Mr. POLAND. The subject of the rebellion and the rebels is connected with almost everything that we have here in the Senate; but I thought we had at last got upon a bill that would steer clear entirely of that. I have as poor an opinion of the rebellion as my friend, the Senfrom Massachusetts; I believe I would do anything that was proper to be done in the way of punishing lf. who went into it as cheerfully and as firmly and strongly as he would; but it seems to me this proposition of the Senator is going a very great way. It is substantially saying that every man who had anything to do with the rebellion shall have no benefit of this law if it passes. Why, Mr. President, we might with just the same propriety pass a law that no man should be a suitor in court; we might with the some propriety pass a statute that no man should prosecute any claim in any court of the U.S. unless he could take this test oath as to put it on to this bill. We might with the same propriety say that a poor debtor should not be allowed to take the poor debtors' oath unless he could, in the 1st place, take the test oath. We might as well require it in the one case as the other. This test oath has, so far as the law applies it now, been confined to specific cases. We require that a man shall be able to take that oath and take it truly before he occupies any official place, before he practices as an attor ney, before he occupies any official governmental relation. All that I am in favor of; but when we come to apply it to the ordinary transactions of life, and to say that a man shall not do business, a man shall not work out by the month unless he is able to take the test oath, I cannot agree to it. We might just as well apply it to every branch of business, to every vocation in life, it seems to me, as to apply it to this bill. We all understand the condition of the country South. Some were in fault and some were not. That whole country is broken down and impoverished. If there is any need of a bankrupt bill anywhere there is need of it there; and are we going to exclude that whole southern country and all its people from the benefits of this law because they may have engaged in a causeless rebellion or been led into it by ambitious, unscrupulous leaders? It seems to me this is carrying the thing altogether too far.