gue, Mr. Doolittle, which led them somewhat aside from the
regular channel of discussion.

"He has been a most fortunate politician," said Mr. Howe, "always to
happen to have just those convictions which bore the highest price in
the market."

"That I ever intended in the slightest degree," replied Mr. Doolittle,
"to swerve in my political action for the sake of offices or the price
of offices in the market, is a statement wholly without foundation."

Mr. Howe had said in substance that in 1848 Mr. Doolittle was acting
with the Free Democratic party in New York, which was stronger than
the Democratic party in that State. In 1852, when he left the Free
Democratic party, and acted with the Democratic party in Wisconsin,
the Democratic party was in the majority in that State. He did not
leave the Democratic party and join the Republican party in 1854, but
only in 1856, and then Wisconsin was no longer a Democratic State.

Mr. Doolittle, after having given a detailed account of his previous
political career, remarked: "During the last six months, in the State
of Wisconsin, no man has struggled harder than I have struggled to
save the Union party, to save it to its platform, to save it to its
principles, to save it to its supremacy. For six months, from one end
of Wisconsin to the other--ay, from Boston to St. Paul--by every one
of a certain class of newspapers I have been denounced as a traitor to
the Union party because I saved it from defeat. Sir, it is not the
first time in the history of the world that men have turned in to
crucify their savior."

On the same day, June 6th, Messrs. Hendricks, Sherman, Cowan, and
others having participated in the discussion, the Senate voted on
another amendment offered by Mr. Doolittle, apportioning
Representatives, after the census of 1870, according to the number of
legal voters in each State by the laws thereof. This proposition was
rejected--yeas, 7; nays, 31.

On the 7th of June, Mr. Garrett Davis occupied the entire time devoted
to the constitutional amendment in opposing that measure, denouncing
Congress, and praising the President. "There is a very great state of
backwardness," said he, "in both houses of Congress in relation to the
transaction of the legitimate, proper, and useful portion of the
public business; but as to the business that is of an illegitimate and
mischievous character, and that is calculated to produce results
deleterious to the present and the future