Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, it was my intention to address the Senate at some length upon the pending question. The understanding had on yesterday, however, prevents me from making any extended remar s; and I do not care to make inconsequent speeches, for I am aware that the opinion of every senator has been matured, and that all are prepared now to romance judgment upon he" question. An yet, while not now undertaking to discuss this measure, I desire to say that it is unconstitutional, potently so. It cannot be supported by anyone who understands the Constitution as it reads in the book, and as it has been taught to us by those who have spoken most wisely and most profoundly of that constitution. More than that, Mr. President, I agree with the Senfrom Delaware that this measure is revolutionary in its character. Iwill say more: there have been a series of measures introduced here altogether revolutionary, by which the Constitution itself is disregarded and trampled under foot, and the arbitrary power of the majority asserted, and it is now, suppose, to be maintained. For whom were constitutions and laws made? For the most pow erful? No; for the weak. For majorities? No; for minorities. The strong can maintain themselves; the weak need protection. The majority glory now in their giant power, but they ought to understand that it is tyran nous to exercise that power like a giant. A revolution now is moving onward; it has its center in the Northeast. A spirit has been radiating out from there for years past as revolutionary as the spirit that went out from Charleston, SCarolina, and perhnps its consequences will beequally fate, 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. This is no idle remark of mine. such consequences are threatened by a policy indicated here upon this floor and now being maintained by a majorit both in this House and in the other end of this building. Persons conver sant with the history of other lands and the history of our own land, who know how the passions of men are controlled and influenced, can easily detect an effort at revolutionary movement that ifnot checked must end in vast. taken blytyeas&nays. visions alone are concerned, may be inconsequent of great harm; but it with its accom a nying policies must lead to infinite mise hie. I say this not for the purpose of influencing a single vote, for I do not think that any vote can be influenced by any word of mine, but to express the profound conviction in my own mind that the policies of which this is a part are fraught with infinite mise hief, and if they are not checked will throw us into a severer storm and a rougher tempest than has raged over the land for the last 5 years.