Mr. WILSON. When the policy of congress shall be determined, I hope the committee will report at the earliest possible day upon the condition of the States, and especiall upon the condition of Tennessee. When the acts are before us, I trust the Senate will proceed to act with calmness and dignity uninfluenced by an thing that may have been said or done clsew ere. We have indeed fltllen upon evil times, when a Senator or Representative can rise nnrebuked in these Chambers and tell us what the POTUS will or will not do. Sir, there was a time when a Senator who should have said what we have recently heard on this floor would have sunk into his seatunder the withering rebuke of his associates. No Senator or Representative has a right to tell us whatthe Executive will do. The President. acts upon his own responsibility. We are senators, this is the Senate of the U.S., " and it becomes as to maintain the ri his and the dignit of the Senate of the U.S. The peop demand that their Sens&Reps shall enact the needed measures to restore, at the earliest possible day, the complete practical relations of the seceded States to the national Government and protect the rights and liberties of all the people without regard to color, race, or descent. I confess. Mr. President, that I am saddened at the present aspects of public affairs; but I am condent that the nation will pass through the trials that thicken around us. God has not carried the country through this great to abandon it now. I have faith in thesptreuogpglee, faith in the eminent men, civil and military, who have carried us triumphantly through this great civilWar. Two years ago, in u trying our of the country, we placed a rest soldier at the head of all our armies and leled those armies to victory and the country to peace. Perhaps a patriotic and liberty loving if disappointed in their aspirations anpdeotpleei, r hopes, may again turn to that great captain and summon him to marshal them to victory. {End of insert of Mr. Wilsons speech from appendix.}