Mr. HOWE. Mr. President, one other remark has been made in the course of this debate to which I wish to illude. It. was made by the Senfrom Indiana [Mia Hssnmexs] a day or 2 ago. He accuses the Union party of laboring here for part purposes and party ends. I think that remark most.unjust. If we were actuated by the selfish purpose of building up the Union party and strengthening it, does he suppose, does any man of sense suppose, that we would take under our care that poor and helpless and hopeless race known as Tnion refugees and the colored freedmen in those States? If we were making combinations for party interests, and not for the good of the country, does the Senfrom Indiana suppose we do not know enough to affiliate with the powerful and educated and influential class in those States rather than with this weak and helpless one? Do not We understand the value of such combinations just as well as he does, and would not they be as willing to combine with us as with them? What is there to secure that affiliation between them? Is itin evitable? What have the done? Is it not as desirable to those men who are seeking their way back into the Union to affiliate with those who have power as with those who have none? This Union part I do not meal we who represent it here. but the Union party of the country have whi ed the rebuJron; and the Opposition to that nion party has done nothing but "the heavy standing round.” They have not helped to uphold the rebellion any further than words would go and they certainly have not helped to subdue the rebellion; even so for as that. Looking at it as a prac tical man, I think those gentlemen who are seeking to come back here would rather affiliate with those who represent the Union party, which can do something, than those who represent the Democratic party, and can do not ing as they have donepothing. And certainly if we were looking to our own party interests rather than to the interests of the country, it seems to me that that is the crowd we should most naturally afiiliate with. I think it is unjust in the Senfrom Indiana to taunt us, as of all the people in the world, with seeking party ends and party interests in the efforts that we have been making on this floor. For myself, I disclaim every such purpose as that. For myself, I avow here, as I have avowed everywhere, that everything I have asked to have done in the name of the nation, South or North, in reference to closing u this war, I have asked to have done not onl)y because I believed the best interests of the poor and the hel iless demanded it, but because I believed the best interests of the rich and the powerful demanded it there and here. There is but one measure which meets every want in the nation, and that is justice; justice from the Government to the people; justice between man and man. I believe we are trying to administer justice between man" an man, and justice between the Government and the people.