Mr. STOKES. I repeat it agiin, and I swear before the eternal God, keep out whom it may, I will never vote to repeal or to modify that oath in anyone particular. It is not the man or his status and qualifications upon which we are called to pass judg ment. It is an invitation to us to change and modify the test oath, which is our guard and protection in the South. Repeal, that test oath to night, and it will not belong ere you will hear the gry come up from the loyal men of 'PQnnessec, almost without a dissenting voice, that Congress has taken from them their prop and their support, and subjected them to the mercy of the rebels and their s mpathizers. Sir, whom do you find opposed to this test oath? Where do you find the 0 position to it? Do you find it in the truly nion papers? Can any man upon this floor show me a solitary Union paper in the country that advocates the repeal of the test oath? 0, sir. Then who complains of it? It is this faction who are opposing it, and they alone. feel that I am justified in voting against this JtResolution. I do so from no ill will or ill feelin toward the gentleman involved here. But do it in the honest discharge of my duty to my constituents and to the loyal men of the entire South. Duty compels me to vote against it. In conclusion, let me a peal to the nion men of this House, to the nion party in this House, not to pass this JtResolution. You have the control of the Government in your hands. In the name of the Union, loyal people of the South, and particularly of my own State, I ask you to keep this test oath upon your statute book as the daming sword to guard, shield, and protectthe loyal men of the South. If you give way, if you repeal or modify the test oath, you will strike a low at the Union men of the South from which they cannot recover. They look to you for protection and for aid. If you fail to stand by them it will be your fault; if they are compelled to yield to their enemies you will be responsible to the Union party of the South for the result. As has been already said to night, the Union men of Tennessee have already suffered too much to be willing again to be ruled, controlled, and tyrannized over by the rebels and their sympathizers. For one, I am for keeping the Government in the hands ofloyal men, of Union men.Mr. Speaker, this is a subject of vast importance and magnitude. Let this House pass this jq'ut resolution and woe will come unto the country.