Mr. CONNESS.GenlBut bridge it was who took the hogs. Well, sir, it only adds another Officer to the number who otfcnded against the honorable Senator and theSfflta that he represents here. I am of the 01111110", apId think the bhonorable Senhatpr 33233; “d9 of the opinion v this time, the administration in Kentucky by m Gomnt of the U.S. cannot and perhaps will not be conducted to suit the Senator. If it had been so conducted during the war, I beg to say, and I say it with all consideration for the Senator, that I think it would not have been half as effective against the enemies of the country as it has been and as to this investigation being conducted now by the Senate into the condition of the rebel States, I do not think it will be conducted to suit the honorable Senator; it evidently has not been thus liar; and if he would only wait until the Senate can be constructed as he in voked the President the other day to construct it, out of 22 rebel Senators with the honorable Senator himself and his political associates in this body, and a few of our shall I say friends, or former friends; Ileave that to be settled by the gentlemen themselves then I think the honorable Senator could get up a committee that would investi kte the condition of the rebel States to his 11]. Bugt, Mr. President, the country, as I understand it at the present time and as I think I see it, and as we all see it, is in no humor for speh an investi ntion as the honorable Senator might have made under these circumstances. They desire a knowled e of the condition of affairs obtained throug other channels; and they are satisfied with the integrity of confirless, with the integrity of the committee t rough whom Congress is making theinquiry, and I think they are rather determined that neither the Senate projected by the honorable Senator in his speech the other day nor any investigation to be made by it shall ever occur. That is all I have to say; it is simpl that there is no satisfying my honorable frien from Kentucky. There appears to be a radical diffference between him in the very constitution of his mind, for he is certainly honest and earnest, and other minds here. The war was not conducted according to his plan; it was conducted according to ours. It was a success and is a success; it would not have been a success in my humble judgment on the plan of the honorable Senfrom Kentucky. I have the same opinion as to investigations; and the committee certainl stand in no fear of their credit being atfecte by any charge made here by the honorable Senator founde upon a comp aint I use the term again in the sense that 1st used it made by a citizen known to the Senfrom Kentucky, and whom he indorses here for not having had the privilege of bringing whom be pleased, and I suppose when be pleased, before that committee to give testimony. A word to the question before the body. I am against the amendment proposed by the ComPrintg, and in favor of printing the largest number, and I would sooner increase than decrease the number. There is nothing that is of more consequence than that the greatest number of the people should understand the exact condition of the rebel States. If they are in such acondition as to entitle them torepresentation here and to participation in all the branches of the Government, they should be admitted to it. If they are not, they should not be. At any rate, all the facts should appear. That subject should be thrown among toreal leaders of popular opinion, the people of the U.S. As to the denial set up by the honorable Senfrom Kentucky, I am sure but a small number of persons Will agree with him that the statements or assertions of anyone can be put against the absolute testimony of promi nent men of established character. I doubt not that the honorable Senator would not stand by and permit, if he knew it, outrages such as are described against negroes. Though he does not rofcss to have any love for them, there are those manly instincts that I know the Sea ator has which would not crmit him to be quiet or silent, nay, which woufd drive him to the side of the sufferer, and make him an active agent in his behalf and for his delivery, if he was cognizant of the fact. But the difficulty with the honorable Senator, as it appears to me, is that his confidences have been given and are still given in favor of a class of men whose humanity cannot be measured as generously as that of the honorable Senfrom Kentucky himself. To hear the honorable Senator speak of Kentucky and of the South generally, one would suppose that there were not any negro haters; one would suppose that a negro in the Seuth had never been hunted down into the swamps and jungles by bloodhounds; one would suppose that in no part of this country had the auction block been made the medium of sep aring and scattering and dividing members of the same family. That beastly and brutal system in its theory and structure has passed away; the scattered and mangled and disgusting fragments of it still lie around in the coun. try; society is still to be purged from the miserable miasm that has grown up from those putrid fragments. The people are determined that that work shall be done; and permit meto say to the honorable Senfrom Kentucky, that his efforts in the way of that work being accomplished are as idle as the passing wind. There is a sentiment of justice innate and in stinctive in the American mind, now brought up. thank God, to the highest condition of energy and action, that, depend upon it, will see that the work shall be completely done. Now, Mr. President, that evidence of the facts as they exist shall go abroad among the people should be the 1st purpose, and therefore I am in favor of scattering the evidence that this distin uished and able committee have taken as broa eastas possible among the people. p