nsas?

"I do not believe that his constituents will be quite satisfied with
so broad a declaration, that he is to wear any man's collar, and
follow him wherever he may go. Did I use harsh language toward the
President yesterday? All that I said I stand by to-day and forever.
What was the question upon which I made those observations, and what
has been the opinion of the President heretofore? what has been his
action since? Here are three million people, our friends, friends to
the Government, who generously came forward in its difficulty, and
helped us throughout the war, sacrificed their blood and their lives
to maintain the issue on our side, and who were faithful beyond all
men that were ever faithful before, to us during the whole of the
difficulty, every-where assisting our brave soldiers in the field,
laying down their lives to maintain our principles, and ministering in
every way to the misfortunes of our brave men whenever they fell into
the hands of those worse than savages with whom we were warring; and
now these men are laboring, are under one of the most frightful
despotisms that ever settled down upon the heads of mankind. Three
million people are exposed to the outrages, the insolence, the murder
of those worse than savages, their former masters, murdered as we hear
every day, oppressed every-where, their rights taken away, their
manhood trampled under foot; and Congress, under the Constitution of
the United States, endeavors to extend to them some little protection,
and how are we met here? Every attempt of your Moses has been to
trample them down worse, and to throw every obstruction in the way of
any relief that could be proposed by Congress. He has from all
appearances become their inveterate and relentless foe, making violent
war upon any member of Congress who dares raise his voice or give his
vote in favor of any measure having for its object the amelioration of
the condition of these poor people. Talk to me about the President
being their friend! When did it ever happen before that a great
measure of relief to suffering humanity on as broad a scale as this
was met by the stern veto of the President of the United States, and
without being able when he undertakes to make his obstruction to our
measures to designate a single clause of the Constitution that he
pretends has been violated.

"Yesterday what was the issue? I was charged with great cruelty on
this floor, because I was unwilling to wait fo