Mr. COWAN. I believe the Senfrom Nevada was not in the Chamber at the time alluded to. “ Not until Sumner. breaking the bondsof silence iin ose duppu him by party discipline and the timid no my of his associates, 1st took up the cause of the people against the Administratio non-the question of the final recognition of LouisianaI and efcated for the time the an 0505of Mr. Lincoln, was there any action taken yt o representatives of the Republilcan, party commensurate to the occasionsbefore em. I believe that is the same learned the ban Who has been doing mise hief recently. lAll through the war they had allowed the policy of Mr. Lincoln to prevail. without one word of in dignant public protest.with scarcely one instanceof the exercise of their prerogatives as the sovrreign lawmaking powerof the nation. to arrest the down ward courseof public affairs and so on; it is full of animadversions of that kind. Now, Mr. President, to get at the secret, what is at the bottom of all this? What is wanted? What will satisfy this Liberty party of 1844, which has been so, unfortunate and so much abused and so much thwarted from that day down to the present? What does it want to da 1 If negro suffrage will satisfy it, say so. f in addition to negro suffrage the remust be negro eligibilityto office, say so, at it down, make it into a platform. If, in addition to all that, in order to give effect to these rights conferred upon the negro, there must be social equality, at it down and let us know it, let us draw the ines, and it will not take very long to determine with the people which wing of the party is the one they will favor, notwith staning the immense amount of machinery that is now brought to bear under the name of the representatives of the party. Again, what is the condition of these States? Are they in or are they out? Put it down. Are their people subject to as, subject to the will of the conqueror, subject to the political forfeitures of which the honorable Senfrom VermOnt spoke? If that is a lank in your platform, put it down. If the nion is dissolved, if it cannot exist an longer, put it down; let the lines be drawn; bIut say, until your programme is announced, until your plat form is made, until you have stated your ultimatos, do not assail the President; for leaving his party, do not assail anybody else for leaving it, after having urged all the measures for having voted against which I have been taken to tas, because every one of them is in direct violation of both the Chicago and the Baltimore platforms. I may say that the principal item of our Chicago platform which has any relation to the polities of today is that the perpetuity of the {Inion depended on the maintenance of the rights of the States, accompanied as I said before, with a denunciation of old John Brown and his raid upon Virginia. Who nasails the rights of the States today? Isit the President? Who attempts to hold them within the p of a bill of attainder or a bill of pains on penalties by this Congress? Is it the President? Not at all. Sir, the men who stand by the President are those who stand by the principles announced in those platforms, and who have stood upon them and it is the men who go away after false lights, who wan der in dangerous places, who cook up Freedmens Bureau and, civil rights bills, and who get up all these things, to say the very least, of doubtful constitutionality, that depart from the platforms. Mr. President, I was taken to task here today ver strongly for votin against the repeal of the iffgitive slave law. must confessl did not, expect that from:y friend. That was “the unkindest cut of." If I was in the hablt of talking Latin I would have said at in Brute; or have pronounced the last word as a monosyllnble. [Laughter] If I remember Bright there was a caucus of the Republican party, and that caucus decided to repeal the obnoxious fugitive slave law of 18.30. As a member of that caucus I adhered to its determination, as I believe I did in all canieswhere I did not give notice that 1 would not. It came into the Senate and it was characterized by a most spicy and vigorous debate, in which our present Presidin officer, not the Senator now in. the chair, [Mr. Axruozwd but the President protempore of the Senate, [Mr. Fosrsn] took the side of the caucus, and the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts who sits on the outer ring [Mr. Suussii] took the other side. The law of 1850was repealed, but. without any cause and without any consultation with the members of the party, over zealous gentle men insisted upon repealing the old fugitive slave law which had the signature of Washington upon it, which had been made by the very founders of the Government, and which had been hallowed by 57 years of undisputed and indie utable operation in this country. “