Mr. HOWE. I am glad to hear him disavow that opinion. When that time comes that power of removal in the hands of the President will not be worth a fig to any party, because whenever your enemies, whenever those gallant gentlemen who now occupy seats on the other side of this Chamber, shall be secured possession of the Government, shall be rein orced by members which shall enable them to make laws and to confirm appointments, you will find them actuated by a spirit very different from what seems to actuate us. The power to remove an officer is worth nothing to any unless it is accompanied by the power to ll the place with the man you want, with a better man. Sir, I do not speak from the spirit of prophecy: I am instructed by history. In 1860 we elected a man who was in accord with us, but we had not a Congress in accord with him. such a Congress was secured by secession, not by election. Suppose those gentlemen who left the Senate of the U.S. to enter into the service of the confederacy had seen fit to stay here, do you think President Lincoln could have removed a Democrat from office and appointed a Republican? Let me remind the Senate of what the Present POTUS thought was the duty of his party friends on just such an occasion. He was in that Senate: he voted against the election of Mr. Lincoln; he appealed to his party friends not to leave the American Senate, to fight their battles inside the Senate and inside the Constitution, inside the Union, as he called it. He exhorted them by every consideration which ought to have been addressed to them, and, as I think, by a great many considerations which never ought to have been addressed to them. But one of the arguments he Presented was this; he said to them: “I am for abiding by the Constitution: and in abiding by it, I want to maintain and retain my here, and put downMr. Lincoln, and drive back is advancesupon southern institutions, if he designs to make any. Have we not got the brakes in our hands?, Haye we not got the power? We have. Let SCarolina send f. Senatorsback; let all the Senators come; and on the 4th of March next we shall have a majority of 6 in This successful sectional c and tidhaisteb, owdhyoagainst him is in a mine irty of a million or nearly so, on the popular vote, cannot make his Cabinet on the 4th.P'o. next unless this Senatewill permit him. "Am I to be so great a coward as to retreat from duty upo2nIwill stand here and meet the encroachments the institutions of mycountryat the threshold: and as a man, as one that loves my country and my constituents, iwi?i stand here and resist all encroachments_and advances. Here is the place to stand shall I desertthe citadel and let the enemy come in and take possession? No. Can Mr. Lincoln send a foreign minister or even a consul abroad unlesshe receivesthe sanction of the Senate? Can he appoint a postmaster whose salary is over 1000 dollars a year without the consentof the Senate? shall we dpeersmeritt our posts, shrink from our responsibilities, and Mr. Lincoln to come with his cohorts, as we consider them, from the North, to carry off everything? Are we so cowardly that, now that we are defeated, not conquered, we shall do this?” That was the advice addressed to the Senate of 1861 by the Present POTUS, and you are admonished by that that whenever those gentlemen got possession of the Senate it is of no consequence that you have a friend of yours in the executive chair; he will be powerless to displace your enemies or to reward your friends. I do not deprecate that. I do not think any the worse of those gentlemen, because I know that would be their policy. I am glad to know of them that whenever they do get the reins in their hands they will have courage enough to drive the team. I want to see so much courage displayed by those who have the reins in their hands now. Mr. President, I invoke the Senate to agree to this amendment of the HoRep. It will restore the POTUS to the sphere of duty assigned to him by the Constitution; it will restore his subordinates to the official labors for which they were employed. It will transform the American people, that portion of them who need the transformation, from a race of office seekers to a race of men. It will restore the public service to what it ought to be. By every consideration, it seems to me, which could move a Legislature we are exhorted to agree to that amendment of the HoRep.