Mr. SITGREAVES. Laws were passed by a Democratic Legislature authorizing the raising of bounties for the support of troops, and appropriations were made for the payment of bounties to the families and widowed mothers of the soldiers in the service, and which were promptly paid during the whole war. But the crowning glo of the Democracy of NewJersey was that they provided an asylum in which, at the public expense, the orphan of the soldier is educated an maintained and how, sir, did the people respond to these Democratic appeals? o ask the 30 regiments of infantry and 5 batteries of artillery, composed of Jerseymen, alw s in the front, always in the fight. Go readt ehistory of the war, and there see aNewJersey regiment checking the retreat when the army of the Republic ignominiously tied at Bull Run. Go read the hst of the dead in the hospitals, and on the battle field, and in rebel prisons. Go to the 5,000 NewJersey fathers, and ask each of them “Where is your son, who 5 years since stood at your hearthstone in his manly strength, the hope of your declining years?” and he will tell you that he marched to sustain the old flag at the call of the Democracy, and his body, ierced by rebel shot or bayonet, molders in aqfloody grave upon the battlefield. Go to 5,000 ersey mothers, and ask each of them, “Where is your boy, the light of your eye, the love of your heart?" and her answer Will be “Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they are not.” Sir, it is not only unjust, not only ungen cross to charge the Ilemocracy of NewJersey with unfriendIiness to the soldier after all these sacrifices but, sir, it is cruel. If there is one thing under heaven that Jerseymen are more proud of than another, it is the deeds of her soldier sons for their deeds are identified with the lory and the history of this great Republic. In the war of the Revolution the militia of NewJersey, in the darkest crisis of that war, were almost the solcs upport of the standard of Washington; and they sustained that standard in many hard fought conflicts from the hour that the bat tlefires of the Revolution were kindled at Lexington, until it waved in final and glorious triumph over the heights of Yorktown. In the 2ndwar oH Independence, the warWith GreatBritain in 1812, they were true to the old flag. ature; that we had. While some thought it unbecoming a moral and religious people to rejoice at our victories, the Democracy of NewJersey rejoiced at. the success of our arms. They burnt their bluelights, too, in front of the enemy; but their blueh hts were the smoke of their cannon and the tics of their bayonets. In the war with Mexico, while. some rayed that our boys might be greeted with by goody hands and hospitable graves, the NewJersey Democracy were true to that flag and gave it material and moral aid until it floated over the halls of the Montezumas. Wherever that old flag is waved, wherever it floats, in the cam or over the deck, there Jerseymen and Jersey democrats have ever been found, and I trust in God ever will be, to maintain its honor or to die in its defense.