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en read by sections, amended and ordered to its engrossment. On motion of Mr. Martin, of Henry, the bill was read the third time and put on its passage. When the Speaker had stated the question, Mr. Kemper rose and said: Before the final vote of this House is recorded, I shall say a few words, almost in the nature of a personal explanation. Looking to that bill as the result of a weeks' arduous and agonizing labor, I am led to exclaim: "O, most lame and impotent conclusion!" "Montes parturiunt, nascitur ridiculus mus! " Looking to the intense anxiety of the public mind, to the demands of my constituents, to my own unalterable convictions and my unflinching struggles, the provisions of the bill, as about to pass, fill the with disappointment, with sorrow and grief. The State demanded an unshackled Convention of the sovereign people. In my judgment you have refused it. You have provided a qualified and fettered representative body which is not a Convention, and which is