policy of course we who for the could not carry it nor over the but that body was not content to stand on tlie it attached to the great civil and bill since divided a provision for the organization of the new � of course without tlie against slavery � and in effect said to us you shall agree to this or the new administration shall not have a dollar to spend after the st of we had one or two by committee but neither house would give way finally the bill came back to us on this last � the on its each side had rallied in full force there were l ut of all the representatives ch from the slave states who were not in their seats and we were morally certain to be beaten on a motion to � three or four weak brethren changing their recollections of a busy life rather than leave the government when some one on our � i believe it was w of � got in a motion to with an tliis accepted the s project of tlie new barely adding a that tlie laws remain in force till by c of the existing laws were those of and this motion prevailed as i recollect the vote on important division stood one hundred and eleven to one ed and and completely changed the whole aspect of the r tlie pro slavery men were now aa anxious to tlie as they had previously been to it at all and the out its provision and let the bill pass as it originally was leaving the of in the new aa a of trouble to the administration was a move more clever than that motion to with an it bad been carried through house and while the was upon it there ensued a or � the house having really nothing to do but a as it was reply you lie rejoined johnson whose powers of observation were not then in their best estate and he sprang forward as though to clutch when mr samuel w of rushed upon the latter and struck him two or three blows with a cane order order � do your duty interposed the speaker and the was promptly arrested what did you fall upon for inquired one of his neighbors being an intensely pro slavery as were lu e and johnson why i thought explained that the fight between the and the south had commenced and i mi lit as well pitch in i did not hear him say this but it was reported to me directly afterward and i have no doubt that he said and thought so mr went over to the side of the that night and made some remark to an acquaintance on the change of aspect since we had made and sustained our motion to with an � when he was and was glad to get away quite rapidly i am confident i could not have passed quietly through that side of the house between ten and two o clock of that night without and had i resisted beaten within an inch of my life if not killed outright yet i had proposed nothing said nothing on the exciting topic i was only because i was j resumed earnestly hostile to slavery i believe it was just a m of the th of march � the day of general s � when the two houses having finished all the inevitable business of the were without day and i walked down to mv hotel free to mind my own business i have not since been a member nor held any post under the government it is not likely that i shall ever again hold one i look t upon those three months i spent in as among the most employed of any in the course of my life i saw things from a novel point of view and if i came away from the no wiser than i went thither the fault was entirely my own i believe i heard vaguely of what were called the soon after they were proclaimed or to in the spring of but they did not attract my attention till during a brief absence from new york � perhaps in � i a connected account of the alleged phenomena signed by several prominent citizens of and communicated by them to the wherein i read it it made little impression ou my mind though i never had that to or stubborn incredulity regarding called supernatural which is evinced by many my of l i � which the so called had first occurred or been noted � first at the little hamlet known as near co n y � came to new york and stopped at a hotel where i called upon them and heard the so called but was neither nor enlightened thereby nothing beyond the which even if deemed inexplicable did not much interest me in fact i should have regretted that any of my departed ones had been impelled to address me in the presence and hearing of the throng of strangers gathered around the table on which the were generally made i had no desire for a second sitting and might never have had one but my wife � then specially and deeply interested in all that to the unseen world because of the recent loss of our darling � visited the twice or thrice at their hotel and invited them thence to spend some week or so with her at our house there along with much that seemed trivial unsatisfactory and unlike what might naturally be expected from tlie land of souls i received some to my questions of a very remarkable character knowledge of of which no one not an of our family in former years could well have been most of these could have no significance or to strangers but one of them seems it was 