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Show ftairaril Iu Cuagrraa, Oath In ths Eiiirulrer. Finally Mr. Seward saw that the but-dozers but-dozers could not understand him, and he arose and said on another day: "I .1111 not to be "drawn into porsonsl altercation alter-cation by any interrogatories addrossed to me. I acknowledge the poliotlsm, the wisdom, the purity of every member mem-ber of this body; I never have assailed the motives of honorable senator in any exislance, and I never shall. When mine are assailed I bland upon my own position, lly life and acts must speak for me." Is it any wonder that the memories of these insults has lasted throughout the north for more than forty years? Seward told President Taylor in 1'ebruary, lsf.10, that faotiou iu congress would ruu into sedition, and that liavintr saved the Union, like ( ienerul Jackson, Taylor would on reelected. re-elected. Many petitions to try by jury for fugitive slaves were introduced by him. "i have never yot Been a petitiou of any human beinjr," saiil Seward aloud, "tiiftiI would not receive, an I I do not know that 1 ever shall. The constitution constitu-tion imposes no restrictions qr modifications modifi-cations upon the right of petition. We are not above Ri inj? reasons to our fellow-men." Soino of the northern men turned out to he dough-faces, and abandoned Wilmot for Cly. Seward, Chase and Hale generally voted together. to-gether. An alarm was spred that armed men were coming from tho south to break up the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. Calhoun, on tho -Jtli of March, lWl, had his speech read by Mason of Virginia, against both t'iay and the presidcut, and Wabstir rose three days latur and supported Clay's compromise, .John M. Clayton, a friend of he ward, feared that ho would speak too honestly. On Monday, March 11, Seward arose and b(ian to speak on California. "Let California come in. Every new state, whether she comes from the east or from tho west;, is alivaya welcome. California, the youthful ti'ieen of the Pacific, In her robes of freedom, gorgeously gorge-ously inlaid with koUI. is doubly wei-coino." wei-coino." Proceeding, he said: "I am opposed to any such compromise or fjuestion atisina; out of slavery in any way and in all forms in which it has been proposed. They involve tho surrender sur-render of the exercise of judgment and conscience on distinct sml separate, (jue.stions at distinct and separate times. Vour constitution and laws convert hospitality to tho refugee from the most degrading oppression on earth into a crime, but ail mankind except you esteem that hospitality a virtue." |