Mr. BltOOMALL. If any man hesitates to believe with me, let him look over the files of the Globe for the last 4 years, and then ifhe is not convinced I will concede that he is beyond the reach of conviction. They say that we offered in 1861 to pay for these slaves. So we did, and if the offer had been accepted we would have gained larcely by it. The cost of the war, counted only in dollars, would have largely paid for all the slaves. But the offer was not accepted, and it will never be renewed with the consent of the loyal people. Let our political opponents call the deadito life, let them restore to their homes 300,000 murdered American citizens, and then let them pay the debt which we contracted in putting down their rebellion, and Wewill renew our offer. We will then pay for their slaves and gain largely by the transaction. Mr. Speaker, this measure has been spoken of as the punishment to be imposed upon the South.Why, is this all that is proposed to be inflicted upon men who have been guilty of crimes so monstrous? Is there to be no further punishment than this? Is treason not to be rendered odious? In fact, this is not a punishment at all. These people have now no rights. They are the conquered, we the conquerors; and the conquered, as everybody knows, must look to the conquerors for their future political and civil position. We propose to grant rights, we propose to give favors, at we propose to leave out one in every 12 for 4 years in thus giving the favors. It is not as punishment, it is as a means of future security, that this provision is asked to be in corporated in the Constitution. We have beaten the enemy in the field. He is at our mercy. In a spirit of unparalleled magnanimity, we propose to restore the status ante bellum as far as is consistent with our future safety. Why, there never were such terms as these offered to any vanquished people by the vic tors. Look throng all history an find its parallel. In every other country what has been the penalty allotted t6 treason, to rebellion that fails to make itselfrevolution? Death, banishment, confiscation. Look at England in the Indies and in Jamaica! Yet we propose not even nnishment, not even the enforcement of exrsting laws. These people have murdered 209,000 of our fellow citizens. he man robst, who in Philadel liia has been tried and sentenced to be hange for murder, killed 8 persons. That oor, miserable, petty scoundrel only killed eig t; these people are killed 290,000. He is to be hanged, and Alexander H. Ste phens, who was one of the main supporters of the rebellion, is to be allowed a seat in the Senate of the U.S. What a mock ery of human justice! Sir. the time will come when the poor, igno rant Dntchman who committed his petty crime will be brought to the same bar with VEEP Stephens who aided in the murder of so many of the good and the true men of our country, and these things will all be made even. There is a necessit for a future world that the immense inequalities of the present one may be rectified. Let it offend no Democratic sensibilities that I should contrast Probst and Ste hens, the murderous Dutchman and the mnr erons conspirator. If there is anyone man in the South peculiarly responsible to the widows and the orphans of those whose bones lie upon southern battle fields or are worn as ornaments about the necks of high born Democratic ladies, that man is Alexander H. Stephens. He sinned against light and knowledge. He was the reef. champion of the Union in the South.When he was bribed by the love of office into crime, what wonder that the great masses of the South followed him? Why, even Piobst was the upilof stcpliens. Probst was a soldier, serving by accident on the right side. Stephens made his school, inaugu rated the war. Sir, read, if you can read, the miserable mans confession, and then ask yourself whether those horrible details could have been gone through by anyone who had not learned the part of human butcliery in the school of war. Both these men “acce t the situation;" both acknowledge that they have been defeated in a war upon society; but Stephens appears before a committee of congress and actually claims rights, like the Pharisee in the temple; while poor Probst can only say, “Lord have mercy n on me a sinner.” Probally my Democratic friends mafv not like the comparison. Neither do I. will not put the ignorant upon a level with the learned in responsibility. I will not apply the same rule to the private soldier an to the statesman. I will not compare the murderer of only 8 with the murderer of 29,000. Yet Probst is to be hanged, while the POTUS and the Democratic members of Congress are at this moment asking exactly such a modification of the “test oath” as will allow Stephens a seat in the U.S. Senate! Oh, what a mocker of justice in this! Break down your prison doors. recal your criminal codes. Let it not be sai that in enlightened America we only punish the poor, the ignorant, and the degraded! To bolster up the pet theory of restoration founded on rebel rights, it is now denied that we have ever been at war. War supposes conquest as one obvious mode of termination, and connest extinguishes political rights. This wonTd not suit the purposes of those who think the South was right in her demands, but only blundered in the means employed to obtain them. Hence there has been no war, whatever the soldiers and the bereaved ones may think to the contrary. The POTUS, in his recent pence proclamation, has given ns from a Democratic stand point the military history of the country for the last 5 years. He says thatin1861 certain persons in certain States conspired together to prevent the execution of the laws; that the Government resolyed to put down the conspiracy, not in the spirit of conuest, but in that of self preservation, and that. The insurrection has now been suppressed; and this is all. This is the official report of the high Executive to his rand constituency. From the colofficial statement, who that did not feel and know these eventful years could imagine what scenes of human sorrow are embraced within the unwritten history of that period? There was an insurrection, and it has been suppressed. Has sated ambition forgotten the immense cost to the country of the process by which it became what it is? Why, in this brief history there are 100s of 1,000s of treesons unpunislied. In this the blood of more than a quarter of a million murdered vic tims cries aloud for retributive justice and this the POTUS calls insurrection. Why this history would exhibit eat armies, such as the world has rarely seen, evastating whole States and meeting in grand and terrible conflict all the machinery of war in its largest possible extent. But who shall write the details? Who shall tell the instances of individual suffering? Who shall say how many husbands and fathers asked but one day of absence from the Army to bury the wife or child and were of necessity denied? Who shall tell of the tired sentinel. awakened at his post after days and nights of tail, from dreams of home, to answer at the bar of the terrible court martial for not doin what man could not do I Who shall tell of the secret sorrow of the unpensioned widow and orphan of him who fell from the ranks upon the long and weary march to die the death of the dog by the roadside and be marked upon his countrys roll of dishonor as a deserter? Yet the POTUS calls the occurrences of the last 5 years insurrection, and tells us with true official coldness that it is supressed! Surely sated ambition has overlooed the immense cost of what it feeds on. If this is insurrection, in the name of all that is horrible what is war? America transe ends her elder sister in the length of her rivers, in the height of her mountains, and in the tremendous energy of her people and we are now told that that trause endency extends even to the part of hu man butcliery. When an American insurrection is so like the most devastatin of Euro can wars, the imagination shrinks with horror from contem lating what would be an American war. Surelyt e heart of the Executive is not in sympathy with the millions who made him whathe is.