But  I  think  I  will  answer  this  last  argument  in  the  language  of  a
prominent  lawyer  in  my  own  State,  who  but  a  few  days  ago  said
that  '•  those  who  seek  to  raise  theAmerican  flag  above  the  crashed
liberties  of  another  people  have  already  begun  to  haul  it  down
from  the  Capitol  of  their  own  country."    Such  is  my  belief,  and,
believing  so,  I  trust  that  whatever  feeling  may  have  been  engen-
dered in  the  past  in  regard  to  this  matter,  the  calm  and  deliberate
judgment  of  the  Senate  will  be  brought  to  the  consideration  of
these  resoliations,
1  believe  with  the  Senator  from  Massachusetts  that  it  is  the  most
-  important  question  which  has  confronted  the  American  people  for
\  century.     I  believe  upon  this  action  will  depend,  in  a  large
measure,  the  stability  of  the  Republic  in  which  we  live,  and  I  trust,
then,  withoiit  feeling,  without  party  prejudice,  the  Senate  will  rise
•to  the  high  position  which  it  has  occupied  in  the  past  and  will
reaffirm  the  declaration  laid  down  when  we  declared  war  against
Spain,  that  we  did  not  fight  for  conquest,  that  we  fought  to  liber-
ate the  distressed  and  give  them  a  free  government,  and  having
jilanted  ourselves  upon  that  high  doctrine,  that  we  will  not  place
a  stain  upon  the  fair  name  of  this  Republic  by  using  the  power
which  has  come  to  us  from  a  war  begun  for  freedom  to  wrong  and
oppress  another  people.
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