Mr. SPALDING. “Mrs. Snrrattl” She was tried and sentenced and hung as an assas sin, and not as a traitor. Now, sir, we prouse to amend the Constitution of the U.S. in several respects. As to the 1st measure proposed, a person may read it 500 years hence without gat ering from it any idea that this rebellion ever existed. The same may be said of the 2nd proposition, for it only proposes that, the horn smen being made free, the apportionment of Representatives in congress shall be based upon the whole number of persons who exercise the elective franchise, instead of the population. The 3rd section and this is the one to which excetion is taken by my friends on the right and aft proposes flint no person who was actively engaged in rebellion against our Government shall have the right to vote for members of Congress or for electors of the President and VEEP until the year 1870. Is this exceptionable? Is it objectionable? If it be so, it is, in my judgment, for the reason that the duration of the period of incapacity is not extended more Widely. I take my stand here that it is necessary toingraft into that enduring instrument, called the Constitution of the U.S., something which shall admenish this rebellious people and all who shall come after them that treason against the Governmentis odious; that it carries with it some penalty, some disqualification; and the only one which we seek to attach by this amendment is a disqualification in voting not for their State and county and town officers, but for members of Congress, who are to be the law makers, and for the Executive of the U.S., this disqualification to operate for the short period of 4 years. Now, sir, will any patriotic, nny loyal man object to putting this memorial upon the Constitution as they would put “memento mori” upon the head of a tombstone? But sir, there is another reason why we shouldingraft this provision upon the Constitution. All our congressional legislation may be considered as ephemeral. I know that my friends on the other side of the House always take courage when we advance the idea thntat some remote period they may in possession of the controlling power in these alls and carry measures according to the dictates of their own wisdom and sense of patriotism. Sir, let the effect fall where it mn, and give consolation to whom it will, I stil declare that all these matters are within the bounds, not only of possibility, but of probabilit, that at some notver remote period, if we mit Representatives from the rebel States into this Hall without qualification, the prospect is that, in con: junction with their friends who have so strongly sympathized with them during the 4 years of this recent strife, they will repeal many, if not all, of the measures which we have adopted for the welfare and the salvation of the country. Hence I insist that somcthin of this sort should go into the Constitution, where it shall require not only the action of the Senate and the HoRep, but the action of the State Legislatures to erase it. For this reason, and because it is dangerous at this moment to receive these men ere to make laws for the loyal people of the country, I go for the adoption of this 3rd section, which disqualifies active and known rebels from panticipating in the election of Federal officers.