Mr. HOWE. We have got plenty of boot blacks now, and we have not much of anything else, I am so to say. [Laughter.] How much will it not add to our commerce when we can send out a shipload of Susanna and bring back a cargo of chimneysweeps [Laughter] You see we could not afford to make an even exchange, man for man. Undoubtedly one such cargo would bring 2 of the chimneysweeps. A shipload of Snows would bring back a whole argosy of bootblacks. It seems to me it would add very much to our commerce; and we should be carrying it on, you see, upon precisely the principle upon which GreatBritain is carrying on her commerce with us now. She sends a very little cloth, and gets back in exchange a great deal of raw material of cotton and of food. We should repay her with the same policy; we should export very little mind and import a great deal of muscle in payment for it. So, sir, I am not apprehensive that we shall be left entirely destitute oi the means of getting our boots blacked, even it we prosecute the o d effort on which I have been so intent. I said, sir, that I had been in no haste to make this reply. I said that I had felt no occasion for alarm; and yet I have noticed somethings which ought, perhaps, to have alarmed me. Commenting upon the very able speech of the Senfrom Maryland, I noticed that the NewYork Times pronounced its logic masterly. I do not know but that as a sincere and honest friend of this Administration I ought to have been alarmed be such a commentary as that, when you consider that the logic of the Senfrom Maryland stamped everything if which has been done by the POTUS since the surrender of the rebel armies as illegal, illegitimate, and revolutionary. I do not now but that the friends of the Administration on that to have been alarmed when an organ which still itself the chief, the leading supporter of the President, characterized its logic as masterly. Still, notwithstanding that, I have waited until the present time before claiming the attention of the Senate any further upon this resolution. New, sir what is to be said? I have 1st to say that what I had the honor to submit to the Senate on the 10th instant in the shape of argument remains untouched. Neither the Senfrom Maryland nor my colleague has assailed any argument which I thought fit to construct or to submit to the Senate. Leaving what I said in defense of my resolution untouched, they have taken the resolution up themselves severally and have sought to construct an argument against it. I have, therefore, not to reaffirm anything I said on that occasion; I shall address myself on the contrary entirely to what they have said, and I propose as briefly as I can to state the reasons why the arguments which they have severally constructed do not strike me as conclusive.