Mr. TRUMBULL. The Senfrom missouri [Mr. Hsxnsnson objected very stren uously to that portion of the preamble reported by the ComJudiciary which reads as follows: prAonpderwsphierirteasthe body of the people have, by a of obedience, shown to the satisfaction of Congress.the returnof saidStatetoduoallcciunce to the Governmennlawsmndauthorityof the U.S. That recital is cOpied in hwc vcrba from the House preamble. Of course it is just as objectionable in the House preamble as in the one reported by the ComJudiciary. Our report is an amendment of the House report, and those words are the same in both. They would not have been inserted, probably, as an original proposition. I thought there was force in the suggestion made by the Senfrom Missouri, and I have no objection mself to those words going out. I think it. would be as well, perhaps, to let them go out, and instead of saying that “the body of the people have, by a proper spirit of obedience, shown to the satislaction of Congress, the return of said State to due allegiance, ” to say simply that the State of Tennessee has done other acts proclaiming and denoting loyalty. That. there could be no objection to. While I am up I desire to say thatI am not tenacious about a preamble at all. I introduced a proposition, when we 1st heard that Tennessee had ratified the constitutional amendment, without any preamble. I would have been satisfied to act without having any preamble; but the House thought proper to adopt a preamble, which was cut to the senate. The matter was then referred to the ComJudiciary. I felt very snre of one thin: that if we had a preamble at all it ought to Ire full; we should either have no preamble, and let every person, as was said by the Senfrom Wisconsin, vote for reasons satisfacto to himself, one way or the other, or if yourhad a preamble, it should be full. flow, what is the difference between these reambles? The Senfrom Oregon [Mr. 11.1.1sus]preferred the House preamble. The reason I object to the House preamble, if we are to have one at all, is that it is not fall; it contains but.one declaration and what is that? That Tennessee has in good faith ratified the constitutional amendment proposed at the present session. That is all there is in it.