Mr. SCOFIELD. I mistook the fall of the hammer for a notice to quit. However, I have but little more to add. The charge is often made here and elsewhere that the Republican.". of reconstruction leads to disinte gration rather than reunion. In reply to that charge I am endeavoring to show that its tend ency is to harmonize and cement the Union. I follow this narrow line of argument because it has fallen to others to discuss that policy in connection with the abstract principles of republican government, justice, religion, humanity, and civilization already. When interrupted I was going on to say that the Secretary, in his efforts to baffle the Union policy of the Republican party, will even claim that his guerrilla governments have the implied sanction of Congress. For more than a year these organizations have usurped the control of public affairs in their several localities and systematically oppressed and persecuted the Union people there. For more than a year we have been inactive, if not silent witnesses of these usurpations. We have taken no steps to suppress them nor to provide the jo with constitutional governments. The existing ones are only the confederate governments revived more oppressive, malignant, and resentful, under the feeble restraints of a cowed opponent, than under the iron rule of the confederate president himself. The despotism and barbarities of Davis were not wanton. They had a purpose the success of the confederate cause. The “stern statesman” allowed no further license; but under the Seward dynasty lynching and murder has become a pastime. Better by far for the Union men of the South if their governments were again placed under the restraining despotism of JeffersonDavis. At least he would not allow help. less and unoffening people to be mobbed and murdered for no confederate or public purpose. How much longer shall we turn a deaf ear to the cry of the oppressed? How much longer shall we stand here and see the brave men who for 4 years, amid obloquy, per secution, imprisonment, and torture, refused to forswear the flag, now when that flag is triumphant, in part through their sufferings, driven from their homes or shot down in the streets like dogs? If we thus meanly desert our friends the rebels themselves will despise us. But how about the Secretary, his cunning, his precedents, and his judges? They are not to be feared. They may protract our national trouble and delay the restoration of the Union a little longer; but that is all. The people have concluded that the best way to harmonize and cement the Union is to bury whatever is left of slavery and confederate nationality in a common grave; and it will be done. The Nile may be dammed with bulrushes, but the just, benignant, and well considered purpose of a 4million nation cannot be turned aside by the tinkle of one old man's ball nor the rustle of another's gown. For one I am ready for the vote.