Mr. Seward in that reply says: The Congressof the U. S. furnishes a constitutional forum for debatesbetween the alienated parties. Sens&Repsfrom the loyal portion of the pooile are there already fully empow eredtoconfer: an seatsalso arevacant and invitigg Sens&Reps from the discontent garty who may be constitution ally sentthere from the tattooinvolved in the insurrection.” That declaration received the approvaliimo President, and expressed the views of the executive Dept of the Government. Now so much for the executive Dept of the (iovernment. Ifind also upon the statute book laws of Congress all has upon the some idea; laws imposing direct taxes, frequently referred to in ese ebates. In An st, 1861, that law was passed apportioning their share of direct taxes to each of the States then in rebellion, naming them and recognizingthem most distinctly and eXplicitly as States of the Union; and those taxes were paid, or when paid will be paid, by virtue of that act of Congress. So with the portionment ofre reseutation. The act passe arch 4, 1862, which did not take effect by its terms until March 4, 1863, gave to each of the southern States its proportion of representation upon this floor. It thus no knowledged the right of reptation in congress of every one of those, and by the most solemn action declared them to be States of the Union and in the union even while in open rebellion and war. I could read from other laws passed duii mower and show that they all imply, more or, directly, precisely the sdime thin. I find Macias; from tiniie 1:o time istiuct eclantw us gress an by this House of thee obtaud scope of the war; I find that the object the war isin every instance declared to be to serum and reserve the Union with “all the dignity, equa y, and rights of the several States unimpaired.” I find that one resolution defluing the objects for which and for which alone the war was waged, and specifying as one of them the preservation of the rights of the States unimpaired, passed this onse after the war had begun in tesummer of 1861; and I find recorded as having voted for it nearly all who there then and who are new members of the House on the Union side, and many others. I find the distinguished gentle man who is now the Speaker of lhe House, [Mr. Conrsx;I] find the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. KELunfl I find the Gentfrom Ohio