Mr. RAYMOND. I say again that I wish to point out one respect in which the democratic party, as an organization, did not do as much as the Union party did toward suppressing the rebellion. Iiconcede that to a great extent the efforts of individuals, in contributions of money, in volunteering for the Army, and other things of that sort, contributed very largely indeed to the suppression of the rebellion. 1 am not prepare and I am certainly not disposed to deny that members of the Dem ocratic party in that way did their full share. But this was a public war; it was a war waged by the Government against a rebellion seeking its overthrow. Of course the war was carried on by the Government, and it could have been carried on in no other way. That Government organized war upon the rebellion, raised the money by which that war was carried on, and thus incurred a debt of 3 or 4,000 million dollars. It passed such laws as the necessities of the case required. Without those laws, without those measures, which gave vigor, force, and offect to the operations of the government, the rebellion would have been a success; andif the Government had not been supported hy votes, by public confidence, and by acts of Congress in carrying on that war, the rebellion would have triumphed, and the government would have been overthrown. Now, I say that instead of supportin the Government in carrying on that war the cm 0cratic party, as an organization, opposed and resisted it from 1st to last. That statement I believe to be literally correct. Its votes in this House Were hostile to the Government. It did not vote for men; it did not vote for money; it did not sustain the Administration by its confidence or its aid; itopposed its measures, and sought to vindicate its action by denouncing the war as unjust, or by claiming that ifjust it could not succeed in what it had undertaken to do, namely, to restore the Union; and the last act of the Democratic party, asit was dragging itself slowly and painfully to its grave, was to declare in a national convention that so far as restoring the Union was concerned the war was a failure.