[370] Baker in the Senate, provoked by the insulting words of the Catiline whom for a few days longer Heaven had condemned our patience to tolerate as a Senator of the United States, the California Senator, rising in his place, said,—
There will be some graves reeking with blood, watered by the tears of affection. There will be some privation. There will be some loss of luxury. There will be somewhat more need of labor to procure the necessaries of life. When that is said, all is said. If we have the country,—the whole country,—the Union, the Constitution, free government, with these will return all the blessings of well-ordered civilization. The path of the country will be a career of greatness and of glory such as our fathers, in the olden time, foresaw in the dim visions of years yet to come; and such as would have been ours to-day, had it not been for the treason for which the Senator too often seeks to apologize.
