{"184": {"top_level_match": "false", "sessions": [], "committees": [], "delegations": [], "people": [], "events": [{"id": 124931, "title": "IMPORT_FROM", "description": "H. R. 374: Committee Amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/12279#124931", "type": "IMPORT_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-amend-import.svg", "session_id": 12279}, {"id": 820605, "title": "CREATE", "description": "S. No.", "url": "/m2/session/12012#820605", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 12012}, {"id": 822100, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GREEN. In drawing that resolution, Mr. President, as a matter of course, it was suggest-ive. The details and the precise manner in which it is to be carried out, I leave for the committee on", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822100", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822120, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Mississippi. \n\nMr. DAVIS. Mr. President, if the political firmament seemed to me dark before, there has been little in the discussion this morning to cheer or", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822120", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822127, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LATHAM. Mr. President, my friend from Mississippi, in his allusion to me, either misunderstood me or unintentionally did me great injustice. I did not say, because I did not think it\u2014and if I did", "url": "/m2/session/12010#822127", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12010}, {"id": 822601, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. I called upon them to specify what they complained of in regard to the fugitive slave bill, and the gentleman has got up a case where he says the Governor of Ohio refused to issue his", "url": "/m2/session/12466#822601", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12466}, {"id": 822616, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SEWARD. With the honorable Senator\u2019s permission, 1 beg leave to ask him to state the grounds of the declaration he has just made? \n\nMr. WIGFALL. I will state to the Senator. I do not keep scrap", "url": "/m2/session/12011#822616", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12011}, {"id": 823477, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\n \n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. A. DOUGLAS, \nOF ILLINOIS, \nIn the Senate, January 3, 1861. \n\n \n\nThe Senate having under consideration the following resolution reported by the select", "url": "/m2/session/12398#823477", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12398}, {"id": 824048, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITTENDEN. It is through a long train of events, of party controversies, that the country has been brought to its present deplor-able condition. It would be idle to say that in the course of", "url": "/m2/session/12395#824048", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12395}, {"id": 824056, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TOOMBS. That was very adroitly done, or very ignorantly done, I do not know which; but I want to set that portion of our record right. This was the act to which I referred, and upon which", "url": "/m2/session/12395#824056", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12395}, {"id": 826077, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GREEN. I was just remarking that I con-sidered the present Constitution of the United States good enough, ample in all its provisions, if enforced and adhered to in good faith; and if there is a", "url": "/m2/session/12541#826077", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12541}, {"id": 826315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SIMMONS. I have seen it somewhere in the printed proceedings. That would certainly be the way. There is no other way to do it un-der the Constitution. Every suggestion, every argument made use of", "url": "/m2/session/12511#826315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12511}, {"id": 826406, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BIGLER. After the solemn scene presented here this morning, I confess I scarcely have the heart to approach the consideration of this subject. The solicitude\u2014the universal and solemn solicitude,", "url": "/m2/session/12513#826406", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12513}, {"id": 826445, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. L. W. POWELL, \n\nOF KENTUCKY, In the Senate, January 22, 1861. \n\nThe Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, having resumed the consideration of the joint resolution", "url": "/m2/session/12545#826445", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12545}, {"id": 826449, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POWELL. I have given the Senator the evidence. It is a written statement of one of his own colleagues, made a few days ago. I gave to the Senator, not long since, a specific charge against the", "url": "/m2/session/12545#826449", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12545}, {"id": 826548, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, Bancroft, in the last volume of his History of the United States, has drawn, with graphic pen, the character of George Mason, one of the noblest of that illustrious band of", "url": "/m2/session/12519#826548", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12519}, {"id": 828017, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE PRESERVATION OF OUR UNION ON PRINCIPLES OF FRATERNITY, EQUALITY, AND JUSTICE TO ALL. \n\n \nSPEECH OF HON. THOMAS B. FLORENCE \nof Pennsylvania, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 27th,", "url": "/m2/session/11970#828017", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11970}, {"id": 829188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JNO. S. MILLSON, of Virginia,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nJanuary 21, 1861.\n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/11969#829188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11969}, {"id": 834114, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. T. A. R. NELSON, Of Tennessee, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nJanuary 25, 1861. \n \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12621#834114", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12621}, {"id": 834404, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARK, of Missouri. No, sir; I cannot yield further. Mr. Speaker, I was going on to remark that, notwithstanding all these complaints, which, in our judgment, we have abundant cause to make, the", "url": "/m2/session/12622#834404", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12622}, {"id": 834418, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GILMER. I decline to yield. What is said now? What is the course pursued by them now? To give the country time for reflection? To give the country time to consider? Are the people allowed to", "url": "/m2/session/12622#834418", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12622}, {"id": 834466, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINSLOW. When I took service upon the committee of the States, to which position you had kindly assigned me, I confess I did so with but slight hope that its efforts would avail to the", "url": "/m2/session/12624#834466", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12624}, {"id": 834498, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN WYCK. This week completes the nineteenth anniversary of one of the most exciting scenes witnessed in the American Congress. On the 25th day of January, 1842, John Quincy Adams introduced the", "url": "/m2/session/12624#834498", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12624}, {"id": 835058, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. Mr. Speaker, with this view of our predicament, its origin, its history, and its authors, I saw little, from the outset, that we could do, except to abide the issue. On the President of", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835058", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, we have arrived at a period in the history of our country which was never even dreamed of by the gallant and far-seeing men who signed the Declaration of", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835081, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. JOY MORRIS, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 30, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12625#835081", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12625}, {"id": 835357, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. F. ADAMS, OF MASSACHUSETTS, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12626#835357", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12626}, {"id": 835370, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. EDGERTON, OF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, January 31,1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12626#835370", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12626}, {"id": 835418, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. B. STOKES, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835418", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835422, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KILLINGER obtained the floor. \n\nThe SPEAKER stated that, the hour of four o\u2019clock having arrived, under the order of the House there would be a recess taken until seven o\u2019clock, p. m. \n\nEVENING", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835422", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835428, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. M. QUARLES, OF TENNESSEE, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835428", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835436, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAMES WILSON, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 1, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12627#835436", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12627}, {"id": 835487, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TAPPAN, Mr. Speaker, as one of members of the committee of thirty-three, I joined with the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. WASH-BURN] in submitting a minority report, and in recommending the", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835487", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835502, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AN UNDIVIDED COUNTRY. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. L. T. MOORE, Of Kentucky, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 5, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835502", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 835504, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. C. A. TRIMBLE, Of Ohio, \nIn the House of Representatives, \n \nFebruary 5, 1861. \nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12628#835504", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 836212, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KUNKEL. So far as Maryland is concerned, the gentleman from New York is in error. That State declined to ratify and sign the Articles of Confederation, and remained out of the Confederacy long", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836212", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 836226, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOHN T. HARRIS, OF VIRGINIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 6, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836226", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 836243, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALFRED WELLS, OF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 6, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12629#836243", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12629}, {"id": 836280, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EVENING SESSION. \n\nThe House resumed its session al seven o \u2019clock, p. in., (Mr. Niblack in the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and continued the consideration of the special order, being the report", "url": "/m2/session/12630#836280", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12630}, {"id": 836367, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. N. H. SMITH, OF NORTH CAROLINA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836367", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836381, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. CHARLES CASE, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 8, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12631#836381", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12631}, {"id": 836682, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. \nMr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it was officially announced yesterday in this Hall that Abraham Lincoln, a worthy, patriotic, and intelligent citizen of the State of Illinois,", "url": "/m2/session/12632#836682", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12632}, {"id": 836986, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VANDEVER. The gentleman and his friends, some of them, in this emergency, have regarded it as their duty to support principles which they have heretofore repudiated, establishing new guarantees", "url": "/m2/session/12633#836986", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12633}, {"id": 837032, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EVENING SESSION. \n\nThe House reassembled at seven o\u2019clock, p. m., (Mr. Aldrich occupying the Chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and immediately resumed the consideration of the special order, being the", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837032", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837042, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WALDRON. Mr. Speaker, the topics of this discussion are novel and strange to an American Congress. They are such as were never dreamed of by the patriots and statesmen who framed our Government.", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837042", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837047, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEALE. Mr. Speaker, the great question which has for the last twelve years agitated the country is that of human freedom and slavery. Increasing year by year, and election after election, in", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837047", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837053, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DUELL. Mr. Speaker, the secession of six States from the Federal Union brings us face to face with grave issues, fraught with results of the most momentous importance. The unavoidable duty now", "url": "/m2/session/12634#837053", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12634}, {"id": 837101, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EVENING SESSION \n\nThe House reassembled at seven o\u2019clock, p. m., (Mr. Aldrich occupying the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and immediately resumed the consideration of the special order, being the", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837101", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837105, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDWIN R. