Mr. JOHNson, present acting POTUS, elected VEEP in 1864 upon the same ticket with Mr. Lincoln, comes into office and finds Mr. Lincoln's appointees in place, and he, for mere political and partisan purposes commences a general removal from office. Now, the question is who represents the majority of the people of the U.S. the grand national Union Republican party jhas sustained the country through 5 years of terrible war., Who represents that party, the POTUS, or the Congress of the U.S.? To whom do the public offices belong, to the President or to the people? If they belong to the people, the people come only to be heard through the voice of their representatives in Congress. Do they belong to the President? If so, the grand battles and triumphs of the Revolution were fought in vain, for then we have a despotism more onerous and terrible than any despotism which has ground down the eastern nations. But gentlemen say they should have a part of these offices. Who cast the 1800,000 votes that sustained the President at the last elections and who sustain him today? The Democratic party, who brought on this war, who are chargeable for every grave which furrows the battle fields of the South; who are chargeable for the terrible convulsions which have shaken the country and threatened free government and free institutions upon the continent. They gave these 1800,000 votes, and they claim now to partici the in the patronage of the Government. o, furthermore, support “my policy?” Who stand beside the President today? Not only the Democratic party of the North, who in the Chicago convention resolved that the war for the Union thus far had been a failure, but the ten States in rebellion. They now support and sustain the policy of the POTUS. I ask you, Mr. President, to look at the emergency now upon us, at the grand crisis through which we are now passing, in the terrible and lurid light of 5 years' civilWar; look at it in the history of Libby prison and Salisbury and Andersonville, and you must recognize your right not only to protect loyal men here but loyal men everywhere. Mr. President, I regret that I have injured a very fine voice in denouncing the outrages of the Democratic party for the last 20 years; and I am sorry that the state of my lungs is such that I cannot proceed either with satisfaction to myself or satisfaction to the Senate. I have only to repeat that I shall give my vote for this bill in its widest and most extensive scope, not for the purpose of striking down any proper constitutional power of the President, but with the firm determination to stand upon and assert every constitutional power of the Senate. There Y and shall stand as long as I have the honor to be a member of this high body.