. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. y,his political friends complained somewhat that he wasnever heard in the political scraps that so often hap-pened in which he would have been their ablest cham-pion. Finally we reached the proposed amendmentto the Constitution of the United States for the abolish-ment of slavery, and the debate on it was altogetherthe most embittered of the session. Just when
. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. y,his political friends complained somewhat that he wasnever heard in the political scraps that so often hap-pened in which he would have been their ablest cham-pion. Finally we reached the proposed amendmentto the Constitution of the United States for the abolish-ment of slavery, and the debate on it was altogetherthe most embittered of the session. Just when it wasat the high-water mark of partisan frenzy, the Demo-crats demianded that Sharpe should be heard, and Ihad been also urged to participate in the debate on theother side. I saw that the Democrats, where we hadour largest support for the relief bill outside of Phila-delphia members, were determined to have Sharpespeak, and I passed over to his seat and proposed thatI would take the floor in support of the anti-slaveryamendment, and that he should follow; that we wouldboth deliver dignified addresses which would not belikely to call out violent interruption or criticism, andthat after the delivery of the speeches we would then. ^.y/L3^.^d//^ NEW YOT^KPUBLIC UBRARY Astof, Lenox and Tdden^Foundations. Of Pennsylvania 177 resume oiir attitude of absolute refusal to participatein political discussion. It soon became known thatSharpe and I had taken a temporary release from ourbondage on political discussion, and, as the subjecthad already crowded the house with interested spec-tators, the senate soon adjourned for want of a quorum,and the Governor and heads of departments andsenators crowded into the hail. Sharpes speech,although entirely spontaneous, was the ablest politicaladdress I ever heard him deliver, and his friends weregreatly gratified. He was thoroughly familiar withthe subject, as he had discussed the question very fullytime and again on the stimip, and he rose to the
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