Mr. COWAN. There is no confusion of terms when on stand upon the bargain; but it was a connsion of terms for the honorable Senator to take the oath at the deskto so ort the Constitution of the U.S., an then declare, asl understood that he did, that he was not to be bound by the fugitive slave clause. A gentleman making a bargain oughtto stand upon it; and if he oes not stand upon it, if he does not intend to stand upon it, he ought not to make it. That was the law. It was a law that had not been complained of; nobody had complained of it. It was due to the hon der States, who were standing by us in the contest, to retain it. I voted against the repeal of that law; and the whip of the majority, cracked sharply as it can be cracked upon that subject, had no terrors for me. I vote against the repeal of that law, and would vote against the repeal of it tomorrow, because the repeal was utterly and totally useless and unnecessary. It was done, perhaps, by way of saying to the South; “ Now weve got you; see what we can do!" I would rather they had been here when we did it. Now, Mr. President, I presume that will settle this account safer. The honorable Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Wilson] has referred to my own State; he has referred to the action of a Republican convention there; he has referred to the action of the Legislature of that State. I suppose that he is correctly informed of the action of those bodies; but I have not been. I have not been officially in formed of any such transactions as those to which he alludes. If the Legislature passed any resolution reflecti on me, they never gave me a copy of it. “If the convention did so, they did not give me a copy of it. I feel, however, that at some time or other I may be obliged to say something in reply to those resolutions, taking them merely from rumor. I believe they made a request with which I have not complied, and I an pose that there are very few members of the ody who would comply with a request of that kind, drawn up very politely, that they should leave their seats and give them up to some other man who had a majority of the Legislature all ready to elect him. No doubt it would have been very comfortable to those who get up the request but 1 did not look at it in that light. I did not feel that my duty to my constituents obliged me to be so defereutial to a packed legislature as to yield to a request of that kind, an I trust to appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober on that question.