Mr. JOHNSON. It is hardly necessary for me to say Mr. President, to the Senate that it was very far from my purpose to deal with the Chief Justice of the U.S., tey 1 in what I said to deal unjustly With the Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. Wane] That Senator has taken away all ground upon which I could have reliedforthe purpose ofhhowing that he did at all in anyway assent to the doctrine contained in the resolution which I read yesterday. The Chief lusticeof the U.S., I had a right to suppose, if present when the resolution was oileredapnd adopted by the meeting, and having addressed the meeting, must have had some knowledgeof the character of the resolutions. But of course I must acknowledge my error, on learning, as I now do, from the honorable Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. SHERMAN] that his speechwas made be ore the resolutions were offered, and as I understand him and his information is no doubt, I suppose, derived from the chief Justice he never afterward saw the resolutionsuntil they were printed; did not see themat the time the meeting was being organized or while the deliberations of the meeting werebeing carried on. I had supposed, as a matterof course, that a gentleman of his distinctionattending a meeting of that description. whenresolutions of that sort were offered, could not have been ignorant of their character. What I said afterwards in which the honorable memberthinks I did gross injustice to the Chief Justice, was founded entirely on the assumtion that he was the friend and advocate of the doctrines of that resolution which I read; and assuming that he was the friend and advocate of that resolution, I said (and ifthe fact were so I would repeat) that I did not see how he could sit in judgment against a gentleman who had only carried out the same doctrine. But if in point of fact he had no knowledge of the resolutions and did not approve of them, or if when he came to the knowled e of them either upon the ground or after war he denounced them, there would be no justice in imputing to him the advocacy of such a resolution, or in supposing that he was placed in a situation in which he would not be entirely free to sit in judgment on Mr. JeffersonDavis or any man situated in like position. It did, I congress, surprise me when I read the resolution, because had always supposed that the doctrines of the present Chief Justice were Federal as far as the Constitution of the U.S. was concerned. I had always supposed from his antecedents that he was more of a disciple of the Hamilton than even of the Madison school, and certainly more a disciple of the Hamilton than of the Jefferson school. It was therefore far from in purpose in what I said yesterday, or in what have said at any time in the past, or shall sa at any time in the future, to assail the Chie Justice of the U.S. There is no man who admires him personally more than I do, or who has a higher Opinion of his ability and if he will devote himself to the duties of his high station the highest in my opinion in the gift of the government and think of nothing else, he will be a worthy successor of whoever may have been pile brightest luminary of that tribunal hereto ore.