. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. ng in of the whole delegation upon the ground that the elective franchise law of Tennessee,under which these gentlemen are said to be elected, disfranchises alarge portion of the white population of the State of objection was over-ruled by a vote of 117 to 28, and the dele-gation, except Mr. Butler, were sworn in and took their seats. On the 30th of November, Mr. Nunn introduced a resolution forthe repeal of the tax on cotton, which was referred to the Committeeof Ways and Means. His first speech before th
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. ng in of the whole delegation upon the ground that the elective franchise law of Tennessee,under which these gentlemen are said to be elected, disfranchises alarge portion of the white population of the State of objection was over-ruled by a vote of 117 to 28, and the dele-gation, except Mr. Butler, were sworn in and took their seats. On the 30th of November, Mr. Nunn introduced a resolution forthe repeal of the tax on cotton, which was referred to the Committeeof Ways and Means. His first speech before the House was infavor of this measure, December 4, when he said : The poor laborers, white and colored, looking with an eye offaith to this Radical Congress for a repeal of this cotton tax, haveclung to their crops with a tenacity worthy of their faith, and havethe same at their farms and homes waiting anxiously for this repealproposed. And while I do not propose to aid the speculator I dowish to assist the producer, who has raised and held his cotton atgreat expense. 316. ^ /^Vt 7 ^ SOUTH CA?.Ci,:NA SIMEOi^ CORLEY ^mON CORLEY was born in Lexington County, Southm Carolina, February 10, 1S23. Ue received the rudiments^ ot an English education in tlie Lexington Academy, whichhe attended from 1S30 to 1834, and then was apprenticed to learnthe tailors trade. He began business on his own account in 183S,and did not entirely give it up, even after his entrance upon publiclife. He manifested no little inventive skill in his trade, and be-came the inventor of a new system of garment cutting. He opposedan attempted secession of South Carolina in 1852, for whicii an at-tempt was made to expel him from the State as an abolitionist. Heedited the South Carolina Temperance Standard in 1855 and 1856,and during the same years held the office of grand scribe of the Sonsof Temperance of the State. Pie took his stand in hopeless opposi-tion to secession in 18G0, but was fin
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