Mr. JOHNson had betrayed the country and identified himself with the rebels, at once impeach and remove him, and confide the administration of the Government to the hands of some one who was in sympathy with the people who saved the Rol. from rebel rule and dismemberment? There were those here then who fully realized the necessity for such action, and were then ready to adopt radical and efficient measures for securing the faithful administration of the Government, in obedience to the Constitution and laws. But there were others who, if not more hopeful of a change for the better, were at least more cautious, and they advised delay to await further develop.ments, and in the mean time consult the people upon questions so momentous. Yielding to these demands, golden moments and golden opportunities were allowed to pass unimproved. . these and all other questions submitted to them the people at the last elections, through the oil.sent us their response in no doubtful tones; they have declared that they have no sympathy with trai tors or treason. The conspirators, undismayed by the overwhelming majorities with which the people condemned “my policy, ” and with courage, determination, and energy that chal lenge admiration, are boldly i.their plans for another armed collision if success for them cannot be otherwise obtained. I have no time to enter into details now. Provoked at the fidelity of the people when a presidential party were recently swinging round the circle indiscreet utterances such as “Would you have Mr. JOHNson President or King?” and the threat made at Newark, in Ohio, of internecine war unless the people by their suffrages sustained the presidential policy, indicate that revolutionary and forcible measures had been contemplated as means, in certain contingen cies, to accomplish the ends they have in view. More recently the toasts proposed and the sentiments uttered in response thereto at the 8th of January banquet at the National Hotel in this city go to show the extent to which the plans of the conspirators had been perfected, and their jubilant exultation, the confidence with which they expected success. The care fully prepared declarations of the President on that occasion show his fixed and unalterable determination, regardless of consequences, to restore rebel domination in the Republic. And the impetuous Gentfrom NewJersey, who was also heard on that interesting occasion, and whose courage in speaking his sentiments is unquestioned, whatever may be thought of his judgment, discretion, or prudence in so doing, gives us reliable information of the means that will be finally resorted to to secure success when he says: “That if the electoral votes of the southern States and the conservatives of the North should constitute a majority at the next regular presidential election, and should the radicals dispute the right of their President to control the Government, he, for one, was for calling on the Army of the country.” [Tremendous cheering] “The issue would come and the brave would meet it. No one should close his eyes to the fact that this issue would have to be met.” The tremendous cheering with which these sentiments were received conclusively shows that they were not the heedless utterances of a reckless and impulsive young man, but the well considered and approved purposes of those who heard and applauded them, among whom, be it remembered, was the POTUS, who spoke no word of disapproval of the words of The SPEAKer which committed him to such criminal purpose. Mark the words: “No one should close his eyes to the fact that this issue would have to be met.” There is nothing doubtful in that language. But when must this fearful issue be met? I commend the inquiry to the careful consideration of those Republicans who are not prepared to act decisively on the question under consideration; and I tell them now, as the Gentfrom NewJersey has told them in his speech, that that “issue has to be met.” But when? The brave man meets the danger that is inev itable, and by courage and prompt action takes it at disadvantage and overcomes it. Others wait and dread a danger that they cannot escape and which they dare not meet until, by their inaction and delay, it accumulates a strength and power that is resistless, and then it crushes them. Shall we wait until the conspirators have perfected their plans and success is sure to follow the blow they strike? Remember the issue has to be met. The brave soldiers of the Republic met it on more than 200 battle fields, and more than 600,000 of them fill untimely graves that the Republic might live. The people met the issue between loyalty, and treason at the recent elections, and through the ballot box they spoke their condemnation of all that belongs to treason and traitors, and clothed us, their agents, with full power and authority to remove the curse of treason from the Government and from all its offices, and they require us to act at once, and decisively and efficiently. They have made us masters of the situation and require us to act. They demand the immediate reorganization of the rebel States upon the basis of loyalty, universal liberty, and impartial suffrage, free speech, and a free press and protection to person and property alike in every part of the Republic. For the sake of excluding rebel Sens&Reps from Congress they are not content to have discord and anarchy under control of rebel influences to continue its rule in the rebel States; to have the loyal sentiment there crushed out for want of active protection from the Federal Government; the Union people murdered and their property confiscated; nor are they willing to continue the Government in its present anomalous condition, whereby nearly 1/3rd of the States that ought to compose the Union are prevented from resuming their practical relations to the Government to the great injury of the national credit and to the great danger of the Government itself. Inaction on our part may enable the rebels to secure the absolute control of the Government. Already they can rely with the most implicit confidence upon 2 of the 3 depts of the Government, and they are now preparing to take control of the 3rd; and should success attend their efforts, which is not at all improbable so long as we fail to do our duty, it will then become an immaterial question to consider what we will do with the rebels, and the pertinent inquiry will be what will the rebels do with us? But enough of this; let us return. In the language of the Gentfrom NewJersey, “the issue has to be met.” Today we have the advantage and the power. Have we the courage to act? To strike down and forever destroy that fell spirit of treason and rebellion that has draped our land in mourning and threatened our existence as a nation? The past is gone; the future may never come to us; the present only is ours.. Our duty is clear. Let none fail in the performance of their duty.