hio,
forgetting the position he occupies, has suggested that I have taken
upon myself the collar of the President of the United States. I hurl
the suggestion in the teeth of the Senator from Ohio as unworthy a
Senator. I wear a collar! The pro-slavery party of the United States,
backed by a Democratic Administration, sustained and supported by the
army of the United States, could not fasten a collar upon the handful
of Kansas squatters of whom I had the honor to be the leader. The
gallant fight made in this Senate-chamber by the Senator from Ohio,
aided by the Senators from Massachusetts and other Senators, would
have been of but little avail had it not been for that other fight
that was made upon the prairies of Kansas under the lead of your
humble speaker. I wear a collar! Indicted for treason by a pro-slavery
grand jury, hunted from State to State by a writ founded upon that
indictment for treason, and $100,000 offered for my head! Jim Lane
wear a collar! Wherever he is known, that charge will be denounced as
false by both friends and enemies."

Mr. Brown, of Missouri, made a short speech, in which he set forth the
position of Mr. Lane, of Kansas, on questions previously before the
Senate, showing their inconsistency with some of his recent remarks.

Mr. Doolittle next delivered a speech, in the course of which he
called attention to a bill which he had drawn "to provide appropriate
legislation to enforce article thirteen of the Amendments to the
Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States." His object in
presenting this bill was to "avoid the objections raised by men not
only in this body, but in the other house, and the objections raised
by the President of the United States, to the bill now pending."

He endeavored to explain his position and changes of opinion upon the
Civil Rights: "While this measure was upon its passage, I took no part
in its discussion except upon a single point in relation to the Indian
tribes. The bill passed, and the final vote was taken when I was not
present in the Senate; but it was not under such circumstances that,
had I been here, I should not have voted for the bill. I have no doubt
that if I had been present I should have voted for it. My attention
was not drawn very earnestly to the consideration of all the
provisions of this bill until the bill had passed from Senate and had
gone to the House of Representatives, when the speeches of Mr.
Bingham, of Ohio, and of Mr. D