MR. PRESIDENT,--I have nothing to retract, nothing to modify, nothing
to qualify. In former days there was one Kansas suffering under illegal
power; there are now eleven Kansases suffering as that one; therefore,
as eleven is more than one, so is the enormity of the present time more
than the enormity in the day of Franklin Pierce.
Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, said: “A charge has been directly
made here by the Senator that the President has sent in a
whitewashing report.… When such a charge as that is brought
in the Senate, I think it calls for some notice, and I
take the liberty, with all my respect for the Senator from
Massachusetts, to deny that there is anything in that report
of a whitewashing character.” Mr. Doolittle spoke again:
“I was not pained because the honorable Senator differed
from the President; I knew he differed from the President
on this question; but I was pained, and I confess very much
disappointed, to hear that Senator, as I should be to hear any
other Senator on the floor of the Senate, question the truth,
the integrity, or the patriotism of the President, however much
he might disagree with me in opinion.”