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, having had but little experience in legislative assemblies, I have hesitated long before asking the attention of the House to my views on the present unhappy and", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837105", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837108, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALFRED ELY, OF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837108", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837112, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "UNION AND DISUNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JAS. B. McKEAN, \n\nOF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12635#837112", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12635}, {"id": 837129, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART, of Pennsylvania. I am willing to agree that any fair proposition shall be submitted to the people; but I am not willing to touch the present Constitution. It is a Constitution that", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837129", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837130, "title": "PROCEDURE", "description": "Motion to", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837130", "type": "PROCEDURE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-motion.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837266, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FIRST, KEEP OLD COMPROMISES. \n\nSPEECH OF HON JOHN U. PETTIT, \n\nOF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837266", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. EDWARD WADE, \n\nOF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837268", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "FREEDOM TAKES \u201cNO STEP BACKWARDS.\u201d \n\nSPEECH OF HON. H. G. BLAKE, \n\nOF OHIO, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 19, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12636#837269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12636}, {"id": 837278, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE GREAT AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF 1861. \nSPEECH OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIGHAM, \nOf Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 20, 1861. \n \nThe special order\u2014namely, the report of the committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12637#837278", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12637}, {"id": 837304, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BARRET. I decline yielding. the floor. I say most prominent among this Abolition class, are preachers of the Gospel, men making pretense of much true piety and Christian charity. \n\n\u201cWhen devils", "url": "/m2/session/12638#837304", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12638}, {"id": 837313, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Any Compromise A Surrender. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. D. W. GOOCH, \n\nOf Massachusetts, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nFebruary 23, 1861 \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837313", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837314, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FENTON. Mr. Speaker, I blush to see the record of our proceedings on this question which now agitates the country. They resemble the advertisements of patent medicines\u2014each man adjuring you to", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837314", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837315, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE CRISIS. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. JNO. B. HASKIN, \n\nOF NEW YORK, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861, \n\nIn favor of the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws. \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837315", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837317, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. S. S. BLAIR, \n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837317", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837319, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. F. W. KELLOGG, OF MICHIGAN, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 23, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12639#837319", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12639}, {"id": 837920, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERRY. Mr. Speaker, I recognize; to-day, but two parties in this country: the party of law and order, and the party of revolution; the party which would preserve the Federal Govern-ment and the", "url": "/m2/session/12620#837920", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12620}, {"id": 838887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A. BINGHAM, of Ohio, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, \n\nJanuary 22, 1861. \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select committee of", "url": "/m2/session/12618#838887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 839465, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WASHBURN. After the eloquent speech of the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. CLEMENS] who has just taken his seat, and the equally eloquent remarks of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BING-HAM] who", "url": "/m2/session/12618#839465", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12618}, {"id": 846296, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n \nSPEECH OF HON. ALEX H. RICE, \nOf Massachusetts, \nIn the House of Representatives, \nFebruary 26th, 1861. \n\n \n\nThe House having under consideration the report from the select", "url": "/m2/session/12642#846296", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12642}, {"id": 850054, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SPINNER. Has that paper been re-ceived, Mr. Speaker? and does it go on the Jour-nal? \n\n \n\nThe SPEAKER. It does not. It is read as part of the remarks of the gentleman from Lou-isiana. \n\n \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850054", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 850060, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TAYLOR. I was just proceeding to state that whatever might be the opinions of gentle-men in respect to abstract questions of constitu-tional law, there is but one opinion in the whole world in", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850060", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 850079, "title": "LEAVE", "description": "Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the House of Representatives, the act which it is my purpose to perform, of withdrawing from this assemblage of the Representatives of the American people,", "url": "/m2/session/12628#850079", "type": "LEAVE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-people-leave.svg", "session_id": 12628}, {"id": 861384, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. I understand the question to be upon the adoption of the amendment just read, which is the proposition of the Senator from Kentucky, as a substitute for the House resolution? \n\nThe", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861384", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 861388, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOUGLAS. I rise to express the hope that we may be permitted to get a vote on these resolutions. We are now expending the whole night\u2014all the time we have left of this session\u2014in discussing these", "url": "/m2/session/13851#861388", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13851}, {"id": 861430, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITTENDEN. Mr. President, it is an admitted fact that our Union, to some extent, has already been dismembered; and that further dismemberment is impending and threatened. It is a fact that the", "url": "/m2/session/13855#861430", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 862126, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "STATE OF THE UNION. \n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution (H. R. No. 80) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, is before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole;", "url": "/m2/session/13855#862126", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13855}, {"id": 869493, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLIDELL. Mr. President, the document which the Secretary has just read, and which places on the files of the Senate official information that Louisiana has ceased to be a component part of these", "url": "/m2/session/14011#869493", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14011}, {"id": 870939, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, I listened yesterday with a great deal of pleasure to many of the remarks and arguments of the Senator from Wisconsin, [Mr. Doolittle.] I concur entirely in one of the", "url": "/m2/session/11950#870939", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11950}, {"id": 870975, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I have had some experience in legislation, and I have always made it a principle to guide my course, that where a measure was objectionable to me and I intended to vote", "url": "/m2/session/11963#870975", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11963}, {"id": 871105, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE STATE OF THE UNION \n \nThe House resumed the consideration of the special order, being to the report of the special committee of thirty-three, on which Mr. PRYOR was entitled to the floor. \n\nMr.", "url": "/m2/session/14062#871105", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14062}, {"id": 871112, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I did not design offering any remarks upon this bill, being willing to (rust to the greater experience of my colleague to do justice to the cause of our State; but I", "url": "/m2/session/11964#871112", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11964}, {"id": 871139, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. DAVIS. Will the honorable Senator allow me just a minute to suggest a matter to him before he proceeds?\n\nMr. SUMNER. Certainly.\n\nMr. DAVIS. It may be that the speech", "url": "/m2/session/11980#871139", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11980}, {"id": 871148, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. President, I can assure the gentleman who introduced this bill that I will not embarrass the action of the Senate by a lengthy speech upon it. I feel somewhat embarrassed, however,", "url": "/m2/session/11981#871148", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11981}, {"id": 871166, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire, as amended, as a substitute for the original bill.\n\nMr. CLARK. Mr. President, I feel some delicacy in", "url": "/m2/session/11981#871166", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11981}, {"id": 871169, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Had the Chair been aware of the nature of the amendment offered by the Senator from Virginia, he would have ruled it to be in order to offer it after the substitute of the", "url": "/m2/session/11981#871169", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11981}, {"id": 871188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT, pro tempore. The amendment offered by the Senator from New Hampshire to the original bill, by way of perfecting that bill will be read.\n\nThe Secretary read the amendment of Mr. Clark,", "url": "/m2/session/11984#871188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11984}, {"id": 871189, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COLLAMER. The gentleman has a peculiar way of reading that decision.\n\nMr. DAVIS. I read it according to the letter.\n\nMr. COLLAMER. Gentlemen who are tenacious about that particular form of", "url": "/m2/session/11984#871189", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11984}, {"id": 871201, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McDOUGALL addressed the Senate. [His remarks will be found in the Appendix.]\n\nSLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A. McDOUGALL,\n\nOF CALIFORNIA,\n\nIn the Senate, April 3, 1862.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/11985#871201", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11985}, {"id": 871203, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TEN EYCK. I do not rise at this time for the purpose of making a speech, yet I trust the Senate will extend to me their indulgence for a few minutes while I submit my views, partly on the measure", "url": "/m2/session/11985#871203", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11985}, {"id": 887723, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. My friend did not hear me exactly, or did not understand me aright. I said that Washington was already the paradise of free negroes in this country; because here they now enjoy more", "url": "/m2/session/11986#887723", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11986}, {"id": 888949, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THOMAS, of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I avail myself of the indulgence of the committee to make some suggestions upon subjects now attracting the attention of Congress and of the country\u2014the", "url": "/m2/session/12161#888949", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12161}, {"id": 888950, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, some weeks since I introduced certain resolutions respecting maritime rights. They were referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. That committee have directed me to report", "url": "/m2/session/12161#888950", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12161}, {"id": 889068, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. BURT VAN HORN, OF NEW YORK,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,\n\nApril 11, 1862,\n\nOn the bill for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the", "url": "/m2/session/12189#889068", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12189}, {"id": 896968, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "H. R.", "url": "/m2/session/12279#896968", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 12279}, {"id": 896978, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "PROHIBITION ON SLAVERY\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. DIVEN. I say that my opinion in regard to it is, that when we acquire land for the purpose of a navy-yard, and exclude the States ceding that land from any civil", "url": "/m2/session/12281#896978", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12281}, {"id": 896979, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. OLIN. Like many others, I voted against laying this bill upon the table, and I voted also against seconding the demand for the previous question, which would cut off all debate upon and", "url": "/m2/session/12281#896979", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12281}, {"id": 896980, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRISFIELD obtained the floor.