Mr. SMITH. Mr. Speaker, this question is entirely ertinent, so ar as I am concerned because I introduced the resolution in rer to Colonel Johnson, to whom that article which I propose to have read refers directly and immediately. I ask the Clerk now to read that article. Uie Clerk read, as follows: “The great.question. gentlemen, waxes more and moreinteresting. We need not. us I see, spendmuch ink on the abstractions ofin or out of the Union. It is much like the old legal gent reinainders. So the twruraengieleiracboomutese toont in the estate.who caresto discuss the “in nitbibmtheory of hair splitting schoolmen. Let us clutch the practical question. “ licre stand at your doors a horde of red handed traitors, fresh from the battlefield, where they have sought to trampleyour national flagin the dust. They curse; they clamor; they make useof every channel at their command to pour upon your HoRep their indignity; they live and move in our midst: with head! erect. as if they were lords iu the land, they despiseand seek to destroy; their constituency lay violent hands upon any patriot who dares venture amongthem: every man who hasbeen prominent as a hater and opponent of the warm now alover and a friend of these rebel representativea. Shall they be admitted to make anoint claws which they have so long trampled under foot? Do you desireyour Representativestosit in consultationwith the murderersof your sonsand brothers or the apol ogistsand defendersofsuch I Do you desireto transfer to them and t i r friends in the House who already long for t on embrace the lawmaking power of the land? “ If you do, then say so. Let the presssay so. Let the peoplesay so. Let us have no more weak essays about in or out Let us have no whinings about constitutional amendments and no Pharisaic mann derings about the sacred uoss of the Union which thesetraitors so hate. Do you want Alock Stephens in the Senatefrom Georgia? Do vouwant the Repro sentative of Lawrence couiitv Iiawience himself to vote for the admission of Arkansas members to seats on the floor. with their tootlvpicks sharp ened on the skulls ofyour dearll Very well. instruct him to do so again as he did the other day."