Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, I rise to reply to a single observation which caught my car as the Senfrom Maine was about taking his seat, and I make this reply because I desire it to be marked and understood. There are a great many evil things in this country, and those evil things have been culminating upon us for a long time, and the culmination almost, not quite, has been expressed in the last re mark of the Senfrom Maine, when he says, “We have settled these things; we have det“ermined that we will do thus.” Who are we?" The Senate of the U.S.? The councilors who come here to take care of and counsel about the great affairs of this republic? The persons with whom are charged our great necessities? Are the the “we?” No, not we, but us, the men who Withdraw themselves from the Senate of the U. S and make themselves a clique, a partisan crbwd, who go down into caucus and there settle what is to be done in the Federal Senate of the UniObserve that " we” does not cover all of the Senate. The Senator says, ” We have settled these things, and therefore they shall be done.” Wickeder or worse words never were said in any high council hall in the world, and they never should be said in this council Hall. It is within very recent years, and within the time of the ascendency of the party of whom the Senator is one, that men in caucus spoke to the Federal Senate and did not speak in council hall. I have a right by my commission which accredits me to this ody to speak in this Chamber as well as any man on this floor; but I have no voice here, and I have been without a voice for years, because I have not happened to coincide with all the notions of those who now form the majority. The Senfrom Maine arises here, and with his stern voice and his semiomnipotent power says, ” We say thus.” Who are “ we?” Are “we” a artisan crowd in the Senate Chamber organize for artisan efforts, or are “we” councilors of tenation? Unhappily, Mr. President, for this nation, the Senator speaks for partisan councilors in this Hall and not for the great nation, not after consulting with all the Senate, but seeking a crowd who may possess a majorit, that can make a rule an compel results. These things were not known in the former days of our republic, and as far as my memory runs they were not known in the days when the party to which I belong were said to be in the ascendant. Antagonist as we were to the party in opposition to us, we yct met them in council, and as r we differed we voted, and the result followed, not by any rule made in an antechamber, but by the best judgment of the gentlemen who sat on the Senate oor. That high Office that was then filled by Senators of the U.S. has been degraded, and the Senfrom Maine is boasting of it; that, calling his clansmen to his heels, he with his retainers can achieve a triumph against all argument, against all reason, against the best judgment of men here on the cor. I say this is one of the worst signs of the Republic. I do not speak ignorantly. This was the uniform evil that affected republics in ancient times. The power of a majority used tyrannically is the worst tyranny in the world. So it has been atiirmed; so all history teaches. A disposition has been atiirmed of the majority here to exhibit their power and boast ofit, and say, ” We are the Senate; you who sit on the other side of the Chamber are nobody; we have the power and God has enlightened us, ” as some of them say; but the Senfrom Maine does not say that. They have the power to accomplish results, and therefore things are to be done, and the question is not whether it is right or wrong, but “we,” the majority, “have the power and we will maintain it.” It happened a long time ago that a man who had a csperute purpose in his head said, expressing his wrath: “Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ncer feels retiring ebb, but keepsdue on To the Propontio and the lIellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent ace, SThilalll neer look back neer ebbto humble oveI that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.” That is the expression of the power of majority. They run remember that that old Moor of eniee, when he had expressed his triumph in actionandhad achieved a Ithathis wrath commanded, fell downand placed the dagger to his own bosom. I say to gentlemen who command the majority now and who do it witha wrathful force, that they may find the time when they will be very much like the Moor of Venice, who, not during the exercise of his force but afterward, came to the consciousness of the great. wrong that he had committed. Now I, as northern a man as an one on this floor, say to gentlemen that it is well to consider whether there may not be others than the Senfrom Maine and other Senators from the NewEngland States that belong to this Union. My own impression is that as true men belong to this Confederacy in every part of the Union as belon to any part of the NewEngland States. think that as good men belong to my own State. I think that on a former occasion I statedI beg ardoii now for repeatin it that when the nion was in trouble, 1st affirmed on my coast that it had to be maintained. On that occasion I was the 1st who dared to affirm that it should be maintained, and I did it in the presence of pistols and knives; I was then considered a very good Union man, but in these modern times, in the times ofwhich we are presently speaking, I am not considered a very good Union man. My colleague from California who followed me on that occasion remembers the incident to which I have alluded, and he remembers that I made the 1st Union speech made on our coast, and it was at a time almost everybody who was called to speak ai o. Now, it is not worth while for NewEngland or for the middle States, or for the northern States to engage in these discussions. For my self, I say that these discussions anger me, because wise men, just men, true men, ought to drop all such considerations and come to the just aplpreciation of the condition in which we are. differ with Senators about many matters of detail, but probably not so much in regard to conclusions. I think we ought to o to work and vote on propermeasures of Iegislation and arrive at just conclusions. I happen to be one of those who do not believe that NewEng land knows as much about the South as I do myself, living between South and North, if you lease, and shall exercise my own judgment. et us go to work and do our business, settle this pendin question and settle otherquestions that are be oreus, without much fnrther discussion. I believe I have not troubled the Senate much, and shall do so no more now.