HON. J. MORRISSEY MAKES A SPEECH.

West Coast Times, Issue 604, 31 August 1867, Page 4

HON. J. MORRISSEY MAKES A SPEECH.

(FEO3I AN AMEEICAN PATER.) Mr Morrissey (Dem. N. V.) : Mr Speaker, I arise on this present occasion, sir, to say ray say with regard to this Bureau concern, about which' we have already heard so much from the other side. I think it is high time that our side of the House should be heard upon this subject ; and all I want you to do, sir, is to keep them fellers quiet, and don't let them come the gag over me with their " orders '' and " previous questions." I don't osk no odds of no one. This is a free fight, I take ; give us a fair show, and the devil take the hindermost. I can charge around in my own high grass, and fight my own flies. D n a nigger. Mr Speaker, the glorious charter of our liberties, the Constitution of the United States, says that all men are created equal ; and now, sir, I should like to know where in that document you can find one word about the nigger ? Just tell me that, will you ? Is the nigger mentioned at all? and wouldn't our forefathers have said something about him if they thought he was worth mentioning at all ? Mr Speaker, was George Washington a nigger ? Was General Putnam, or any hero of the Revolution, except Benedict Arnold, who ought to be one ? And anybody who says that the Czar of Russia or Queen Victoria is a nigger, lies, and he knows it. (Cries of order.) If that red-headed cuss from Wisconsin don't stop his jaw, I'll catch him some night in Snod's oyster cellar, and spread his nose all over his face. I ain't afraid of no man in this House. I have reached the height of my ambition. I have been a wharf rat, chicken thief, prize fighter, gambler, and member of Congress. I have gone round the circle, and left the Constitution and the flag with my constituents. (Small boy in the gallery — " Hail Columbia !") Mr Loan, of Missouri — Mr Speaker, I trust we shall not longer be insulted fey the vulgarity and profanity of the gentleman from the Fifth Point District, New York. Mr Morrissey — If that yellowmugged, flat-nosed cuss from the State of Missery does not shut his yaup, I will flatten his pug nose all over his saffron checks, and make a wallflower of that figure-head of his. Some one l.ns said that Fred. Douglas was fitter f>r this seat than I am. I can lick the abolition cuss that said that, and get

backers a hundred to one. You can't come the guy goggles over me, so you need'nt try it on. lam a free American citizen, and I'll bust jhe head of that grinning chap from lowa if he don't shut up his fly trap. Mr Speaker, I believe in the American eagle, that glorious feathered songster, who rises on pinions of fire from the lofty mountain top, and, piercing the skies, soars among the bannery of stars, and — and — the bird : I've got him up there, and can't gethim down, anyhow. Why don't them as loves the nigger so much go to Africa ? They can enjoy their society there: we can spare them, and the country be better off without them. Andy says so, and he speaks by the book. The pure Democrisy undefiled, can take care of the country without their help. Fernandy Wood and I could run this machine better than five hundred nigger-loving, humanitarian, freedom-loving, bloomerite abolitionists, with their infernal Bureaus and Civil Rights Bills. If any gentleman on the other side wants his constitution amended, just let him step out into the rotundy, and I'll give him ten articles that'll give him the dyspepsy the rest of his natural life. The man from Massachusetts trots out his Latin. That don't skeer me. I ain't such a fool as some people thing. E plurisy neioman zenih et broad axe, et tv brute, nul prosequi rombasque et d'aphragm ! No use in trying to come the schoollearning dodge over me. Mr Speaker, we as Democrats are sick and tired of hearing about the nigger. Why don't they say something about the white man ? I'm a white man, and so is my constituents. D — n a nigger! Mr Speaker, them are my sentiments as a Democrat.