St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-24
Onion Seeds.

Onion Seeds.
Poor Senator Bigler, who has been serv-
ing his Southern masters all winter, faith
fully as ever hound obeyed keeper; and
expects to have warm berth in Pennsyl-
vania when he gets home, appears anxious,
like the unjust Steward to make friends
by personal fayors. He has betrayed his
constituents and now he wants to get a lit
tie public money to send some garden seeds
to his personal friends, that they may re-
ceive him into their houses when his mas
ters have discharged him,
The public purse is in the hands of the
shareholders, and they appear inclined to
stop Mr.. Bigler's supply Of seeds. He
protests and Mr.. Hale comes to his assist
ance, thus The scene took place on Fri
day, the 28th ult: @"..'',
Mr.. HALE. 1t is very rarely, sir, that a
debate in the Senate is intended to influ-
ence the action of members here, but it is
made to enlighten the country. confess
however, that this debate has enlightened
my mind. I was at first inclined to go a
gainst this appropriation, but the consider
ations which have been urged with so much
force by the the Senator from Pennsylva-
MIA, confess, have weakened my convic-
tions in that direction, and have almost in
duced me to 60 for it. If the appeal which
he so powerfully and pathetically made to
the honorable Senator from Georgia has
not moved him, he pust be impervious to
cloquence and to thos.
think that thd Ease which the Senator
from Pennsylvania has presented, is en-
phatically just. I 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, Pennsylva-
MIA no less than any other part Of the I'm
ion, will endorse his veracity, if nothing
else, when he 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 Democrats
have had to travel, how much they have
had to sacrifice and to face; and then asks
if, in return for all this, he cannot let him
have few onion and garlic seeds, laugh
ter I confess, if the Senator from Geor-
gia was not moved, l was. Laughter.
I think it is reasonable, and more than rea-
sonable, even if he had asked for little
Of the vegetables 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 pandereds to popularity =;
see what we have suffered in your behalf ;
when you see all that, and see that we are
not exorbitant, we do not ask any Offices
take your foreign missions, and distribute
them where they appropriately belong; take
the Federal Treasury, and use it; but
when we 60 home to an outraged constitu-
ENJOY, will you be so illiberal as not to let us
carry few onion seeds, little garlic, and
now and then cabbage, laughter, SO that
our constituency may be inclined to wink a
little at the course we have taken on this
great question, upon which we have sacri'
feed SO much for you?"
I confoss that even if I had such strict
rules as the Senator from Georgia enter.
tains upoh the Constitution, when such an
appeal as that came from such source
the right bower" of the Administration
not asking to take the "ace" or anything
else but simply little onion seed-a veg
etable that under peculiar states Of appli
cation, is calculated to produce tears
laughter cannot you let US go home ane
cry with our constituents over what VI
have done! "a '+.... =, z,ss....,'
I do not want to be personal, but I ap
peal to the honorable Senator from Georgia
and ask him-I can ask him, for we hav'
always been on friendly relations
Mr.. B1o1ER. Allow me. / have n
idea at all that the Senator intends to b
personal. ,.sess{ /. #sa1.*@ =s rEsE
Mr.. HALE. Oh, no. ....s ;.,.a.
Mr.. B1dLER. But he uses terms whicl
lido not understand talking about tn
"right bower" and "ace"and all that sor
Of thing. Laughter.
Mr.. HAZE. Well, sir, ! do not under m
stand them; but I thought the Senator did
because the Senator from Georgia spoke 9