Mr. STROUSE. I know the facts here ven to be true; good evidence of fitness for ciVi and political equality. The negro is not only free, but it seems he claims the richest lands in the South in fee, in consideration I suppose, of his freedom. Surely with the freedmens aims house and the Sea Islands the colored brother and sister ought to be able to get along without any white intruders from the orth, to say nothing of a few white persons in the South who labored under the de usion that they owned these lands. What was this war waged for on our part? Was it a condition, when Pennsylvania sent 350,000 men in the field, that the slaves should be set free or that slavery should be abolished? Was that the object, or was it for that that a million white men have up theirlivesand the country plunged in detin 1,000s of millions? No such condition was made then; on the contrary, we were told, and it was proclaimed and enacted by congress, that this war was not waged in any spirit of oppression or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of these States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution, and to preverve the Union, with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired. The war has ceased; we have accomplished all that could be expected or was demanded, and as much more as it was thought the most rabid abolitionist could desire. Slavery was abolished, not as a right, but as an incident of the war. The institution of slavery was destroyed and many good men of all parties re joiced thereat, because it was believed that the vexations question between North and South was solved forever. Not so. The end is not yet. Rampantrad icalism and bigoted Puritanism are not ct satisfied. Fanaticism will not permit the nion of the patriarchs to exist; the strife must be continued; the President must be ignored; the Magna Charta of our liberties destroyed before Jacobinism can rest. To prove to the country, to my constituents, and to the people of Pennsylvania that I deal not in generalities I will cite from our own files a resolution oflzered by my esteemed friendfrom Wisconsin, [Mr. Ei.nmoon] at the be ginning of the session of this Congress, embodyin the whole case, I may say, on. the state of the Union. The resolution is as follows: "Resolved. That there is no warrant or authority in the constitution of the U.S. for any State or Statesto secede and that all resolvesor ordinances to that end or for that purpose are absolutely null and void; and that the war having defeated the attempt, to thus divide and brcalr up the Union. it is of vita importanceto the Republic and to all the States thereof that the States recently in revolt and one and every one of them. should resume their appropriate and constitutional positions and functions in the Union without delay: and to this end laying asideall party feeling and all personal or other ani mosity, waiving all mine r differences, and seeking earnestly to may ntain and preserve o Union of our fathers, we will cordially sustain d support the President in every and all constitutional eiibrts and olic of restoration believing that thereby the po ilica, commercial. financial, and general prosperity of the whole country will be most substantially and permanentlysubsorved.” 1 This resolution, so conservative, so just, so statesmanlike, so truly American, was treated with contempt by this House. Instead of passing it unanimously, as became true Representatives and men who lay claim to some statesman ship, it found its way into the great whirlpool or maelstrom of the reconstruction, or better destruction, committee of 15. NO balm will come from that Gilead. The remedy is with the people. No relief can be expected from this Congress. The Presidentmay God spare him for many years must be sustained in his wise and truly patriotie course. His policy is the policy of e country; his lau of reconstruction and restoration of the totes to their properpositions and places in the Union is the only one that the free and honest citizens of the country will adopt. If we wish again to have a perfect Union, if we desire again to be a great, happy, and united people, we must hurl from power the men who betray their trusts, and who o not reflect the sentiments of those who elected them. The Union will be restored if the peo10 will do their duty. The great Democrac of e nation must come to the rescue. Standyb the President, and all will yet be well. Buti this fanatical malaria shall again sweep over the North and West, if the President in his sublime work of patriotism shall be thwarted, if the people in their strength and majesty will not come to the rescue of the country in its hour of peril, and Will give heed to the ravings of demagoges and disreoard the teachings of histor an the warningof statesmen, then may indee the patriot in sorrow and anguish hope lessly exclaim, ”God save the Republic!"