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Westcott (search for this): chapter 27
their seats that morning vaguely troubled. A storm was raging outside; above all things it ought, for the peace of the country, to be kept from the Senate. Then came Hale's bill. Submitted and read early in the day, it more than startled them; it alarmed them. The debate which followed was most exciting and much too personal. Among those from the South, besides Calhoun and Mr. Davis, who participated, were Butler, of South Carolina; Foote, of Mississippi; Mangum, of North Carolina; and Westcott, of Florida. Douglas, of Illinois, sided, rather cynically, with Hale. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, could not see what had induced the Senator from New Hampshire to introduce such a measure at that moment; Hannegan, of Indiana, denounced it, and Davis, of Massachusetts, supported it. The excitement was extraordinary the more so that it was evidenced that all the speakers, save one, sincerely regretted it. A living coal seemed to have leaped upon the floor from the fires of the Missouri Compr
Sidney Webster (search for this): chapter 27
aintain a better state of police. They will be healthier, and therefore more effective, in proportion to their numbers, for mere garrison duties. As long as you keep the highbred gentlemen for the battle, they will bear any privation, submit to every restraint, and discharge to the utmost every duty. But do you expect that those men, who have broken all the endearing ties of home in order to fight their country's battles, will sacrifice themselves to the mere duties of the sentinel? Mr. Webster, in opposing the bill, had called the war odious. This epithet was indignantly questioned by Mr. Davis. Odious for what? he asked. On account of the skill and gallantry with which it has been conducted? Or is it because of the humanity, the morality, the magnanimous clemency which have marked its execution? . . . . Where is the odium? What portion of our population is infected with it? From what cause does it arise? . . . Where, sir, are the evidences of evil brought upon us by
Alexander Vattemare (search for this): chapter 27
as a member of the Library Committee, and advocated with great earnestness Mons. Vattemare's international exchange of the literature of the world. Mons. AlexandeMons. Alexander Vattemare was the original Herr Alexandre who, from 1826 to 1830 astonished the Old World by his feats of magic or juggling. He conceived the idea in early youth by fire. Mr. Davis was invited by ex-President J. Q. Adams, who had known Vattemare when he was abroad, to meet him at dinner. After dinner Mr. Adams asked him to perform a little feat to show his magic powers. Vattemare declined, while Mr. Adams brushed a fly out of his ear. The fly became more troublesome and would not bim and Miss Edgeworth on their tour of the Scottish lakes. During this visit Vattemare obtained, as he and Sir Walter stood waiting for the stage to pass on which MMr. Vattemare was to leave Abbotsford, a piece of poetry, written on the gate-post by the poet, in which Sir Walter spoke in the character of sheriff of the county re
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
and unreserved. This was not strange. The gossip which flies constantly between the two halls of Congress had whispered of his brilliant career in the House while a member of the Twenty-ninth Congress. And something more than congressional gossip — the voice of an admiring people-had reached grave Senators; that across the border American valor had once more been made memorable, and that their new associate had been its inspirer. The session opened on December 6, 1847. Mr. Sevier, of Arkansas, presented the credentials of Mr. Davis. Two other men were admitted into the senatorial arena. One of these was John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, the other was Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, a Democrat of the Western type, who seemed destined to rule the party and reach the highest status, but whose career was finally wrecked upon the rock of squatter sovereignty. Mr. Davis was appointed on several important committees, which showed the confidence in him inspired by his military servic
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 27
merce among the States, as it is to repair light-houses or to replace buoys that have been destroyed. At the outset Mr. Davis spoke in general terms. He took care to put on record his opinion that the whole system of internal improvement by the Federal Government was an assumption of power not conferred by the Constitution. In the specific case, however, he approved of the appropriation on the sole ground that it was to repair a dam which the Federal Government had constructed in the Ohio River. This seemed to bring him side by side with Calhoun. But here he took issue with the great champion of State sovereignty. If I were compelled, he asserted, to rely on the power to regulate commerce as a justification for this appropriation, my adherence to the doctrine of literal interpretation of the terms of the Constitution would compel me to vote against this bill, intimately connected as it is with the interests of the great valley of which I represent a part. To regulate is to
