Mr. IiESSENDEN. It may bebut if so, I am very much mistaken. If Ima e a remark of that kind I have misconstrued the President;. Jand that brings me to a short consideration of. the veto message. Iwill say in regard to that message, that I had no very particular attachment to the bill which was thus vetoed. In some particulars it did not meet my approval. I thin some of the reasons which the Presi dent gives for not approving it are such as would commend themselves to public consideration. It is a bill upon the provisions of which there might well 0avery considerable difference of opinion. I yielded, however, the objections I had, and one of them was very much like that stated by my honorable friendfrom WestVirginia [Mr. Winner] to the 6th section of the bill, because I thought on consideration that the power did exist, and it was especially necessary to exercise it, and the bill therefore received my vote. If the President had confined himself in the objections which he stated to a criticism of the bill itself, it is very possible that I might have been quite willing to waive in own feelings and opinions in regard to the bil as it passed, and to sustain his veto. But on looking at the veto message, and the reasons given in it. it struck me, that after passing from the consideration of the pro visions of the bill which was sent to him, he gave other reasons which rendered it impossihie, in my judgment, for any member of this Senate with a due respect to himself and to the rights of the Senate and of Congress, to vote otherwise than to sustain the bill they had sent to him; because a vote in the negative on the question of its passage seems to indorse all his opinions whatever they may be, as expressed in the veto message. I considered it so. At any rate, I did not mean to put myself in the position of indorsing, or being supposed for a single instant to give my assent to the closing parts of the veto message. What do I understand by the closing parts of that message? Simply that, in the judgment of the President, Congress, as at present organized,has no right to pass any bill nfiecting the interests of the late confederate States while the are not repre sented in Congress. Does teSenfrom Wisconsin say that that opinionis not definitely exressod?