The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-07-17

HALE AND HI0LER.
From the Washington Republic.
During the debate in the Senate, on
tho 18th Of May, on the appr, p-iation for
garden seeds, MIR. Hale made the follow
ing humorous speech:
Mr.. Hale. Ii is very rsrely, sir, that
debate in the Senate Is intended TO in.
fuence the action of members here, bu
it il made. to cnlighten the country.
confess; however, that this debate ha
enlightened my mind. | was at first in
clined to 60 against this appropriation,
but the considerations which have been
urged with so much force BY the Senator
from Pennsylvania, l confess, have weak.
ened my convictions in that direction,
aud have almost induced me to 60 for it.
If the appeal which he 20 powerfully and
pathctically madc to the honorable Sen.
ator from Georgia has not moved him, \
must be impervious to eloqucncc and T.
pathos. Il 0 * ~
think that the case which the Senator
from Pennsylvania has presented il emf
netly just. 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,
Pcnns, lvauia no hess than any other part
of the Union, will endorse his veracity, il
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 had to sacra6cc
and to face aud then ask if, in return
for all this, he cannot let him have few
onion and garlic seeds, laughter,1 I
confess, if the Senator from Georgia was
not moved was. Laughtcr.] | think
it is reasonable, aud more than reasonable,
even if he had asked for a little Of tho
vegetable 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 pandcred to popularity; see
what We have suif red ia your behalf
when You see all that, and see that we are
not exhorbitant, We do not ask any Offices;
take your foreign missions and distribute
them where they appropriately belong
take the Federal Treasury, and use il; but
when we 60 home to m outraged constitu-
ency, will you be SO liliberal as to not let
US carry few onion seeds, little garlic,
and now and then cabbage, laughter, ] 80
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 youl" con-
fess, that even if had such strict rules as
the Senator from Georgia cntertaines upon
the Constitution, when such an appeal as
that came from such source, the s.right
bower Of the Administration, not asking
to take the "ace," or anything else, but
simply little onion seed--a vegetable
that, under peculiar states Of application,
Is calculated produce tears laughter]E
| cannot you let US 90 home and cry
with our constituents over what we have
done | do not want to be personal, but
! appeal to the honorable Senator from
Georgia, aud l ask him, for we have
always been on friendly relations
Mr. Bigler. Allow me. Ihave no idea
at oil that the Senator intends to ls
personal
Mr.. Hale. Oh no.
Mr.. Bigler. But he uses terms which
| do not understand; talking about the
"right bower" and "ace," and all that
sort Of thing. Laughter
Mr.. Hale. Well sir, l do not under.
stand them; but | thought the Senator did,
because the Senator from Georgia spoke
oft, and he seemed to understand it then.
Laughter. | do not understand them;
but | supposed it parliamentary, highly
so, laughter, or else it would not have
been introduced l do net know what
the "right bower is. suppose it is q
narat knape al term, laughter, or some
thing of that sert
But | was proceeding. The Senator
from Georgia and myself do not agree on
political questions; VIC 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 opportunity whcrA it
was in my power to do him slight favor,
| but it it was the case, | woul1 do it, but
if he has the slightest personal regard for
me, | beg to throw it in the same scale
where the eloquenee and pathos of the
Senator from Pcnnsylvsnia have gone be-
fore me, and both together we ask fora
little onion seed. Laughter.1 Can he,
under these circumstances, resist: No,
sir. a#
am as stric: constructiouist of the
Constitution as any, not excepting the hon
orable Senator before me, Mr.. Toombs; !
but have read all the platforms, and |
suggest to the Senator from Georgia that
he is little to fast. | think consider
ing 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 Developments,
there will be new resolution that will
cut off these seeds, and that onions will be
unconstitutional ever after. Laughter. ]
But until that is done, until that provision
is put in, think the faithful may construe
the provisions Of the Constitution and the
Cincinnati platform as the honorable Sem
ator from Pennsylvania has suggested.
think We may construe them without
straining the Constitution any more 10
buy onion seeds than it does to catch
runaway slaves. guess, when you find
Il provision in the Constitution that there
is mode to take money out of the Fed.
eral Treasury to pay for returning fugitive
slaves, you will fad also the provision
that little sum may be paid for Onion
seed. Until clause forbidding il comes
either in the Constitution or the Charles
/ ton Convention. let ms have the aced. hut