Mr. DAWES. Iopose, proformd, the amendment of the Gentfrom Wisconsin, [Mr. Pawn] The gentleman inquires why select out this particular road; why not select roads in the Northwest and other parts of the country and give them donations? Does the gentleman forget that we have been doing that all this session, and that we have been giving them the best lands belonging to the U.S. We have done it because it is a wise policy to develop the resources of that western country. For the same reason, if we were to donate all these duties to this railroad it would be the wisest policy to pursue on our part. I do not look so much to the agency of such laws as we are enabled to pass here for the restoration of these States to their former relations to the Union as I do to precisely such agencies as are incidentally connected with such measures as this. I look to the civilization which is to follow from such legislation as this to restore these States to harmony. I look to the reziper and the mower, to the school house, the church, the whole system of northern education and civilization carried down there from the North, and supported it may be from the North, to restore these States to their former relation to this Union. It is not b the force oflaws that we can pass here that they will ever become what they were before save the institution of sla very. They are to be brought back by a new social system, new to the very foundation. The old system has been upturned, upheaved, and destroyed, and upon its ruins it better, health ier, and more permanent civilization is to be established. I hope every one of these railroads, these arteries, these sources of life, civilization, and strength, will bra developed. I hope we will invite northern ca ital and northern emigre.tion there. I woulli not undertake to starve and stint them. I would recognize the fact that they are prostrate, that the whole surface of the country is burned over, and is a hen of ashes, and I would build up upon‘it this new system which the providence of God has ordained as the result of the war. I would donate to these railroads all the duties upon iron necessary to put them in order. Their rolling stock, what is that to us in comparison with the worth of a flourishing, enterprising system like that which is spread all over the northern and western States? What is that compared with what it would be, dealing with them as we may have the power to do? [Here the hammer felli