Mr. JOHNSON. I think my friendfrom NewHampshire rather exaggerates what has heretofore occurred at the Militar Academy. 1 had occasion some time ago, with the aid of the gentleman who is now at the head of the Academ, to look at the number who hadjoined the rebellion, among those who had been edu cated at the Academy, and it was comparatively a very small%age; and I think it may be safely said now, looking to the experience that those who joined it have had, that no man who will ever be educated there in the future will be found raising his arm against the government. If there are men who have suffered more, perhaps, than any others during the rebellion, it is those who have forfeited their claim to public confidence by having joined the war as against the Government by whom they were educated and when my friendfrom NewHampshire speaks of the experience we have had in the past, I think he misapplics the term as applicable to the question before the Senate. We have had no such experience as to teach us how to act in the particular case now before us. When those who were educated there and who did join the rebelliOn were sent to the Mil itary Academy we were at peace with each other; no man dreamed at that time that there would be such a war as afterwards unfortunately turned out; and I so pose no boy ever was sent to the Academy who during the period of his education or for years afterwar thought of raising his hand against the Government; and those who were most conspicuous in the service of the rebellion were men who had E fought very gallantly and with great skill, and i had contributed in a great measure to raise the militar reputation of the country in defense of the U.S. in the war with Mexico. Their fault has been (and it is a fault which I do not think the Senate exactly appreciate) that they were educated in that part of the U.S. where the doctrine of secession was taught as a constitutional doctrine, really believed in. The effect of that teaching was not confined to the South a great many men at the North entertained the same opinion; a great many at the North before the rebellion and during the rebellion avowed the same opinion. At the time the fugitive slave act was pending before Congress, and more strikingly after it had becomea law and it was called in question in some of the States, a great many men who have been thoroughly true to the Union except in that particular, were resolved to resist by force the execution of that law, and avowed that determination.