wolf.

"There is an ancient history that a sparrow pursued by a hawk took
refuge in the chief assembly of Athens, in the bosom of a member of
that illustrious body, and that the senator in anger hurled it
violently from him. It fell to the ground dead, and such was the
horror and indignation of that ancient but not Christianized body--men
living in the light of nature, of reason--that they immediately
expelled the brutal Areopagite from his seat, and from the association
of humane legislators.

"What will be said of us, not by Christian, but by heathen nations
even, if, after accepting the blood and sacrifices of these men, we
hurl them from us and allow them to be the victims of those who have
tyrannized over them for centuries? I know of no crime that exceeds
this; I know of none that is its parallel; and if this country is true
to itself, it will rise in the majesty of its strength and maintain a
policy, here and every-where, by which the rights of the colored
people shall be secured through their own power--in peace, the ballot;
in war, the bayonet.

"It is a maxim of another language, which we may well apply to
ourselves, that where the voting register ends the military roster of
rebellion begins; and if you leave these four million people to the
care and custody of the men who have inaugurated and carried on this
rebellion, then you treasure up for untold years the elements of
social and civil war, which must not only desolate and paralyze the
South, but shake this Government to its very foundation."

Soon after the close of Mr. Boutwell's speech, Mr. Darling's motion to
postpone and Mr. Hale's motion to amend having been rejected, a vote
was taken on the bill as reported by the committee. The bill passed by
a vote of one hundred and sixteen in the affirmative--fifty-four
voting in the negative.

The friends of the measure having received evidence that it would not
meet with Executive approval, and not supposing that a vote of
two-thirds could be secured for its passage over the President's veto,
determined not to urge it immediately through the Senate.

There was great reluctance on the part of many Senators and members of
the House to come to an open rupture with the President. They desired
to defer the day of final and irreconcilable difference between
Congress and the Executive. If the subject of negro suffrage in the
District of Columbia was kept in abeyance for a time, it was hoped
that the Presiden