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won't believe that the Northern Republicans love them ! 

 (Senatorial son lies at full length on a now empty lounge, and 

 kicks his legs up : senatorial father, sitting by his side, has no 

 idea of lowering filial legs : a free country !) . . . What a con- 

 trast to when F. Buxton divided the House, or to Bright's 

 denunciation of the Russian war ! His voice and manner and 

 substance are all very soporific. I have heard nothing of 

 eloquence, or sound argument, or earnest feeling. 6 They will 

 ask you, Is this allV That's what I ask you, Mr. Seward : is 

 this remembering 6 those in bonds as bound with them ' ? It 

 is now five minutes to four : when are you going to speak on 

 your subject — the admission of Kansas? At last he ends: 

 and Douglas [senator for Illinois] jumps up with some life in 

 him. 



" March 5. Douglas's speech was worth taking down ; 

 but I wanted to study the man : — a capital debater, all on fire, 

 conscious of the weak points of his adversary, and his own 

 popularity, and full of sarcasm ; but how can they think of 

 making such a man President ? there is not an atom of dignity 

 in him ! . . . He gave it the Republican party well for their 

 inconsistencies. . . . For my own part, I like open devilism 

 better than a Christian stroking the devil on the cheek ! I 

 waited to hear one more speech from a Southerner, and then 

 left, being quite overcome by the closeness and smell." 



He afterwards met a large assemblage of Republican 

 representatives at Mr. Sedgwick's : and found that Mr. Seward's 

 speech had been written for some weeks, and duly inspected 

 and criticised by the Republican leaders beforehand, as the 

 manifesto of the party. Shortly after, he went to a reception 

 at Mr. Seward's. He wrote to his sister Mary: "I took 

 your note to C. Sumner yesterday, and argued from ten to one, 

 very earnestly. He so often paused before answering me, that 

 he clearly saw the difficulties of the Republican position, as I 

 do of the Garrisonian." Philip had no sympathy with the 

 desire of the Republicans to maintain the Union; believing 

 " that the half would be stronger than the whole," when no 

 longer tempted to compromise. He little knew (who could 