\n\n... Mr. CRISFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I have not risen for the purpose of entering on the line of debate which the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Arnold] has invited us to.", "url": "/m2/session/12281#896980", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12281}, {"id": 896987, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, I have perhaps trespassed upon the patience and attention of this House almost as seldom as any one of its members. During the extraordinary session of July and August last,", "url": "/m2/session/12318#896987", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 12318}, {"id": 899271, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. As it lacks but a minute or two of the time when the special order is to be called up, if there be no objection, the Chair will call it up now. Strictly, the Pacific railroad bill", "url": "/m2/session/12492#899271", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12492}, {"id": 899273, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. GREEN. Does the Senator know\u2014and if he does, will he give me the information\u2014on what ground there was any just apprehension on the part of Major Anderson for the movement he made? \n\nMr. TRUMBULL.", "url": "/m2/session/12492#899273", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12492}, {"id": 899320, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SEWARD. Mr. President, Congress adjourned last summer amid auspices of national abundance, contentment, tranquillity, and happiness. It was reassembled this winter in the presence of derangement", "url": "/m2/session/14263#899320", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14263}, {"id": 900052, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. CLINGMAN. I ask the Senator, when he concludes, to move to postpone it in the manner I have indicated. \n\nMr. HEMPHILL. Yes, sir. \n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now is on ordering an extra", "url": "/m2/session/12019#900052", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 12019}, {"id": 900213, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WIGFALL. Mr. President, I desire to say a few words, and but very few, in reference to the matters that have been under discussion this morning; and I obtrude upon the Senate for the reason that", "url": "/m2/session/13993#900213", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13993}, {"id": 900248, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "ORDER OF BUSINESS. \n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The hour of one o\u2019clock having arrived, the Chair must call up the special order. The special order for this hour is the message of the President,", "url": "/m2/session/13994#900248", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 13994}, {"id": 900284, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "MISSION OF PEACE FROM VIRGINIA. \n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The special order for to-day is the message of the President of the United States, communicating the resolutions of Virginia. The Chair will", "url": "/m2/session/14011#900284", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14011}, {"id": 900322, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "MISSION OF PEACE FROM VIRGINIA. \n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will now call up the special order, being the message of the President of the United States, communicating the resolutions of the", "url": "/m2/session/14025#900322", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14025}, {"id": 900331, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON, of Tennessee. I would rather go on, sir. Why, then, answer positions I did not assume, or attribute to me language that I did not use? Was it in the speech? No. Why, then, use language", "url": "/m2/session/14025#900331", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14025}, {"id": 900466, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "MISSION OF PEACE FROM VIRGINIA. \n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will now call up the unfinished business of yesterday, being the motion to print additional copies of the President\u2019s message", "url": "/m2/session/14027#900466", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14027}, {"id": 900489, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WIGFALL. Mr. President, I was speaking, at the time of the interruption, of the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, and what more I might have said I do not know; it has escaped me. I did", "url": "/m2/session/14027#900489", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 14027}, {"id": 900664, "title": "CREATE", "description": "The President's Annual", "url": "/m2/session/13904#900664", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 13904}, {"id": 900665, "title": "CREATE_FROM", "description": "The President's Annual", "url": "/m2/session/12008#900665", "type": "CREATE_FROM", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-import.svg", "session_id": 12008}, {"id": 900758, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HUNTER. Mr. President, I have offered this amendment, as the first of a series which I shall offer, for the purpose of carrying out the will of my State, as it has been expressed through its", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900758", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900766, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. I understand him as saying that the whole of the twenty States which were assembled in this peace convention agreed to this proposition. \n\nMr. BAKER. My distinguished friend was", "url": "/m2/session/14318#900766", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14318}, {"id": 900803, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. HALE. 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It is competent for the Senator from Illinois to modify his own", "url": "/m2/session/5675#843564", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5675}, {"id": 843566, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. DOOLITTLE in the chair.) The question is on agreeing to the amendment of the Senator from Illinois, upon which the yeas and nays have been ordered.\n\nMr. TRUMBULL. I ask", "url": "/m2/session/5676#843566", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5676}, {"id": 843576, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. 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If that speech be true, and", "url": "/m2/session/6881#868534", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 6881}, {"id": 869245, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, the bill just read is properly and in its order before the Senate. On yesterday morning it and all the other orders were set aside by the request of the honorable Senator", "url": "/m2/session/13103#869245", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13103}, {"id": 869268, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I should like to have the attention of the Senator from Maine for one moment. It seems to me there is some misunderstanding in regard to the bill now before the Senate. If I remember", "url": "/m2/session/13105#869268", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13105}, {"id": 869277, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLEY. Mr. President, the discussions which the bill now under consideration has excited, both in Congress and in the country, have embraced a wider range of thought and argument than was", "url": "/m2/session/13105#869277", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13105}, {"id": 869336, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I expressed my opinions in relation to the pending measure at considerable length during the last session of Congress. It is my purpose now to repeat my protest against the", "url": "/m2/session/13116#869336", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13116}, {"id": 869357, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, I am always glad to hear the honorable Senator from Connecticut, [Mr. Foster,] for he states his views with great clearness, precision, accuracy, and candor; but certainly", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869357", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869359, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LANE. Mr. President, at this stage of the debate, when the Senate are exceedingly anxious to vote, in which anxiety I certainly participate, I shall content myself rather with stating my", "url": "/m2/session/13118#869359", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13118}, {"id": 869481, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's S. 1 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14108#869481", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14108}, {"id": 870134, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, sentiments having been announced on the motion to refer this bill which I cannot indorse, I am compelled by a sense of duty to make a few observations. I ask the", "url": "/m2/session/6882#870134", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6882}, {"id": 870357, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The morning hour having expired, it becomes the duty of the Chair to call up the unfinished business of Friday; but prior to that, with the permission of the Senate, the", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870357", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870363, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. JOHNSON. This is the only opportunity which I have had of giving, as I shall do in a very few words, my reason for not being enabled to vote for the bill. My friend, the chairman of the committee", "url": "/m2/session/13126#870363", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 13126}, {"id": 870381, "title": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "description": "The message was read, as follows:\n\nTo the Senate of the United States.\n\nI have received and considered a bill entitled \u201cAn act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia,\u201d passed", "url": "/m2/session/8642#870381", "type": "ADOPT_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-decision-adopt.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 889003, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELIOT. Mr. Speaker, when the resolution was offered by the committee, and the amendment was proposed which has been the subject of discussion for two or three days, I was very much inclined to", "url": "/m2/session/5496#889003", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5496}, {"id": 896860, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION AGAIN.\n\nMr. STEVENS. The short time allowed by our resolution will suffice to introduce this debate. If unexpectedly there should be any objection to the proposed amendment to the", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896860", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896862, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, I promise to trespass upon the attention of the House but a very few minutes in what I have to say on this question.\n\nAn amendment to the Constitution is at all times a matter", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896862", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896863, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. GARFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I do not rise to speak at length upon the pending measure, but for the purpose of entering a motion and submitting a few practical suggestions on the", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896863", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896869, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER obtained the floor.\n\nMr. FINCK. Will the gentleman allow me just one moment?\n\nMr. THAYER. I will yield to the gentleman for a moment.\n\nMr. FINCK. I desire to say to my colleague, for whom", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896869", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896878, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SMITH obtained the floor.\n\n[...]\n\nRECONSTRUCTION AGAIN.\n\nMr. SMITH. I have always felt that when a crime has been committed, an absolute violation of law, upon a proper arraignment and trial and", "url": "/m2/session/5608#896878", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5608}, {"id": 896884, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014AGAIN.