Mr. GRINNELL. Mr. Speaker, it is with the greatest reluctance that I rise to say anything which might seem personal. I have been a member of this House for 3 sessions, and in all that time I have had no personal contro versy save with the member from Kentucky, and no unkind feeling toward any person in the House. I claim to be a man of peace and to demean myselfas becomesagentle man. But, sir, when an man, 1 care not whether he stands 6 feet high, whether he wears but? and as sumes the air of a certain bird that has a more than usual extremity of tail, wanting in the other extremity, says that he would not believe what I utter, I will say that I was never called to stand under an imputation of that character in the company of gentlemen. The member begins courting sympathy by sustaining the POTUS, reparatory to his assault upon me. Now, sir, if he is a defender of the POTUS, all I have to say is, Heaven save the Presidentfrom such an incoherent defender. But his military record, who has read it? In what volume of histor is it. found? Yet some time ago the gentleman asked some of us, “What did you Q in the rebellion but make speeches?” And he told us that he was in the field, and made sacrifices with regulars, &c. Since he has alluded to Iowa, I will give the opinion of a leading officer from that State, for not 2 weeks ago he told me that when there was a noise in camp the men said. it is either a rabbit or a encra R. He the defender of the soldiers of Iowal Sir, they want no such defender; they need none of his defense. He has not led our regiments in campaigns, and it is all pretense: it is the merest mockery; it is the merest trickery, the merest blowing of his own born for him to so that he led our soldiers to victory in the deadly ail under his command. But he comes here to traduce a humble person like myself. In the 1st place, he charged me with saying what I never did say. When he went down to make a speech to the meeting in NewYork, he is “ reported to have said this: As I said on the floor of Congresson oneoccasion. as a fling was madeat my native State by a pitiable politician from Iowa. [lliises] You will excuse me forilgrvmg his name; but I believeit wasone Grin no It was “one Grinnell” that he alluded to. But I never made any fling at Kentucky. But that is not all. He was not content with using my name, but he refers to an honorable gentleman of this House in these terms: “I say that man is a miscreant, and I cannot find words to express my disgust and contempt for him." To whom does that relate to a member of this House?