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d (ostensibly as a compliment to the famous Irish temperance orator), that Theobald Mathew be permitted to sit within the bar of the Senate during the period of his rn senators, but it was opposed by the Southern members, on the ground that Father Mathew, in the language of Senator Clemens, had been charged with denouncing one pa band of lawless pirates. Mr. Seward, in an insidious speech eulogizing Father Mathew's services as a temperance orator, ended by expressing the hope that the Se In the present case, exceptions have been taken not to the opinion of Father Mathew on the subject of slavery, but to his conduct in attempting to instigate hiinctly understood that I yield all that has been claimed for the success of Father Mathew to the cause of temperance in Ireland; and certainly abate nothing of respeent to do it. The next day after this speech he made a friendly call upon Father Mathew to express his respect for his temperance crusade. I refer to this min