Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — They Kept Right On Laughing. [ARTICLE]

They Kept Right On Laughing.

When Blaine was in the midst of his colloquy with Dawes and Hoar over the sins of Massachusetts in the war of 1812, Judge Davis of Illinois began to laugh, first at the top of his head, and then all the way down his ponderous body to his feet. Seeing Davis in this melting mood, Howe and Hamlin commenced to chuckle, and soon Conkling, who sitsclcse by, burst out. Hoar caught a glimpse of t-e p c acle, and reddening to the roots of his hair, exclaimed: “Only two classes of men laugh at Massachusetts; one class are those who hate her undying devotion te liberty: the other despise her for sustaining tills great and Godlike administration.” Davis, Howe, Conkling and Hamlin kept right on with their la ighing.