. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. nsiderable length, heclosed by saying: If Mr. Stanton and his associates suppose thatthe people of the United States can be betrayed and subjugated tosuch a tyranny without an appeal to that God of battles who pro-tects the right, I fear they will find that they have underrated theintelligence and patriotism of the American people. In a speech, June 27, 1868, Mr. Humphrey favored liberal appro-priations for the improvement of rivers and harbors, maintaining thewillingness and ability of the people to pay taxes for such
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. nsiderable length, heclosed by saying: If Mr. Stanton and his associates suppose thatthe people of the United States can be betrayed and subjugated tosuch a tyranny without an appeal to that God of battles who pro-tects the right, I fear they will find that they have underrated theintelligence and patriotism of the American people. In a speech, June 27, 1868, Mr. Humphrey favored liberal appro-priations for the improvement of rivers and harbors, maintaining thewillingness and ability of the people to pay taxes for such opposed a bill to provide for the construction of a ship canalaround the falls of Niagara in an elaborate and able speech, deliveredJanuary li, 1869. He offered a substitute providing for a grantby the Federal government, to the State of New York, of the sum$10,000,000, on condition that the Oswego and the Erie canalsshould be enlarged to a size sufficient to enable the passage of vesselstwo litnulred and fifty feet in length, and thirty feet in breadth. 304.
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