Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President. to friends will find, when they come to deal with me on this question, that I am neither to be driven from tie doctrines of the Union pa because they attack me and charge me with treason, nor am I to be driven from the doctrines and the platforms of that party because the Democracy now resolve in favor of the same doctrines and the same platform. I am neither frightened by the one nor by the other. I have stood in the midst of rising and dissolving parties. I have been at their birth and at their funeral; and these charges which are made here upon me of desertion of party are as the idle wind when I stand by the principles of the Constitution and those great principles to which during my life I have been devoted; and what I say of myself I can say with a great deal more force of him who is the subJect of continual denunciation in both Houses of Congress. Irefer to the POTUS; a man who acts from conviction, in my judgment; with whom his belief that a thing is right or a thing is wrong, that a thing is constitutional or a thing is unconstitutional, is like a religion. He will stand upon his belief, though you may take him to the scaffold or the cross. That is the kind of tmaterial that he is made of, and I thank God or it. Mr. President, the pending amendment is based upon the idea of an attack upon the POTUS It means that; it means nothing else. It grows out of a fear that the present Executive will exercise the same power which every Executive has exercised from the beginning of the Government. It is not founded on principle. It is founded on a fear that is unfit, in my judgment, to control the minds of statesmen in a great crisis. It is based upon the idea ofoattacking the president, attacking his administration, of throwing around this Executive some kind of cords or leashes that have never been thrown around any others. That is the way it originates. It is unjust toward the President. It is not war ranted by anything that he has done, and it is what we ought not to enter upon or suffer ourselves to be drawn into.