Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, Idcsire to say in very few words that, in my opinion, looking over the whole field of the war and our operations with this rebellion, it was the loyalty of East Tennessee which saved us in the struggle; and I believe further, from tll: history which I have had, that of all the men in East Tennessee there is no man who, in his whole character during the rebellibn, did more to sustain the loyalty of East Tennessee than the present applicant for a seat. I shall not go into the etails. There seems to be a wrong impression, I think, resting on the minds of some in relation to the circumstances under which it is said he accepted the office of judge in the State of Tennessee. Sir, when the rebellion came it found him one of the judges of the State of Tennessee. During his office as such, after.the rebellion began, he charged in the face of the people of Tennessee that those who were engaged in the rebellion against the U.S. were guilty of treason, while the rebel Governor of Tennessee and his myrmidous were calling upon him and insisting that he should charge that to misc. troops for the Federal Government was treason against the confederate States. He refused to do so. He was arrested time and again. The order of Benjamin, the pretended SecyWar, was out against him to have him seized and confined at Tuscaloosa during the whole war. It was under circumstances like thesethat his office expired, and at the solicitation of the Union men ofTennessee he consented to be a candidate under the laws of the State of Tennessee. no one of which had been changed but existed precisely as before the rebellion began. He consented, as I understand, to be a candidate. His competitor was an open rebel, and, as a Union man, at the solicitation of the Union men of Tennessee, he consented to run, and was elected by the loyal people of East Tennessee by 4,000 majority. Hetooli the oath of office as judge of the State of Tennessee; and when the oath was administered to him by the officer that administered it under the circumstances by which he was surrounded, he was compelled to take the oath to which reference has been made, to support the confederate States government, an at the time he took it, to the officer who administered it he declared that he would spit upon the oath, that he took it at the point of the bayonetand under duress accepting the office at the solicitation of the Union men to kee the office and allthe power of that office in ast Tennessee out of the hands of rebels which would have crushed down still further the Union men of that State. This, sir, is what I have been informed of the history of these transactions, and there is nothing in this, in my judgment, which shows on his part any assent of is whatever to act in behalf of the confederate government, and he never did not in behalf of the confederate government, officially or otherwise. His house was the home of the fleeing men who sought their way through the mountains from NCarolina and SCarolina. His fortune was at their disposal. He organized a system by which the men of East Tennessee ran into Kentucky and flocked to our armies by 1000s upon 1000s. To talk about condemning such a man as having been guilty of a crime against the U.S or having intentionally violated any obligation of the dut which he owed to us. 13 to me simply wi out any foundation whatever. I will not take up time in relation to this matter. I think what has been said by others is suflieient to justify the ordinary course of proceeding in this case as in the case of all other Senators who a ply for admission.