lle Isle, subject to disease and death
from the miasma by which he was surrounded. When he is upon trial and
the question is, 'Sir, are you guilty, or are you not guilty?' and he
raises his blood-stained hands, deep-dyed in innocent and patriotic
blood, the Senator from Pennsylvania rises and says, 'For God's sake!
do not deprive him of the right to go to the legislature.' The idea is
that if a man has forfeited his life, it is too great a punishment to
deprive him of the privilege of holding office."

Speaking of radicalism, Mr. Yates remarked: "My fear is not that this
Congress will be too radical; I am not afraid of this Congress being
shipwrecked upon any proposition of radicalism; but I fear from timid
and cowardly conservatism which will not risk a great people to take
their destiny in their own hands, and to settle this great question
upon the principles of equality, justice, and liberality. That is my
fear."

Mr. Doolittle moved that the several sections of the amendment be
submitted to the States as separate articles. This motion was
rejected--yeas, 11; nays, 33.

The vote was finally taken upon the adoption of the constitutional
amendment as a whole. It passed the Senate by a majority of more than
two-thirds, as follows:

YEAS--Messrs. Anthony, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Cragin,
Creswell, Edmunds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes, Harris,
Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane of Indiana, Lane of
Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey,
Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Willey,
Williams, Wilson, and Yates--33.

NAYS--Messrs. Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Guthrie, Hendricks,
Johnson, McDougall, Norton, Riddle, Saulsbury, and Van
Winkle--11.

On the 13th of June, the joint resolution, having been modified in the
Senate, reaeppeared in the House for the concurrence of that branch of
Congress. There was a short discussion of the measure as amended in
the Senate. Messrs. Rogers, Finck, and Harding spoke against the
resolution, and Messrs. Spalding, Henderson, and Stevens in its favor.

"The first proposition," said Mr. Rogers, "was tame in iniquity,
injustice, and violation of fundamental liberty to the one before us."

"I say," said Mr. Finck, "it is an outrage upon the people of those
States who were compelled to give their aid and assistance in the
rebellion. You propose to inflict upon these people a punishment not
known to the law in ex