Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, the proposition before the Senate, I believe, is to refer this bill to the ComJudiciary. I shall not beguilty of the impropriety pfviolating the usage of the Senate by entering into a general discussion of the merits of the bill upon a motion of that character; nor shall I attempt any reply whatever to the remarks that have just been made. Private letters and correspondence are not to be supposed to have much weight with the Senate of the U.S. I shall detain the Senate. but a very short time, as I understand there is a desire on the part of the body to adjourn presentl in order to attend the funeral of the late Mr or win. There is one remark, however, that I wish to make before the adjournment, as perhaps after tomorrow the Senate will not be in sesSion for some days. There seems to be an apprehension in some fiuarters, (judging from he debates that have a ready occurred in this body and at the other end of the Capitol) that the Democratic party is again to come into power, and that it is to come into power through the agency of the present Executive of the U.S. The Eset can be no longer disguised that there is in. the party which elected the President an opposition party to him. Nothing can be more antagonistic than the suggestions contained in his message and the speec methat have already been Ie lfltle in the other fgiiof the Capiltol alllld in this hamber. co muiority e are istened, and listxehedpatientlyjwdhout saing one wordas to what will be our policy when this fight shall come. I am reputed to speak for no one but myself but ii3 the voice of one so humble could reach presidential cars, it would be this: “Stand firm to the constitutional principles that you have avowed; and, though the 3 attack may be fierce and the war upon your administration bitter, if you will continue to recognize in the future as your policy thus far as developed indicates that the States lately in revolt are still States of this Union, and entitled to all the privileges of States in the Union; if you will be true and faithful to your high mission and to the principles which you have fore shadowed, there arcand it may as well be known now as hereafter 2 million faithful men in the States which have never been in revolt that will hold up your hands, although they did not support you for the present big 1 office which you hold; while you shall be faithful to the constitution of your country they will be your friends, and when the battle comes, it matters not how fiercely it may rage, they will welcome the contest and welcome the conflict. Sir, it becomes not us of the small minority to champion the cause of the President. We do not resume to do so now. But. he who has studied the political parties of this country, and gained his lessons from the past, well knows that AndrewJohnson, POTUS, is not going to be at down in his efforts to sn port and sustain tcconstitutional rights of the peole, if AndrewJohnson chooses not to be put own. Perhaps I have said enough upon this subject. I could not say less in view of the fact that almost every day something is said in this Chamber or elsewhere exressing apprehensions of the return of the fiemocratic party to power; and this, too, though we have long heard from the same source that the Democratic rty was dead. If indeed it was dead, well might it “ be said Had it but lived. Though reit of power, A watchman on the lonely tower, Its mighty voice had shook the land When fraud or danger were at hand.” But, Mr. President for the reason I have already stated I shall detain the Senate no longer. I shall, at an early day, take occasion to consider the questions involved in the prob lem of “reconstruction” as it is called, a term that 1 do not use.