Mr. HOWE. Mr. President, Davis may die. I do not suppose there is anything in the decrees of Providence which forbids the consolation of death to such men as Mr. JeffersonDavis. I have no doubt he may die. He may possibly die at Fortress Monroe. I think myself if I had been POTUS he probably would have died in that neighbor hood before this time, but I should not have felt that any guilt rested upon my soul because of that event even if it had happened. Mr. President, a few years ago I read in the newspapers that there was an attempt to overthrow, not the Government of the U.S., but the government of Virginia; an armed attempt. It was led by a man by the name of Brown, John Brown, who invaded that redoubtable Commonwealth at the head I think of 22 men. I am not sure that I am correct as to the number, but I believe at the head of 22 men. He was unsuccessful in that demonstration upon the government of Virginia, as Mr. Davis was unsuccessful in his demonstration upon the Government of the U.S. Mr. Brown was arrested as Mr. Davis was. Mr. Brown, however, was arrested in his own proper garments and his own proper garments alone, as I believe Mr. Davis was not. All Mr. Brown's followers were arrested; I believe every man of them; the whole army of invasion was arrested, as was not the case in this rebellion. They were all thrown into prison. if I am not mistaken in my recollection, they were all tried by the government of Virginia, and, if I am not mistaken in my recollection, every man of them was executed by the government of Virginia. Mr. Brown was held I believe to be a traitor against the government of Virginia. I suppose upon that question the o:of the court which tried him, never having been appealed from, was final and conclusive and imports absolute verity, and therefore it does not become me to dispute it, and I guess I shall not dispute it. if I had never heard of that judgment, however, I should have supposed there was not a particle of evidence in the world to impeach Mr. Brown of any hostile design against the government, the sovereignty of Virginia. I always supposed he went down there with the desire of freeing some of their slaves, transferring them from a state of bondage to a state of freedom, undoubtedly a great crime in the judgment of that day, but after all, not the crime of treason I suspect against the State of Virginia, because the Commonwealth of Virginia would have existed even if quite a number of her slaves had been run off. But the court found him guilty of treason, and that court pronounced the penalty of treason upon him and upon his followers, and that penalty was executed. if I am not mistaken in my recollection, Mr. Henry A. Wise was Governor of the Common wealth of Virginia at the time. Mr. Wise I remember to have been a very active participant in the late rebellion and in the guilt of that rebellion, if there were any guilt attending it. I saw in the newspapers that the man who executed inexorably the penalty of death upon every one of those poor deluded men who moved into Virginia during his administration was in the city of Alexandria but a few months since, within 5 or 6 miles of this Capitol, and told his fellow citizens there in Alexandria that he had asked no pardon of the Government of the U.S., and would accept no pardon of the Government of the U.S., and that he defied the Government of the U.S. still. That was the substance of it; and he has not been interfered with; he is still at large; his head is still on his shoulders; at the last accounts I had his neck was still unbroken, and no part of his estate had ever been confiscated.