--A Baltimore paper thus describes a speech lately delivered by
Senator Breckinridge, of
Kentucky, in the Senate at
Washington:
The galleries of the Senate were thronged, this morning, with spectators eager to hear the voice of
Kentucky, through her gallant and honorable statesman.
A greater number of ladies were present than had ever been known before; many of them being unable to secure seats.
The
Senators ceased all other employment, and dropping back in their armchairs, paid all possible attention to the
Kentucky Senator.
About thirty members of the House of Representatives were on the floor of the Senate; and when
Mr. Breckinridge arose in his place, a whisper could have been heard in any part of the spacious Senate Chamber.
It was a thrilling sight to see one man arise and boldly attack the Administration, which has the support of over 100,000 armed men and five-sixths of the
Senators of the
North ready and willing to uphold its acts.
I say it was a thrilling spectacle to see one man boldly and indignantly denounce the actions of this unlimited power.
As he read the
Constitution to those men who seek its overthrow, and time and again coolly challenged them to refute his statements, he inspired those in the gallery with an irrepressible feeling of patriotism that escaped in burats of applause.
When he alluded to the perils before the country, and exhorted the people to look to their Constitution and their rights before it should be forever too late, his voice trembled, and, by its uncontrollable modulations, it could be seen that his emotions were not to be easily restrained.
At the conclusion of his remarks, a burst of sympathetic applause went up from the galleries, that was only repressed by the remarks of
Mr. Trumbull, who addressed the galleries on the score of indecorum.
