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W 4SuNGTpN, June IL.
SsxArz-Mr. Ham:in rose to ask to be ex-
cused from acting US chairman of the corn. en-
Commerce He said that for the 8 years he had
held seat in the Senate. He had almost been
a silent member and upon the subject that
had so much excited the country. He believed
that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
great moral and political wrong, unequaled in
the annals Of the legislation Of this country, OF
in the history of any country. san, with de-
sire to promote concord and brOtiicrly feeling,
he sat amid all the exciting debate which led to
that fatal result, and opposed it not with his
voice by consistent, steady AMI uniform vote,
not only in accordance with his own convic-
tons but in accordance vita the instructions of
his Legislature, passed By an almost unanimous
vote; but the thing was done III violation OF the
principles Of that party with whom he had al
ways acted, and in violation of the solemn
pledges of the President in his inaugural mes
sage. Since, however, that wrong had been en-
dOrsed by the Cincinnati Convention in its con-
summation and its results He felt 1t to be his
duty to declare that he could no longer maintain
party associations with any party that insisted
upon such doctrines, and he could support no
man for President who avowed and recognized
these doctrines; and whatever powers God had
endowed him with should be used in the COM
ing contest, in opposition to it
The motion to excuse was agreed TO.
Mr.. Butler then proceeded tn reply TO Nj.
Summers speech, the galleries being denscly
crowded.
Mr. Butler said the necessity for his address
ing the Senate on this occasion was brought
about by events over which he had no control;
events which have grown out OF controversy
for the commencement of which the Senator
from Massachusetts, (Sumner) should be held cx-
cluSively responsible by his countTyand his God;
he had delivered speech the most eXtraordina-
ry that ever had found uttcTa0cc in Legislative
body recognizing the law and constitution, etc.
At that time he (Butlcr) was not here; what he
would have done If he had BEEN it would now
be idle TO say, because no one can substitute the
deliberations of subsequent period for what
might have taken place on the impulse of amO-
ment; his impression that IL he had been
here, he should have asked the Senator, before
| finishing some of the paragraphs personally ap-
plicabc to him, to pause, and if Mr. Sumner had
gone on should have demanded that he rctract
| or modify the offensive remarks so as to bling
them within the sphere of parliamentary pro-
prcty; il Sumner had refused this, what he
| (8utlcT) would have done he conld not exactly
saw, but one thing he knew, and that was, he
would not have submitted to it; to what mode
of redress he would have rcSorte1 he could n t
tell; he would at least have assumed all tine re-
| sponsibi!itiss of n Senator from South Carolina,
let the consequences fall where they might but
instead of that the speech hal involved trien|
and kinSnan (SrookS) so that he had been oo-
!iyed to put his fortune aal life at stake lat
| Ter expressed the opinion that the speecA of
Sumner would be condemned by the public
mind Of the country and consigned to infan:y
| by postcrity. for the consequences which have
flowed from it. He (E}utlcr) had done nothing
| to Justify the gross Personalities with which he
had been assaile,l; independently of the person
Ilities which di>graccd Summers speech there
was nothing in it to distinguish it from all his
other Abolition speeches. Sumner had acted as
| ,Jv,if Of fI,n fnnatipS fIrDUpl which to
pour out their malignity and injustice, and TO
conciliatc Theodore Parker.
Sumner must make war on South Carolina
and on himself, (Butler) it was the purpose OF
Sumner to pandcr to the prejudice of a portion
Iof Massachusetts. II Sumner were here he
would make him hang his head in shame and
lprove him calumniator.
Without concluding Butler yielded the floor
for adjournment
| HoTsE-one hundred and fourteen members
answered to their names, and there being no
quorum the House adjourned