Mr. ROUSSEAU. I will do so; and mean time I Will read the remarks of the gentleman in rep] to the question of the Gentfrom NewYork, [Mr. Continua] He said: “There maybe cases upon this point. But if there are I frankly say to the louse that my industry has not broughtthemunder my observation and if he or any other gentlemanknows of any such case I would beobliged to hiin to inform me., All the time I have beenspeakingin referenceto this distinction between the claims of loyal and disloyal persons I have been speaking in referenceto equity and notin referenceto law, and I desire the Iluuseso to understand me. I have been considering the question in the light of benevolenceand equity. rather than in the light of law and strict justice. I gestion think the an: of the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. COMP also] exceedingly pertinent. because it presentsto those who see fit to take that view of the suluoot an"oIthWeirlrleaadsdonfor rtueetinat hose claims. further upon thispoint that it once occurred to me, while I hadthis report under consideration and preparation, that thosewho Were brought into the rebellion by the sovereign owor of their States for I acknowledgethe sovereignty of States to a liinited extent those who werecarried into the rebellion by the sovereign nrtion of their States, so far as they could not, thus being in a certain sense enemies to whomfor some purpose belligerent rights were accorded must necessari, v.upon principles of law, stand upon the Sttme platform with those who caused the rebellion. Now, Mr. Speaker, I am not going into a discussion of this question, whether the States lately in rebellion are out of the Union Or not. Enough has been said about that on my side of the question and on the other side. I wish to state here one single position, and it is one that we have stood upon through the war, and one I exset to stand upon as long as I live, and which nobody shallp drive me from, and that is, that every citizen of the U.S. owes paramount allegiance to the Federal Government, an allegiance that neither the States in one or another capacit, nor the people in any capacity, can release imfrom, and that this allegiance, when given heartily to the Government, entitles the citizen to all the protection that the Government can give him, and that no matter where or in what State he may be he is entitled to all the rights that belong to any and all other citizens. That, sir, was the sensible ground that we occupied in the South. But after the war is over, a war waged for the salvation of the government alone, we are told that these States are out of the Union. I say this war was waged for the salvation of the Government alone. In support of that assertion I will ask the Clerk to rem the resolution adopted by this House the day after the battle of Ignll Run. It is hard] necessary to refer to it: but I will ask the Cler to read it. “