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bodv," The effect OF this speech uttered with such
serene composure and heroic dignity, was e,ectrc.
The audience subsided mo perfect calm and he In
i.bed his address whou. further interruption thar
that Of enthusiastic applause. On smother occaon
in making the Annual Address before the literary so-
cetie. OF the University speaking from shor. notes
A usual practice with hiD-he advanced .ome sen,i
uen,s which not well suited to the popular SYM
pathes Of the time. slight buzzing in the auieace
attracted his attention, ard recogpiz ng in i, dsent
rom his opinions, be paused then uttered with males
.ic cslmness these words, born a free nan and
by the grace OF God mean 20 live and die one"
The assembly hushed in moment 10 audibls al.
nee but then there arose such thunder of appliance
"a Overwhelmingly Indicated its sympathy with .he
manly sentiment and avowa Of freemans right 10
speak all bic thoughts. II was as when Roman the.
aver received that utteratce which Ike the heart
Of humanity arm sman, and nothing tha: concerns
u.an ia alien tome.
Quick in Iepartee, he was often very hsppy-stl 20
bland and courteous that he dill not give ofense One
day on the Street he was met by lady and genemsn
the latter OF whom dissented strongly from DIR. b. )
Calvnistc sentiments, while he yet greatly admired
bis character and talents. He introduced the lady a.
his wife, adding sporively. "Dr. b., my wife is just
one Of our sort Of folks she believes hs. what Is to
be will be-" "Ah,' said be, land suppose am
10 understand that you Of the sort which be-
ieve that what is to be, won't be- 1t poser.
The plan which Dr. Sprague has adopted in the
preparation Of this work gives perpetual variety
and freshness to its pages. Every approach TO mo-
uotony is avoided by the fact of his drawing so
freely on the recolkctons of contemporaries for the
materials of his biography The sketches thus fur.
nithed invariably possess racy flavor whi,h could
hardly have been secured in more formal ,tyle Of
narrative.
FROM ESQ TO 1854 By TnoN,s H. BtxroS Vol VI,
ls7-ls2l svo. PIP. 10 D. Appleton a Co.
The present volume of this important national
work includes the Debates of Congress during the
first term of Monroe's Presidency Those old ques-
tons of foreign relations which occupy so large
part of the preceding volumes, in this drop mainly
out of sight; instead Of which we are introduced
to new set of questions, several of them for the
first time. and many of which remain active and
vital down to the present moment.
The debates Of this period though still want
ing-if it can be called a want-the superabundant
fullness and endless outflow by which the Congress
sional reports of the present day distended TO
such an enormous bulk, are yet good,deal fuller,
and given with much more uniform completeness,
than those of earlier years. especially the debates
in the Senate which first begin to be reported
with any considerable fulness. still, however, there
are important debates Of which We have only
| sketches AS an instance how in cases of no small
interest the reported debates, even during the
period embraced in this volume, are still sometimes
| very lean, We may refer to an attempt made IN
the first session of the first Congress reported In
it to pass bill on the principle of the famous Fug-
| tive Slave act of 1850. The new domestic slave
trade which had then recently sprung up, for sup
plying the cotton growing States with slaves, hav-
I tha J;,postinp Of the horlpr
| slaves TO run away, Mr.. Pindall, member Of the
House from Virginia, brought in bill in the year
lals for assmilating the proceedings in cases of
fuqitives from labor TO those in the case of fugl-
| fiyes from Justice The claimant having made out
title before some Judge of his own State prin-
cple adopted into the act of le50-was then to be
| entitled to an executive demand on the Governor
Of the State where the fugitive VAS with the i'm
position of heavy penstes upon those who refused
| 10 aid in the arrest.
This bill was debated in the House during three
days and it is certain that msny excited speeche'
| were msde upon If. 1t warmly opposed ny
| Strong, Fuller and Whitman OF Massachusetts,, by
| Williams Of Connecticut, by Livermore Of New
| Hampshire. and by seyeral Pennsylvania Repre-
.eutstiyes ON tn. ground that il went beyond the
| Constitutional provision on the subject, and that
| the question OF serytudr ought 10 be- tired IN the
| State where the fugitive was. A motion was made
by John Sergeant, then Representative from Penn
sylyanis to modify tho bill in accordance with TINS
| idea. bur il did net succeed On the other hand
| The bill was supported not only by Cobb OF Geor-
| Ola asa right of the shareholders secured BY the
| Constitution. and very zsalously by Mr.. Speaker
| Clay, but by Baldwin OF Pennsylvania (htterward'
! perhaps therefore, Judge of the Supreme Fed
rIal Court, by Holmes Of Massachusetts,, by St0rrs
| of New.York (who anticipated Mr.. Webster IN
urging that for the sake OF union and harmony,
] Northern men must learn to conquer their preju'
dices) and by Jonathan Msson, then the represent
alive from Boston, who Ike his successor in 100
not sny voted for the BILL but protested personal
interest in the question, from HE fear lest, II the
bill failed 10 pass, his own town of Boston mgh' DC
inoonvenicnily iufsstedby Southern rnnaway'-an
srgument afterwsrd tsken up and urged in taneuu
Hall by the then embryo Judge, NJ" ex'Juage'
Curtis IN behalf of the act of 1870. Thus supported,
the bill passed, "a 70 3d. but Of these debates We
have ou, the slightest sketch, the whole Benign
Guided in some i've pages of this volume.
| Having gone up TO the Senate. the bill was refer
| red 10 q COMMITTEE of which Crittenden Of heu'
tucky-who even then, forty years ago, held seat
in that body--wss Chairman, who reported II oaek
| with several amendments, one of which pro'1deo
that the identity Of the alleged fugitive alter oeisg
carried back, should be established BY SOME 1est'
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