Louisiana," replied Mr. Lane. "I
saw some gentlemen on Monday from Tennessee, who told me that this
particular clause would be the most popular thing that could be
tendered. And the very men that you want to hang ought to accept it
joyfully in lieu of their hanging." [Laughter.]

"I do not know who those particular gentlemen were," said Mr.
Doolittle. "Were they the gentlemen that deserved hanging or not?"

"They were Conservatives from Tennessee," replied Mr. Lane.

"I deem this section as the adoption of a new punishment as to the
persons who are embraced within its provisions," said Mr. Doolittle.

"They seem to have peculiar notions in Wisconsin in regard to
officers," said Mr. Trumbull; "and the Senator who has just taken his
seat regards it as a punishment that a man can not hold an office.
Why, sir, how many suffering people there must be in this land! He
says this is a bill of pains and penalties because certain persons can
not hold office; and he even seems to think it would be preferable, in
some instances, to be hanged. He wants to know of the Senator from
Ohio if such persons are to be excepted. This clause, I suppose, will
not embrace those who are to be hanged. When hung, they will cease to
suffer the pains and penalties of being kept out of office.

"Who ever heard of such a proposition as that laid down by the Senator
from Wisconsin, that a bill excluding men from office is a bill of
pains, and penalties, and punishment? The Constitution of the United
States declares that no one but a native born citizen of the United
States shall be President of the United States. Does, then, every
person living in this land who does not happen to have been born
within its jurisdiction undergo pains, and penalties, and punishment
all his life because by the Constitution he is ineligible to the
Presidency? This is the Senator's position."

Mr. Willey spoke in favor of the pending clause of the joint
resolution. "I hope," said he, "that we shall hear no more outcry
about the injustice, the inhumanity, and the want of Christian spirit
in thus incorporating into our Constitution precautionary measures
that will forever prohibit these unfaithful men from again having any
part in the Government."

"The honorable Senator," remarked Mr. Davis in reply, "is a professor
of the Christian religion, a follower of the lowly and humble
Redeemer; but it seems to me that he forgot all the spirit of his
Christian charity and fait