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Lincoln's Usurpations.speech of Mr. Saulsbury,of Delaware, in the United States Senate, Jan. 8th, 1863. [From the New York Caucasian.]
Mr. Saulsbury.--Mr. President, when the injustice and intolerance of the British ministry were forcing an issue between the parent country and the colonies in reference to the power of Parliament to impose taxes upon the latter without their consent, the remonstrances of the ablest English statesmen were treated by the advocates of power as the utterances of sedition.
It was then that the noble Chatham thus spoke:
"Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House imputed as a crime.
But the imputation shall not discourage me. It in a liberty I mean to exercise.
No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited."
It has been frequently said upon this floor since the commencement of this unnatural war, that we are making history.
Sir, we are but repeatin