Mr. MCDOUGALL. Mr. President, the Senfrom Ohio is in the habit of appealin to his God in vindication of his judment an conduct; it is a common thing for imto do so; but in view of the present demonstration, it may well be asked who and what is his God. In the old Persian mythology there was an Ormuzd and an Ahriman a god of light and beauty, and a god of darkness and deat. The god of light sent the sun to shine and Gentle showers to fructify the fields; the god of darkness sent the tornado and the tempest and the thunder seathing with pestilence the nations and in old Chaldean times men came to worship Ahriman, the god of darkness, the god of pestilence and famine; and his priests became multitudine us, they swarmed the land, and when men prayed then their offerings were, We will not sow a field of grain, we will not dig a well, we will not plant a tree." These were the offerings to the dark spirit of evil until a prophet came who redeemed that ancient land; but he did it after crucifixion, like our great Master. The followers of Ahriman always appealed to the same spirit manifested by the Senfrom Ohio. Death is to be one of his angels now to redeem the Constitution and the laws and to establish liberty. Sickness, suffering. evil, are to be his angels; and be thanks the Almighty, his Almighty, that sickness, danger, and evil are about! It may be a good god for him in this world;. but if there is any truth in what we learn about the orders of religion in this Christian world, his faith will not help him when he shall ase end up and ask entrance at the crystal doors. If there can be evil expressed in high places that communicates evil thoughts, that communicates evil teachings, that demoralizes the youth who receive impressions as does the wax, it is by such lessons as the Senfrom Ohio now teaches by word of mouth as Senator in this Senate Hall. Sir, the POTUS is a constitutional officer, clothed with high power, and clothed with the very power which to has exercised in this instance, and those who conferred upon him these powers were men such as Madison and Jay an Hamilton and Morris and Washington and a host of worthies, men who, I think, knew as much about the laws of government, and how they should be rightly balanced, as any of the wisest who now sit here in council. It is the duty of the president of I do now against Mr. Johnsons interposition. the U.S. to stand as defender of the Constitution in his place as the conservator of the rights of the people, as tribune of the people, as itwas in old Home when the people did choose their tribunes to go into the senate chamber among the aristocracy of Rome, and when they passed laws injurious to the Roman people, to stand and say, 1 forbid it." at is the veto power, in rporated wisely by our fathers in the Constitution. conferred upon the POTUS, and to be treated with consideration; and no appeal of the Senator to his God can change the Constitution or the rights of the POTUS, or can prevent a just consideration of the dignity of this Senate body by persons who have just consideration, who feel that they are Senators. It is a strange thing, an exceedingly strange thing, that when a few Senators in the city of Washington, ill at their houses, give assurance that they can be here to act upon a great public question on the day following this, we should heara piece of declamation, the Senator appealing to his God, and saying, with an o triomphc air, “ Well or ill, God has made themill.” Sir, the god of desolation, the 0d of darkness, the god of evil is his god. never expected to hear such objections raised among honorable men; and men to be Senators should be honorable men. I never excted to hear such things in this Hall; and rose simply to say that such sentiments were to be condemned, and must receive my condemnation, now and here, and if it amounts to a rebuke I trust it may be a rebuke.