentleman from Washington vote
on that very important measure? q use
the term important, because it was impor-
tant TO the good people Of the State.) Why,
sir, he voted to move the Bank into Georgia,
taking it beyond the limits of the State
out of reach Of the enemy, as he calls the
Federals-and placed it down in Georgia,
among his friends, for safe keeping. q
guess they kept it for him. Sir, this was
the peoples money their hard earnings
yet this extra loyal gentleman voted TO
take it away from you, the people or Ten
nessee, and give it TO Georgia rebels.


Mr.. Speaker, ne cid not stop at voting
the peoples money away, but, sir, he alse
voted TO send the children's money down
into Georgia, for it is well known TO every
body that the Common School Fund was
in that bank, and yet this extra loyal gen
tleman voted to rob the moor children of the
State of their money and give it TO aid that
nnholy rebellion against the Government Of
the United States. Sir, this is not all yet.
You, the good people Of the State, will have
to be taxed to replace all that money that
the gentleman from Washington voted to
take away from you and give it to the re-
belliOn. He, sir, had the audacity to 90 up
into my county to canvass it against me in
my late election for Representative, after
voting to rob the children and all the people
Of the State Of what little money they had.
He says l abandoned my seat to prevent
the passage Of the Franchise bill. He knows
that is a talsehOod, and the Journals Of the
House show it to be such.


Mr.. Speaker, / must be permitted in con-
clusion to ask the gentleman from Wash
in ytOn where he was at for several days
while the Negro Testimony bill was before
the House. have been creditably in
formed that he was down in the Treasurer's
Office clerking for that officer, and of
course was getting paid for his services.
Wen, Colonel, that will do pretty well.
some economy in such a course as that, TO
receive pay as Legislator and a clerk at
the same time. Such course as that may
suit you very well, but I doubt whether it
will suit your constituents. / would think
it would not.