Tribune And Telegraph

Senator Hamlin's Renunciation.

The following are the remarks made by Mr. Hamlin in the U. S. Senate on the 12th, briefly alluded to by telegraph. They commend themselves to honest men everywhere:

Washington, June 12.

Senate—Mr Hamlin rose and asked to be excused from serving as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. He said for nine years he held a seat in the Senate, he had almost been a silent member. Upon the subject that had so much agitated the country, he had rarely uttered a word.

He loved his country more than he loved any party—more than anything that could agitate and disturb its harmony. Although he believed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was a great moral and political wrong, unequalled in the annals of the legislation of this country, and unequalled in the history of almost any country— still with a desire to promote harmony, concord, and brotherly feeling, he sat quietly amid all the exciting debate which led to that fatal result, and opposed it not by his voice, but by a constant, steady and uniform vote—not only in accordance with his own convictions, but in accordance with the instructions of his Legislature, passed by almost a unanimous vote; but the thing was done in violation of the principles of that party with whom he had always acted, and in violation of the solemn pledges of the President of the United States in his inaugural address.

Since, however, that wrong had been indorsed by the Cincinnati convention in its consummation and its results, he felt it his duty to declare that he could no longer maintain party associations with any party that insisted upon such doctrines, and could support no man for President who avowed and recognized these doctrines, and whatever power God had endowed him with, it should be used in the coming contest in opposition to that party.