Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-23
THE RAF TsmANos JOURNAL,
HALE EIILUM1HATING BIGLER.

HALE ILLUNINATING BIGLER.
Senator BieLER, who aspires to be the mouth
piece OF the Administration, is constantly
placing himself in ridiculous position. Re-
Gently IN debate on the subject OF the appro-
priation for fhe distribution of seeds 10y the
agricultural department of the Patent Office,
he exhibited his ears, which were seen by all
the Senators, when the scene which follows
took place - st
Mr.. HALE. 1t is very rarely, sir, that de-
bate in the Senate is intended to influence the
action of members here, but il is made TO en-
Tighten the country. ] confess, however, that
this debate has enlightened my mind. L WAS
at first inclined TO go against this appropria-
ton, but the considerations which have been
urged with so much force by the Senator from
Pennsylvania, L confess, have weakened my
convictions in that direction, and have almost
induced me to go for it. If the appeal which
he so powerfully and patheticaliy made to the
honorable Senator from Georgia, has not NOV
ed him, he must be impervious to eloquence
and TO pathos. i think that the case, which
the Senator from Pennsy lvaDia has presented,
is eminently Just. agree entirely Win what
he says, when he declares that In his course
here he has not been looking to popularity
| think that the whole North, Pennsylvania
no less than any other part of the Union, will
will. endorse his veracity, if nothing else, when
he declares that he has not been seeking pop
ularity and when he appeals to the Senator
from Georgil, and tells him what hard road
the Northern Democrats have had to travel,
how much tLey had to sacrifice and to face;
and then asks if, in return for all this, he can
not let him have a few onion and garlic seeds,
Tlaughter1 | confess If the Senator from
Georgia was not moved, i was. daughter.
I think it is reasonable, and more than reason
able even if he had asked for Il little OF the
vegetable full grown. But when he says:
.sLook at the North, and see on every SIDE,
and hear 10y every mail, proof that we nave
not pandercd 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 yourforcign missions,
and distribute them where they appropriately
belong take the Federal Treasury, and use
it; but when go home to an outraged con-
stituency, will you be so 1liiberal as not to let
us carry a few onion seeds, little garlic, and
now and then cabbage, laughterl so that
our constituency 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 70 l confess that even if | had
such strict rules as the Senator from Georgia
cntertains upon the Constitution, when such
an appeal as that came from such source, the
ssright bower'' of the Administration, not ask
ing to take the <.ace,'' or anything else, but
simply little onion seed-a vegetable that,
under peculiar states of application is calcutta
ted to produce tears laughter l-cannot you
let lis go home and cry with our constituents
over what we have done! | do not want to be
personal, but appeal to the honorable Sena-
tor from Georgia, and AJAX him-l can ask,
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 nSes terms "hlch do
not understand; talking about the ''right bow
er'' and ssace'' and all that sort of things.
Laughter
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.l
| do not understand them; but suppose it is
parliamentary, highly so, laughter or else
ii would not have been introduced. l do not
know what the ssright bower'' Is l suppose
it is naraf Tknaus-all term, [laughtcr,] or
something of that sort.
But was proceeding. The Senator from
Georgia ard 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
power-I do not know that ever had an OPP
| portunity where it was in my power to do him
| a slight favor, but if it was the case, would
| do il; but if 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
| onion seed. Laughter. Can he, under these
| circumstances, resist {? No, sir.
| am as strict constructioniSt of the Con-
! Stitution any, not excepting the honorable
| Senator be fore me Mr.. Toombsl; but have
| read all the platforms, and 1 suggest to the
| Senator from Georgia that he is little to fast.
| | think. considering what has been done, we
NAV continue to vote these seeds, at least un-
| til the Charleston Convention sits, and then,
l have no doubt, after these developments,
| there will be resolution that will cut Oft
| these seeds, and that onions VIII be unconsti
tutional ever after. [Laughter.] But until
that is done, until that proviSo is put in, l
| think the faithful may construe the provisions
| of the Constitution and the Cincinnati plat
/ form as the honorable Senator from Pennsyl-
| vania has suggested. / think may
| strue them without straining the Constitution
any more to buy onion seeds than it does to
| catch runaway slaves. | guess when you find
a provision in the Constitution that there is a
mode to take money out of the Federal trea-
| sury to pay for returning fugitive slaves, you
will find also the provision that little sum
may be paid for onion seed. Until clause
| forbidding it comes either in the Constitution
| or the Charleston Convention, let us have the
| seed but have no doubt it will unconstitu-
tional after the Convention sits.
WASHINGTON, June 19.-Dispatches from England
were received and laid before the Cabinet yester-
/ day. They do not in any substantial form cores
pond TO the expectations of the Administration,
or the opinions authorized by Lord Napiers assur-
| ances. While they disclaim authority for any Of
fensive acts the part of the cruisers in the Gulf
| and prepared to make reparatiOn to that eX-
tent, they insist upon the purpose of suppressng
the slavc-trade by determined and effective
A disposition TO exercise the right of visit in the
most acceptable manner is avowed. and to that