lties
they encountered, it is not surprising that at times they used
language so ill-timed and unparliamentary as to call forth the censure
of the House.

On one occasion, Mr. Chanler, of New York, submitted a resolution
"that the independent, patriotic, and constitutional course of the
President of the United States, in seeking to protect, by the veto
power, the rights of the people of this Union against the wicked and
revolutionary acts of a few malignant and mischievous men meets with
the approval of this House, and deserves the cordial support of all
loyal citizens of the United States."

For introducing this resolution, the House voted to censure Mr.
Chanler as having "attempted a gross insult to the House."

Before the vote was taken, Mr. Chanler said: "If by my defiance I
could drive your party from this hall, I would do so; if by my vote I
could crush you, I would do so, and put the whole party, with your
leader, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens], into that
political hell surrounded by bayonets referred to by him in his
argument on Thursday last."

In the Senate a petition was presented from citizens of New York
praying that Garret Davis be expelled from the Senate, and, "with
other traitors, held to answer to the law for his crime, since he
stood in the attitude of an avowed enemy of the Government"--since he
had made the declaration in reference to the Civil Rights Bill "that
if the bill should become a law, he should feel compelled to regard
himself as an enemy of the Government, and to work for its overthrow."

"It is true," replied Mr. Davis, "that I used in substance the words
that are imputed to me in that petition; but, as a part of their
context, I used a great many more. As an example of garbling, the
petition reminds me of a specimen that I heard when I was a young man.
It was to this effect: 'The Bible teaches "that there is no God."'
When those words were read in connection with the context, the passage
read in about these terms: 'The fool hath said in his heart that there
is no God.' That specimen of the Bible was about as fair as this
garbled statement is of what I said upon the matter to which it
refers."

The most serious subject coming up for the censure of the House was an
assault made by Mr. Rousseau, of Kentucky, upon Mr. Grinnell, of Iowa.
In many of its features this incident resembles the "affairs" of a
personal character which were of frequent occurrence when Southern