Mr. FESSEXDEN. I did not hear that she ever admitted their delegates into the Senate. I never heard it claimed that they had a right of representation in the Roman Senate. She did have a sort of governor that she called a proconsul who ruled the conquered provinces. However, this conversation with the Senator is, perhaps, out of place, and I shall proceed with my argument, if it may be called an argument. The Senator. has now contended (and it is a necessary consequence of the position he assumed the other day) that we necessarily lost all of our power of exercising government over these people as the U.S.A., by the simple fact that they were enabled to rebel and to raise an army to fight us. He has saved me the trouble, therefore, of asking my other question. lwas about to ask him if we had that power while they were in rebellion, whether the power of taxation did not continue for a little while after the rebellion was quelled, or whether we must necessarily wait until the Government was restored in all its perfection and in all its parts over these conquered people, these subjugated people, until they came buckinto the GOVernment as rulers with us. Now, sir, let us look at this question. Gef tlemen have been talking here from time to time and in the other House about the great abuse that these States were not admitted to representation while the Government was goin onto tax them. Sir, the arms that were raised against us were never laid down until last April.: From that time to December Congress was not in session. They were under the control of the military power. We came together on the 1st Monday of December. There had been an exhausting war, 4 years of deadly strug gle: 100s of 1,000s slain, 100s of millions spent; a war more savage, in my judgment, on the part of the enemy we had to encounter than lies been known in modern times; in which the most savage hate was exhibited against everything that was not of the confederates, which was istinguished, remarkable. for its character, so distinct from all those wars that have marked modern periods. We came together in December, on certain men present en themselves claiming to be admitted as Senators and as Representatives n on these floors. We I had not been together 30 days before ; gentlemen contended here that they were entitled to admission upon an equality with ourselves and as parts of the governing power. It is not I now 90 days since this Congress met; and before the expiration of 90 days. Bfter this war of 4 years of the character that existed and with denunciations of the most bitter kind from all that people, we are told that we are perpetrating the most gross injustice because they are not already here in these seats as Sens&Reps in Congress, and that our legislation is substantially good for nothing because they are not here. It is a most remarkable fact in this connection that not only have we not been together 90 days when we are called upon to admit these Senators and these Representatives, but we are called on to decide that the condition of that people is such as to render it safe, when the President himself, who calls upon us to do it, has not withdrawn his suspension of the writ of habeascorpus throughout that territbry, but keeps his Army in that territory, and when all the generals and himself at the head of all the generals tell us that it is unsafe to withdraw it, that they cannot be left to themselves, and that the Army must remain and they be kept under military law. Mr. resident, this strikes me as somewhat singular; and I say this becauseI want the count to understand it. Is no time to be allowed? Hryere, it is said, are 8 million people; here is a territory embracing I do not know how many million square miles; here have been 11 States in rebellion; here has been a war of 4 years. Congress meets; the question is to be submitted to that Congress; and gentlemen talk here and denounce it, and the Presi dent himself denounces it, and the newspapers denounce it, and the Democracy denounce it; all raise their O against us because within 9 d8YS,WI10n:HG President himself,as Commander in Chief of the Army, does not choose to withdraw the Army from that territory, we have not put its Representatives and Senators in these seats to govern for themselves and to govern us. I allude to this fact simplyfor the purpOse of showing how utterly fa so are the accusations made against Congress, come from what quarter they may, how utterly unreason able it is to suppose that a question of this kind is to be settle in such a urry; how utterly unreasonable it is when the Senfrom Pennsylvania undertakes to tell us that there is but one course to pursue, and that is to admit these people instanter, to assume that the are in a condition to be admitted, to assume that all the questions have been settled by other authorities in point of fact.