propose to admit occupied the other side of the House; when the mighty
Toombs, with his shaggy locks, headed a gang who, with shouts of
defiance on this floor, rendered this a hell of legislation.

"Ah, sir, it was but six years ago when they were here, just before
they went out to join the armies of Catiline, just before they left
this hall. Those of you who were here then will remember the scene in
which every Southern member, encouraged by their allies, came forth in
one yelling body because a speech for freedom was being made here;
when weapons were drawn, and Barksdale's bowie-knife gleamed before
our eyes. Would you have these men back again so soon to reenact those
scenes? Wait until I am gone, I pray you. I want not to go through, it
again. It will be but a short time for my colleague to wait. I hope he
will not put us to that test."

At the close of his remarks, Mr. Stevens moved the previous question.

Mr. Garfield hoped that it would be voted down, that he might have an
opportunity to offer a substitute for the third section, forever
excluding the persons therein specified "from holding any office of
trust or profit under the Government of the United States."

Nevertheless, the previous question was sustained, and a vote was
taken on the joint resolution proposing the constitutional amendment
as it came from the committee. The following are the yeas and nays:

YEAS--Messrs. Alley, Allison, Ames, Anderson, Delos R.
Ashley, James M. Ashley, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barker,
Baxter, Beaman, Benjamin, Bidwell, Bingham, Blaine, Blow,
Boutwell, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Bundy, Reader W.
Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Conkling, Cook, Cullom,
Darling, Davis, Dawes, Defrees, Delano, Deming, Dixon,
Dodge, Donnelly, Driggs, Dumont, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot,
Farnsworth, Perry, Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold, Abner C.
Harding, Hart, Hayes, Henderson, Higby, Holmes, Hooper,
Hotchkiss, Asahel W. Hubbard, Chester D. Hubbard, Demas
Hubbard, James R. Hubbell, Hulburd, James Humphrey,
Ingersoll, Jenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelley, Kelso, Ketcham,
Kuykendall, Laflin, George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence,
Loan, Longyear, Lynch, Marston, McClurg, McIndoe, McKee,
McRuer, Mercur, Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Morris, Moulton,
Myers, Newell, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Patterson, Perham,
Pike, Plants, Price, William H. Randall, Raymond, Alexander
H. Rice