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stood | was willing to allow its assailants to
attack it as mn h AZ they pleased, resersing to
myself the right, when the time should APP
pfOach for taking the vote to answer in a con-
GLIDING speech all the arguments v hich might
be urged against it. | still reserye---what be-
lieye common courtesy and parliamentary
usage awards to the chairman Of a COMMITTEES
and the author Of bill---the right OF summing
IN, after all shall have been said which has to
be said against this measure.
hope the compact which was made on last
Tuesday at the suggestion Of these Abolition
ists, when the bill was proposed to be taken
up, will be observed. 1t was that the bill when
taken up day, should continue TO be consid-
cred from day to day, until finally disposed Of
hope they will not repudiate and violate that
compact as they have the Missouri Compro-
mise and all others which have been entered
into. hope, therefore that we may press the
bill TO vote bit not by depriving persons Of
an opportunity Of speaking
am in favor Of giving every enemy Of the
bill the most ample time. Let us hear them
all patiently, and then take the vote and pass
the bill. We who are in favor Of il know that
the principle ON which it is based is right
Why then should we crafty the Abolition par.
ty in their effort to get up another political
tornado of fanaticism, and put the country
again in peril, merely for the purpose Of cecting
a few agitators to the Congress Of the United
States!
We intend to stand by the principle of the
Compromise Measures Of 185O--that principle
which lost the Presidency to the Senator from
Michigan Mr. Cassl in 1848, but which tr-
umphed in 1850, although he had been n mar
tyr in the cause--that principle to which the
Democracy are pledged, not merely by the Bal
timore platform, but by higher and more sol
emn obligation, to which they are pledged by
the love and affection which they have for that
great fundamental principle Of Democracy and
free institutions, which lies ut the basis OF our
creed, and gives every political community the
right to govern itself in obedience to tho Con-
atitution of the country.
Mr.. CHASE. Mr. President had some in
timation coming to the Senate Chamber this
morning, of the diatribe which the Senator
from Illinois Mr.. Douglasl has now pronoun-
ced. | was aware that an assault was to be
made upon us. Well, sir the assault has been
made. The Senator has paraded his battery;
he has fired his guns: we have heard the noise;
we are in the midst Of the smoke; but nobody
is hurt. We are still here; we yet survive, and
doubt not we shall long survive oil such at
tacks as that which he has now been pleased
to make.
Mr.. President the Senator from illinois
charges that the address, npon which he has
been pleased to comment in terms which beft
any Other place than the Senate Chamber
however low that place may ba--was concoct-
ed in what he chooses to call an Abolition eau
Gus, held upon Sunday. Aye, sir with gen.
crosby peculiarly his own, he has awaited him.
self Of mere error of date, and piously holds
up to public Reproduction the gentlemen who
have signed that address az violating the ga
credness of the Sabbath day-that day for
which he cherishes, doubtless a peculiar rever-
ence. And yet at the very moment Of making
this charge, he refntes il by another, asserting
that this very appeal was printed in the New
York Times, and other New York papers on
the Monday morning following that very Sun
day. Did he not know that il was impossible
that the document could have been prepared
and signed here on Sunday, and published in
New York on Monday morninga
Well, Sir, the Senator further charges that
a false statement has been put forth in connec-
ton with this address. That false statement
as he alleges, was this: that the appeal was
signed by majority Of the members from the
State Of Ohio He thinks that the design was
to catch some q ft-footed Democrats Soft
footed Democrats Aye, that ia the phrase
by which he chooses to mark all Democrats
who will vote against this BILL trust he will
find that such Democrats are q little more nu-
merous than he seems now to imagine | do
not know how many there may be- pass
that. What ! have now to deal with ia the
Senator's charge, and that pronounce utterly
gronndless
The simple facts are these The appeal was
prepared upon consultation among the Inde-
pendent Democrats who signed it. IL was az
forwards suggested that it should be signed by
the Senators and q number Of the Representa-
tives from Ohio, and sent forth az an address
10 the People Of that State. IL was signed by
my colleague and myself, with that view, but
some alterations being required by certain
Representatives, which could not be made with
out announcement delay, it was determined to
issne the document with the signatures only
of the gentlemen by whom il was originated,
and in the form originally proposed, rs an ap-
peal to the whole country. This in the plain
story. The address hears no signature. other
than those of the Independents Democrats,
whom the Senator chooses to style +" the Abo-
lition confaderatcs, By no ono Of them was
it ever represented 10 be otherwise signed.
Some gentlemen connected with the press,
however hearing OF the purpose that 1t should
be signed by more or loss of the delegation
from Ohio, have sent it abroad with a state
ment that it was thus signed in fact have
q note in my hand which the corresponding
editor in this city of the New York Times has
just sent me from tho reporters gallery, in
which he states how the mistaken statement
went into that paper. will not trouble the
Senate with tho reading Of IL but will send
it TO the reporter TO DO printed with these re-
marks My colleague il in his seat, and knows
the truth Of what speak.
Mr. WADE. Mr.. President. | heard the
address half read, and, Judging Of its quality
by its sample, signed it. Judging il by that
sample, and by what has been made known ny
the Senator from Illinois, now endorse every
word Of it, for ] believe it is perfectly true and
correct II was issued without my signature,
for the reasons assigned by my colleague.
Mr. CHASE. Not only, Mr. President, were
none Of us who are connected with this address
responsible in any degree for any Of those
newspaper statements but IL is also true that
tho moment learned that statement attrib-