Mr. WADE. Very well; that is no harder than the other. I, knew that the sagacity of the gentleman, shrewd lawyer as he is, would find no difficulty in making the very discrimi nation that he asked me to make on this floor. Why, sir, nothing is more unlike than a State that has f.all her rights and one that stands with her head up, patriotic, influential, living up to your Constitution everywhere, and never having violated her faith with the general Government or with her own citizens. I am astonished that I should be asked to point out the difference. One, in F. my judgment, lies under the arm of the conqueror, who as the right by the public law, as announced by your Supreme Court, to impose, just such conditions upon her as he pleases, always hav.ing reference to the humanities and civilizations of the present day, and living as near to the most i. principles of government as you can and govern her; but the power to treat conquered territory is at the will of the conqueror always., Does it make any difference, in the great war in which we have been through, in favor of these rebellious States, that they were not a foreign nation with which we was at war, alien enemies, but domestic enemies converting themselves into aliens by their acts of rebellion and treason? All the publicists say that when an insurrection has risen to the proportions of a civilWar, so as to create a defacto government which can control the whole population within the rebellious borders and set them against the original Government, there is no difference between the belligerent rights of contestants in such a war and in a foreign war. They proceed upon exactly the same principles. . power of the conqueror is precisely the same. All there is about their case is that in addition to being alien enemies they have added the accursed guilt of treason; that is all. And shall they be more leniently dealt with because they raised their arm against the most beneficent Government in the world and proved traitors, than if they had been a foreign enemy that had fallen into some misun derstanding with us that resulted in war? I tell you no. I am not the advocate for proceeding against these rebel, criminal States with any greater rigor than is necessary to procure entire security for ourselves indemnity for the past, if you please, and security for the future. I, for one, will exact nothing more; I will be content with nothing less. We have made a proposition to the rebellious States that has elicited the admiration of the world on account of its moderation, on account of every princi. of revenge being withdrawn from it. We have put forth a principle of justice to them and justice to ourselves without any acrimony, without any attempt at punishment. When terms like those have been defiantly rejected by these men, murdering, scalping, destroying, construing every act of conciliation into cow ardice, and raising their terms in exact proportion as you offer them lenity, I shall be for strong measures. Many of these States have rejected those most beneficent terms. They have not only rejected them but, as the Senfrom Illinois has read to you this morning from the most authentic sources, they are now defying your law and murdering our friends in that country, whom we are bound by every principle that should actuate men to protect. hose who have been our friends in the southern States and have stood up for the old government in the face of perils and hardships almost unequaled in the world, have a right to call upon us to defend them: and, sir, they shall never want defense so far as I have it in my power to extend it. As these rebellious States have defied us and received all our attempts at lenity with mockery and defiance, I am for strong measures when these are rejected. They have been rejected now, I believe, by more than half of those States. I wish they could have complied with the most lenient and beneficent terms that we offered them. I told you on a former occasion I would receive them if they would take those terms, which were not as severe as I believed were necessary. I feared when proposed that they were not stringent enough to curb the proud, haughty recklessness of those men; but they have refused to comply with those terms, and have thereby shown themselves even more incorrigible and depraved than any of us supposed.