\n\nMr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I took occasion at an early stage of the session, while making some remarks on the general subject of restoration, to say that, in my judgment, the", "url": "/m2/session/5609#896884", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5609}, {"id": 896908, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BANKS. Mr. Speaker, the measure before the House presents a basis upon which it is proposed the insurgent States shall be restored to the Union. It is, therefore, the most important question", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896908", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 896910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONGYEAR. Mr. Speaker, the questions before the House are not so much whether the rebellious States are in or out of the Union; or whether the Government has or has not the right to impose", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 896913, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH. Mr. Speaker, in my half hour I shall confine myself to the amendments of the Constitution now under consideration. When the bill reported by the committee of fifteen comes up for", "url": "/m2/session/5610#896913", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5610}, {"id": 897069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I regret that the state of the health of the honorable Senator from Maine [Mr. Fessenden] who is chairman, on the part of the Senate, of the joint committee of fifteen, is", "url": "/m2/session/5692#897069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5692}, {"id": 897075, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WADE. I do not rise now for the purpose of arguing this question at any length; and it is with very great deference that I offer an amendment to the proposition reported by the committee who have", "url": "/m2/session/5692#897075", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5692}, {"id": 897109, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEWART. Mr. President, I am satisfied that it is impossible for this Congress to fully agree as to what is expedient to be done to harmonize factions and restore peace to our distracted country.", "url": "/m2/session/5693#897109", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5693}, {"id": 898358, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. I will state briefly why I cannot vote for this amendment as a substitute for the third section of the resolution which has been stricken out. My first reason is that by a law of", "url": "/m2/session/5695#898358", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5695}, {"id": 898407, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Mr. President, nothing but a sense of imperative duty induces me to address the Senate upon this occasion. The Constitution is to be changed; the foundations of the Government are to", "url": "/m2/session/5697#898407", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5697}, {"id": 898455, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. [...] I shall not go into any lengthy argument on the subject of this amendment, but simply state in the briefest words possible the grounds upon which I offer it. In the first place,", "url": "/m2/session/5697#898455", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5697}, {"id": 898595, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The CHAIRMAN. In the absence of the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. Wentworth,] who is entitled to the floor, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Ward.] \n\nMr. WARD, of New York. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/14220#898595", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14220}, {"id": 898607, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction. \n\nSPEECH OF HON. E. DUMONT, OF INDIANA, \n\nIn the House of Representatives, February 16, 1867. \n\nThe House having under consideration the President's annual message. \n\nMr. DUMONT said:", "url": "/m2/session/14222#898607", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14222}, {"id": 898704, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. McDOUGALL. It is a work of labor to speak after the eloquent remarks of the Senator from Maryland, who has better expressed what I think than I can express it in any form of words; and yet I", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898704", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5701}, {"id": 898709, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. I propose to discuss the first section only so far as citizenship is involved in it. I desire to show that this section will leave citizenship where it is now. It makes plain only what", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898709", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5701}, {"id": 898717, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YATES. At the beginning of the session I took the ground that already by the Constitution of the United States, as amended, every man in the United States, without regard to color or caste of any", "url": "/m2/session/5701#898717", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5701}, {"id": 898845, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\n\u2028Mr. FINCK. Mr. Chairman, when the Thirty-Eighth Congress adjourned, large armies were in thE field resisting the authority and jurisdiction of the United States. We were then in the", "url": "/m2/session/14234#898845", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14234}, {"id": 898867, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. BAKER. Mr. Chairman, I rise to the question of reconstruction. In the very opening of my remarks I will say that on the present occasion I must firmly decline to yield the floor", "url": "/m2/session/14237#898867", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14237}, {"id": 898877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ADMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, ETC.\n\nMr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, the subject now agitating the public mind is the reconstruction of the late rebel States governments. In", "url": "/m2/session/14240#898877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14240}, {"id": 898929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, nearly two years ago, and while the war was flagrant, I felt it my duty as a member of this body to look into the question of the relations that had been produced by it,", "url": "/m2/session/14243#898929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14243}, {"id": 899069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STROUSE. Mr. Speaker, in discussing the important question of the reconstruction of the States lately in rebellion, a subject, which not only agitates Congress but the whole people of our", "url": "/m2/session/14247#899069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14247}, {"id": 899080, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. COOK. Every individual citizen of each State in the Union has rights in every other State\u2014the right to acquire, possess, and dispose of property: the right to fix his domicile in", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899080", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899086, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. The overthrow of the military power of the great rebellion devolved upon the President and Congress and the country duties of unparalleled magnitude.\n\nWith all lawful civil", "url": "/m2/session/14251#899086", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14251}, {"id": 899117, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PLANTS. I will yield to my colleague [Mr. Clarke] for the present, with the hope that I may obtain the floor after he shall have concluded his remarks.\n\nRECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. CLARKE, of Ohio. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899117", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899128, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PLANTS. Mr. Speaker, this day having been set apart for general discussion upon the state of the Union, I shall not confine my remarks to any single proposition before Congress, no one of which", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899128", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899166, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, in the adoption of ordinances of secession, and in the formation of a pretended confederacy with pretensions to sovereignty\u2014steps preliminary to the war\u2014the seceding States", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899166", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, as there seems to be an opportunity at this time, I beg leave to submit a few remarks upon some of the matters which at present are pressing upon the attention of this", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899181, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. I am truly thankful to the House for this courtesy, and I will try and not trespass upon their patience long.\n\nAs I was saying, I would like to know what State government this is which", "url": "/m2/session/14254#899181", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14254}, {"id": 899218, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. I trust that the gentleman will confine himself to the bill before the House.\n\nMr. SCHENCK. Will the gentleman from New Jersey allow me to make a single inquiry?\n\nMr. ROGERS. Yes,", "url": "/m2/session/5579#899218", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5579}, {"id": 899244, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THORNTON. Mr. Speaker, the absorbing question since our assemblage here is, in one view of it, a question of union or disunion, and in another view it is a question of absolute power in the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899244", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899253, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KUYKENDALL. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure you that I approach the investigation of the many grave and important subjects treated in the message of the President of the United States, at the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899253", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899259, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, having some weeks since introduced into this House a bill which has for its purpose to prescribe the oath of office, so as to make it conform to the requirements of the", "url": "/m2/session/14257#899259", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 899347, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I shall support this proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States, not because I believe it to be absolutely needed, but because there are those, and some of", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899347", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899348, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Most of the proposed amendments were subsequently incorporated in some shape into the Constitution. They were mainly designed to guaranty to the people the right of petition, freedom of", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899348", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899349, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HALE. Mr. Speaker, it is with great hesitation I rise to address the House to-day, for the reason especially that in the brief time allotted for the purpose, I feel that I have been entirely", "url": "/m2/session/5580#899349", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5580}, {"id": 899352, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RIGHTS OF CITIZENS.\n\nThe House then resumed the consideration of the following joint resolution (H. R. No. 63) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States:\n\nResolved by the Senate", "url": "/m2/session/5582#899352", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5582}, {"id": 899414, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ASHLEY, of Nevada. Mr. Speaker, I am ill fitted to-day to speak, having a sore throat which almost prevents my talking at all. And I am unprepared, not knowing until this morning that the sun", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899414", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899423, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMES. Mr. Speaker, the policy to be pursued by Congress with the States and people lately in rebellion is brought to our notice by the annual message of the President, now under consideration,", "url": "/m2/session/14262#899423", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14262}, {"id": 899448, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I thank God, sir, that the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States of America has been permitted to assemble in this magnificent temple of liberty, and", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899448", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899531, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DUMONT. Mr. Speaker, as many suppose that the powers of Congress to deal with the rebel States according to their demerits, and the deeds done in the body depend upon the question whether a State", "url": "/m2/session/14268#899531", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14268}, {"id": 899594, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. MOULTON. Mr. Speaker, a great variety of opinions upon the great questions growing out of the rebellion, and which have arisen since the surrender of the rebel armies, have been", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899594", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899624, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\u2014ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE.\n\nMr. BUCKLAND. Mr. Speaker, thus far I have been a silent listener to the able and interesting discussions in this House upon the important and intricate", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899624", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899630, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\nMr. HART. Mr. Speaker, the pestilent heresy of Calhoun found its culmination in States discordant and belligerent, which with force of arms sought to establish a new dominion where", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899630", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899701, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "PAYMENT FOR SLAVES.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the social and political changes effected as a consequence of the rebellion require some amendments to the great charter of our liberties, the", "url": "/m2/session/14276#899701", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14276}, {"id": 899787, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CIVIL RIGHTS.