offerings to the
dark spirit of evil, until a prophet came who redeemed that ancient
land; but he did it after crucifixion, like our great Master.

"The followers of Ahriman always appealed to the same spirit
manifested by the Senator from Ohio. Death is to be one of his angels
now to redeem the Constitution and the laws, and to establish liberty.
Sickness, suffering, evil, are to be his angels; and he thanks the
Almighty, his Almighty, that sickness, danger, and evil are about! It
may be a good god for him in this world; but if there is any truth in
what we learn about the orders of religion in this Christian world,
his faith will not help him when he shall ascend up and ask entrance
at the crystal doors. If there can be evil expressed in high places
that communicates evil thoughts, that communicates evil teachings,
that demoralizes the youth, who receive impressions as does the wax,
it is by such lessons as the Senator from Ohio now teaches by word of
mouth as Senator in this Senate hall.

"Sir, the President of the United States is a constitutional officer,
clothed with high power, and clothed with the very power which he has
exercised in this instance; and those who conferred upon him these
powers were men such as Madison, and Jay, and Hamilton, and Morris,
and Washington, and a host of worthies; men who, I think, knew as much
about the laws of government, and how they should be rightly balanced,
as any of the wisest who now sit here in council. It is the duty of
the President of the United States to stand as defender of the
Constitution in his place as the conservator of the rights of the
people, as tribune of the people, as it was in old Rome when the
people did choose their tribunes to go into the senate-chamber among
the aristocracy of Rome, and when they passed laws injurious to the
Roman people, to stand and say, 'I forbid it.'

"That is the veto power, incorporated wisely by our fathers in the
Constitution, conferred upon the President of the United States, and
to be treated with consideration; and no appeal of the Senator to his
God can change the Constitution or the rights of the President of the
United States, or can prevent a just consideration of the dignity of
this Senate body by persons who have just consideration, who feel that
they are Senators.

"It is a strange thing, an exceedingly strange thing, that when a few
Senators in the city of Washington, ill at their houses, give
assurance that the