The constitution only required that no law should be passed declaring black to be white, whereas the resolution merely ordered that henceforth white should be black.

Here was matter for discussion, nor was I at all sanguine as to the result; but to be thus knocked on the head by a club, in the outset, was too much for the modesty of a maiden speech.

I took my seat in confusion; and I plainly saw that the Perpendiculars, by their sneers, now expected to carry everything triumphantly their own way.

This, most probably, would have been the case, had not one of the Tangents immediately got the floor, to move the amendment.

To the vast indignation of Captain Poke, and, in some degree, to my own mortification, this duty was intrusted to the Hon.