Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-06-25
Senator Hale Illuminating Senator
Bigler.

h'S i1tS icttSis, sPoAr W 2Fualot biSltI ) last
achievement, in debate about garden seeds AMI
also Of Senator Hale's remarks, which are as
follows. The scene took Place on Friday, the
2Sth.- Press.
Mr.. HALE Il is very rarely, SIR, that a
debate in the Senate is intended TO influence
the action of members here, but it is made to
enlighlen the country. confess, however,
that this debate has enlightened my miud.
was at first Inclined to 20 against this appro-
priation, but the considerations which have
been urged with so much force by the Senator
from Pennsylvania, | confess, have weakened
my convictions in that direction, and have al
most induced me to 60 for it. Ii the appeal
which he 50 powerfully and paihetically made
to the honorable Senator from Georgia has not
moved him, he must be inpesvious TO elequence
and TO pathos.
think that the case, which the Senator of
Pennsylvania has presented, is eminently just.
| agree entirely with what he says, when he
declares that in his course here, he has not
been looking to popularity. ! think that the
whole North, Pennsylvania 10 less than any
other part OF the Union, will endorse his YER
acity, if nothing else, when be declares that
he has not been seeking popularity and when
he appeals to the Senator from Georgia, and
tells him what hard road the Northern Dem
ocrats have have had 10 travel, how much they
| have had to scrlGce and to face and then
asks f, in return for all this, he cannot lot
him have few onion and garlic seeds laugh
ter. | confess if the Senator from Georgia
was not moved, was Qaughter) | think il
is reasonable, and li!tle more than reasonable,
even if lie had asked for little Of tho yegcta-
bic full grown.
But when he says 'look at the North, and
sec on every side, and hear BY every mail,
proof that we have net pandered TO popularity;
see what we have suffered in your behalf when
you see all that, and see that we are not ez-
horbitant, We do not ask any Off .es; take your
foreign missions and distribute them where
they appropriately belong take the Federal
Treasury, and use it; hut when VIC 60 home to
an outraged constituency, will you be so illibera
as not to allow US 10 carry few onion seeds, a
little garlic, and then a cabbage, (laughter) so
that our constituency may be inclined 10 wink
a little at the course We have taken on this
great question, upon which we have sacrificed
so much for you 9" confess that even If /
bad such strict rules as the Senator from Ge3r-
gia entertains upon the Constitution, when such
au appeal came from such source, the ssright
bower OF the Administration, not asking to
take the 'ace or anything else, but simply
little onion sced-a vegetable that, under Pc
cular application is calculated to produec tears,
(laughter) cannot you let rs 20 home and cry
with our constituents over what VIC have done
u do not want to be personal, but l appeal to
fthe heporable Senator from Georgia, and | ask
Glin-r can ASK ulnIS fvI I4s EiHuys brru
on friendly relations
Mr.. BldLER. Allow me. have no iGea
at all that the Senator intends to be person.
al
Mr. HALE, Oh, no.
Mr.. BIGLER But he uses terms which
do not understand talking about the "rieLt
bower" and 'sace" and all that sort of thing.
tlaughter)
Mr.. HALE. Well, sir, l do not understand
them, bat | thought the Senator did, because
the Senator from Georgia spoke of it, and ha
seemed to understand it then. daughter.
do not understand them but / suppose it il
parliamentary, highly so, tlaughter,) or else it
would not have been introduced. | do not
know what the eright bower" Is. | suppose
It's naval tknaye-al) term, tlaughter,j or
something Of that sort.
But was proceeding The Senator from
Georgia and myself do not agree on political
questions We have differed but, believe,
IN our social intercourse We have never had
any difficulty, and whenever it has been n my
power-I do not know that | ever had an op-
portunity where it was in my power to do him
slight favor, but if it was the case, would
do it; but if he has the slightest personal re-
gard for me, | beg to throw it in the same
scale where the eloquence and pathos of the
Senator from Pennsylvania have gone before
me, aud both together we ask fora little |
onion seed. tLaughter.) Can be, under these
circumstances, resist No, sir.
| am as strict constructionist of the Con-
stitution as any, not excepting the honorable |
Senator before me Mr.. Toombs) but | have
read all the platforms, and | suggest to the
Senator from Georgia that he is little too
fast ! think, considering what has been done,
we may continue TO vote these seeds, at least /
until the Charleston Convention sits, and then,
have no doubt, after these developments, I
there will be new resolution that will cut off |
these saeds, aud that onions will be unconsti-
tutional ever after. (Laaghter.) But until
that is done, until that proviso is put in, | |
think the faithful may eonstrue the provisions
of the Constitution and the Cincinnati plat
form as the honorable Senator from Pennsyl- |
vania has suggested. think we may construe
them without straining the constitution any
moro to buy onion seeds than it does to catch
runaway slaves. guess when you find
provision in the Constitution that there is /
mode to take money out of the Federal treas
ury to pay for returning fugitive slaves, you
wilt find also the provision that little sum
may be paid for onion seed. Until clause
forbidding it comes either from the Constitu-
tion or the Charleston Convention, let us have
the seed but have no doubt it will be un.
constitutional after the Convention sits.
PRETTY SEYERE.--Mr. John A. Washing |