ery much from the principle upon which all criminal
legislation is founded, to say the least of it. We punish men when
they do wrong. I never heard that it was an objection to legislation
that it punished those who perpetrate a wrong. I never heard that it
was an objection to legislation that it held out rewards to those who
did right."

Referring to Mr. Buckalew's argument, Mr. Fessenden remarked: "Eight
out of sixteen pages of his speech were devoted to abuse of New
England, and to showing that New England had too much power, and that
it ought to be abridged in some way. "He closed those remarks by
saying (for which I was very much obliged to him) that he did not
despise New England. We are happy to know it. I will say to him that
New England does not despise him that I am aware of. [Laughter.] I am
not aware that it is really affected in any degree by the elaborate
attack of eight pages which he delivered against New England on that
occasion, and which he thought were views so important that he could
not be justified if he failed to give them utterance."

Of Mr. Sumner's part in the debate, Mr. Fessenden said: "On this
subject I think he has occupied about eight or nine hours of the time
of the Senate, and on the last occasion, while saying that principles
were to be considered, he has undertaken to designate the character of
this proposed amendment. I have already stated who the men were who
were in favor of it. What does the Senator call it? I have chosen a
few, and but a few, flowers of rhetoric from the speech of the
honorable Senator: 'Compromise of human rights,' 'violating the
national faith,' 'dishonoring the name of there public,' 'bad mutton,'
'new muscipular abortion,' 'a new anathema maranatha,' 'abomination,'
'paragon and masterpiece of ingratitude,' 'abortive for all good,'
'shocking to the moral sense,' 'the very Koh-i-noor of blackness,'
'essential uncleanliness,' 'disgusting ordure,' 'loathsome stench;'
and the men who support it, if they pass it, will be 'Harpies,'
'Pontius Pilate, with Judas Iscariot on his back.'

"The Senator from Massachusetts makes several points against this
proposition, to which my answer is the same. His first point is, that
it recognizes 'the idea of inequality of rights founded on race or
color.' I deny _in toto_ the correctness, or even the plausibility, to
a man of sense, any point that he has raised on the subject. There is
not one of them that is tenable; and more t