SPEECH. In the Senate or the United States, March 7, 1850. The Vice-President. The resolutions submitted by the Senator from Kentucky were made the special order of the day at 12 o’clock. The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Walker) has the floor. Mr. Walker. Mr. President, this vast audience has not assembled to hear me; and there is but one man, in my opinion, who can assemble such an audience. They expect to hear him, and I feel it to be my duty, as it is my pleasure, to give the floor, therefore, to the Senator from Massachusetts. I understand it is immaterial to him upon which of these questions he speaks, and therefore I will not move to postpone the special order. Mr. Webster. I beg to express my obligations to my friend from Wisconsin (Mr. Walker), as well as to my friend from New York (Mr. Seward), for their courtesy in allowing me to address the Senate this morning. Mr. President, I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States. It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States; a body, not yet moved from its propriety, not
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