Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-07-22
Hale and BigIer.

" uSooeo III tht ktlltle III luteHueu 10 III
; huence the action of members here, bu
it is made 10 enlighten The country.
confess, however, that this debate ha
enlightened my mind. was at first in
cllned to SO against this appropriation
but the considerations which have beer
urged with SO much force by the Sena
tor from Pennsylvania, ! confess, have
weakened my convictions in that direc
ton, and have almost induced me 10 &C
for it. If the appeal which he so power
fnlly and patheiically made to The hon.
orable Senator from Georgia has not
moved him, he must be impervous to
eloquence and 10 pathos.
l think that the case which the Sena-
ator from Pennsylvania has presented is
eminently just. l agree entirely with
what he says, when he declares that in
his course here he has not been looking
to popularity; l think that the whole
North, Pennsylvania no less than any
other part of the Union, will endorse his
yeracisy, if nothing else, when he de-
clares that he has not been seeking pop
ulariiy; and when he appeals to the
Senator from Georgia, aud tells him
what a hard road the Northern Demo
Gratis have had to travel, and how much
they had to sacrifice and 10 face and
then asks if, in return for all this, he
cannot let him have few onion and gar
lie seeds, laughter, L confess, if the
Senator from Georgia was not moved,
was. Laughter. l think il is reasonable,
and more than reasonable, even if he had
asked for little of the vegetable full
grown. But when he says {" Look at the
North, and see on every side, and hear
by every mail, proof that we have not
pandered TO popularity; see what we
have suffered in your behalf; when you
see all that, and see that we are not ex-
orbitant, we do not ask any Offices; take
your foreign missions and distribute
them where they appropriately belong
take The Federal Treasury, and use ii !;
cons iIaenc:;v. wsrvlh home TO an outraged
fo,, ha.1sa. ;ll:l.I
to not let us carry a few onion seeds, a
little garlic and now and then cabbage,
laughter, so that our constituency may
be inclined TO wink little at the course
we have taken on this great question,
upon which we have sacrificed so much
for you" Iconfess that even if | had
such strict rules as the Senator from
Georgia entertains upon the Constitution,
when such an appeal as that came from
such source, the "right bower" of the
Administration, not asking 10 take the
ace" or anything else, but simply a
little onion seed-a vegetable that, under
peculiar states of application, is calcu
lated to produce tears - laughter =
cannot you let us go home and cry with
our constituents over what we have done
| do not want to be personal, but ap-
peal to the honorable Senator from Geor-
gia, and ask him, for we have always
been on friendly relations
Mr.. Bigler. Allow me. | have no
idea at all that the Senator intends to be
personal.
Mr.. Hale. Oh no.
Mr.. Bigler. But he uses terms which
| do not understand talking about the
"right bower" and ace," and all that
sort of thing. Laughter.
Mr.. Hale Well, sir, l do not under
stand Them; but l thought the Senator
did, because the Senator from Georgia
spoke of il. aud he seemed 10 understand
it then. Laughter. do not under
stand them but supposed it is parlia-
mentary, highly so, laughter, or else it
would not have been introduced. | do
not know what The "right bower" is. |
suppose it is naVot knav-all term,
laughter, or something of that sort.
But | was proceeding. The Senator
from Georgia and myself do not agree on
political questions; we have differed !;
but l believe, in our social intercourse
we have never had any difficulty, and
whenever it has been in my power-I do
not know that ever had an opportunity
where it was in my power TO do him a
slight favor, but if It was the case.
would do it but if he has the slightest
personal regard for me, beg to throw il
into the same scale where tie eloquence
and pathos of the Senator from Pennsyl-
yania have gone before me, and both to-
gether we ask fora little onion seed
Laughter. Can he, under these cir.
cumsances, resist No, sir.
anu as stricta coustructionist of til,
constitution as any, not excepting thc
honorable Senator before me, Mr.
Toombs but | have read all the plat
forms, and | suggest to the Senator from
Georgia that he is little too fast.
think. considering what has been done
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