Mr. COWAN. That may be; it may come to that; but I am not yet bound to anticipate. I was going on to show what the law was with regard tothese things. As I said before, whatever was done by the inhabitants of those States after we were out of possession, and at a time when we could not protect them, whatever was then done in obedience to the confederate government, or to the State government over them, is notto be imputed to them as treason. That is what I mean, and I think that every man of the country ought to be proud, he ouglfi to be desirous to get as many of the people of the South in that category as he could. Do you want to make it out that you live in a community 1/2 of whom are rebels and traitors? If I believedQhat the community in which I lived was of that texture, so rotten in its na ture, and so unworthy of everything that constitutes manhood, I would not sta in the country 5 minutes. I sayI am prou to know that among the southern (people in that terrible time of peril and rage an excitement, when all the elements were unloosed, so many of them stood up for their country, its constitution, and its flag. I cannot conceive what object is to be gained bygentlemen in endeavoring to make it out that the whole mass of them are wanting in anything like that virtue which characterizes and oug tto characterize American citizens. I say that the law is the rule, and for my own art I assail no man South except through the aw. We made the war to restore the dominion of the laws, not the dominion of any man, or of any set of men, or of any faction or party. The law is above us all. We made the war because the law had been broken. because the law had been violated; and we made the war to restore it in its majesty; and I say let the law judge, and let him who talks about traitors go into the courts and punish them. If a traitor undertakes to come here, a man that I believe guilty of treason, a man that I believe made war upon the U.S. at a time when the U.S. could protect him, and when he was under the authority and power of no other Government, I would take him into the court anyself; I should feel it my bounden duty to o so.