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The reception at Cleveland, where Mr. Lincoln arrived on Friday afternoon, was an imposing affair, the military, firemen and tradesmen turning out in procession. The enthusiasm of the populace of that Republican town was at its highest pitch. J. N. Masters, acting Mayor, welcomed the President, and Judge Andrews did the same on behalf of the citizens’ committee.
Mr. Lincoln spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman and fellow-citizens of Cleveland: We have been marching about two miles through snow, rain and deep mud. The large numbers that have turned out under these circumstances testily that you are in earnest about something or other. But do I think so meanly of you as to suppose that earnestness is about me personally? I should be doing you injustice to suppose that you did. You have assembled to testify your respect to the Union, the Constitution and the laws. And here let me say that it is with you, the people, to advance the great cause of the Union and the Constitution, and not with any one man. It rests with you alone.
Evening Star, Washington, DC, January 17, 1856
In the House yesterday, after we went to press, other gentlemen explained the reasons actuating them in voting on Mr. Thorington’s resolution, viz : Messrs. Purviance, Sherman, Dunn, Fuller of Pa., Stanton, Thorington, Wade, and Washburn of Me.
Some debate took place between Messrs. Stephens, Zollicoffer, and Richardson, in the course of which the latter took occasion to say that while he believed that, according to the letter of the constitution, Congress had the power to exclude slavery from the territory of the United States, yet that it was unjust and wrong, and in violation of the spirit of that instrument, to do so, as the constitution was made for the purpose of securing equality among the States and to the people of the whole country.
The Tacoma Times, Tacoma, WA, January 16, 1917
Olympia, Jan. 16 — Great commotion was caused on the floor of the senate this morning when Senators Howard Taylor of King and Tom Brown of Whatcom engaged in a fist fight.
Brown had accused Taylor of trying to make himself “King of the Senate,” and had made other accusations against him.
Taylor had offered Brown “to go Into the ante-room and repeat what he said, but Brown had refused, saying that he would repent his accusations on the floor.
Taylor reached over Brown’s desk and struck him a resounding whack full in the face.