The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-04-21


no quorum voting.
Mr. RUSK. ] hope the Sergeant alarms
will be directed to ask Senators to come in. |
do not like to see thing defeated in this way
Mr.. CHASE | am very sorry that the Sen
ator does not like to see a resolution defeated
in this way but this resolution is put upon
the ground that gentlemen need to be enlight-
ened by reading Democratic speeches If that
is valid ground, then the readers of the Ma
tional Era are entitled to have the reports
printed in that paper, for precisely the same
reason On the other hand, it has been put
upon the ground of courtesy to minority
here Now, sir, if that
Mr. RUSK The honorable Senator misap-
prehends me.
MIR CHASE. Certainly that argument has
been used this morning. | did not attribute 1t
to the Senator from Texas.
Mr.. RUSK. did not take your party into
the account at all.
Mr. CHASE. That may be; but undoubt-
edly the readers of the National Era, in whose
behalf advocate the amendment, are in the
minority. think, in fact that at the present
moment they are in a smaller minority than
the Wings
Mr. DOUGLAS, lin his seat That is your
candid opinion, is it
Mr. CHASE. | rather think that is the
fact but there has not been late count, and
! cannot tell with any certainty. We are a
growing party, while the Wings are decreas-
ing. But the argument is that we ought to
extend courtesy to the minority. Why, then,
not extend the same courtesy to the minority
represented by my friend from Massachusetts
Mr.. SUMNER and myself? ! appeal to the
magnanimty of the Senator from Texas.
know his generosity know his fairness; and
| ask him whether he is not willing to extend
this courtesy to a minority. Ii is a growing
minority, and there is no knowing what it may
grow to and think IL is q very fair minority.
! do hope that the Senator from Texas will
reconsider his position, and agree to accord
| the same courtesy which he accOrds to Wing
minority also to the Independent Democratic
minority.
| Mr.. WELLER 1t seems to me, sir, that
the Senator from Ohio has assumed altogether
a new name for the old Abolition party.
Everybody knows that that is the Abolition
party which he chooses TO designate as the
Independent Democratic party. know of no
such organization as that. 1t would be utterly
impossible, by the publication of any debates
here to change the minds of the readers Of the
National Era. 1t would be casting pearls
before swine" Like Ephraim of old, "they
are joined to their idols" and it is better to
=" let them alone" am therefore opposed to
giving any consequence or Importance to that
newspaper, by making it the publisher of any
portion of the debates of the Senate. know
Of no probable use which the publication of
that paper can be to the country. On the
contrary. it is injurng the community, since
it is bringing about u state of feeling to lead
to II dissolution of the Union itself
Now. all that desire to say to the Senator
from Ohio is, that am now able to understand
what he meant the other day, when he claimed
to be the representative of the great Democ-
racy of the State Of Ohio Does he suppose
that the Democracy of the State of Ohio will
recognise that Abolition journal as the organ
of their party Do they look to that paper
for the purpose of finding their political creed
DO they examine that paper for the purpose
Of determining what the honor and the justice
of the country may demand of them? IL they
do, then, as | said upon another occasion, |
was false representative of that party in
1913. Now | am able to comprehend tho |
Senator. The " Independent Democratic par
ty Z" Sir, there has never been any other |
party known as Democratic party, but an
independent Democratic party. IL is party
ounded upon principles, and princip Piles which
hey believe to be inseparably connected with
he prosperity and happiness of the country
1t il independent, because it has sought to
stand aloof from all factions Of all creeds, and |
to look with an eye alone to the welfare and
happiness of the whole Union If that is what
he means by the Independent Democratic
party " 10 which he belongs, then he was right
upon former occasion, when he said that he
the Democracy of Ohio. But
when he comes down to consider the National
Era ~ the organ of tho Independent Democ-
'acy must be allowed to say that he is not |
the representative of any portion of tho De-
mocracy of that State which regard as sound |
regard tho Senator from Ohio as faction
lst-l regard him as belonging to clique-to
a party which has been organized for the pur-
pose OF destroying the peace and tranquility
OF the Union and if they succeed in carrying
out their measures, the result must be the in
oyitable dissolution of the Uuion.
/ have been provoked, confess, because the
Senator comes here and claims to be the rep
of the Democracy of my native
State, with which | had been so long identi-
fed, previous to my removal to the Pacific.
That he should claim to be the representative
of that Democracy--that those sectional views
which he entertains upon all political questions
should be the sentiments of those with whom
| had spent nearly the whole of my life--that
this provoked me, | admit. | have not lost my
temper, however. ! endured it with good deal
of philosophy | have sometimes felt called
upon to speak, because | was the only native
Ct Ohio upon the floor Of the Senate; and if
could not be allowed to vindicate her reputa-
ton, could not tell where she should look for
one to defend it. repudiate, therefore, pub
licIy, the idea of the Senator from Ohio repre-
senting that portion of the party with which
| was connected when resided in that State.
That ho is tho true and faithful representative
OF what is known as the Connecticut Reserve,
no man can doubt lt is the hotbed of Adolf.
tionsm--the hardest place any Christian ever
went into. That they arc commonly very
agreeable people, | am free to admit But nv
friend from Ohio-ior he is my personal friend,
and ] would not disturb hair upon his head
it il getting thin with him, as it is with me-my
friend must allow me- with all courtesy, to re-
pudate the idea OF his representing tho De-
mocracy of that great State
Now, Mr. President, | do not know that
should have said anything upon this occasion,
II 1t had not been for the fact that we have no
public business to transact should not have
been jnstifabo in reading to my friend this
lecture upon the subject of Democracy, if any
public business could havo been delayed by it
But everybody knows that we have nothing
here to do. The Senator from Ohio has boon
speaking against time to-day, with no other
view than to spread his speech out in the col
umns of the Globe. | am willing it should 90
there; and whenever he makes u speech in the
Senate, ! will contribute, if my friend is short
OF funds, small amount towards republish-
ing it in the National Era, in order that his
constituents in the Western Reserve may have
an opportunity of perusing it at their leisure
Mr.. CHASE. The honorable Senator from
California has shown his regard for the State
of Ohio in different mode from myself |
went to that State from the little State of New
Hampshire. Ii is n great State, and feel
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