Mr. ROGERS. Because I took the ound here, as the Speaker well knows, hot that winter and the winter before, that there was nothing in the Constitution which gave as power over the subject that it was a reserved right of the States, notdelegated to the U.S., to control their domestic institutions exclusively in accordance with ther own judgment. Another reason for my course then was that the rebellion was not ended and I believed it would tend to alienate the affections of the people of the South and lead them to continue on er in war against the Union; not that I hatFany doubt that the Union armies would finally succeed. Now, sir, when the Gentfrom Illinois [Mr. Ine nRsoim] expresses a wish that Andrew ohnson had been swallowed in the Red sea of destruction, like Pharaoh and his hosts, it is a wish which, it a pears to me, an American Representative should blush to utter. Sir, does a noble, patriotic President deserve to be spoken ofin this manner simply because he is exercising his constitutional power to vindicate the great doctrines of civil liberty upon which the welfare and the progress of this country de end? Sir, entIemen are mistaken when they imagine that the American people can ever be brought to sympathize with the revolutionary doctrines of the disunionists which they have advocated in this Congress, doctrines which proclaim the dismemberment of the country and declare in effect that the countrys flag, with its brilliant galaxy of stars, representin in undiminished number our rand sisterhoo of States, is a “daunting lie. Sir, the people of this nation, who have fought to maintain the inte ty of our Union and the perpetuity of the Urinatitution, recognize in the policy of AndrewJohnson the great principles for which they have been battling; and they will never consent that those principles shall be trampled under foot by disunionists of either the South or the North. Sir, I believe that the principles which An drew Johnson is so noby d ending will be successfully vindicated, and that, notw1thstanding the denunciation and the calumny to which be is at this hour subjected, his memory will be honorably handed down to future generations, and posterity will thank him for plantin the policy of the Government firmly upon those principles which are destined to conduct this nation to a grand and illustrious destiny; and like Washington, his name will be recorded in history as the deliverer of 30 million peeple from threatened bondage and despot ism, whose record will be read by generattons unborn as a bright monument O civil liberty, to whose name the great and the good, so long as free Governments exist, will do honor. His tomb will be visited and his remains in death revered as a solemn duty of a the ful people. May God give him a strengt, wisdom , power, and influence to work out his great mission, and save him from the hand of the assassin, that he may be spared to see the Union of our fathers, the grandest and most united of an in the world, marching on in defense of the Constitution as the brightest jewel vouchsafed to man, until the dying gaze of his last look u n earth shall be brightened by the burning ame of the Unions cause, with fanaticism, radicalism, and disunionism dead and gone.