Mr. HISE. I floor. Now, sir, what is the object of this measure you have inaugurated? A despotic government has existed over these people ever since they surrendered. They surrendered under the hope and expectation on the part of all their intelligent, able, and prominent leaders, of all their distinguished men who before the warhad occupied seats in the Congress of the U.S., that when the war terminated the constitution of the U.S. would be still in force all over the whole country, and that they must decline to yield the wo would be entitled as free men to representation in the Legislature of the U.S., hopes and expectations founded upon the sol: emn pledges of the American Congress, founded also upon constitutional law; yet Congress in bad faith, and contrary to express constitutional injunction, interpose by a JtResolution a barrier to the admission of their representatives into the Senate and House, and declare in substance that they shall be excluded at discretion until such barriers shall be removed. So from the very period of the termination of hostilities o to this moment there has been a despotic civil government over them. You have extended the authority of your courts over them. You have imposed upon them your internal tax laws. You have imposed your impost duties upon them, and all obstruc.tion to the execution of the Constitution and laws of the U.S. has been removed; and while you discriminate against them in taxing their agricultural productions, and while you are so legislating as to impose upon them all the heaviest i.i. of the Government and to deprive them of all its advantages an blessings, yet you deny to them their constitutional right of representation here and their right of local self government. Is not this the very essence of despotic government, to rufe those ten States of the Union and all their inhabitants by a governing power wielded by a legislative body made up exclusively of representatives of other States, in which they have no voice, over which they have no share of influence, and which is irresponsible to the people whom they oppress and enslave? But, sir, do you tell me any respect for constitutional law or the constitutional rights of these States will ever restrain Congress from the exercise of any legislative power, however illegitimate, cruel, and oppressive, which will enrich and aggrandize the represented at the expense of the unrepresented States. See what has been done already. Look at the discriminating tax of 3 cents per pound upon cotton. Observe how all the patronage and revenues of the Government are dispensed and expended for the exclusive benefit of the North, with a studied discrimination against the South and the southern people. Look at the pitiful indication of sectional malignity against the southern people upon this floor in striking out an appropriation of $10,000 for necessary repairs of the marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky. Look at the immense patronage given in the form of Government credits and rants of public lands to northern companies or the construction of railroads, while the project of a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific on the line of 32, through the State of Texas, by the way of El Pase to the Pacific port of SanDiego has not a single acre of land nor a single dollar from the government. No aid has been given on the part of the Government to push that enterprise; and yet that railroad project is over a country through which the route is everywhere practicable and its construction easy, at a cost much less than that of the other projects so munificently patronized. It will pass through the richest mineral region of the country, is near 1,000 miles shorter than any other route, and has the advantage of a location in a latitude where there is a perpetual spring and never any obstruction from ice or snow. Look at everything done by this Government and you will find the design and end to be for the aggrandizement of the North and the oppression of the South. It all shows that it will inevitably follow, in the nature of things, that the Government by the representatives of one section over the people of another section will always subject the latter to injustice, cruelty, and oppression. You have kept up a civil despotism in the South up to this very moment, and now you propose to substitute "a military despotism in place of it. There is no limitation upon the power of these military satraps. Who they are to be I now distinctly understand. They are to be appointed by — d Mr. ALlo. Appointed by the presient.