Mr. BROOKS. I will not take time to read all of the laws of the States, among them those of NewYork, a inst the violation of the Sab bath. Here is the NewYork law for the rigid observance of the Sabbath:, “There shall benoshopting. hunting. ring. horse raciu. ginning. Frequent infigsohfintigp.psilinar houses or any an awful exercisesor pastimes.on the 1st day of the week; nor shall any persontravel on that day nnless incasesof charity or necessity.orin goin or returninl from some church or place of wars ip. 510. “No person shall exposeto sale an wares.mer chandise. imits. herbs goods or chatteson Sunday except moats.inilk.fish.""an we articles so exposedfor sale shall be forfeited.” M Ertruclfrom Revised Statutes.nole.vol. 1.p. 678. The law of NewYork is rigid, but not so rigid as the laws of Massachusetts; and I call the attention of the honorable Gentfrom Massachusetts to the Sabbath law of his own State, and I ask him if he is going to establish the fact that it is right to buy and sell candidates for office on the Sabbath day. If so, and Massachusetts has any of that religion left which her fathers had, he will have an account to settle with her in November or December when he returns home. MASSACHUSETTS. “SIC, 2. Whoaver trades on the Lords day, or entertains any person not traveler. stranger or I " er shall be fined lo. 4. Whoever is present at any game. sport or public amusement, except a concert of sacre mus"ic. upon the eveningnext preceding the Lords I “shall be punished. Sso. 11.Any innholder. Common victualer” or i mplem“keeps such oarssaureffassnggin to be kept."any place “ or who on the Lords day uses or suffers to housedany implementsof that kind shall forfeit 8100 or be imprisoned." vsnilonr:2SEC.1. Forbids all secular employment. Sse. 2.Ifany person shall between 12 oclock be presentat any public assembly. except for religiousor social service or moral instruction and shall visit from house to house except it be from motivesof humanity or charity. he shall pay a fine. day S.EC. 3. No person shall travel on the Sabbath or 1st day of the week. except for necessity or charity and every personsooffening shall pay a n"o.Ste. 4. If an person shall after thes etting of the Inn preceding the 1st day of the week, until after 12 atnight.hold or resortto any ball ordance or exercise any games.s orts or play or resortto any tavern, inp, or houseo entertainmentfor amusement or recreation.he shall pay a finc.” Now, Mr. Cowden, the agent of Mr. Dodge, gambled” on the Lords day, “played, ” “sported, ” in reference to this election, and Mr. Dodge found the money for the play, and the Gentfrom Massachusetts, a veteran on the Election Committee, gives his sanction to all that. The laws of Maine are yet more rigid. All of the laws of the NewEngland States are full of the severest penalties; contracts are viti ated made on the Sabbath, and process cannot be served. Yet here was this man, on the Lords day, gaming for the contestant in this case, the contestant supplyin the money. What preosterous impudence of the contestant to make charges against me, then, of fraud! If I had stood in his position, covered from beginning to end with ribery and money that must have been used for fraud, I would never have entered within the portals of this Chamber. But, sir. the contestant in this case, while induling in bribery, so pronounced by the law, and Sabbath breaking, does not hesitate to s eak very disparagingly of his constituents in e 15th district, 18th ward: “It is s.river district." he says.“consisting of vacant lots. Tenement houses and puddles.in the midst of the most degraded population of the city and is known as Mackerelvillc. Sir, there is nothing done so do rading in Mackerelville as this Cannon Cowen Dodge bribery on the Sabbath day and yet the complacent contest ant, living on Murray Hill, looks down on Mackerelville with an unutterable contempt. He reminds me again of my classics, as from his money bags he surveys the laborer below. It is Horace who says:. "Populns mesihilst. at mihi plaudo Ipse domi.simul aenummose ontemplorin area." Which may be freely translated, “Let the Mackerelvillers hiss me; I am satisfied with myself on Murray Hill, while I am looking upon the money in my coffers.” and now, Mr. Speaker, I have stated my case, not as well, not perhaps as fully, asI could if time permitted. fask of gentlemen of all parties nothing but justice. Justice! justice! justice! is what I want. Nothing less, nothing more. If I am to be thrown out solely because I am not of the party in power, I say to my Dem ocratic associates, “ a content; the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ” But I appeal to my Republican associates, with whom I have served so long, for justice; I appeal to the Representatives of my own native State of Maine; I appeal to the Representatives of Massachusetts; I appeal to my colleagues from NewYork. If the honorable Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Srsvsxs] is within the sound of my voice he who is really the Government of this country now I should not appeal to his mercy; I should hardl dare to crave his jus tice; but I would ask iim what benefit would be gained for his party by the exchange of one species ofco perliead foranother. [Laughter] othing at a 1. Nothing will be gained by any such exchange as that record is. Thereit is, written out fair, plump, and honest. You know it all. I am in your hands. Do justice to me. Do to mess you would be done by in a case like this, and such caseswill hereafter occur when you are defendants, and others plaintiffs; and above all establish no fearful precedent in election cases. Let it never be said that the majority of this House, by its mere power, disregards justice and truth at the cry of party, party, the party in temporary power. You have nothing to ain by such a proceeding. If you send me bac c to NewYork you increase the majority in that city 2,000 votes or more in the district I come from. If you drive me out, the ople will send me here sin, and I began implore you not to establish such a precedent as you will establish by turning me out of this congress and seating my contestant. [ era the hammer fell.] You know what my