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 27
the supreme law of the land. On April 20, 1848, a firebrand was hurled into the Senate. This came from the hand of Hale, of New Hampshire, in the shape of a bill introduced by him, relating to riots and unlawful assemblies in the District of Columbia. The bill was clearly disingenuous. Its avowed motive had been an assemblage of several armed citizens of the District, and an attack by them upon the building occupied by the National Era, an organ of the abolition party, published in Washington. It said nothing as to the exciting causes which had led to the gathering it was framed to punish. It wholly ignored a bold attempt which had stirred the Capitol only a few days before the kidnapping in the schooner Pearl, by a band of non-residents stealing into the city, of seventy odd negroes, belonging, under the guarantees of the Constitution, to citizens of the District. It spoke as loud as a trumpet upon the protection to be given to one kind of property — that in a newspaper-bu
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 27
have learned this last art in order to gain admission to the presence of the princes and potentates of the earth who could assist him in his scheme. He said, as America was a free country, dominated by the union of all races, he would juggle no more hut try his scheme on its merits. He brought a wonderful collection of autographs and sketches, from crowned heads, authors, statesmen, and inventors; also a magnificent series of medals, which he presented to the United States, and which were unfortunately burned when the Congressional library was lost by fire. Mr. Davis was invited by ex-President J. Q. Adams, who had known Vattemare when he was abroad, oted long enough at Queretaro to propose and consider terms of peace. On July 6th President Polk laid before Congress copies of a treaty of peace between the United States and the Mexican republic, the ratifications of which had been exchanged at that city on the 30th of May previous. On April 14th a bill to provide for the r
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
s execution? . . . . Where is the odium? What portion of our population is infected with it? From what cause does it arise? . . . Where, sir, are the evidences of evil brought upon us by this odious war? Where can you point to any inroad upon our prosperity, public or private, industrial, commercial, or financial, which can be, in any degree, attributed to the prosecution of this war? All that is yet to be shown, and I confidently await the issue. In a discussion with John Bell, of Tennessee, Mr. Davis defined his idea of a military occupation. He declared himself only in favor of such an occupation as would prevent the general Government of Mexico, against which the war had been directed, from re-establishing its power and again concentrating the scattered fragments of its army to renew active hostilities against us. In the course of the debate on this bill, which had drawn in a majority of the Senate, the fitness of Mr. Davis for the chairmanship of the Committee on Mili
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
ents hotly canvassed in hotels and on the streets. They had taken their seats that morning vaguely troubled. A storm was raging outside; above all things it ought, for the peace of the country, to be kept from the Senate. Then came Hale's bill. Submitted and read early in the day, it more than startled them; it alarmed them. The debate which followed was most exciting and much too personal. Among those from the South, besides Calhoun and Mr. Davis, who participated, were Butler, of South Carolina; Foote, of Mississippi; Mangum, of North Carolina; and Westcott, of Florida. Douglas, of Illinois, sided, rather cynically, with Hale. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, could not see what had induced the Senator from New Hampshire to introduce such a measure at that moment; Hannegan, of Indiana, denounced it, and Davis, of Massachusetts, supported it. The excitement was extraordinary the more so that it was evidenced that all the speakers, save one, sincerely regretted it. A living coal seemed
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
t, for the peace of the country, to be kept from the Senate. Then came Hale's bill. Submitted and read early in the day, it more than startled them; it alarmed them. The debate which followed was most exciting and much too personal. Among those from the South, besides Calhoun and Mr. Davis, who participated, were Butler, of South Carolina; Foote, of Mississippi; Mangum, of North Carolina; and Westcott, of Florida. Douglas, of Illinois, sided, rather cynically, with Hale. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, could not see what had induced the Senator from New Hampshire to introduce such a measure at that moment; Hannegan, of Indiana, denounced it, and Davis, of Massachusetts, supported it. The excitement was extraordinary the more so that it was evidenced that all the speakers, save one, sincerely regretted it. A living coal seemed to have leaped upon the floor from the fires of the Missouri Compromise, even then building. Hale throughout the discussion was cool, because it was a mere matt
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