65.] A more emphatic note of protest was sounded in the House of Representatives by Samuel S.Cox, of New York, who, in his lengthy speech delivered on July 31, 1882, scathingly denounced the repressive methods practiced by the Russian Government against the Jews, and, more particularly, the outrages which had been perpetrated upon them during the preceding year.

[1] He makes the former directly responsible for the latter.

In his opinion the pogroms were not merely a spontaneous and sudden outburst of the Eussian populace against the Jews, but rather the slow result of the disabilities and discriminations which are imposed upon the Jews by the Russian Government and are bound to degrade them in the eyes of their fellow-citizens: [Footnote 3: _Congressional Record_, Vol.

13, part 7, _Appendix,_ p.

651 et seq.