Mr. HOWE. If the question were whether one of these oung men should be sent to the penitentiary or life or should pay the forfeit of his life upon the scaffold, the inquiry whether their service in the rebellion had been voluntary or involuntary I think would be a perti nent one, and it would be proper for us to examine and determine that fact before executing either of those sentences. That is not the question. Undoubtedly, as the Senfrom Maryland has said, this rebellion originated in a faulty education. Undoubtedly he is quite correct in saying that that education was not all obtained in the districts in which the rebellion had its origin; that we participated, were to some extent responsible for that education. Let us get rid of that responsibility hereafter. The only part we ever had in that education wasin sittingand hearing the “ right" asserted and the threat made year after year and never taking any steps to uard against it and now we are in danger oig perfecting that education by showing the worlg that we cannot to dav. with all we have seen of the fruits of that education, bring our minds to discrim inate between loyalty and disloyalty, between fidelity to the Government and treason against the Governmet. Mr. President, the Senfrom Maryland thinks that they have got over the effects of that education; that they have now been brought to see that they have committed, not a crime he does not say that but a blunder; and in evidence of that he recites a conversation that he had a day or 2 since with one who participated in that blunder, which I refer to all a crime. It suggested to me the act that this morning I received a newspaperwhich contained a notice of a demonstration made I think in the city of Raleigh in commemoration.of the life and services of General Jackson of the rebel army, known as Stonewall Jackson. It also contained quite a lengthy account of a similar demonstration made, if I recollect aright, in the city of Lynchburg, in Virginia, where the whole city formed a procession, the city authorities, all the societies, the fire companies, everything like an organization in the city turned out into the street to do honor to the memory of General Jackson; and who was General Jackson? One of the renowned chiefs in the perpetration of that which the Senfrom h ary and characterizes as a blunder