Show A PRECEDENT for the Democratic quorum breaking during the present term of Congress Con-gress is recorded in the lifo of ABRAHAM LINCOLN by HAY NICOLAT But on one occasion being in the minority and having exhausted every other parliamentary parliamen-tary means of opposition and delay and seeing the vote they dreaded imminent they tried to defeat it by leaving the House in a body and the doors being locked a number of them among whom Mr LTKCOUCS tall figure was prominent jumped from the windows of the church where the legislature was holding its sessions The record of this little proceeding ought to close in some degree the mouths of the Republican malcontents in regard to the Democratic policy for defeating the force bill |