Mr. Mo OUGALL. It is a work of labor to speak after the eloquent remarks of the Senfrom Maryland, who has better expressed what I think than I can express it in any form of words; and yet I think it is due to myself and the opinion I represent (for I think I represent the opinion of my own country) that I should say a few words. They will not be many. There is an intense love for the Union throughout all the country; there was an in tense love of the Union in my own country, and there is today, not governed by any form of words, but governed by principles and a high sense of right and justice. I 0 not care to reason about this thing. It has been reasoned about by eminent men, men who can discourse better than myself, to whom I submit the authority of the argument; but I wish to say that throughout all the States that belong to this Union there has been always a preponderating loyal sentiment, in the South as Well as in the North. 2/3rds of the people of the South loved our flag, and hailed it in Tennessee as well as elsewhere. These thin s have not been well observed. They should have been well observed. The observation has been neglected because for this, that in some depts of NewEngland they thought they were the 10 alest of them all. It has been the pride 0 my life to have lived among all these peopIles, and from the South, Ffiist, West, and orth all were 10 al. The accident of controversy changed the condition of society and changed positions in States. I witnessed it. It was witnessed by all men who were observant men. I regretted it, for I thought the South were in error, and I always have. The majority of the people of the South are loyal to the banner of our country, always were. This was not known or recognized well in the North, because they were ignorant of the fact. I was not ignorant of the fact, for I was conversant with it. In the tribulation of a war, with the chances of battle and the chances of sudden death, men differed, and some went one way and some went another. Thus does it always happen in all great civil controversies. I believe there is as much re ret today in the South as there is in the Nort i for the great error in which they indulged. Gentlemen seek now what is called reconstruction. There is no such thing as reconstruction. There may be rehabilitation. “'e may take them to our own house at home, those who wandered away, and again embrace them as brothers. That is aduty imposed upon us by the highest laws and the highest principles that gOvern the conduct of persons among the best classes of mankind. I do not please to discourse, for all that there is in and about the subject matter of the present controversy has been discussed with carefulness by men whom I will admit to be my mas ters. I cannot advise the Senate nor can I instruct them in any form of words; yet it is iny duty in my place to state my solemn convictions. This whole measure is suppling the foundations of our institutions. f Iy have not for gotten myself. wise men built the foundations; wise men built the superstructure, wise men had to do with all that belongs to its edification. If I have not been badly instructed, tinkers have taken the hands and undertaken to do what their fathers would not dare to do, what I with the instructions I have had would not dare to do. It has been said that “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” It has seemed to me that that was the habitnde of men who think they are fit to be Senators of a great nation. If I differ with them in opinion I ask their pardon for the difference. We have got a great work to do. The nations are at war. France and Austria and France and Italy are at war. We not a long time hence will be at war with our legions in the field. These things will happen, and they have to be looked at with a bold eye and a firm front. These things are not to he disguised. Why is Muimilian now today maintained as the house of Hapsburg in Mexico? A trick of political strategyl, a trick alone, nothing more, nothing less. e has to leave Mexico absolutely; an why has it not been done? Permit me now to say it is the fault of on; own Government, for had it been said b the officer who has charge o“f the foreign relations of this Government, Nolt' me tangcre, ” there would have been no occupation of Mexico by Maximilian, or the house of Austria, or Louis Napoleon. These things have to be corrected, and they have got to be corrected by the stern will and the deter mined force of the men of the country wherein I was born, whose interests I intend to maintain. Again, Mr. President, there are other questions and as I am speaking I am not making a speech, but I am talking I may ask, what about the trouble on our northern frontier, and what about that trouble in Ireland?