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close, and that Of Friday commenced. The
debate was continued

close, and that OF Friday commenced. The
.Mr. Manning advocated the repeal OF the
election laws, combining himself chiefly to a
discussion of the evils arising from the use OF
troops at the polls. The House did not threaten
me PRESIDENT with coercion, nor did 1t desire to
be coerced; and he did not believe that the
President would outrage the country by vetoing
the appropriation bill.
endeavor TO conflne himself to the merits OF the
bill, and would not undertake to review those
collateral issues which had been made
SO prominent In this debate He would
not speak from a partisan standpoint, or with
any reference TO the impending political
struggle OF 1859. he would not anticipate the
action OF the President In the event of the
passage OF the present bill, nor would he as
sumo TO threaten what the action OF the leyIs-
latfve branch would be IL the President should
Cblnk proper to 1nterpose his veto. In his tudg-
ment, IL was unpatriotic and unbecoming In
elner party TO indulge In threats. No brave
ard honest man was ever deferred by such
means mean from conscientious discharge OF his
duties. Let the House do what 1t regarded as
r1ght before God and the country; let the Presi-
oenI 90 what he believed to be right, and IL a
controxersy should arise. and the bills fail, the
on whose shoulder the responsibility rested
ne then proceeded to advocate the repeal of
nie me M aest oath, which was stigma on the peo-
the American statute book In the last session
.ne democratic party had proposed to repeal
,e sspervlsors law at this session it only pro.
branch to the other side. '-o 0'o
MI. Keed-It has no olives upon It.
MI. MI. Soooe-I Old not believe the gentlemen
would lind them. We tender the olive branch
70 NG sruF PadTty and through it to the country
peen shifted into the olive branch. ''0 ""'
MI GOode.-How have gentlemen accented
our oVertures? Have they met us In comnro-
mlslDg spirit? On the contrary the debate shows
that we have been fired upon by that side
While he had listened (he continued) to gentle.
men on the other side, ne had been almost dis
pOSed 10 diSpafr OF the republic, and to con-
clude tnat the passions and prejudceS en-.
gendered by the war would survive this gene
1atlon and De transmitted to posterlty; but as
nopeful or its future, he preferred to be.
neve that those gentlemen did not represent
tDe sentiment OF the people whom they pro-
1essed to represent. He preferred to dwell
upon the picture presented in 1873, when the
cry cG,,oS OF Distress stress had gone up from plague
promptly by the people OF the nortn the east
ana the west. Such an exhibition on the part
OF MS cOuntrymen was complete answer to
an denunclations which had come from the
other side OF the House.
Mr Prce.-An OF which action was partici-
pated In by every man on this side.
Mr. Goode-And for that reason prefer to
pelleEe, as DO believe, that the gentleman
from Iowa Is only acting part, for this partic-
ular occasion, and is only skirmish1ng prelini-
nary 10 the campaign; that he has made mis-
take 10 his tactics, and that the time will come
when the people behind him VIII say that he
has not represented their sentiments.
Mr PTlce.-I nave made the same speech to
them hundred times that made here
Mr. Sparks suggested that the lightning had
the gentleman from Iowa.
Mr.. Price.-It never struck nv district