The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-06-17

such barcfaced imposition"
ra' We copy the following rich &C
couut of our Oacn Senator Bigler's illu
minution from Forney's Press" and re
commended its careful perusal particular
ly to al good Democrats, who have beer
in the receipt of "onion, or other garder
and vegetable seeds, either from Senator
BIGLER, or our own distinguished Rep.
Ie>entative, Mr.. DIMMIcK. "The crisi.
is emineutly becoming critical"
Senator Hale Illuminating Senator
Blgler.
Our Washington correspondent, in one
of his late letters, spoke OF Senator Big
LER's last achievement in the debate "a
bout garden seeds, and also of Senator
HALE's remarks, which are as follows
The scene took place on Friday, the 23th
ut
S-Mr. HALE. 1t is very rarely, sir, that
a debate ia the Senate is iutepied TO in
fuence the action OF members here, but it
i, made to enli ghteu the country. | cou-
fess, however, that this debate has en-
lightened my mind. was at first in
cined to 60 against this appropriation,
but tie considerations which have b"en
urged with SO mach force by the Senator
from Penus ylgania, | confess, have AVA
kcned my convictions in that direction.
and have almost induced me to so Cor
it. If the appeal which he SO powerfully
and pathetically made to the honorable
Senator from Georgia has not moved him,
he NUT be impervious TO eloquence and
to Pafhos.
think that the case, which the Seua-
from Pennsylvania has presented, is en-
inently just agree entirely with what
he rays, when he declares that in his
course here Le has not been looking to
popularity. think that the whole
North. PenDsJ lvania no less than any
other part of The Union, will endorse bis
verscity, il nothing else, wheD he declares
that he has not been seeking popularity;
aud when he appeals to the Senator from
Georgia, and tells him what hard road
the Northern Democrats have bad to
travel, how much they have had to sac
rfce and TO face; and then asks if, in re-
turn for all this. he cannot let him have
few onion aud garlic seeds, Laug gbter,
| coufess, if the Senator from Georgia
was not moved, | was. Laugbter,l Il
think il is rea>oUabie, aud more than
reasonable, even if be had asked for lit
tie of the vegetable full grown. But
when he says, Look at the North and
see on every ii lp, and hear by every mail
proof that we have rot paDdered to pop
uIari.E; see what we have suffered in your
behalf; when you see all thatf and see
that We are not exorbitant, we do not ash
any Offices; take your foreign missions,
aud distribute them where they sppropri-
atcly belong; take the Federal Treasury.
and use ii; but when We go home to an
outraged constituency, will you be SO H.
liberal as not to let US carry few onion
seeds, little garlic, and now and then a
cabbage, laughter, so that our constita-
cncy 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'll confess that even il
] had such strict rules as the Senator
from Georgia entertains upon the Con-
stitutioD, when such an appeal as that
came from such source as the fright
bower" of the Administration. not askiDg
to take the "ace," or anything else, but
simply little ouion seed-a vegetable
that, under peculiar states of application,
is calculated to produce tears laughter
cannot you let us 60 home and cry
with our constituents over what we have
done! do not want to be personal, bat
| appeal to to the honorable Senator
from Georgia, and / ask him-I can ask
him, for We have always been on friend.
ly relation
Mr.. Bigler. Allow me. have no l.
dea at all that the Senator intends to be |
personal
Mr. Hale. Oh no.
Mr.. Bigler. But he uses terms which
| do not understadd; talking about the
fright bower" and all that sort of thing.
Laughter.
Mr.. Hale. Well sir, do not under
derstand them; but | thought the Senator
did, because the Senator from Georgia
smoke of it. and be seemed to understand
it then. Laughter. | do not understand
them; bat | suppose it is parliamentary, !