Mr. INGERSOLL. Pardon me; I did not think of that heroic and patriotic band, but I do not apprehend much danger from that source; it would be a bloodless conflict; we would have no use either for the sword or the musket; all that would be necessary to make a conquest over them would be found in the commissary dept. Order out the bread and butter and peace would be restored. I ask the gentleman, who is going to com: mand your army in case you make war upon the Government? Do you believe that Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, or Howard will command and lead your armies against Congress and the loyal people of the U.S.? Are they going to make war upon those who have been their friends through out the long and bloody struggle for the suppression of the rebellion? Are they going to make war upon those without whose aid they would not now wear upon their brows the resplendent laurels of victory which they won 7 ou will find no Grant, no Sherman, no Sheri dan, no Thomas, no Howard, to command you except to command you to disperse. You in not find one heroic soldier who fought to maintain the honor of his country's flag, for the pres. ervation of his country's life, for the suppression of the rebellion, for the destruction of slavery, that will join your army. No, not one. For one I anticipate no war, and if the President would only lend his ready cooperation to the measures matured and passed by Congress for the restoration of permanent, peace the most timorous would not even dream of war, knowing that if such was the fact, harmony and prosperity would be restored without delay. The people of the South would not for a moment stand in the way of congressional reconstruction but for the encouragement held out to them under the presidential policy. Under that policy they see in anticipation restoration to power—yea, augmented power, more power than they had previous to their rebellion. Under the reconstruction policy of Congress they see a diminution of their power unless they enlarge their ideas of justice, liberty, and the of man. Should they do this, then their political power would be equal to ours in the ratio of their population. But until they consent to stand upon the platform we stand upon, and in their Koi. laws. liberty and equality to all men, they will nd the heroic people of the North at the bal lot box and here in Congress battling them in the future as they have in the past. We have laid aside the musket and we hope. to be able to complete our work with the bal lot. We must gather the fruits of our victories. It has been so decreed by the people, and in this Government the people are supreme. Let us hear no more of a war upon the loyal Polo and their Representatives. The Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. LE. ] and his colleague [Mr. FINck] denounce with considerable vehemence the action of the majority here as tending to monarchy; that we favored despotism; that we ignore the rights of the j.people; that we are going to fasten upon them governments unsupportable by reason of their tyranny. How, Mr. Speaker, can any man without blushing, make the charge against the Republican Union party that it is despotic; that it is attempting to destroy the liberties of the people; that it is seeking to establish monarchy or an oligarchy; that it is seeking to place the powers of the Government in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many? Sir, I have but to point with becoming pride to the record of the E.i.party to refute this charge. Has it not enlarged and extended the area of liberty? Has it not taken by the hand the lowly, the poor, the oppressed, and the downtrodden and lifted them up to a political level with itself? Has it not, in opposition to the falsely, called Democratic party, stricken the corroding shackles from 4 million slaves, which . hand of tyranny and despotism fastened upon them, iniwhich the Democratic party kept upon them during 3 generations? The shackles and that party are going to dust together. This, sir, is the fruit gathered from the seed planted by the old abolition party many years ago in the free soil of the North. Slavery and oligarchy—the worst features of despotism– were cherished and strengthened by the party calling itself Democratic. When the party came into power it struck a giant blow, and Moloch and his worshipers fift. rise no more. To whom are we indebted for the repeal of the odious fugitive slave law? To the Republican party that is in power today. In its hatred of despotism it struck that hideous law out of existence. To whom is the world indebted for the grand lessons of liberty and equal justice that have been taught and enforced within the past few years? To the abolition party. To whom are the colored people of this District indebted for the recognition of their manhood and their rights as citizens? To that same Abolition Republican party in Congress here. Standing loyal and true to its professions it was the 1st party to give the country an illustra.tion of to: principles it professed in favor of universal liberty. It voted for the abolition of slavery at the seat of your Government and carried it over your opposition. It conferred throughout the length and breadth of this land the character, and rights of citizens, upon the emancipated blacks in the face of the opposition of your party and over the veto of your President. Recognizing the right of the black man to liberty it placed in his hands the ballot to protect that liberty. ts voice is again heard in opposition to the admission of new States with the word “white” in their constitutions. It is against the recognition of the inequality of man; and here again your party is on the side of despotism and oligarchy. The Republican party has ever been the party of liberty, of equality, and justice. That party is now most gloriouslyfulfilling the hopes of the good men who founded and established this Republic by carrying into practical effect the immutable principle of the DeclarIndep, “that all men are created equal.” For the 1st time in the history of the Government has this divine principle been recognized by its lawmaking power and carried into execution. Instead of war the day of jubilee is coming, and this Republican party is going to usher it in. Are we in favor of monarchy and despotism? Are you afraid that the Republican Union party will fasten upon any portion of the people the chains Pslavery or any form of despotic government? Have we not in the face of the fiercest opposition enlarged the area of freedom and made it coextensive with the Republic itself? The Republican party has done all this and more; all for the amelioration and elevation of man kind. Language fails me to portray its glori ous deeds in behalf of liberty and justice. I am proud of that party. It has done more to aggrandize free institutions than any and all other parties that ever existed on the face of the earth. A portion of its fame belongs to me. It will descend to my children. The influence of its glorious deeds are not confined alone to the limits of our own country. It has extended across the seas, and is today under mining and threatening with destruction the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World. It questions the divine right of kings and their thrones are less secure, and its influence will not cease to be felt and move the hearts of men until the world is redeemed from the thralldom of despotism. Now, sir, with that sublime record of the past do you suppose it possible for the Republican party to do an actinconsistent with that record in act that widim the luster of its immortal fame? No, sir, never. We are making agrand advance. Clothed in the panoply of justice, supported by the unconquerable will of a liberty loving people, we are invincible. The day is coming, it is not far distant, when. will be satisfied and the blessings of liberty secured to all, and then a grand and majestic Republic will have risen upon the ruins of the present.