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once, 242 ; new issues, 242 ; consequences, 

 242 ; bill suspended, but joint resolution sub- 

 sequently passed, 242 ; yeas and nays, 242. 



In the Senate, a resolution prohibiting the 

 exclusion of colored persons from enjoying 

 railroad facilities in the District, considered, 

 242 ; a recent outrage, 242 ; the outrage would 

 be the other way, 242 ; resolution agreed to, 

 243 ; yeas and nays, 243. 



In the Senate, a bill to incorporate the Met- 

 ropolitan Railroad Company considered, 243 ; 

 amendment against excluding colored persons 

 from cars, 243 ; one-half the business of the 

 session devoted to debating the rights of the 

 two races, 243 ; impossible to achieve social 

 and political equality, 243; proposal to send 

 contrabands to Massachusetts, how received, 

 244; those just escaped from slavery not the 

 people to exercise the elective franchise, 244 ; 

 no necessity for the amendment, 244 ; the 

 question as plain as one of the ten command- 

 ments, 244 ; carried, 245 ; yeas and nays, 245 ; 

 do. in the House, 245 ; bill to charter George- 

 town Road considered, 245; amendment moved 

 and passed, 245 ; failed in the House, 245. 



In the Senate, motion to amend the appro- 

 priation bill,, by providing a prohibition to the 

 coastwise slave trade, 245; what is the result 

 of the motion ? 246 ; our statute book should 

 not be defiled by any such license, 246 ; why 

 contest this matter ? it will be carried finally, 

 247 ; the North is now divided and the South 

 a unit, why? 247; opinion of the Supreme 

 Court in the case of Groves vs. Sloughter, 248 ; 

 opinion of Judge McLean, 248; this subject 

 within the power of the States, 248 ; Bright- 

 ley's Digest, 249 ; amendment agreed to, 249. 



In the Senate, a bill to repeal the Fugitive 

 Slave Law considered, 249 ; ought we to re- 

 peal the law of 1793, made by the framers of 

 the Constitution ? 249 ; better make a clean 

 thing of it, 249 ; we should give to the few 

 Southern people left, who have the right to 

 enforce the Constitution against us, their con- 

 stitutional rights, 249 ; carrying the matter too 

 far to repeal the act of 1793 now, 250; the 

 case of Prigg us. the State of Pennsylvania, 

 250 ; constitutionality of the act maintained, 

 250 ; the limited effect of inference, 251 ; does 

 the term "held to service" embrace slaves? 

 251 ; the question is whether the clause is ap- 

 plicable to slaves, 251 ; what is the meaning of 

 the words "three-fifths of all other persons? " 



252 ; what is the object of the ninth section 

 of the first article of the Constitution? 252; 

 the Constitution recognizes the institution in 

 plain terms, 252 ; a rule of interpretation, 253 ; 

 words "held to service" do not include slaves, 

 253 ; slavery cannot be sanctioned or legalized 

 except by positive words, 254; argument of 

 Granville Sharp, 254 ; amendment agreed to, 

 254. 



In the House, a bill to repeal the Fugitive 

 Slave Law considered, 254; opinions of the 

 framers of the Constitution, 255 ; words of 

 "Washington, 255 ; declarations of Hamilton, 

 255; of Fisher Ames, 256; of Judge Iredell, 

 256 ; the Prigg case, 256 ; case of "Wright m. 

 Deacon, 256 ; bill passed, 257 ; passed also in 

 the Senate, 257. 



In the Senate, a joint resolution to amend 

 the Constitution considered, 257; the resolu- 

 tion, 257; slavery the cause of our troubles, 

 257; something more efficient must be done 

 to get rid of slavery, 258 ; this is the crowning 

 act of a series of measures, 258 ; if the Senate 

 were to adopt this resolution, and it be ratified 

 by three-fourths of the States, it would not be 

 binding on any State whose interest was effect- 

 ed by it if that State protested against it, 259 ; 

 the Constitution a contract, 259 ; could this 

 Constitution have been adopted if such an 

 amendment had been contemplated at the 

 time? 259 ; if you can regulate the relation of 

 master and slave in the States, you can regu- 

 late that of parent and child, 259; provision 

 of the Constitution for amendment, 260 ; this 

 is a day that I and many others have long 

 wished for, 260 ; the nation to commence a 

 new life, 260 ; if we cannot put away this 

 great sin our cause is hopeless, 261 ; our home 

 policy, our finances, our legitimate business 

 have all been ignored this session, to discuss 

 the status of the negroes of the Southern Con- 

 federacy, 261 ; in what condition are the South- 

 ern States to consider amendments to the Con- 

 stitution ? 261 ; whose fault is it? 261; positive 

 provisions by which slavery is brought under 

 the control of Congress, 262 ; to provide for 

 the common defence, etc., 262 ; to raise and 

 support armies, 262 ; guarantee of a repub- 

 lican government to every State, 262 ; such the 

 protection thrown by the Constitution over 

 every person without distinction of color, 263 ; 

 how, then, comes any person to be held as a 

 slave ? 263 ; nothing in the Constitution on 



