On what ground has that confidence been forfeited, and why is it that we now refuse him our support and fellowship?
I have stated our reasons to-day.

I have appealed to the record.

I have not followed him back in the false issue or the feigned traverse that he makes in relation to matters that are not now in contest between him and the Democratic party.

The question is not what we all said or believed in 1850 or in 1856.

How idle was it to search ancient precedents and accumulate old quotations from what Senators may have at different times said in relation to their principles and views.