Congressional Record-House. 3089
1910. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3089 emancipation in the worst possible form-far worse than if done by our DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVE JAMES BRECK PERKINS. own voluntary act, instead of being compelled to adopt it at the bidding of a dominant section whose interest and sympathy for them, and hos A message from the House of Representatives, by W. J. tility to us, would combine to reverse the present relations between the Browning, its Chief Clerk, communicated to the Senate the in two races in the South by raising the inferior to be the favored and superior and sinking the superior to be the inferior and despised. telligence of the death of Hon. JAMES BRECK PERKINS, late a Representative from the State of New York, and transmitted The horrors of reconstruction, the alienation of the races, the resolutions of the House thereon. intensifying 'Of the natural antipathy, the long weary years of The message also announced that the Speaker of the House humiliation and suffering attest his prophetic power. had appointed Mr. PAYNE, l\Ir. FITZGERALD, l\Ir. ALEXANDER of That he foresaw the result of these false principles introduced New York, l\Ir. FORNES, Mr. CALDER, l\Ir. FASSETT, l\Ir. CoNRY, into our real life is marvelously revealed in the facts of to-day. l\Ir. MICHA.EL E. DRISCOLL, 1\fr. PARSONS, Mr. DANIEL A. DBIS- I In speaking on the question of a protective tariff, in 1842, in COLL, l\Ir. GOULDEN, Mr. COCKS of New York, Mr. FOSTER of Ver reference to the tariff, he said : mont, Mr.
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