I can fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance and shrieks of torture.

Already they seem to sigh in the west wind,--already they mingle with every echo from the mountains." His closing words again bring Chatham to mind.

"Yet I have perhaps as little personal interest in the event as any one here.

There is, I believe, no member who will not think his chance to be a witness of the consequences greater than mine.

If, however, the vote should pass to reject, and a spirit should rise, as rise it will, with the public disorders to make confusion worse confounded, even I, slender and almost broken as my hold upon life is, may outlive the government and Constitution of my country." This appeal, supported by the petitions and letters which poured in upon the House, left no doubt of the result.