\n\nMr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the President in his annual message said to us\u2014\n\n\u201cThat good faith requires the security of the freedmen in their liberty, their light to labor, and", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899787", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899798, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARKE, of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, [approach the discussion of the question of reconstruction with anxious solicitude. Results momentous to the interests of civil liberty, and affecting the weal or", "url": "/m2/session/14287#899798", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14287}, {"id": 899838, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROMWELL. Mr. Speaker, I deem myself fortunate in being permitted to take any part in the work of pacification and restoration of the Government upon which we have entered. I would even deem", "url": "/m2/session/8668#899838", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8668}, {"id": 899843, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. INGERSOLL. I had fondly hoped, Mr. Speaker, when Lee surrendered to General Grant, and Johnston surrendered to General Sherman, the last armies of the rebellion, that we had heard the last of", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899843", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899900, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINDOM. Mr. Speaker, after the thorough discussion this question has received I can hardly expect to add anything new. But at a time like this silence is akin to cowardice; indifference is", "url": "/m2/session/5617#899900", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5617}, {"id": 899902, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend when I came here to-day to participate in this debate, nor did I expect when I came here to be entertained with debate of the character of that indulged in", "url": "/m2/session/14293#899902", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14293}, {"id": 899924, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, the able and protracted debate on this floor and in the Senate upon the subject of reconstruction has been of an extraordinary character. It has involved largely first", "url": "/m2/session/14300#899924", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14300}, {"id": 899928, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, it is known, at least by my constituents, that I was not a supporter of the last Administration, and did not cast my vote for the election of the present incumbent of the", "url": "/m2/session/14300#899928", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14300}, {"id": 899933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I regard the action which this House may take upon the bill now before it as of very great importance. The bill embodies principles which touch very nearly the fundamental", "url": "/m2/session/5618#899933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5618}, {"id": 899935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. I have no objection to a colloquy of that kind. I think it perhaps the best way to get at the truth. I am indebted to the House for its courtesy, though I am very much afraid I shall", "url": "/m2/session/5618#899935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 5618}, {"id": 899959, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CLARKE, of Ohio, obtained the floor.\n\nMr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. With the consent of the gentleman from Ohio, I desire to say that I may not have fully understood the purport of the various statements", "url": "/m2/session/14301#899959", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14301}, {"id": 899976, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to discuss this general subject in any formal manner, but merely to make a few remarks, which I fear will prove rather desultory, upon the necessity which", "url": "/m2/session/8719#899976", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8719}, {"id": 899990, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ALLISON. Mr. Speaker, when the question of the reorganization of these States, known as House bill No. 543, was under consideration a few days ago in this House, I voted with the distinguished", "url": "/m2/session/8742#899990", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8742}, {"id": 900074, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. VAN AERNAM. Mr. Speaker, I need not assure this House that I approach the investigation of the subject under consideration with hesitation and embarrassment. 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Mr. Speaker, the Constitution and laws of Indiana relating to negroes and mulattoes have been so often referred to in the debates during the present session of Congress,", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900087", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900097, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POWERS OF CONGRESS.\n\nMr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, under the parliamentary discipline which prevails in this House, it is impossible very often for members to get permission to discuss measures of the", "url": "/m2/session/14308#900097", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14308}, {"id": 900103, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, I am very anxious that this bill should be proceeded with until finally acted upon. 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I should like to know of the Senator from", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900135", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900161, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POMEROY. Why not insert \u201cin accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress,\u201d or \u201cin accordance with law?\u201d\n\nMr. VAN WINKLE. I wish to call the attention of the Senator from Maine to the fact", "url": "/m2/session/8755#900161", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 900214, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the formation of one Confederacy or Federal Union did not prevent the manifestation of a disposition on the part of the northern people which was predicted by Mr. Jay in", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900214", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900269, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. VAN WINKLE. As this preamble has been brought into discussion, I wish to say a few words upon it. I have waited till it should come up regularly. I have no motion to make in reference to it; but", "url": "/m2/session/8762#900269", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8762}, {"id": 900392, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAWSON again resumed the floor, and addressed the House as follows:\n\nMr. Speaker, I have watched the proceedings of this body with deep interest. No one has been a more attentive listener or more", "url": "/m2/session/8673#900392", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8673}, {"id": 900401, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM. I yield to my friend from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Broomall.] \n\nMr. BROOMALL. Mr. Speaker, in the spring of 1865 the military forces of the late confederate States of America surrendered", "url": "/m2/session/8642#900401", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8642}, {"id": 900526, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. I yield the remainder of my time, which is only five minutes, to the gentleman from California, [Mr. Higby.]\n\nMr. HIGBY. Mr. Speaker I could not let this measure go to a vote without", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900526", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900538, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, in separating as I must from some with whom I have uniformly acted in the House upon political questions, I desire to state in a word the reasons which induce me to vote to", "url": "/m2/session/8765#900538", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 900572, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. With the consent of my friend, I will state that I have no doubt that with moderation on the part of both Houses this measure can be passed with the assent of both Houses without any", "url": "/m2/session/8773#900572", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 900677, "title": "CREATE", "description": "President Johnson's H. R. 1143 Veto", "url": "/m2/session/14317#900677", "type": "CREATE", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-subtype-script-add.svg", "session_id": 14317}, {"id": 900694, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DIXON. Mr. President, it is not my purpose at this time to go into this discussion at any length. I desire merely to state in the briefest possible terms some of the reasons that compel me to", "url": "/m2/session/8854#900694", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8854}, {"id": 900882, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nMr. McKEE. I ask the Clerk to read the joint resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk.\n\nThe Clerk read, as follows:\n\nMr. McKEE. Mr. Speaker, it is my purpose at present to submit", "url": "/m2/session/14257#900882", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14257}, {"id": 900910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to express myself in favor of the main purposes of the bill now under consideration.\n\nThrough the clouds of a great war and the confusion of a vast mass of", "url": "/m2/session/8675#900910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8675}, {"id": 900911, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDRIDGE. Mr. Speaker, it is of little avail, idle perhaps, to attempt any resistance of a caucus measure of the majority of this House. But it is hard, sad to stand Silently by and see the", "url": "/m2/session/8675#900911", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8675}, {"id": 900915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KOONTZ. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to examine in detail the bill now under discussion, but will occupy a portion of the time allotted me in discussing the general principles involved therein.", "url": "/m2/session/8676#900915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8676}, {"id": 900924, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of House bill No. 543, to provide for restoring to the States lately in insurrection their full political rights.\n\nMr. KERR. Mr. Speaker, it is", "url": "/m2/session/8643#900924", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8643}, {"id": 900929, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION-\u2014AGAIN.\n\nThe Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union resumed its session.\n\nMr. RAYMOND. Mr. Chairman, I should be glad, if it meet the sense of those members who are present,", "url": "/m2/session/14234#900929", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14234}, {"id": 900933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENS. I do not propose at present to call the previous question, but will leave the bill open for discussion to-day. I now yield to the gentleman from New York, [Mr. Raymond.]\n\nMr. RAYMOND.", "url": "/m2/session/8677#900933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8677}, {"id": 900936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. In view of the magnitude and importance of the legislation proposed by the bill now before us I have thought it my duty to submit a few considerations to the House upon the subject. The", "url": "/m2/session/8678#900936", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8678}, {"id": 901160, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\n\nMr. SHELLABARGER. Mr. Chairman, I shall inquire whether the Constitution deals with States. I shall discuss the question whether an organized rebellion against a Government is an", "url": "/m2/session/14337#901160", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14337}, {"id": 901492, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction.\nSPEECH OF HON. G. CLAY SMITH\nOf Kentucky,\nIn the House of Representatives,\nJanuary 19, 1866.\n\nThe House being in the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union\u2014\n\nMr. SMITH", "url": "/m2/session/14366#901492", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14366}, {"id": 901703, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GARFIELD. Would it not be sufficient to allow to-day and this evening for debate?\n \nMr. LE BLOND. That is what I am speaking about. I am trying to show the impossibility of our being urged to", "url": "/m2/session/8698#901703", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8698}, {"id": 901887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BINGHAM [...] Mr. Speaker, I respectfully ask attention to the importance of allowing the vote to be taken on the amendment proposed. Here is a bill the object of which, as I said when I had the", "url": "/m2/session/8743#901887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8743}, {"id": 901954, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman] has already made a motion to take up another bill. \n\nMr. SHERMAN. I withdraw that motion for the present, to allow the Senator from Oregon", "url": "/m2/session/8655#901954", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8655}, {"id": 902000, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWARD. Mr. President, I do not rise to discuss the merits of the bill, particularly at this time; I do not know that I shall feel it my duty to do so during the debate in this body; but I wish", "url": "/m2/session/8755#902000", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8755}, {"id": 902530, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I desire to state very briefly my views on reconstruction and the duty of Congress, and to explain some votes which, standing alone, are liable to be", "url": "/m2/session/8765#902530", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8765}, {"id": 902549, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. HENDRICKS. Reference has been made by several Senators to the possible failure to pass this bill so that it may become a law. I suppose the Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from Kansas", "url": "/m2/session/8773#902549", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 902550, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WADE. Mr. President, I am very sorry that so disagreeable a topic should come up this morning for discussion, but 1 am very well compensated for it by what has fallen from the Senator from Maine.", "url": "/m2/session/8773#902550", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8773}, {"id": 902859, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NEWELL. Mr. Speaker, I propose to submit a few remarks for the consideration of the House upon the annual message of the President of the United States. \n\nIn doing so allow me to call attention", "url": "/m2/session/14425#902859", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14425}, {"id": 904069, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SHERMAN. The first clause of the addition to the fifth section is a proper one, I think. It simply applies the constitutional amendment in fixing the qualifications of delegates to a convention.", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904069", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904090, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, for the good faith of this Government I hope that I can get the ear of the Senate and the ear of every Senator; for I believe that if this amendment be considered in the", "url": "/m2/session/8842#904090", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8842}, {"id": 904099, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. I do not desire to take the time of the Senate at this hour of the night, and yet I confess I am not pleased with the measure before us. 