Ohio; as he is treated
every-where where people have maintained their sanity upon the
question."

Mr. Wilson said: "The Senator from Pennsylvania tells us that he is
the friend of the negro. What, sir, he the friend of the negro! Why,
sir, there has hardly been a proposition before the Senate of the
United States for the last five years, looking to the emancipation of
the negro and the protection of his rights, that the Senator from
Pennsylvania has not sturdily opposed. He has hardly ever uttered a
word upon this floor the tendency of which was not to degrade and to
belittle a weak and struggling race. He comes here to-day and thanks
God that they are free, when his vote and his voice for five years,
with hardly an exception, have been against making them free. He
thanks God, sir, that your work and mine, our work which has saved a
country and emancipated a race, is secured; while from the word 'go,'
to this time, he has made himself the champion of 'how not to do it.'
If there be a man on the floor of the American Senate who has tortured
the Constitution of the country to find powers to arrest the voice of
this nation which was endeavoring to make a race free, the Senator
from Pennsylvania is the man; and now he comes here and thanks God
that a work which he has done his best to arrest, and which we have
carried, is accomplished. I tell him to-day that we shall carry these
other measures, whether he thanks God for them or not, whether he
opposes them or not." [Laughter and applause in the galleries.]

After an extended discussion, the Senate refused, by a vote of
thirty-three against eleven, to adopt the amendment proposed by Mr.
Cowan.

The bill was further discussed during three successive days, Messrs.
Saulsbury, Hendricks, Johnson, McDougall, and Davis speaking against
the measure, and Messrs. Fessenden, Creswell, and Trumbull in favor of
it. Mr. Garrett Davis addressed the Senate more than once on the
subject, and on the last day of the discussion made a very long
speech, which was answered by Mr. Trumbull. The Senator from Illinois,
at the conclusion of his speech, remarked:

"What I have now said embraces, I believe, all the points of the long
gentleman's speech except the sound and fury, and that I will not
undertake to reply to."

"You mean the short gentleman's long speech," interposed some Senator.

"Did I say short?" asked Mr. Trumbull. "If so, it was a great mistake
to speak of any thing connected