Mr. STEWART. I will tell the Senator what I do hold. In the 1st place, I hold that no State has gone or can go out of the Union, and consequently so far as being in the Union is concerned they at all times remain the same. I will tell the Senator further, that the loyal men in those States have a right to the constitution and laws of the U.S.; that the disloyal have not the right of representation; the loyal have, and if there is a sutheient number ofloyal men to govern the State, they have the right to form a State government. In the darkest time of the rebellion I deny that the right to represent Tennessee in this Hall by those who were loyal ever was for a moment suspended, but their power to obey the law, their power to represent it was pre. vented by treason. They were overpowered, and they were denied their right of rercsentation, not by Congress, not by the Government. This war was to maintain for them that right which rebellion had sought to take away from them, and had for a time suspended the harmonious relations of the State to the General Government; and it will be too much to admit that this Government has ever been in such a fix that the people thereof were really not entitled to the protectionof the Constitution, and because they were denied it this war was broughton, this war was prosecuted. A man may have a right to a farm, and a trespasser may keep him out of it, but if he sues on hisright, he recovers not a new farm not a new title, but he recovers the title he had before. We said that the loyal men in the sow h had a right to the Union, to the law of representation that rebels had no right to take these from them; they had no right to usurp the authority of this Government, and we called upon the loyal masses to rally to our aid. We tried the suit before the god of battles, and, thank that god, we won it, and we restored to those loyal men their right of representation, which existed all the time, butwhi traitors attempted and did for a time prevent them from enjoying.