The Clerk read as follows: “While any collision betweenthe majority in Congress and the President is to be regretted, the recent explosion will operatelike electricity in clearing the atmosphere. The commonstrongsense of the country will, vindicate itself again, as it has often done before, by an instruction likely to be remembered by those who would ‘rule or ruin.” e people are weary of agitation merelyfor the sake of agitation, and they demand that peace, order, and law shall be recstablished throughout the length and breadth of the Union. Faction can no more arrest the march of those events than the march of the waves, which will not go so far and no further at their bidding, though they may command with the tongue of 1000Canutes. “Let the Administration go straight forward and without shrinking, and all will be well, howl as partisanship may at its heels. Look at the record of your own individual experiencesince1861, if instruction and encouragement be needed. Who so persecuted, qutraged, and traduced, and by many who should hang their heads down in very shame, and who so triumphantly honored andsustained, even to the dangerous point of being praised by the compelled If homageof revilers? it wereFto destroy the Union and with it all hopes of the future, the men engaged in and exciting the crusade would be exactly the appropriate instruments. All their endeavors, their enthusiasm, and their desires have been directed to that end, if not with intention, at least with a mischievous policy, that if successful could produce no other result. o to have taken their lessons of wisdom from the Duke of Alva, whose advice, unreason, and abstinate conduct cost, Philip H one of the fairest parts of his dominions., Minus the form of theInquisition of which the modern Alvas would Preserveall the punishment there is a striking parallel between the champions of harsh and headstrong zeal 300 years ago and that which lashes itself into fury now, and merely because it cannot have "its own way.” “We are fighting a against new battle for the Union, and foes the more dangerous for being insidious and within the lines of our camp. But I have not a lot of doubt about the result, any more than I had about the issue of the Qtherwar, whenour proper strength could be collected and judiciously applied. “The crisis demands positive remediesand direct treatment. Quackery will kill in this extremity. Therefore the sooner it is understood that the line must be drawn broadly and clearly the soonerwill the Administration be relieved from some of dangers the which incidentally menaceit. “Whoever hasstudied the events of the war must be convincedthat the black mancaredvery little for his own status or waswilling to make much effort to change it. No such opportunity was ever offered to an enslavedrace to couragement enougshtrike for itself, and certainly en wasgiven to it to do so in some directions. Every proper and humane, man feels that, cicancipated as thatrace now is, it everyjust should have aid and protection until able to help itself. Butlet me tell you, from some little observationon the subjectand some knowledge of the people, that. Human ingenuity, could not devise a more effective method for fastening another form of bondage upon them than this ballot, which is proposed as sovereign panacea. their Give them that right and I would pledge my life on the result, if the test could be fairly made, that almost 90%. of the whole black population would vote on the side of their old masters; or, in other words, become the instruments of fastening new chains upon themselves. And if ever the day comes (which I hope never to see for fear of the consequences)when these people may vote, without condition, you may expect to seethe South compacted by negro suffrage and uniting with the northern socalled ' Democracy' to regain possession of the government and overthrow overything us far accomplished. And such a result would be quite in keeping with the sagacity and the moderation of those who are ready to sacrifice everything sacredto the one idea of their foolish fanaticism.”