I believe every charge he made broke down on his
own evidence or was thoroughly refuted. But if the thing
were decent to do, it might be done decently. Those of you
who have delighted to listen to the classic eloquence of Everett,
to the lofty speech of Sumner, to the noble appeals of Andrew,
aye, to the sincere and manly utterances of Robinson, take
that speech and read it. He insulted womanhood in the person
of a defenceless girl. He insulted purity by a speech so
gross that the principal Democratic paper in Boston declares
it unfit for circulation, and demands that it be suppressed.
He insulted every colored man in the State, when, in an unguarded
moment, speaking from his very soul, he called out: 'Give
me the skin that came off the nigger.' He insulted the citizen
soldier of Massachusetts when he declared that they needed
but a word from him to clean out the State House. He insulted
the common school system of Massachusetts when he said that
if his witness were a person of immoral character, the school
system was responsible. He insulted the whole Commonwealth
in trying to cast upon the foul imputation that she was inhuman
and indifferent to her poor and unfortunate, and intimated
that the tanning of human skins was a recognized Massachusetts
industry.
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