it and I will take
every advantage of it I can."

Mr. Wade was answered with great severity by Mr. McDougal of
California. Mr. Guthrie spoke with much spirit, but not with the
temper of Mr. McDougal. "I should not like it to go out from this
body," said the senator from Kentucky, "that Mr. Stockton was removed
to get rid of his vote. I do not want it to go out from this body
that we would not extend a courtesy to sick senators because we could
pass a bill without their votes when we might not pass it if they were
here. The time will come when the people, being convinced of these
things, will say that there is more to be feared from a combined
Congress than from a President, in relation to the liberties of the
people." The angry position of Mr. Wade was not sustained by the
Senate and the motion to adjourn was carried by 33 to 12. The debate
continued throughout the next day and disclosed during its progress
that Senator Lane of Kansas had joined the small band of Administration
Republicans. He attempted to take part in the debate but was
unmercifully dealt with by Mr. Wade, Mr. Trumbull and others, and paid
dearly for his personal defection. When the vote was taken upon
passing the bill over the President's veto the _ayes_ were 33 and the
_noes_ 15. Every senator was present except Mr. Dixon of Connecticut,
still detained from the Senate from illness. There was one vacancy,
Mr. Stockton's seat not having yet been filled. Among the nays were
Mr. Cowan, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Lane of Kansas, Mr. Norton and Mr. Van
Winkle.

The bill went to the House and after a very brief debate came to a vote
on the 9th of April--_yeas_ 122, _nays_ 41. Speaker Colfax directed
that his name should be called in order that he might have the honor of
recording himself for the bill. He then announced that having received
the vote of two-thirds of each House the Civil Rights Bill had become a
law, the President's objections to the contrary notwithstanding. The
announcement was received with an outburst of applause, in which the
members of the House as well as the throng of spectators heartily
joined--the speaker being unable to restore order for several minutes.
It recalled the scene of a little more than a year before, when the
rejoicing over the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment was equally
demonstrative.

To many persons of conservative mind the bill seemed too radical--to
many it seemed positively rash. It was an illustra