The same statements, which had struck so many members with panic in the former sessions, such as that of emancipation, of the ruin and massacre of the planters, and of indemnification to the amount of seventy millions, had been industriously kept up, and this by a personal canvass among them.

But this hostile disposition was still unfortunately increased by considerations of another sort.

For the witnesses of our opponents had taken their ground first.

No less than eleven of them had been examined in the last sessions.

In the present, two-thirds of the time had been occupied by others on the same side.