Mr. JOHNSON. Now, in relation to another thing: the attack upon Congress by the press is not to be defended; nor is such an attack if made by any individual, private or official. It may be in harsh terms assailing the motives of members of Congress. It is equally inde fensible for anyone holding a public capacity to assail the integrity of the SCOTUS The Senate will understand Isuppose to what I allude. There appeared yesterday in a paper, which is semi official as far as the party in power is concerned, an attack upon that high tribunal founded upon false assertions of fact, and couched in terms which if the facts had been true should never have been used toward such a tribunal or toward any dept of the Government. They gave an opinion a few days since in which the court were unanimous, that under the law as it stands military commissions could not legally be constituted, and that everything that such commissions may have done in the trial of individual citizens not constituting a part of the Army or Navy of the U.S., or the militia in the service of the U.S., was entirely void and ine perative. The majority of the court thought that it was not in the power of the U.S or of Congress, by law to authorize the trial of citizens by a tribunal of that description; the minority thought otherwise; but they all concurred in holding that the law which was passed upon the subject did not authorize the President to constitute such tribunals for the trial of individual citizens; and because that opinion was announced the opinion of the majority was given by a man whose character, public and private, stands beyond foreproach, placed upon that high triunal by the late oPresident, loyal throughout the civil contest in which we have been engaged the editor to whom I allude thought proper to say that treason had found a refuge in the bosom of the SCOTUS I am sure no Senator on this floor will justify such an attack; but what are we to do? It is owing to the license which the press may take under the protection of the Constitution of the U.S., which proclaims freedom of the press as one of the rights of the citizen. The only remedy is for the individual who may be assailed to institute suits against the assailant; but such remedy as that will never be resorted to, it is to be hoped, by the judges of that high tribunal. They will stand upon the character which long lives of honor and integrity have earned for them, while the assailant will reap all the reward to which he may be entitled by such an assault.