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to repel the slanderous charges and imputations of fraud, so far as they concerned him. Other honorable gentlemen followed, and discoursed eloquent discord in a similar strain. Mr. Greeley sat with unruffled composure and heard himself vilified for some hours without attempting to reply. At length, in a pause of the storm, he arose and gave notice, that when the resolutions were disposed of he should rise to a privileged question. The following sprightly conversation ensued: Mr. Thompson, of Indiana, moved that the resolutions be laid on the table. The Yeas and Nays were asked and ordered; and, being taken, were— Yeas 28, Nays 128. And the question recurring on the demand for the previous question: Mr. Fries inquired of the Speaker whether the question was susceptible of division. The Speaker said that the question could be taken separately on each resolution. A number of members here requested Mr. Evans to withdraw the demand for the previous que