Mr. KELLEY. Sir, so bloody minded are some of the baser sort of the reconstructed that I am not disposed to offer a victim or 2 upon the altar of the curiosity of the distinguished leader of the Democracy from NewJersey. [Laugliter] This letter is a little older than the other. It is dated April 24: " The course of eventshas not suiiprised me much. though it grieves me exceedingly. saw, or thought I saw, that the best thingforthe whole country.especially for the South, wasentire harmonybetween the President and the party which elected him. That. harmony has been roken, I fear, Without hope of restoration. I cannot but think that the President has committed a great blunder, if not a great crime. I know verily that for 2 or 3 months after the surrender until indeed his restoration polici was fully developed and considered here a fixe fact Ilnlenaoolem the southern mind was more like a blank sheet of paper than I have ever knew it, more free from preJudice more disposedto broad national views, on more suse c tible to impressions favorahlo to the North and nor.ern men and northern ideas. Upon that blank sheet of pape rmight have been written enduring characters of peace union, and harmony between every section of the Republic. But the time was lost: when it will return. God only knows. I give it as rny deliberate conviction that the prospect is darkening everyday. Sectionalpride, sections hate, sectional ideas are as rampant here asthey were before the war. Is it so at the North? I cannot believe it is so. But I am told that the determination is fixed to let no part of the fruits of the war assaway till all be fulfilled. This is right. Nor do believe that our peoplewill cometo their senses until they realize this fact beyond cavil or dispute. The notiop is sedulously inculcated here that the Northwestis thoroughly with the President and against Congress." Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt that such false notions are sedulously inculcated, and produce much evil and the absurd notions inculcated here by gentlemen who claim to be the peculiar frien s of the South are misleading the poor, impul sive, passion ruled people of that section, and prompting them to such deeds as were perpe trated last. week at Memphis, encouragin them to resist all efforts at conciliation on social reconstruction, impelling them to drive northern men and capital from their respective neighborhoods, and by threats and deeds of violenceto retard the material development of their own section and the interlinking of ours with theirs by the tics of friendship, of commerce. Yes, it is by promulgating such groundless delusions and catering to their wounded pride that the hour of safe and perfect reconstruction is delayed. No consideration is more important than the animus of the masses of the southern people; and he is not their friend who blinds their judgment or fires their hatred against the overwhelming majority of the people of the North. Yet what does the 3rd section of the proposed amendment, which my colleague says the people of the South cannot accept without dishonor, provide? Why, that at the end of 4 little years all those who by the crime of treason or the actofse cession havedisfranchised themselves shall vote and the past shall be politically forgiven, if not forgotten. Will my colleague dare go to his people on the round that this offer is inhuman I Will he as them as he did us how, if secession was a failure and the war a success, the States got out of the Union or the people lost their political rights. My Carolina letter answers that. If secession was a right it was exercised, and they are conquered territory; and if it was not a right, the people embarked in rebellion and have. lost all civil and political rights, and the consequences are Eractically the same.