Mr. COWAN. And Isould like to know, of all the things in the‘world, what it was that the opponents of the President picked up, and with such gusto discussed and distributed all over the country, as the fact that he indulged in that allusion in the heat of a stump speech at a serenade, with regard to the SecySenate. I want to know if there was anyone thing in the whole course of the President’s life I say in the whole course of it that was so carrie aboutin the mouths of his oppponents and chewed like a sweet morsel uner their tongue everywhere in order to make ca ital against him. Is not that true? Did nott ou sands and 1000s of his opponents say that ifhe had not said that his speech was a very good one? But this is auto speech; this is not in the heat of extemporaneous harangue; this is made coolly and deliberately, and sent otf 1,000 miles here. If the other was wrong this is atrocious. If the other was the sound and this is the echo, the echo has improved in all that was awful and horrible 1,000 times over. Mr. President, Iam no apologist for vitnperation of any sort. I never indul e in it. I know no kind of provocation which would in ducc me so far to forget myself as to write, print, or ublish, or allow to be written, printed, or published, anything of mine which descended so low into the depths of human baseness as this. Why is it done? For what purpose? At a time when revolution is predicted and convulsions anticipated by both parties, at a time when the very foundations of society are breaking up, at a time when the worst is expected by men from their political antagonists, is not this the fuel upon which that flame is to be fed? Are not these firebrands which we send outinto the standing corn, to create a conflngration which may sweep over the whole country? Is not this another, this striking out of this appropriation, this violation of our pledge to a pubic servant, emanating from tesame source and from the same temper of heart which would seek to do to an antagonist, right or wrong, fair or foul, anything you could 0? Mr. President, I be e that the Senate at least, whatever it may 0, will stand upon its faith and preserve the national honor. If you do not pay your minister to Portugal, you cannot satisfy a public creditor that you will pay your debt or your bonds.