Mr. GARFIELD. The court distinctly de clared that the question of their property being eneinysproperty depended upon the use made of it. If the attempt was made to take the property:v out in opposition to law, then it fell undert e technical category of enemys property, and not otherwise. take it for granted that the farm of AndrewJohnson, in lennes see. was never enemys property. If he had undertaken to violate the revenue laws in his use of his property, it would have become “ ene mys property.” If the distinguished gentle man roin East Tennessee (Mr. Maynar ) had undertaken to violate the revenue laws his property would then have become “enemys property." I do not regard all these men as enemies of the country. I remember that the long run of mountains which reaches from WestVirginia down to Georgia, and terminates in the sandhills of Mississippi, stood like a promonto of rock in the fiery ruin with which the rebellion had involved the Republic. I remember that East Tennessee with its loyal 1,000s stood out like arock in the sea of treason. I remember that 35,000 brave men from Tennessee stood beside us to assist in putting down the rebellion. They are not enemies of the country, and never were; and it is cruelly wicked, by any fiction of the law, to call them enemies of the country. To those distinguished men of Tennessee and I see some of them in this Hall whom I reverence as loyal and patriotic men let me say that I am not dissatisfied with them; but I want them and their friends to show that there is behind them a loyal government; that a loyal State government has been organized, based on the will of loyal people, and that in that State districts ofloyal constituents have sent loyal men here. Satisfy me that there is a loyal State, loyal by the will of its people, that there are districts of loyal constituents, and that they send loyal Rep Representatives, and those Representatives shall at once have m vote in favor of theiradmission. But, as I said efore, the burden of proof is on their shoulders. Let them present that proof, and I will vote affirmatively on the question of their admission, and rejoice that I am enabled to do so.Mr. Speaker, let us learn a lesson from the dealing of God with the Jewish nation. When His chosen peeple, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, had crossed the Red sea and traversed the gloomy wilderness with its thundering Si nai, its bloody battles, disastrous defeats, and glorious victories; when near the end of their perilous pilgriinage they listened to the last words of blcssing and warning from their eat leader before hewas buried With immortal on ors by the angel of the Lord; when at.last the victorious host, sadly joyful, stood on the banks of the Jordan, their enemies drowned in the sea or slain in the wilderness, they paused and made solemn preparation to pass over and possess the land of promise. By the command of God, given through Moses and enforced by his great successor, the ark of the covenant, containing the tables of the law and the sacred memorials of their pilgrimage, was borne by chosen men 2,000 cubits in advance of the people. On the further shore stood Ebal and Gerizim, the mounts of cursing and bless ing, from which, in the hearing of all the people, were pronounced the curses of God against injustice and disobedience, and His blessing upon justice and obedience. On the shore between the mountains and in the midst of the people. a monument was erected, and on it was written the words of the law, “ to be a memorial unto the children of lsrael foreverand ever. ” us learn wisdom from this billustrious example. whe have passed the Red sea of slaughter; our garments are yet wet with its crimson spray. We have crossed the fearful wilderness of war, and have left our 400,000 heroes to slcc beside the dead enemies of the Republic. We have heard the voice of God amid the thunders of battle commanding us to wash our hands of iniquity, to “ proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” When we spurned His counsels we were defeated, and the gulfs of ruin yawned before us. When we obeyed His voice, He gave us victory and now at last, we have reached the confines of the wilderness. Before us is the land of promise, the land of hope, the land of peace, filled with possibilities of greatness and glory too vast for the grasp of the imagination. Are we worthy to enter it? On what condition may it be ours to enjoy and transmit to our childrens children? at as pause and make deliberate and solemn prep aration. Let us, as Representatives of the people, whose servants we are, bear in aduince the sacred ark of republican liberty, with its tables of the law inscribed with the " irreversible guarantees" of liberty. Let us here build a monument on which shall be written not only the curses of the law against treason, disloyalty, and oopression, but also an everlasting covenant o peace and blessing with liberty, and obedience; and all the peolpolyeaWltyill, my, Amen. {Patched in.}