Year: 1866

In the debate, Thursday, upon the
Civil Rights Billiu the Senate, Mr. Wade.
of Ohio, opposed the postponement Of
the bill which was asked for in Or'er to
enable the Senators who were i'll to he in
attendance when the vote should be
taken, and said:


I am very frank 10 say that when gen
tlcmen tell rs that if we persist here with
all the pEysical power the Almighty has
put into our hands we may probably
prevail, It is not an argument against my
staying here, standing by the Constitu-
ton, standing By these powers that the
Constitution has armed ne with, and
which I have no right or authority to
give IN. No Senator on this floor has
anv right to surrender the authority with
which we are clothed. The moment a
President can rise and interpose his in
reference with a question purely Con-
gressional and Legislative, your Con-
stitution is not worth the paper upon
which It is written. That is the reason
that urge, and beg ofmy friends on this
floor 10 take egery adyantoqe that the Al
naiqhjy has put into their hands to maintain ;
uphold, and sustain that Constitution that
we have sworn we will support.


Mr.. McDougall, of California, admin
istered the following severe and digni6ed
rebuke to his brother Senator


Mr.. McDougall-Mr President, the
Senator from Ohio is in the habit Of ap-
pealing to his God in vindication of his
Judgment and conduct it is common
thing for him to do so but, in view Of
the present demonstration, it may be we'll
to ask who and what is his god In the
old Persian mythology there was an
Ormasdes and an Ahriman-a god of
light and beauty, and god of darkness
and death. The god of light sent the
sun to shine and gentle showers to fructi
fy the fields; the god Of darkness sent
the tornado and the tempest and the
thunder, scathing with pestilence the ma
tions. And in old Chaldean times men
came to worship Ahriman, the god of
darkness, the god of pestilence and
famine; and his priests became multitu-
dinous-they swarmed the land-and
white men prayed then, their offerings
we're, q We will not sow a field of grain;
we will not dig we'll we will not plant
tree" These were the offerings to the
dark spirit of evil until prophet came
who redeemed that ancient land, but he
did it after crucifxion, like our great
Master


The followers of Ahriman always ap-
pealed to the same spirit manifested by
the Senator from Ohio. Death is to be
one of his angels now to redeem the Con-
stitution and the laws and to establish
liberty. Sickness, suffering, evil, are to
be his angels; and he thanks the Al
mighty, his Almighty, that sickness,
danger and evil are about It may be
good god for him in this world but if
there is any truth in what we learn about
the orders of religion in this Christian
world, his faith will not help him when
be shall ascend up and ask entrance at
the crystal doors. IF there can be evil
expressed in high places that eommuni-
Gates evil thoughts, that communicates
evil teachings, that 3emoralize the youth
who receive impressions as does the wax,
it is by such lessons as the Senator from
Ohio now teaches by word of mouth as
Senator in this Senate Hail.


Sir, the President of the United States
is a constitutional officer, clothed with
high power, and clothed with the very
power which he has exercised in this in
stance, and those who conferred upon