Mr. BROOMALL. Let me ask the gentle man in turn, why it was that the U.S and the other nations of the world did not interfere when England chose, in the exercise of this unlimited and irresponsible power. to shoot her prisoners of war in the ladies from the mouths of cannon? They did not interfere because it was not their business. They had no rightto interfere. In fact, ifthe gentleman will reflect for one moment he will see that there is nothing in his question. A nation is responsible to no other earthly jurisdiction for the exercise of its power: iItis the sole and single judge of its puwer. The very fact of sov1 ereignty renders it irresponsible to any civil authoritymakes it the single and sole judge of its actions. v The position taken by the late rebels who are now claiming as a right the restoration of all they have forfeited, the position so forcibly laid down by the Gentfrom NewYork, [MT Rlirimsu] as well as by his fellow laborers, the Gentfrom NewJersey [Mix Rooms] and the Gentfrom Indiana, Mr. Voominizs] is in substance this:. thong the people of those 11 States became 1st traitors, then belligerents, and finally suppressed rebels. yet this find no effect upon the States themselves. The States being either sovereign, or compo nent parts of a larger sovereignty, could not be destroyed or in any manner affected by the acts of the people. I According to this theory, there was no time during the last 5 years when these States had not a right to representation in Congress. In the darkest days of that eventful period the Representatives of SCarolina had a right to seats in this Hall, a right to vote on all questions of supplies to the Army, on all loan billsfon measures touching the punishment of guerrillas and the confiscation o rebel property. That the Democrats of this body should maintainsuch a doctrine is not to be wondered at, since, during all that period, the most mali nant traitorin the entire South would have vote with them upon all these questions. But it is matter of some surprise that these few but ndroit men have managed to convert the Gentfrom NewYork to their political persuasion. Ima ne the Representatives and Senators from these 11 States voting down, by the aid of their northern friends, the bill providing for drafting men to fill the deleted ranks of the Army after the retreat from tichmond: YOUR" down the bill authoridin the issuing of legaI tenders, when money could not be borrowed at 12%. perannum; voting down the bill providing for the enlistmTant of negroes when the drain upon the white men of the country had begun to be oppressive. The business of the day might have been rendered still interesting and impressive by some southern member askin an appropriation to fortify the southern har ors, or to pay rebel slaveowners for their confiscated chattels, presenting a bill providing pensions for wounded rebels and the widows of dead ones, or a bill providing for the pay of the keeperof the prison at andersonville, all of which would probably have received the full party vote, and some of which might have carried. This is imposing no difficult task on the imagination.” l these 11 communities are new full and complete States of the Union, then they always have been. If they are entitled to representation now, then they always have been entitled to representation and it is not supposing too much to suppose that their Representatives would have voted with their fellow: Democrats of the North, whose position upon these and kindredquestions is part of the countrys history. It is argued in some quarters that these 11 States existedin full life and power during the rebellion, but that their functions were suspended for want of properpersons to perform them. Let us examine this position. Now the State of SCarolina, that had its functions suspended, was not the State of SCarolina that constituted one of the confederacy. That State of SCarolina hadits functions performed. It had a Governor, legislative bodies, courts, all the machinery of a State, in full and active vigor until after Shermans famous march. Were there. then, 2 States of SCarolina, one loyal but dormant, the other active but in rebellion? Bythe State, in this argument, nobody means the mere land and water embraced within the limits, nor the mere unorganized inhabitants, but the body politic; and the advocates of this theory must not expect to make many prosclytes until they can explain what a State is that has no organized citizens and neither executive, legislative. nor judicial bodies. Where a case of suspended animation continues so thoroughly suspended for 4 years, one must be permitted to doubt. the possibility of resuscitation.