Aug. 15. The House
is engaged in an earnest debate on the subject of the President's message about
Texas; the North generally defending and upholding it, while the South is
declaiming against it con furore. The
South is becoming, to appearance, more desperate; and the men talk treason as
they take their daily meals. We are to have warm times here before we leave.
Calling the yeas and nays, and practising all manner of delays, will be
resorted to, no doubt; and we shall have one or two night sessions. But it is
thought we are strong enough to divide, and work by relays; that is, one half
of us stay by for twelve hours, and the other half for the next twelve.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 312
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