Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-06
sENAT0R HALE ON FEDERAL POLITICS


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quent speeeh Genyersjin In no Tr-itsl G,n.os
lby John p UoIe of NJ, Iioot: ~. ~,
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| Tue SEAEoFFIcIAL MEETING IN DOUGLAS PARLoR
This omission to subn,if the Coro,;,rt;o,, % .h,
people Of Kansas Ia not 'ao;lrtI ' ~ - w.,
70 find. as have fo,rJ o, ,J,i "' so.iy II.
omission to nut il in the orrn,i XII 'n"t ,'
cidentai W. Lara ItG y. 20 o'l' ".0 no' "c,
from centlaman ho 'ioi,o nont uh 'Hls suDlec'
ho sneats IN ,Lo So anou9 l'suV "'ion
Senator from, po,rnat NJ 'SS S: Hoi'Ti"p,o ~
saws his ,ras NO, atn, sli DihiorI nc
bas snokon o1co "T.toH'ai' w. w any means. ne
was held in the nrto r uiue'lnS tna'
man rLrre r.ps ttoI 81 -? o'"tlo
anxiety 70 lYo1 ,h 49,, go Ee"t " INJURY ana
The gentleman ,rh"1,,vs ~ ~ " ".noe''"S S WAY "hS
not know nngtbnr oIont i I"u, s.'u Nv uia
The hospitable man les iis crass horo -,Os
any room, tbay YJaos, Th ;i ,1',G '"e "'e VI
from pennsylta,fa so;a i:, SENATOR :
official" i do not kmn1y sLntI;ndoF oa,;l'
that was have Leo,d or
semi.cyized or1 ,aoia 49,. ="
heard of n ser,i.annnai 80 p'op.G t%.o
bat when Won come n sen,i.afi,;ol doaI''nI
botbers me ITqmghter W.T. so-t of - 80.
iny vas ~ w.. n:n: n"I SUI SUI. VI " ny.
III nj t1,,.rD /.
it1 Sami.oficioI IIaurhttnn vas
have never ma, onvth;na 0ro,or,rs ;tt,.
once in my lifo AMI ,bat Pm ,S,oe,io b -
of illnstrafion A ,,oSar i; 49,, ,nrn,, ey. y 10y Iy
dav nf rnilronds had ,aLor .,,, r,, i;ji "a .I
ho was a litle domhtfnI yhatber p ,Dos aonn,a ~
not Ia corolrdJ 90 49,; :, So -. " g. o. 49,: "
and send it down n the bant to ;n[,m;re Of ,ha
cashier whether it was a genuine Hill The driver
took it and promised to attond to it. lie went
dgwn the first day, but he had so many other en-
rands that he forgot it, and lie said he would Ger.
tanly attend to it the next day The mex. day
he forgot it, and the third day he forgot it but
he said, tomorrow l will do it if l do nothing
else will ascertain whether the bill is genuine
or not. He went the fourth day with like re-
sult-he forgot it, and when he came home he
saw the nervous, anxious trader, wanting to know
whether 1t was genuine not and he was
ashamed to tell him he had forgotten it, and he
thought he would lie it through. Said the trader
to him did yon call at the bank?" Yes"
Did the Cashier say it was genuine bill p"
No. he did not" "Did he say it was II bad
one I" No" "Well, what did he say 2" ''Ile
said it was about middling--semi genuine"
Laughter have never learned to this day
whether that wa good o. bad bill. Laugh
er. They used to say in General Jacksons time,
hat he had kitchen cabinet as well as regula
me. This could not be a meeting of the kitchen
cabinet, because il sat in the parlor. Laughter.
1t was semi-oitcial in its character also.
The result OF THE semoihcal meeting, called
or the public good, was that the bills came into
he Senate the next morning minus the clause sub
nirting the constitution to the people. 1t was
stricken out but the honorable senator does not
mpusn any body nor his motives, because he
says:
Nv ho struck the words out, or for what pur-
pose they were omitted, is not for me to answer"
If it is not for him il is not for me but I
bought he had given A clew to tho reason whv
hev were struck out when ho said the meeting
vas called for the public good. Undoubtedly they
we're struck out for the public good Who struck
hem out seems to be a mooted question as unoer
ain of an answer as that old ouestion .Who kill.
ID cock-robin ?" daughter 1t has got out
omehow or other. | did not see the Senator
,,o' ,.a,aSad ~ L;re in,.I :, :; S;tia % 49,
~ some gesture or some shake of the head he
would have determined who that 'who" was /; but
We are left ia the dark-we do not know who it
yas.
You see then that this was not accidental. A
unofficial set of patriots, friends of popular
overeignty and disciDlines of perfect freedom
allied for the public good in private room, met
ogether and for peculiar reasons-that is what
he Senator said-they determined to strike out Of
ho bill the only redeeming feature in it, and that
vas the submission to the people of the question
whether they would have slavery in the constitu
ion or not. In that secret conclaye, that semi
ffcal meeting for the public good, these patriots
ut their heads together to strangle al the birth
he only thing there was in their bill which ought