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Mr. Speaker, the depth and earnestness of the conviction on my mind that", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851055", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851056, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HIGBY. Mr. Speaker, I have been drawn into this debate more from the peculiar turn it has taken within the last two days than from any previous intention to discuss the questions involved, and I", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851056", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851057, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NIBLACK next addressed the House. His speech will appear in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 589)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. E. NIBLACK,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851057", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851059, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. This bill has been so long under discussion that I have hardly the amount of assurance necessary to enable me to address the House at this time. I have observed that many persons in the", "url": "/m2/session/8488#851059", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8488}, {"id": 851061, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER. There are twenty-three minutes of the gentleman\u2019s time unexpired.\n\nMr. HUBBARD, of Connecticut, then addressed the House. 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A few days", "url": "/m2/session/8499#851271", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8499}, {"id": 851275, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. When an amendment is proposed in the Senate, it seems to me that a Senator can choose between the proposed amendment and the original bill without committing himself as to the question", "url": "/m2/session/8500#851275", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8500}, {"id": 851276, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORRILL, of Maine, addressed the Senate. His speech will be published in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 984)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. LOT M. 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Mr. President, all persons must feel the gravity of the present situation, and it is in that feeling that I come to the consideration of the question before the Senate.\n\nIt will be", "url": "/m2/session/8515#851292", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8515}, {"id": 851294, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. I am arguing with my friend from Kansas.\n\nNeither has the education of my colleague in this respect been altogether neglected. Side by side with me and with the majority he stood", "url": "/m2/session/8515#851294", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8515}, {"id": 851295, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON, of New Hampshire. 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His argument applies to all", "url": "/m2/session/8377#851299", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8377}, {"id": 851305, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BURR then addressed the House. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.\n\n(Vol. 39, Part 1, Pg. 583)\n\nReconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. ALBERT G. BURR,\n\nOF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the House of", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851305", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 851306, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I have examined with some degree of care the important bill under consideration, and have come to the conclusion it will become my duty to support it. One thing is evident,", "url": "/m2/session/8487#851306", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8487}, {"id": 865693, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. I shall vote for this bill; not because it is what I desire, but because it is all that Congress is disposed to enact at the present time. I do not like to play the part of Cassandra; but", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865693", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865696, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. [...] and on that question I desire to say a word. I appeal to Senators to consider for a moment what is done by that amendment. I voted for it with a view to make the motion to", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865696", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865703, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TRUMBULL. While the Secretary is preparing that amendment, I desire to say that the amendment being changed in this form, I prefer the bill as it was reported by the Committee on the Judiciary,", "url": "/m2/session/8404#865703", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8404}, {"id": 865725, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the amendment of the Senator from Indiana.\n\nMr. HOWARD. It seems to me that that amendment changes the purpose of the bill at the present time. As the", "url": "/m2/session/8390#865725", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8390}, {"id": 865755, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. President, I have a word to say on this amendment. I take it for granted that the object of the reconstruction measure which the Senate adopted was the admission and not the", "url": "/m2/session/8388#865755", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8388}, {"id": 865757, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, in the spring of 1865 the rebel cause went down, and in a few months the President of the United States permitted the rebels to use the machinery of their old governments,", "url": "/m2/session/8388#865757", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8388}, {"id": 865772, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CONKLING. Mr. President, I have sent for the case to which I referred; and before making a remark about it I wish to say to the Senator from Missouri that I understood him to consent, upon my", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865772", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"id": 865773, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DRAKE. [...] Mr. President, I have offered this amendment because of my knowledge from actual observation during a large portion of my life of the power which the minority of the people have", "url": "/m2/session/8387#865773", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8387}, {"id": 865775, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DOOLITTLE. It seems to me there is a practical difficulty in the way of the adoption of this amendment. 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Let it be read.\n\nThe Chief Clerk.", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866987", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 866994, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRAGIN. Mr. President, I did not think that I could possibly be tempted to say anything in reference to the question now under consideration; but the position taken by the Senator from Vermont", "url": "/m2/session/6613#866994", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6613}, {"id": 867002, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERRY. 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Mr. Speaker, I will content myself with a simple statement of this case, and then, if no one desires to speak upon it, I will ask a vote.\n\nThe claimant, Blakey, claims to have been elected", "url": "/m2/session/6458#868336", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 6458}, {"id": 901011, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP\n\nMr. KERR. Mr. Chairman, it is my purpose on this occasion to discuss at no great length some of the great questions involved in the subject of American citizenship. It is just", "url": "/m2/session/14324#901011", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14324}, {"id": 901033, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Reconstruction.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. W. 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Mr. Speaker, prior to the 25th day of May, 1868, what was called a constitutional convention was organized in the State of Mississippi under one of the reconstruction laws enacted by", "url": "/m2/session/10528#782584", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10528}, {"id": 789579, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BAYARD. May I be permitted to ask how that bill just offered by the Senator from Massachusetts can go on the Calendar without a reference? \n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The rule does not absolutely", "url": "/m2/session/10649#789579", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10649}, {"id": 790305, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. Now, Mr. President, as I was saying, (and I am obliged to my friend from New York for reading from that case)-- \n\nMr. DAVIS, of Kentucky. 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Mr. Speaker, I wish in the first place, as preliminary to the argument, to incorporate as part of my remarks the pending bill and amendment, which are as follows:\n\nA bill to protect all", "url": "/m2/session/10634#858853", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10634}, {"id": 858867, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. I yield a short time to the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. Atkins.]\n\nMr. ATKINS. Mr. Speaker, in contemplating this subject I am not unmindful that it is particularly", "url": "/m2/session/10635#858867", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10635}, {"id": 859810, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CAIN. Mr. Speaker, there are periods in the history of nations and of peoples when it is necessary that men belonging to a race or races whose rights and interests are at stake should lay aside", "url": "/m2/session/10637#859810", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10637}, {"id": 860042, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELDREDGE. I now yield five minutes to the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Monroe.]\n\nMr. MONROE. Mr. Speaker, I am suffering so much from hoarseness that I do not know whether it will be in my power to", "url": "/m2/session/11751#860042", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11751}, {"id": 860151, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CARPENTER. I understand the Senator from Maryland is willing to yield for a few minutes that I may speak on this bill.\n\nMr. HAMILTON, of Maryland. Very well.\n\nMr. CARPENTER. 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Mr. President, I am very reluctant to intrude again upon the attention of the Senate. Nothing but my sense of the magnitude of the question could induce me to venture upon it. I feel that", "url": "/m2/session/10659#860661", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10659}, {"id": 860683, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I desire to suggest an amendment to the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, for the purpose of perfecting his proposition and getting it as near right as possible. I desire to", "url": "/m2/session/10645#860683", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10645}, {"id": 861110, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky. Mr. President, I listened with much pleasure to the able Senator from Wisconsin, and I concur in most of what he has said; but in some essential features of his argument 1", "url": "/m2/session/10666#861110", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10666}, {"id": 861120, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. I have but a word to say. It does not occur to me that the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Sumner] is subject to the criticism which has been made upon it by the", "url": "/m2/session/10486#861120", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10486}, {"id": 861133, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THURMAN addressed the Senate. [His remarks will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nRights of Citizens of the United States.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. A. G. THURMAN,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the Senate of the United", "url": "/m2/session/10667#861133", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10667}, {"id": 861157, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The pending question is on the amendment of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman] to strike out the fifth section of the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts, [Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/10669#861157", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10669}, {"id": 861197, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENSON. Mr. President, I have voted against every amendment but one to this bill, because I thought they tended to embarrass the great subject of amnesty, the success of which I have had so", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861197", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861198, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. TIPTON. Mr. President, I enter into a brief discussion of the question before the Senate with some degree of reluctance, inasmuch as there is a contrariety of opinion upon the subject, and so", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861198", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861247, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HILL. Before the vote is taken I will bring to the attention of the Senate the fact that in the State of Georgia, at the recent sitting of her Legislature, there was a vote taken on the subject", "url": "/m2/session/10670#861247", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10670}, {"id": 861591, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, there is a very good reason, a very strong reason, why this bill should not be referred to the committee, and it is found in the history of the bill. I have in my hand a", "url": "/m2/session/11221#861591", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11221}, {"id": 861592, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. EDMUNDS. May I ask the Senator a question?\n\nMr. SUMNER. Certainly.\n\nMr. EDMUNDS. I should like to ask my friend, the Senator from Massachusetts, as he is now speaking of the character of the", "url": "/m2/session/11221#861592", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11221}, {"id": 861631, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. FENTON. Mr. President, I inquire of the honorable Senator from Georgia if he is desirous of going on at this time to conclude his remarks this morning? If so, I will", "url": "/m2/session/10675#861631", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10675}, {"id": 861641, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "[Mr. FLANAGAN addressed the Senate. His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. W. FLANAGAN,\n\nOF TEXAS,\n\nIn the United States Senate,\n\nMay 20, 1874.