The result proved
the soundness of my judgment. I do not think a man can be
found in the Senate now who would wish to go back to the law
which was passed to put fetters on the limbs of Andrew Johnson.
I have asked several gentlemen who voted against the repeal
whether they did not think so, and they all now agree that
the measure was eminently wise and right. The opposition
to the statute of 1887 was but the dying embers of the old
fires of the Johnson controversy.
CHAPTER XII
FISHERIES
If, on looking back, I were to select the things which I
have done in public life in which I take the most satisfaction,
they would be, the speech in the Senate on the Fisheries
Treaty, July 10, 1886, the letter denouncing the A. P. A., a
secret, political association, organized for the purpose of
ostracizing our Catholic fellow-citizens, and the numerous
speeches, letters and magazine articles against the subjugation
of the Philippine Islands.
I do not think any one argument, certainly that my argument,
caused the defeat of the Fisheries Treaty, negotiated by Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain and Mr.
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