Mr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. The Gentleman has a Yankee way of answerin one (piostion by asking another. [Laughter If t 10gentleman will answer my question perhaps he may have a right to ask another. One remark more and I will yield the floor. I want to say there are but 2 positions to occupy, according to my apprehension, as to the question of the restoration of the Union. the principle enunciated by the chairman of the ommittec on Appropriations Mr. SrEVENs] at an early part of this session, t int these States are conquered provinces and we can therefore do what we please with them; and on the other hand. the Constitution of the U.S and the dOClSlOHof the Supreme Court, as deliwved by Jndre Grier, which the Gentfrom 731i nois [BILingERSOLL] himselfhas (Eioted tv “"lty to sustain his argument, in which that cmirt determined that these States had not by reason of the treason of any individual in any manner been interfered with in their status as States. That is the gentlemans own decision of which he quotes and thatis the decision of the highest tribunal known to the country and I now say, as an liumble member of the Democratic party, so far as I have been able to judge, it represents the conservative sentiment of the country. I claim to be a conservative Democrat myself, and not such a Democrat as the gentleman has described, not such as the gentleman would charge with treason, for, on the contrary. I represent:1Democracy as loyal as the Gentfrom Illinois. I represent, air, a people who went with as much zeal and perhaps as far as the Gentfrom Illineu; in bearinv arms to at down this rebellion. I am not a defender o rebellion in any particular. I am against anybody who seeks to overthrow the Government or the Constitution; and while I was in favor of putting down the rebellion when it emanated from the South, I am now today in favor of preventin the success and for putting down that party which seeks to change, to annnl, and to destroy the Constitution and to centralize this Government, and thereby to take away from the people the privileges which that Constitution liirmed by our forefathers have to them. The Gentfrom Illinois belongs to that party, and he will allow me to say, a party which does not seek any immediate restoration of this Union. They find that AndrewJohnson seeks that restoration in good faith. His spirit of loyalty and fidelity to the constitution is far different from that evinced by the Republican party. It is far different from that spirit of the gentlemans party which presse through hurriedly the admission of the State of Colorado with 2 Senators in the other branch of Congress, simply bewnse those 2 Senators will make up the 2/3rds vote in the Senate and enable the Opposition party to be equal to any emergency against the conduct of the President in defending the Constitution of the U.S. Yes, sir, that State was admitted into the Union, so far as the votes of the 2 Houses can go, when it has not as many inhabitants, I venture to say, as there are voters in my own district. That is the party against which we are ar rayed. It is the party which the people must overthrow before they can expect any full restoration of this Government. We can never have a continued peace until the principles embodied by AndrewJohnson in his veto of the Freedmens Bureau bill, his veto of the civil rights bill, and his speech of the 22d of February last shall guide t iis country in a restoration of the Union of these States.