Mr. GltlNNELL. Mr. Speaker, it has suggested itself to my mind that there are still other reasons why the sitting member should retain his seat. He says, in conclusion, that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Well, sir, I have only to say in regard to that, let it be spilt. That kind of deine cratie seed seems to be running out, and for one, I am in favor of the blood of the martyrs being the seed of the church as an experiment in this instance. But that is only an argument in addition to other reasons.The House will find some of them enumerated in the paperI hold in my hand. Perhaps it will not consider them good reasons. I find in the NewYork Times of yesterday, good conservative authority, the following: “Brooks is resorting to all sorts of strategy and &uestionnble practices to makesentimentin his favor. O dayhis partisanswerecirculating thestory anion the conservatives that Dodge wasa radical, and would vote against the President: and they were urging the radicals to vote against him on the ground that he was a conservative and would sustain the President. Brooks has also caused to be lithographed copies of the subscription lists of moneys raised by Mr. Dodires friends to aid in his election and has distributed them freely. as though that.was a.very immoral practice never resorted to in a NewYorkelection, or anywhere else. Brooks is running his pmoaecmhisne on a high pressure moral principle and terribly hooked at the use of money in an election." Mr. Speaker, thisis the 7th year I have enjoyed legislative experience, State and national, and I have never yet known a Democrat to vote against his own party, inst his own friends, or against the report of is committee, and if, in the revolving of the wheeI of political fortunes, my doubtful friends should “go over and have the perplexities of a contested election, your magnanimity will be remembered and thus fall into the arms of a party voting honestly almost by instinct. This is not one of the virtues of the Union Congress. There is another reason why we should have the sitting member the seat. The minority of the committee report that this corrupt bargain was made on a Sunday, and one of the divine commandments, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, ” was broken. The Democratic party have found it out, and shOuld we not oin in their sacred devotion and virtuous in i nation? We all know that on the Sabbath before the election all the Democrats were at church or at vespers; they had nothing todo with liquor shops; there was no indulence of profane swearing; they were at chure invoking the 0d of elections that they might succeed witha l the devotion which the saviors of their cause would evoke. Heed the Democratic suggestion and rebuke the Sab bath profanation. Another charge made by the sitting member is, that our party was guilty of bribery. Well, the statement that our party can beat the Democratic party at cheating in NewYork will cause a broad grin throughout the country. But we must not doubt it. Mr. Dodge should be punished, and the sittingmem her be honored in behalf of a party free from all doubtful devices and political finesse. recurring to the “strategy of the times, if it be that virtuous and persuasive woman has been enlisted in the behalf of the 5th avenue printer, who has just informed Mackerelville of the splendor of his congressional equipage; he has taken account of the contestants income down to a dime. I can mention an additional motive in a response to gentle appeals. I saw but one valid consideration to be set over against these opportunities to reward virtue from an unlocked for source it is the verdict of the ComElections after months of investigation; but may not an approval of Denic cratic sobriety, political morality, and Sabbath keeping, and tender persuasion overcome our comles? [ ere the hammer fell.]