Mr. RAYMOND. That was all, sir, I desiied to say on that point. ow, having shown, it seems to me, by reasoning, With more or less force and conclusive ness, t atwe have no right to deal with the States lately in rebellion otherwise than as we might have dealt with them before the rebellion began, I wish to show that the action of the depts, executive, legislative, and judicia, confirms that view. That action proceeds from 1st to last upon the supposition they were States in the Union when the rebellion broke out; that they continued to be States of the Union during the war; and that they are States in the Union now. that the war is over and the rebellion crushed. I do not wish to detain the House by referring in detail to the various acts by which I can sustain these views, It is enough when I refer in general terms to the proclamations of the executive, and his declarations, both public and private. The 1st inudgural delivered by the POTUS, Mr. Lincoln, on the 4th of March, 1861, takes the same osition, and is predicated upon this position, that all thathe had to do was to execute the laws of the Union, not to wage war against a State. He said: “It follows thatno State is onits ownmeremotion can. lawfully get out of the nion that resolvesand ordinances to that effect. are legally void: and that actsof violence within any State or States against the authority of the U.S. are insurrection ary or revolutionary according to circumstances. I consider, therefore, that in view of the constitution and laws the Union is unbroken and to the extent of my ability I shall take care. as the constitution itself expressl enjoinsupon me, that the laws of the union be faith ully executed in all the States.” and in the proclamation of A ri115, calling out the 1st body of troops, be colored that " Whereas the laws of the U.S. have been for some time past and are now, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructedin the Statesof SCarolina. Gear in, Alabama Florida, Mississip i. Louisiana, and exasby combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course o judicial proceedings, ” he would call for 75,000 men to suppress those combinations and enable him to execute the laws. This, too, is the tone and teaching of all the diplomatic correspondence of the Government carried on throug the SecyState. England was warned from the very 1st that any recognition by her of these States as being out of the Union would be presented as a cause of war; and Mr. Seward said to Mr. Adams that if England recognized the southern States she must prepare to be their ally. So Mr. Lincoln, in his letter to Mr. Greeley, published at the time, adopted the same idea. So in his letter to Fernando Wood of December 12, 1862, he uses these distinct terms: “Understanding the phrase the southern States would send Representativesto Congressto be substa tially the sameas that the people of the southerni. Stateswouldeeaseresistanceon would reinau, rate, submit to and maintain the national uuthorgiu within the limits of such Statesunder the Constitution of the U.S., I say thatin such casethe war would causeon the part of the U.S and that if within a reasonable time afull and amnestywere necessary, to such end it would not be withhold.” So in every declaration of the President; but I will not keep the House by reading more. The House will excuse me for reading as one more proof a passage from the rely to the French proposal for referring the whole subject to a co"mmission.