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reason I am not in favor of voting for a recess. I am willing to meet at any hour in the morning; I am willing to vote for the prolongation of the session; I am willing to do anything that will dispatch, in a becoming manner, the public business of the country; but I am not in favor of a recess, having the experience I have had of the manner in which business is trans- acted under the recess system. For that reason I cannot vote for a recess; but I think the adjournments ought to be regular; our adjournments at four and a half o'clock, and you may say meet at nine o'clock in the morning. I am willing to do that.
1 Cong1·essional Globe, Part 3, 1st Sess., 35th Cong., 1857-1858, p. 2527.
A MOTION TO TAKE A VOTE ON THE MEXICAN PROTECTORATE RESOLUTION 1 May 31, 1858. Mr. President, I move to take up the resolution which I intro- duced some time since, providing for raising a select committee to consider the propriety of a protectorate over Mexico; Nica- ragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and San Salvador. I make this moti~n for the purpose of obtaining a vote upon it. The session is drawing to a close, and I desire, if it is to be referred, that there may be an opportunity at the next session, if not at this, to make a report on the subject. I hope that the Senate will take it up. It is not with a view to make a speech that I make this motion. [The motion was not agreed to.]
1 Cong1·essional Globe, Part 3, 1st Sess., 35th Cong., 1857-1858, p. 2529.
REMARKS ON THE BILL TO REDRESS OUTRAGES ON THE AMERICAN FLAG, JUNE l, 1858 1 Mr. President, I have had the pleasure of hearing the ·gentle- . man from Virginia, and his remarks have only convinced me of the necessity and propriety of the adoption of the resolutions which I introduced some time since in relation to a protectorate,2 and the expediency of giving some attention to that subject. It is admitted by the gentleman from Virginia, who is possessed of the first order of intelligence in this body on international sub- jects, that Mexico, and the other States alluded to, are not in a condition of self-government; that they are disorganized; that they are irresponsible; that treaties negotiated with them are not
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