Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, I agree with the Senator in his last position. He says he would make no distinction with them in the ordinary concerns of life. Agreed: I am with him. make no distinction in the ordinary concerns of life; I insist that your legislation shall bear equally upon them and upon others; but theo is whether the measure you are about to pass comes in the category of the ordinary concerns of life. It is, on the contrary, I submit, extraordinary. It is a new act of legislation providing a great, a peculiar remedy, one that this country has not known for a whole generation. The Senator alluded to the early bill. I remember it well. It was in 1841. All that intervening time has passed and you have had no bankrupt act. Now at last you are about to have one, and the question is to whom this extraordinary act of legislation shall be applicable. I take the Senfrom Maine at his word. I will not make any difference between them and us in the ordinary concerns of life; but. when the question is on what is extraordinary, on what does not belong to the ordinary con. cerns of life, there my friendfrom Maine must pardon me if I cannot see our duty as he sees it. To my mind the course that the Senator proposes will help, so far as it has any influence, to invigorate that spirit of the rebellion which I know he hates as well as I. I know he would not intentionally do anything to invigorate it; but I fear that his words today may add some what to those multitudine us influences which are spreading over that region calculated to awaken those old feelings which ought to be trampled out forever. I said when I was up before that what I sought as the one thing needful to my country at this moment was security. I do not see well how you can vote on any measure now without bringing it to that great test: does it help to establish the foundations of security in that part of our country which has been so unhap pily deranged? I ask myself, that question every day.. I cannot avoid it; it Presses upon me in all that we do; and when any measure so far as is owhich seems to my mind it has any influence to impair somewhat the bases of security, to."; it may be, anew the rebel spirit, to quicken the spirit of out. rage which exists so extensively there, I hope I shall be pardoned if I array myself againstit. I cannot do otherwise. I. am seeking for my country repose, tranquillity, all that is comprehended in that blessed word peace. There is nothing that I will not do to accomplish that result. fis because I most earnestly seek that result that I have brought forward the propo.sition on which you are to vote. The Senfrom Maine in his last remarks was careful, again to exPress, his adhesion to the test oaths as they exist; he does not seek to do them away, but he wishes no extension of them. Now, I desire no extension of them; but then I surrender myself freely to the principle of the case. If sound principle requires that the test oath shall be extended to other cases I go where principle leads. The Senator reminded us that if this provision was adopted it would bear hard upon certain persons, who were Pressed into the rebellion and who were really loyal in heart. Let me ask my friend if that same argument is not equally strong against every test oath on our statute books? Is not the oath hard on all that class of persons to whom the Senator has referred 2