The Clerk read as follows: “MR. SPALDING's Resolution. There are some Republican journals which desire still further efforts to induce the southern Legislatures to ratify the constitutional amendment, before resorting to the terri torial plan of reconstruction: Among them is Albany Evening Journal, which, the in an article published on Saturday, has the following: “I et Mr. SPALDING'sresolution be adopted, declaring that upon the adoption of the amendmentby any State its loyal representatives will be considered, as in the case of Tennessee, entitled tosion, immediate admis Make this last tender of the olive branch to the South. Afford a of people reasonable time for the minds to act upon it; and if the rebelleaders still prove potent and powerful, if the refusal to indorse the amendment is persisted in, as it no doubt will be, then proceed to declare the existing governments illegal and unconstitutional, and organize others upon a loyal basis.’ “The Journal appears who unconscious of fo. inconsistency contained the in this proposition. f Congress proceeds ‘to declare the existing governments illegal and unconstitutional, ’ it will do so on theoRthat they are so in fact. But if they are, they have no right to actupon the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. The very act of submitting, the amendments to them, as above proW.; would be a direct admission of their legality. Would the Journal have Congress stultify itself by making this admission and then following it by a declaration that they are "illegal and unconstitutional?' Heretofore their existence as Stateshasnot dbiereenctdinisgtinctly recognized by any deliberate act. In the submission of the amendment to the States, there was nothing to show whether the term was designed to include the ‘States lately in lion, ’ rebel and the action of the SecyState in transmitting it to them, was merely an indication of his own opinion on the subject. The ratification of the amendment by Tennessee previous to her admission was considered more with reference to the evidence of a loyal disposition thereby afforded, than to its validity as a legislative act, and if theory the territorial be adopted, it cannot be counted among the States on whose ratification the adoption of the amendment will depend. It may be that some of past legislation the of Congresshasinadvertently ignored the actual condition of the South; but if theory the true is to be fully accepted, our business now is rather to may undo anything inconsistent therewith, which have been already done, than to acceptance by anticipate such the deliberate stultification recoln mended by Mr. SPALDING and the Journal.”