His allusion to foreigners in this connection looks to me more like the _ad captandum_ of the mere politician or demagogue, than a grave and sound reason to be offered by the President of the United States in a veto message on so important a measure as the Homestead Bill.'" In exposing the inconsistency between Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, and Andrew Johnson, Senator from Tennessee, Mr.Trumbull said that he would not use as harsh language as Mr.Johnson had used towards President Buchanan when he accused him of "quibbling and demagogery." Mr.Trumbull argued with great force that the citizen has a counter-claim upon the Government for the comprehensive claim which the Government has upon the citizen.

"It cannot be that we have constituted a government," said Mr.Trumbull, "which is all-powerful to command the obedience of the citizen but has no power to afford him protection." "Tell it not, sir," said he, "to the father whose son was starved at Andersonville, or the widow whose husband was slain at Mission Ridge, or the little boy who leads his sightless father through the streets of your city, of the thousand other mangled heroes to be seen on every side of us to-day, that this Government, in defense of which the son and the husband fell, the father lost his sight and the others were maimed and crippled, had the right to call those persons to its defense, but now has no power to protect the survivors or their friends in any rights whatever in the States.

Such, sir, is not the meaning of our Constitution: such is not the meaning of American citizenship.

Allegiance and protection are reciprocal rights." During the progress of the debate a curious incident showed the temper engendered in the Senate.

Mr.Trumbull, on the 5th of April, intimated his readiness to have the vote taken if the Senate was ready.