I answer, with myfriend from Maine, that I will not vote for it, unless you will give me the fair twenty per cent.
If it is to be made special, if it is to be applied to Kentucky only, I appreciate the feeling that drove my friend from Kentucky to make the most unfortunate remark that has been made upon the floor of the Senate since 1861.
And such, permit me to say, is the single supreme object of the present bill, which has been so cordially misrepresented by the Senator from West Virginia, and so strangely misrepresented by my friend from Iowa.
I was interrupted yesterday by other business, called up while I was replying to myfriend from Ohio [Mr. WADE].
If white persons are kept out of their rights, so are colored persons; and I would ask my friend from Ohio, Which has been kept out the longest?
Senator from West Virginia, is not natural in my friend from Iowa.
This session, the measure was introduced by my friend from Iowa (Mr. Dodge), and referred to the Territorial Committee during the first week of the session.
I do not understand even my friend from Delaware to dispute the duty and obligation of the United States to pay these notes, even if they have been illegally issued.
There is nothing, therefore, in these sections, that ought to alarm the nerves of my friend from Pennsylvania, or anybody else.
I suggest to my friend from California if the only question is whether women desire the right of suffrage or not, that can only be determined by submitting it to them.
I have no doubt of the consistency of my friend from Maine on this proposition and on every other.
I therefore, Mr. President, am decidedly and earnestly opposed to the amendment moved by my friend from Pennsylvania.
I doubt not that my friend from Iowa is right; but I am aware that it is not proper to discuss the merits of the question on this preliminary motion, and I shall not.
I think he had been present at the sittings of the Convention whose work finds such an advocate in my friend from Illinois; at any rate, he had been in New Orleans at the time, in the discharge of important public duties.
And if my friend from Ohio (Mr. CHASE) and his colleagues will permit me to mingle my sorrow at the public loss, I will say nothing of the private bereavement of the family of our deceased colleague.
I will not stop to cavil about the construction of these words; but I see none of the difficulties that suggest themselves to the mind of my friend from Virginia.
I will ask my friend from Massachusetts if that understanding did not exist?
In the absence of my friend from Virginia, I would say that his theory, I believe, agrees with mine; and certainly does not go to that extent.
And that brings me to the inquiry of my friend from Illinois, as to the penalty, I think, or as to the extent of the remedy.
I agree with my friend from Massachusetts, that the bill has very great merit.
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