hority to put down a rebel government and put up
a government that is friendly to the United States, and in accordance
with it. I do not see why he can not do that while the war goes on,
and I do not see why he may not do it after the war is over. The
people in those States lie at the mercy of the nation. I see no
usurpation in what he has done, and if the work is well done, I, for
one, am ready to accept it. Are we to send out a commission to see
what the men whom he has appointed have done? It is said that they are
not to be relied on; that they have been guilty of treason, and we
will not trust them. I hope that no such ideas will prevail here. I
think this will be a cold shock to the warm feelings of the nation for
restoration, for equal privileges and equal rights. They were in
insurrection. We have suppressed that insurrection. They are now
States of the Union; and if they come here according to the laws of
the States, they are entitled, in my judgment, to representation, and
we have no right to refuse it. They are in a minority, and they would
be in a minority even if they meant now what they felt when they
raised their arms against the Government; but they do not, and of
those whom they will send here to represent them, nineteen out of
twenty will be just as loyal as any of us--even some of those who took
up arms against us.

"I really hope to see some one move a modification of the test oath,
so that those who have repented of their disloyalty may not be
excluded, for I really believe that a great many of those who took up
arms honestly and wished to carry out the doctrines of secession, and
who have succumbed under the force of our arms and the great force of
public opinion, can be trusted a great deal more than those who did
not fight at all.

"To conclude, gentlemen, I see no great harm in this resolution except
the procrastination that will result from it, and that will give us
nothing but what we have before us."

The question being taken, the resolution, as amended, passed the
Senate, thirty-three voting in the affirmative and eleven in the
negative. The following are the names of those who voted for the
resolution:

Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Creswell,
Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Harris, Howard, Howe, Lane
of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Norton, Nye,
Poland, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner,
Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wa