The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-06-24
OLD SERIES, VOL, TO-. NO.l7
TERMS, 81 so i'm AdSEnce.
Strict Construction
Garlic. g. Niggers.


The following are the concluding remarks
of Senator Hale, ending a protracted debate,
in which Messrs. Green and Toornbs were the
principal speakers on oce side, and Senator
Bigler on the other. Mr.. Hale's remark in
dicate the spirit of the entire discussion. ard
are ton good TO be lost. Messrs. Green and
Toomb., it must be understood, opposed the
distribution of seeds, &C., by the Patent
Office, as unauthorized by the Constitution,
and Bigler begged them to forego their scru-
pies, that he might crafty his constituents by
distributing the seed amongst the farmers:.
MIR. Hale. 1t is very rarely, sir, that de-
bate in the Senate is intended TO influence the
action Of the members here, but it is made to
enlighten the country. 1 confess, however,
that this debate has enlightened my mind.
was at first inclined TO go against this appro-
nriatIon, but the considerations that have been
urged with so much force by The Senator from
Pennsylvania, confess, have weakened nv
convictions in that direction, and have almost
induced me to go for it. If the appeal which
he so powerfully and pathetically made to the
honorable Senator from Georgia has not moved
him, ne must be impervious 20 eloquence and
2athos. 1 ~ Eg ~
4 think that the case, which the Senator
from Pennsylvania has presented, is eminent
ly just, agree entirely with what he says,
when he declares that in his course here he
has not been looking to popularity. think
the whole North. Pennsylvania no less than
any other part of the Union, will endorse his
veracity, if nothing else, when he declares that
he had not been seeking popularity, and when
he appeals to the Senator from Georgia, and
tells him what hard road the Northern Dem
ocrats have had to travel how much they
have had to sacrifice ard to face; and then
asks, if in return for all this, he cannot let him
have few onion and garlic seeds, llaughterl
lconfess if the Senator from Georgia was not
moved was. Laughter I think il is
reasonable. and more than reasonable. even if
he had asked for little of the vegitble full
grown. But when he says, "Look at the
North, and see on every side, and hear by ev-
cry 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 exorbitant, we do rot ask any Of
| fees; take your foreign missions, and distrib-
ute them where they appropriately belong
take the Federal Treasury, and use it but
when we go home to an outraged constituent
| cy, will you be so illiberal as not to let US
| carry fes onion seeds, little garlic, and
now and then cabbage, [laughte-l SO that
our constituency may be inclined to wink
4 little at the t,l- l.
great question, upon which we have osacri-
feed so much for you?o confess 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 to take the 'sace,'' or ANYTHING else.
but simply little onion seed-a vegetable
that, under peculiar states of application, is
calculated to produce fears-[ laughter
not you let US go home and cry with our con-
stituents over what we have done? do not
want to be personal, but appeal to the hon
orable Senator from Georgia, and ask him
IL can 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 ssright bow
er" and "ace," and all that sort OF thing
[Laugtter.
Mr.. Hale. Well, sir, do not understand
them; but thought the Senator did, because
the Senator from Georgia spoke of it, and he
seemed to understand it then. Laughter. +
do not understand them; but suppose it is
parliamentary, highly so, Tlaughter1 or else it
would not have been introduced. 1 do not
know what the ssright bower' is. l suppose
is rsaral Ekaareal] term, Claughterl 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 in my
powell do not know that ever had an op-
portunity where it was in my power to do him
slight favor, but if il was the case, would
do it; but IL he has the slightest personal re-
gard for me, beg to throw it into the same
scale where the eloquence and pathos of the
Senator from Pennsylvania have gone before
me, and both together we ask fora little on
ion seed. ILaughter.l Can he, under these
circumstances, resist? No, sir.
am as strict constructionist OF the Con.
shtution as any, not excepting the honorable
Senator before me lMr. Toombs j but have
read all the platforms, and suggest to the
Senator from Georgia that ne 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 develop
| mems, there vii! be new resolution that will
cut offthese seeds, and that onions will be un.
constitutional ever after. Laughter But
until that is done, until that proviso is put in,
think the faithful, may construe the provis-
ions OF the Constitution and the Cincinnati
| platform, as the honorable Senator from Penn
| sylvania has suggested. think we may con-
stIue them without straining the Constitution
any more to buy onion seeds than il does to
catch runaway slaves. guess when you
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