Mr. DOOLITTLE. That is all I designed to say, thatit passed that House without debate. I do not mean any disrespect to the House. But, Mr. President, there was another assem blage in Washington which took place not long since, and whose proceedings arepublished to the world and known of all men, of whichI suppose I can speak with entire freedom: I refer to a certain assemblage whose proceedings arepublished as the proceedings of a can cus of gentlemen in the city of Washington. I suppose no rule of the Senate requires me to speak in any other terms of those published proceedings than to speak the truth. To that I am willing to be bound. By the published proceedings of that assemblage, it would seem that on a Saturday night, without any discussion whatever a certain resolution, which reads word for word just like this resolution whichis sent here from the HoRep, was adopted in that caucus under the leadership of a certain gentlemanl will not speak of him as a member of the House, but as a man known to history who resides in the State of PennsylIvauia. refer to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. His history is known to all men; and one thing we know of him certainly, that he is most bitterly, uncompromisingly hostile to the policy of the present Administration on the subject of reconstruction. He goes with him who goes the farthest, holding that even the State of Tennessee is an alien State at war with the U.S.; and if I am not misinformed, in the convention at Baltimore, which nominated Messrs. Lincoln and Johnson for President and VEEP, he objected to the nomination of AndrewJohnson because he was an alien enemy! Sir, I have seen nothing in the history of that gentleman to lead me to suppose that he has in any respect changed his opinions, for it is not long since we read a speech of his delivered in the State of Pennsylvania, marked with his usual ability, with his great boldness, with that cool assurance which some times almost rises to the sublime, in which he proposed, if I do not mistake, almost the entire and universal confiscation of the whole of the southern States. Now, Mr. President, of the doings of that assemblage in connection with the resolution I feel at perfect liberty to speak without violating the rules of this House. I will not speak with disrespect even of that assemblage; I have not done so; I do not intend to do so. I aim ly, say that within 3 minutes, by the clock at er, the hour when that assemblage was called, Ihaddeus Stevens had moved his committee on resolutions and was withdrawing with his committee from the body to makehis report, and within: ten minutes, withotit any discussion, without any consideration whatever, itwas by that cool tact and talent of his pressed throng the body and declared to be unanimously adopted. Why this hot haste, sir? What necessity of this hot haste? Who does not know that the leader of that as semblage did not desire to wait, nor did he dare to wait, until the President had spoken to the country in his aumwl message. The constitution of the U.S. requires the President from time to time to give to Congress information of the state of the Union. Who has any right to presume that the President will not furnish the information which his constitutional duty requires? He has at his control all the agencies which are necessary. There is the able Cabinet who surround him, with all the officers nppointed under them: the postmasters under the 0st office Dept, the Treasury agents under the Treasury Dept, and almost 200,000 men under the control of the War Dept in every part of this “disaffected” region, who can lining to the President information from every quarter of all the transactions that exist there. Why, I ask, had this assemblage the right to resume that the President would not furnish the information which the constitution required? Sir, we are here claiming to be the friends of the late lamented President, and the friends of him upon whom by his death the responsibilities of power have fallen. We aided in their election. They were nominated at Baltimore after the great experiment of reconstruction had already begun. Mr. Lincoln had already for months, for almost a year, been pursuing substantially the same policy of reconstruction which has since been followed by his successor. AndrewJohnson was himsef one of the agencies which had been employed by Mr. Lincoln in the State of Tennessee in the hope of restoring civil government there; and it was under these circumstances, not with the a proval of all men at Washington, but with the aproval of the great masses of the people of this country, that Abraham Lincoln was renominated as President, and that AndrewJohnson was nominated to be VEEP, and they were triumphantly indorsed and sustained by the people; and I tell Senators now, in my opinionI s cak with all respect. to other gentlemen that the POTUS will be sustained, in the views which he takes in his message, by the people of this country is as certain as the revolutions of the earth; and it is our duty to act harmoniously with him, to sustain him, to hold up his hands, to strengthen his heart to speak to him words of faith, friend ship, and courage. Mr. President, I know that in all these southern States there are 1,000thin 23 to have as pain, sometimes alarm, but notwit staning the bad appearance which from time to time presents itself in the midst of that boiling cal ron of passion and excitement which the war has left still raging there, the real progress which we have made has been mostwonderful. I say to you, Senators, it is mydeliberate opinion that 1f, when we adjourned last spring, an angel from the skies could have come own here and told us that at our meeting now, our country would be in so hopeful a condition as it is, we would not have believed it; it would have been beyond our credence, beyond our belief. I am one of those who look forward with hope, fori believe God reigns and rules in the affairs of mankind. I look beyond the excitement of the hour and all the outbreaking assion which sometimes shows itself in the South, which leads them to make enactments in their Legislatures which are disgraceful to themselves and can never be sanctioned by the people oft is count and also in spite of all the excitement of the r orth, I behold the future full of confidence and hope. We have only to come, up like men, and stand us the real friends of the country and the Administration, and give to the oliev of the President a fair and substantiaiJtrial, and all will be well.