y can be here to act upon a great public question on
the day following this, we should hear a piece of declamation, the
Senator appealing to his God, and saying, with an _Io triumphe_ air,
'Well or ill, God has made them ill.' Sir, the god of desolation, the
god of darkness, the god of evil is his god. I never expected to hear
such objections raised among honorable men; and men to be Senators
should be honorable men. I never expected to hear such things in this
hall; and I rose simply to say that such sentiments were to be
condemned, and must receive my condemnation, now and here; and if it
amounts to a rebuke, I trust it may be a rebuke."

The Senate adjourned, with the understanding that the vote should be
taken on the following day. In the morning hour on that day, as the
States were called for the purpose of giving Senators an opportunity
of introducing petitions or resolutions, Mr. Lane, of Kansas,
presented a joint resolution providing for admitting Senators and
Representatives from the States lately in insurrection. This bill,
emanating from a Republican Senator, who professed to have framed it
as an embodiment of the President's policy, was evidently designed to
have an influence upon the action of the Senate upon the Civil Rights
Bill. It proposed that Senators and Representatives from the late
rebellious States should be admitted into Congress whenever it should
appear that they had annulled their ordinances of secession, ratified
the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, repudiated all rebel
debts, recognized the debts of the United States, and extended the
elective franchise to all male persons of color residing in the State,
over twenty-one years of age, who can read and write, and who own real
estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars.

As a reason for introducing this measure, Mr. Lane, of Kansas,
remarked: "I have been laboring for months to harmonize the President
of the United States with the majority on the floor of Congress. I
thought yesterday that there was a hope of securing such a result. It
did seem that some of the members of this body were disposed to
harmonize with the President. I proposed to go very far yesterday to
secure that harmony. But while pursuing this course, we were awakened
by one of the most vindictive assaults ever made upon any official, by
either friend or opponent, from the Senator from Ohio [Mr. Wade]--an
assault upon my personal friend, a man who