Mr. ROGERS. Gentlemen of this House, and The SPEAKer especially, will bear me witness that I have always extended the utmost courtesy to members on both sides of the House. I advocate my own views. I do not undertake to speak for anybody else. Each man is entitled to his own views and is bound to advocate the opinions which he entertains; and when he believes that the Constitution is being violated and his country destroyed, he is bound to interpose his voice, feeble though it be, against the violation. This is the reason why i have talked so plainly, I feel it my duty to warn the people of the impending danger. Although I am a young man, and my warning voice may not be heeded, although my words are scoffed at here, as they will be by Radicals who read my remarks when published, yet I have the satisfaction of knowing that what I have said here today has been prompted by the honest convictions of my heart, and from a desire to preserve that great landmark of civil liberty, the Constitution, which, its administered under Democratic rule, conducted our Government in a career of prosperity and greatness for 70 years. While I plead here for humanity toward the South, I must not be charged with entertaining any sympathy for rebellion or treason. gentlemen who now constitute the majority in this House will recollect well the time when their party was in a hopeless minority; yet they were permitted to stand here and proclaim their principles. Shame upon the men, whatever may be their standing or by whomsoever they may be elected, who will undertake in this House to browbeat or stifle an honest Representative who seeks to tell the people the truth and warn them of the disastrous effects which must attend the mad career of radicalism. I am for free o: and without it liberty is but a myth. Do not ask me to wait for shackles and chains to convince me that liberty is in danger. Do not ask me to close my eyes to the teaching of ages, but allow me when I see despotism and tyranny groping in darkness and silence in undisturbed impunity, and millions of men, women, and children groaning under despotic bondage in my own country, and the most wicked rule of England against which our fathers fought, established in our own land, to protest, and use my voice to warn my countrymen of our approaching destruction.