\n\nThe Senate", "url": "/m2/session/10679#861641", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10679}, {"id": 861645, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORTON. I am entitled to the floor on this bill; but the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Johnston] desires to leave on the three o\u2019clock train, and wishes to address the Senate before he goes. I", "url": "/m2/session/10680#861645", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10680}, {"id": 861650, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOWE. Mr. President\u2014\n\nMr. FRELINGHUYSEN. One minute. I feel it my duty, Mr. President, to correct an error that my colleague has fallen into. If there is any obligation on the republican party to", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861650", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861658, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, I am fully aware of the unfavorable circumstances under which I rise to discuss this question. We have already been in session fully nine hours, and human nature cannot", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861658", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861683, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from North Carolina will proceed.\n\n[Mr. MERRIMON resumed and concluded his argument. His remarks in full will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nCivil Rights.\n\nSPEECH", "url": "/m2/session/10681#861683", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 10681}, {"id": 861870, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MORGAN. Mr. Speaker, in a government of delegated powers, clearly defined by a written constitution, it matters little what may be the name of the party in power, provided it administers the", "url": "/m2/session/11760#861870", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11760}, {"id": 861877, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BECK. Mr. Speaker, the struggle between the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Butler] and those who differed with him and counseled moderation is over; and while I, living in Kentucky, am", "url": "/m2/session/11761#861877", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11761}, {"id": 861883, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FARNSWORTH and Mr. BINGHAM addressed the House, in speeches which will be published in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. F. FARNSWORTH, OF ILLINOIS,\n\nIn the", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861883", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861885, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SWANN. Mr. Speaker, I feel gratified to be afforded this opportunity of addressing the House upon the important bill now under consideration. It was remarked by my honorable friend from New York", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861885", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861887, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861887", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861891, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STORM addressed the House in remarks which will appear in the Appendix.\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOHN B. STORM,\n\nOF PENNSYLVANIA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives,", "url": "/m2/session/11762#861891", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11762}, {"id": 861910, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KINSELLA. Mr. Speaker, the discussion on the bill now before the House has been so long continued, has been presented for your consideration under so many points of view, by men representing not", "url": "/m2/session/11763#861910", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11763}, {"id": 861912, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Enforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. P. C. SHANKS,\n\nOF INDIANA,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 3, 1871.\n\nThe House having under consideration the bill (H. R. No. 320; to", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861912", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861913, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe House resumed the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 320) for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes.\n\nMr. VAN TRUMP. Mr.", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861913", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELLIS H. ROBERTS. Three facts combine to show the necessity for a bill substantially like that now under consideration. First, the violence and lawlessness, for which it is proposed to provide a", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861918, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, in rising to address this honorable body for the first time, I labor under the double misfortune of having to speak to an exhausted patience and to travel over a burnt", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861918", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861919, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRITCHER was granted unanimous consent to have printed in the Globe some remarks he had prepared on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSpeech of Hon. John", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861919", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861921, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nThe SPEAKER pro tempore. The House resumes the consideration of House bill No. 320, to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861921", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861922, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WINCHESTER. Mr. Speaker, on the 7th of December last the President, in pursuance of his constitutional duty, sent to Congress his annual statement of our affairs, domestic and foreign. The sole", "url": "/m2/session/11764#861922", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11764}, {"id": 861932, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ENFORCEMENT OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.\n\nMr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. A.", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861932", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861933, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES.\n\nMr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts. At the surrender of the rebel armies, in the spring of 1865, the officers and soldiers \u201cwere allowed to return to their homes\u201d upon their", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861933", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861934, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SLATER asked and obtained unanimous consent to print in the Globe some remarks on the pending bill. [See Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. J. H. SLATER,\n\nOF", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861934", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861940, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The SPEAKER pro tempore. The House will now resume the consideration of House bill No. 320, for the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment, and for other purposes; upon which the gentleman from", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861940", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861942, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. STEVENSON addressed the House. [His remarks will appear in the Appendix.]\n\n\nKu Klux Klan.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOB E. STEVENSON,\n\nOF OHIO,\n\nIn the House of Representatives, April 4, 1871.\n\nThe House", "url": "/m2/session/11765#861942", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 11765}, {"id": 861953, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BIRD addressed the House. [His speech will be published in the Appendix.]\n\n\nEnforcement of Fourteenth Amendment.\n\nSPEECH OF HON. JOHN T. 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I", "url": "/m2/session/11536#956735", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 11536}, {"id": 958593, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr Neeson: At the initial meeting of the Committee I expressed some concerns about this draft Rule. 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True; like stormy petrels, tossing upon the angry waves of sectional agitation, we are at last overwhelmed in the flood of fanaticism. We are the last roses of the Democratic summer.", "url": "/m2/session/3539#819698", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3539}, {"id": 819700, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, the discussion of the measure now before the House has been of a very extended and exhaustive character, and the arguments which have been made against it are very numerous", "url": "/m2/session/3539#819700", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3539}, {"id": 819704, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. ROLLINS, of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I desire to submit a few observations to the House upon the important proposition now pending before the final vote is taken upon it. The remarks which I shall", "url": "/m2/session/3540#819704", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3540}, {"id": 819711, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. FINCK. Mr. Speaker, the resolution under consideration has been discussed so fully that I shall content myself with stating very briefly some of the reasons why I shall vote against its passage.", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819711", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819714, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, while I yield my convictions to the more experienced judgment of other gentlemen upon this floor with great deference upon most questions, I must be permitted still to", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819714", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819715, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. MORRIS, of New York. Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to make a political speech on this occasion, but only to discuss the question of the power of \"the Congress\" over amendments to the Constitution", "url": "/m2/session/3542#819715", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3542}, {"id": 819720, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. HERRICK. Mr. Speaker, the joint resolution now before the House submitting to the Legislatures of the several States an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, comes before us under", "url": "/m2/session/3543#819720", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 3543}, {"id": 850899, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. WADE. That is all true; but I move to postpone that and all other orders. There is no doubt that when that subject comes up again the Senator from Kentucky will be entitled to the floor upon", "url": "/m2/session/8315#850899", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8315}, {"id": 851168, "title": "DEBATE_MOTION", "description": "Mr. BAYARD. Mr. President\u2014\u2014\n\nThe VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Delaware asks the unanimous consent of the Senate to make some remarks personal to himself. Is there any objection? The Chair hears", "url": "/m2/session/8290#851168", "type": "DEBATE_MOTION", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-procedure-debate.svg", "session_id": 8290}, {"id": 859298, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "LIBERATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SOUTH.\n\nMr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, the hour has come in which Congress must deal with the great crime of the nineteenth century. The leading conspirators must be", "url": "/m2/session/8580#859298", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8580}, {"id": 859834, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RESTORATION OF THE UNION.\n\nMr. HARDING. Mr. Chairman, at an early day of the present session I submitted to the House this resolution:\n\n\"Resolved, That the Union has not been dissolved; and that", "url": "/m2/session/8569#859834", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8569}, {"id": 859837, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "RECONSTRUCTION\n\nMr. EDEN. Mr. Chairman, I propose to state some of the reasons why I dissent from the views of the President, as expressed in his recent message, and especially some reasons why I", "url": "/m2/session/8569#859837", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8569}, {"id": 859858, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDUCT OF THE WAR.\n\nMr. HUBBARD, of Iowa. It has been asserted upon this floor and elsewhere that thousands of lives have been sacrificed, millions of treasure expended, and an immense amount of", "url": "/m2/session/8573#859858", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8573}, {"id": 859875, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.\n\nMr. HOLMAN. Mr. Chairman, after three years of relentless war, engrossing the attention and commanding the energies of thirty million people, we approach, at least in", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859875", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859876, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.