Mr. JOHNSON. I had forgotten it, and am obliged to the Chair for reminding me of it. I did not rise for the purpose of objectin to the passage of the resolution, although could wish for myself that the original resolution had not been passed, because then we should not have seen the letter which I read with very great regret, and which I think the country read with equal regret. If the President had refused to answer that resolution on the ground that it was injurious to the public interest, I think he would have been sustained by the public judgment hereafter. As to the particular letter which is called for, the resolution perhaps will establish a precedent that may be of mischievous application in the future. If the Senate o claim the right to ask of the President the grounds upon which he appoints or upon which he removes officers, it would involve him in the duty of bringing before the Senate correspondence which was sent to him as confidential or sent to the SecyState as confidential. But under the particular circumstances of this case, as we have the correspondence between the SecyState and Mr. Motley, I do not object to the pas of this resolution. If I been told by anybody that Mr. Mot ley was so regardless of his duty as to be making the declarations he is stated to have made upon some unknown authority, I should have said at once that it was a base calumny. I do not mean the charge that he differed with the POTUS in his opinion as to. '. which ought to be adopted in effecting the restoration of the southern States, but as to the effect that he had spoken in such disrespectful terms of the President or of the SecyState, and, above all, that he should have exPressed an opinion so hostile to a democratic form of government and in favor of a monarchical one. No one who has read his History of the Dutch Republic and no one I think has failed to read it who commenced to read it would hesitate for a moment in coming to the conclusion that if there be a man in, the country who is more absolutely convinced than any other of the policy and necessity to human liberty of such institutions as we live under it would be Mr. Motley.