strife; but,
sir, attempt to execute this act within the limits of the States of
this Union, and, in my judgment, this country will again be plunged
into all the horrors of civil war."

Mr. McDougall said: "I agree with the Senator from Delaware that this
measure is revolutionary in its character. The majority glory in their
giant power, but they ought to understand that it is tyrannous to
exercise that power like a giant. A revolution now is moving onward;
it has its center in the North-east. A spirit has been radiating out
from there for years past as revolutionary as the spirit that went out
from Charleston, South Carolina, and perhaps its consequences will be
equally fatal, for when that revolutionary struggle comes it will not
be a war between the North and its power and the slaveholding
population of the South; it will be among the North men themselves,
they who have lived under the shadows of great oaks, and seen the tall
pine-trees bend."

At the conclusion of the remarks by the Senator from California, the
vote was taken, with the following result;

YEAS--Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness,
Cragin, Creswell, Edmunds, Fessenden, Foster, Grimes,
Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kirkwood, Lane of Indiana,
Morgan, Morrill, Nye, Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman,
Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Willey, Williams,
Wilson, and Yates--33.

NAYS--Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Guthrie,
Hendricks, Johnson, Lane of Kansas, McDougall, Nesmith,
Norton, Riddle, Saulsbury, Van Winkle, and Wright--15.

ABSENT--Mr. Dixon.

The President _pro tempore_ then made formal announcement of the
result: "The yeas being 33 and the nays 15, the bill has passed the
Senate by the requisite constitutional majority, notwithstanding the
objection of the President to the contrary."

On the 9th of April, 1866, three days after the passage of the bill in
the Senate, the House of Representatives proceeded to its
consideration. The bill and the President's Veto Message having been
read, Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, demanded the previous question on the
passage of the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary
notwithstanding, and gave his reasons for so doing: "Mr. Speaker, the
debate which occurred on this bill occupied two weeks of the time of
this House. Some forty speeches were made, and the debate was not
brought to a close until all had been heard