differing from the one reported from the
committee. The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Baker] also submitted for
his colleague [Mr. Ingersoll] a proposition in the nature of a
substitute for the one reported from the committee, as an amendment to
the amendment.

"Pending those two propositions, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr.
Lawrence] moved to recommit the joint resolution to the joint
committee with certain instructions. The gentleman from Massachusetts
[Mr. Eliot] moved to amend the instructions, and the gentleman from
Ohio [Mr. Schenck] moved to amend the amendment.

"The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Le Blond] also moved to commit the whole
subject to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. The
first question will, therefore, be upon the motion to commit to the
Committee of the Whole, as that committee is higher in rank than the
joint Committee on Reconstruction.

"Next after that will be the various motions to recommit with
instructions. If all those propositions should fail, then the motion
of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Stevens,] being for the
purpose of perfecting the original proposition, will come up for
consideration. Then propositions in the nature of substitutes will
come up for consideration; first the amendment to the amendment,
proposed by the gentleman from Illinois, [Mr. Baker,] and next the
substitute amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kelley]."

Mr. Raymond, of New York, made a speech three hours in length, in
opposition to the proposed amendment to the Constitution. He discussed
the general questions of reconstruction, affirming that the Southern
States had resumed their functions of self-government in the Union,
that they did not change their constitutional relations by making war,
and that Congress should admit their Representatives by districts,
receiving only loyal men as members.

The closing words of Mr. Raymond's speech excited great sensation and
surprise. They were as follows: "The gigantic contest is at an end.
The courage and devotion on either side which made it so terrible and
so long, no longer owe a divided duty, but have become the common
property of the American name, the priceless possession of the
American Republic through all time to come. The dead of the contending
hosts sleep beneath the soil of a common country, and under one common
flag. Their hostilities are hushed, and they are the dead of the
nation forever more. The victor may well exul