Mr. HALE. Mr. Speaker, I have sent;those extracts to the Clerk’s desk to be read for the purpose of including in my remarks here the whole history of this transaction' from the be ginning to the end; and also for the pnrpOse of placing before this House the remarks of Mr. Gitixxsu. upon the occasion in question, as originally taken down by the reporters at the desk, the remarks to which we all listened here, and“ which remarks, as afterward published in the Congressional Globe, differed so widely from the spoken remarks as to deprive them of many of their mest stinging and wan ton insults. What does this language amount to? Passing by the trivialities, if they may be socalled, of the ridicule cast upon Mr. Rossseau as to his person, his dress, his manner, his intellect, his resemblance to a peacock, and all that style of certainly most insultin and unpm liamentnry comment; passing by nl this as unworthy to occup any timev here, in view of what remains of this case, I say that this language, in the 1st place, charges general Rousseau with cowar ice; it char as him over and over again, in all the forms 0 stinging innuendo, With that most contemptible and lowest of all vices in a military man coward ice! It charges upon him that he, hn.sno Military record; that he has been in no great fight; that he never led the soldiers of Iowa in bat tle; that he is held in no estimation by general Grant, and other leading officers of the Army; that they regard him with contempt; that e was compared by one leading officer to a rabbit, an animal certainly not remarkable for its valor; and that withv this inefficient, worthless, and cowardly military career he has stood up in this House and falsely, and as a vain glorious braggart blown his own horn, and pretended to an honorable military record; that e has falsely claimed the honor of having led Iowa troops in battle, and that the soldiers of Iowa shun him and his retenses, and would storm to go to Kentucky for indorsement. That is the length and bre th of the charges made upon General Roussnsu by Mr. Gannvnu. in this paragraph. Now, sir, the fact that these charges are made upon a member of this Heuse is enough, certainly, to call for an inquiry as to the violation of the privileges of the House by the member using that language. In this case there are circumstances connected with the career of General Rousseau which, I think, I may properly allude to, and which Iought to allude to in this connection, to show how much more stinging, how more flagrantly wanton, and unjust was this attack made upon him than it might have been had it been made upon most of us who sit upon this floor. There are circumstances in General Roussmu’s career which, I think, fairly entitle him, in the consideration of all right minded men, to at least the ordinary treatment of a gentleman in this House. Who of us has forgotten, or who can forget, his 1st political record upon the breaking out.of the great. rebellion; now he stood in the Senate of Kentucky, notkesitating, not halting, not planting himself upon a platform of half neutrality, but, almost alone, against an immense majority, standing up from the beginning to the end nobly, strongly, truly, to maintain the Union of this nation to stand by his country and his Government? Who of us can forget how he fought. that battle until the time came to take up arms, and how, then, within the 1st few months ay, within the 1st few weeks of the rebellion, he resigned his seat. in the Senate to enter the field, and was commissioned 1st as colonel, and then as brigadier general? Who can forget the services that be rendered at Shiloh, at Corinth, nt.I’erryville, at Stone River, at Chickamnuga? He has left his military record in the reports of his commanding officers. He never was in battle where he failed to elicit their warmest commendations for his gallantry, his skill, and his superior ability as an officer. His commission as a major Generalrecites upon its face that it was conerred for highly merito rious service in the field. I allude, sir, to these things not as bearing upon the question of his right to commit an assault or his justification in committing it, but I think I have a right to allude to them that I may ask the House to consider how much more stinging these insults, thus wantonly uttered upon this floor, must have been to such aman. how, sir, how can such a man be supposed to comport himself after such an attack under such circumstances? I protest that whatever act of anger he may have committed, that almost any extreme even of personal violence resorted to under such provocation would be a thing that every man of us on this floor might well hesitate to bring in question and try. submit that there is no man upon this floor but ought, before condemning anything that a man does under such a provocation as that, to examine himself and say whether, with such a prov ocation, he might not be led to do much greater wrong and vio nce.