Mr. CONNESS. I only rise to say that I cannot vote to send this letter to any committee of this body for the purpose of vindicating the reputation of Wade Hampton or any of his kind of men; and I am somewhat astonished that the honorable Senfrom miio should feel bound to controvert his statements here or to vindicate the character of the eminent General bearing his name, or that of the U.S. Army against the charges of Wade Hampton. A man who undertook to burn and destroy this Government might well be taken to be able to perform the act of burning and destroying a city. There is nothing, and never has been anything, in the fairproportions of the city of Columbia, in SCarolina. that compared with the majestic proportions and great value of this Government to the human race and yet the man who put himself forward and foremost in the work of destroyim7 the one sends a letter here, and we are asked to vindicate him against the charge of burning and destroying the other. I have nothing to any other than to put it in that light. As to the complaint denominated “ whining, ” for it comes very near that, that SCarolina is among the States not yet given representation in this body, that complaint comes now from many quarters quarters from which, had it emanated one year since, it would have caused surprise to every honest person in the land. It is time that the parties who make those complaints had become ashamed to make them and to repeat them. It is of no consequence whether those States were ever out of the Union or whether they are out of the Union now; we know that their people in the mass, under daring and impudent leaders, like the man who sends this letter here. undertook to destroy the Government; and it is our duty to say when they shall be entitled to participation in the Government that they thus undertook to destroy. There is no power in them nor in any representative friends that they can have here or elsewhere which can commend them to representation in the Congress of the U.S. until the sober judgment of the people shall determine that they are fit for such re)resentation., too, join the honorable Senfrom Maine in saying that this letter should not be referred to a committee or laid upon the table. Let those men retire from ub ic gaze and let them perform works meet or repentance for their great crimes before they impudently thrust themselves forward for purposes of representation or for the purpOse of engaging us in via dicating what is already a reputation so dam gggd that it never can be vindicated or justice.