Mr. KASSON. If so, the POTUS, as Chief of the Army, should take the advice of my friend and have them court martialed for violating the Constitution and laws of the U.S. [Laughter] I hope the gentleman will advise the President in good faith to adopt that course. Sir, I wish we could convert my friend and all on his side of the House to an enlightened view of these subjects. Do they not see that they are daily descending into party ruin by attempting to oppose or ignore the great principles of human liberty and human progress? Do they not know that an idea of liberty and progress will ride right over any amount of Democratic flesh and crush it under its invisible wheels? There is nothing that can stand in the way of the prog ress of these ideas except folly, and that must be crushed as they go on to victory. Every party that chooses to stand in this country for an hour must adopt something at least of these progressive ideas. They must accept the new interpretations of the Constitution and laws that arise from a new condition of facts to which the Constitution and laws apply. The great infirmity of the executive administration today is, that it does not accept this light thrown upon the duties connected with their office. They adhere to opinions that were buried in the war, in the graves of the rebellion. The southern states man has always been guided simply by formal dogmatic declarations from which he argued to results. The northern mind, the great loyal and Union intellect of the country, argues from ideas as the foundation of statesmanship, and hence has risen to power and will hold power supremely in this country until it abandons these ideas and crystalizes itself in arbitrary forms, without progress for the future. I make this earnest request this supplication even to my friends on the other side, in the interest of that freedom, which can be greatly aided by the unanimous action of this. which will have its effect over all the people of this country, and even the judicial tribunals themselves, to take this step with us for the interest of personal o: Now, sir, I desire a vote on this subject, and though I am willing to yield to. i other gentle desire to retain the floor for the purpose of moving the previous question. to yield to the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. THAYER.] How much time does he desire?