Fundamentum est autem justitiæ fides, id est, dictorum conventorumque constantia et veritas.—Cicero, De Officiis, Lib. I. Cap. 7.
SPEECH.
The Senate having under consideration the Bill for funding the National Debt and for the Conversion of the Notes of the United States, Mr. Sumner said:—
MR. PRESIDENT,—After a tempest sweeping sea and land, strewing the coast with wrecks, and tumbling houses to the ground, Nature must become propitious before the energy of man can repair the various losses. Time must intervene. At last ships are launched again, and houses are built, in larger numbers and fairer forms than before. A tempest has swept over us, scourging in every direction; and now that its violence has ceased, we are occupied in the work of restoration. Nature is already propitious, and time, too, is silently preparing the way, while the national energies are applied to the work.
To know what to do, we must comprehend the actual condition of things, and how it was brought about. All this is easy to see, if we will only look.