Mr. TfAqMOND. Mr. Speaker I desire to say, in regard to interruptions, thatI shall yield cheerfully for a correction of any error into which I may fall in reeatin the remarks of any gentleman; I shalfeheer ully yield to any correction of any statement of fact; and I will also yield for an explanation of any point I may not make clear. Beyond this I should greatly prefer to follow the line of my remarks without interruption. I do not understand the gentleman to make any important correction of the sentiment I understood him to express. I will adopt his explanation. He now says he trembles or his country if this were the only proposition the House should adopt. The point I wish to make is this: if this is the 1st of a series of propositions for amending the constitution of the U.S., so vital to the welfare of the country, which we are to assume from his remarks may be reported from that committee, we are fairly entitled to know the whole prograinme before we act upon any specific eature of it. How do we know what propositionWill follow, if we adopt this and send it to the country? We should know the relation of this to those which are to come after it. We should know whether this is in execution of its own terms, or whether other propositionsare to follow to give it effect. “c should know whether the powers of the General Government of the U.S. are to be so enlarged as to destroy the rights which those States now hold under the constitution of the U.S. For one, sir, I am not willing in any respect to act on this or any other similar proposition from that committee, until I know what is the rest of the schedule to be presented for our adeption. Now, sir, I cannot hel believingit is an inference merelythat this proposition is reported irom that committee as part ofascheme forreconstructin the Government and the Constitution of the U.S. for reconstructing both on the basis of a distinct principle which has been over and over again announced in this House. That principle is simply this: that by the war which has been raging, and as a consequence of that war, the States which were in rebellion have ceased to have any existence as States; that they have ceased to be States of this Union; that they exist onlyas so much waste, unorganized, ungoverned territory; that. the people who live upon that territory are simplyvanquished enemies, ” to be governed and disposed of by us at our sovereign will, and subject to no law but our own discretion. It is on that principle, sir, that the action proposed at this time is to be based, if it has an basis at all. That has been the tone of the deates on the subject herei That was the tone and tenor of the distinguished Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. SHELLABARGER] who replied to some remarks which I made upon this subject a few weeksago.