The Debate Upon The Franking Bill

Mr. Chnnd'er gaid he would frank Ho nlways bad been frank. Jt wns his Fraokiog Privilege. He was in favor of dee!arin' B war witb every. nntion which would not allow matter fraoked by Senators of thisglorious Republic to pass tlieir postoffioes. fie had sent copit-s of al! Iiis epi to tlio effete aud loathaome monaroha of Europe, with his frank neatly lithographed in ono oornor. J3ut bc liad siuce hcard tbat tho tninions of tyr.inny in foreign postoffices had atopped those documents, opon t lic paltry preteoce that the postage was not paid. Th s hc bad been prevented iroir freozing the aionaruhiiil marrow and curtlling the royal blood, since ndbotly could bo oxpected to derive histruciion or ad-monition from a speech wliicli was usod to feod the lire, or stuff the wiodoir of one of his petty tooi. He csilk'd upon the Senate to do liim justice. Mr. Carpenter oboerved that juetice would never bo done to iïïr. Chandlar until the oceurrenfo of a pu!lic execution. But still he considered that the franking privilege ought to be rctained. Tlie party Ihat he belonged to was the party of i.itelligence. Strange ns tliis might seem, it wns true, and it was also true that, ia spite of tbeir intelligence, tli y woald réad his speeches. Let the Sonate have pity upun these misguided, but not wilfully wicked men.