\n\nMr. HULBURD. Mr. Chairman, I desire to submit some views on the constitutionality of the President\u2019s emancipation proclamation. I am aware the subject has already been", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859876", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859879, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. GRINNELL. I ask the gentleman from Ohio to yield me the floor for five minutes. \n\nMr. BLISS. The gentleman from Iowa undertook to take the floor from me by discourtesy, and I must decline to", "url": "/m2/session/8575#859879", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8575}, {"id": 859899, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POSITION OF REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nMr. WILDER. Mr. Chairman, during the year which has just closed we have made such progress in quelling the rebellion that the minds of all naturally turn to consider", "url": "/m2/session/8578#859899", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8578}, {"id": 859904, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "CONDUCT OF THE WAR. \n\nMr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Chairman, my colleague from the twenty-first district [Mr. Dawson] has made confessedly the ablest speech on the other side of the House, and has stated with", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859904", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859909, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION. \n\nMr. HERRICK. Mr. Chairman, in the remarks I design to make upon the President\u2019s message, I do not propose to dwell upon the manifold crimes of the present", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859909", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859917, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "VIOLATED PLEDGES. \n\nMr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Chairman, I address the committee to-day with feelings far from buoyant for the future of the country. At the time I took my seat in this Hall it was not my", "url": "/m2/session/8579#859917", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8579}, {"id": 859930, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONG. Mr. Chairman, I speak to-day for the preservation of the Government, and although for the first time within these walls, I propose to indulge in that freedom of speech and latitude of", "url": "/m2/session/8583#859930", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8583}, {"id": 859936, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONG proceeded: It is the object of the sword to cut and cleave asunder, but never to unite. What union is there between Russia and Poland, between Austria and Hungary, between England and", "url": "/m2/session/8583#859936", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8583}, {"id": 866679, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. Mr. President, the Senator from Ohio seems to think that in my speech last week I arraigned every gentleman who voted with him on the propositions to which I then referred. I did not", "url": "/m2/session/8442#866679", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8442}, {"id": 866680, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE DEATH OF SLAVERY IS THE LIFE OF THE NATION. \n\nMr. WILSON. Mr. President, \"our country,\" said that illustrious statesman, John Quincy Adams, \"began its existence by the universal emancipation of", "url": "/m2/session/8442#866680", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8442}, {"id": 866775, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. President, I dislike very much at present to undertake to argue the question that is now before the body, for the simple reason that Senators must be tired of its discussion. At", "url": "/m2/session/3561#866775", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3561}, {"id": 866786, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, if an angel from the skies or a stranger from another planet were permitted to visit this earth, and to examine its surface, who can doubt that his eyes would rest with", "url": "/m2/session/3562#866786", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3562}, {"id": 866790, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. POWELL. Mr. President, it was not my purpose a day or two ago to make any remarks upon the main question; but I beg leave now to trespass on the Senate for a short time while I reply very briefly", "url": "/m2/session/3562#866790", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3562}, {"id": 867186, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "ABOLITION OF SLAVERY\n\nMr. MORRIS, of New York. Mr. Speaker, the questions which now engross so much of the public attention as to the status of the several States in rebellion, and just what", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867186", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3528}, {"id": 867187, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "The House reassembled at half past seven o'clock p. m., (Mr. L. Myers occupying the chair as Speaker pro tempore,) and resumed the consideration of joint resolution of the Senate No. 16, submitting", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867187", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3528}, {"id": 867188, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLOGG, of New York. Mr. Speaker, of all the various measures this Congress has in hand and upon which it must act, the most important in my judgment are those which most directly bear upon the", "url": "/m2/session/3528#867188", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3528}, {"id": 867194, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. FERNANDO WOOD. Mr. Speaker, this is a proposition to provide by an amendment to the Constitution for the abolition of slavery without compensation in all of the States in the Union. It will be,", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867194", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867196, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KALBFLEISCH. Mr. Speaker, I shall not attempt to wander over the road traveled by the gentleman who preceded me, [Mr. Higby,] but will endeavor to take a common-sense view of the subject, and in", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867196", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867218, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MARCY. Mr. Speaker, I have sought this opportunity to address the House for the purpose of expressing some general views on the state of the country. In the expression of my sentiments I shall", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867218", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867219, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. COFFROTH. Mr. Speaker, when I entered this Hall at the opening of this session, I had determined not to participate in any general debate, it was my intention to be a listener and not a talker.", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867219", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867224, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. HOLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am reluctant to occupy the attention of the House at this late moment, but I desire to present briefly my views on the ponding question. This bill, having passed the Senate", "url": "/m2/session/3530#867224", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3530}, {"id": 867229, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. THAYER. Mr. Speaker, it is not my intention to detain the House at this late period of the present discussion with any protracted expression of my views in regard to the measure now before the", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867229", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867230, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. MALLORY. I not only take issue with the gentleman from Pennsylvania who just addressed the House, on his assertion that this is pre\u00ebminently the time to amend the Constitution, but, sir, I", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867230", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867232, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. EDGERTON. Mr. Speaker, having on the question of its second reading voted for the rejection of the joint resolution now before the House, and intending to vote against it when put upon its", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867232", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 867239, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. PENDLETON. I agree to no such doctrine. I repudiate it entirely. There is in three fourths of the States neither the power to establish nor to abolish slavery in all the States. The gentleman", "url": "/m2/session/3531#867239", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 3531}, {"id": 868906, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, the principal features of the proposed legislation now under consideration were before the House nearly two years ago, in the form of a bill reported by Mr. Ashley, chairman", "url": "/m2/session/8364#868906", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8364}, {"id": 868914, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBEL STATES.\n\nThe morning hour having expired, the House resumed the consideration of the bill relative to the reorganization of the rebel States, on which the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. J. C.", "url": "/m2/session/8383#868914", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8383}, {"id": 868915, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. SMITHERS. Mr. Speaker, it was not my purpose originally to have offered any suggestions in support of the bill now before the House; but the magnitude of the interests involved, and my connection", "url": "/m2/session/8383#868915", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8383}, {"id": 868923, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BROOMALL. The bill before us provides for the government of the States in rebellion, as fast as they shall be reduced to subjection, by provisional governors; to be appointed by the President,", "url": "/m2/session/8384#868923", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8384}, {"id": 868931, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I have some thoughts on the state of the Union, and the process of bringing back to our system the wandering stars which have shot so madly from their orbits, that I would", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868931", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"id": 868935, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BALDWIN, of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, the bill under consideration is one of serious importance, and involves principles that controvert and overthrow all our preconceived ideas of the admission of", "url": "/m2/session/8385#868935", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8385}, {"id": 868962, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "THE REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe SPEAKER. The House resumes the consideration of the bill in regard to the Rebellious States, upon which the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Thayer] is entitled to the", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868962", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8392}, {"id": 868966, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YEAMAN. Mr. Speaker, the bill before us is generally called the reconstruction bill. Viewing it simply in the light of the Constitution, I am unable to see our power to legislate away the laws", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868966", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8392}, {"id": 868969, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. LONGYEAR. Mr. Speaker, it has been my intention, during the present session at least, to content myself with being a silent actor, and not take up the time of the House with speaking while action", "url": "/m2/session/8392#868969", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8392}, {"id": 868984, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRAVENS. Mr. Speaker, I have had neither inclination nor ambition during this session of Congress for participating in general debate. On the contrary, I have preferred to remain silent and to", "url": "/m2/session/8393#868984", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8393}, {"id": 868987, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KERNAN. Mr. Speaker, my remarks will be confined to the bill under consideration, which, in my judgment, involves questions of great importance, and therefore I ask the attention of the House to", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868987", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868988, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REBELLIOUS STATES. \n\nMr. GOOCH. Mr. Speaker, it is a grave mistake for us to suppose that the contest in which we are now engaged has been going on only since the rebels took up arms against the", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868988", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868992, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is not my purpose to follow the gentleman who has just closed, [Mr. Fernando Wood,] or specially to reply to him; but I cannot help, before proceeding to the general", "url": "/m2/session/8394#868992", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8394}, {"id": 868995, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "REBELLIOUS STATES.\n\nThe House then resumed, as a special order, the consideration of the bill (H. R. No. 244) to guaranty to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a", "url": "/m2/session/8602#868995", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8602}, {"id": 869242, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. BOUTWELL. Mr. Speaker, before any steps can be safely taken for the organization of local governments either by or for the people inhabiting the territory included within the eleven once existing", "url": "/m2/session/8602#869242", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8602}, {"id": 899467, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. YEAMAN.\n\n[...]\n\nDiffering as I do with the President in regard to some of the leading features of his plan, as embodied in the proclamation accompanying his message, I must say I am gratified by", "url": "/m2/session/8523#899467", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 8523}, {"id": 900091, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. WILKINSON. Mr. President, I hope that the Senate will adhere to the position it assumed upon the question of suffrage when the bill for the organization of the Territory of Montana was before it,", "url": "/m2/session/14303#900091", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14303}, {"id": 901172, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ROSS. [...] Mr. Chairman, the question of slavery was not one of those which were delegated by the States to Congress. Congress has not that power, that power having been reserved to the States", "url": "/m2/session/14339#901172", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14339}, {"id": 901199, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. CRESWELL. Mr. Chairman, the result of the recent election expresses the deliberate purpose of the American people that slavery shall be abolished. Slowly and painfully, but yet surely, has the", "url": "/m2/session/14340#901199", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14340}, {"id": 902248, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, these are indeed terrible times for timid people. Use and wont no longer serve us. The guns traitorously fired upon Fort Sumter threw us all out of the well-beaten ruts of", "url": "/m2/session/14389#902248", "type": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "icon_url": "icons2/icon-doc-debate.svg", "session_id": 14389}, {"id": 902306, "title": "DEBATE_PROPOSAL", "description": "Mr. ELIOT. I regret that I have not been able to support the bill, with the amendment, as reported from the select committee. 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