Mr. HILL. Sir, if this is reconstructed loyalty, may Heaven save this nation from its further exhibition. Sir, as I have already said, it has been alleged that no plan of restoration has been brought forwar. I shall not display the impudence of presenting one myself. I have already indicated what, in my opinion, ought not to be done, and the general principles which ought to control in presenting measures for the purpose of restoration. Notwithstanding the 3 months and more already consumed in this session, I think developments are not yet sufficient to indicate what should be the details. To the committee in whose hands the Senate and this House have confided this subject I look not entirely without hope. 1 see upon it men who in the darkest hours of the late struggle stood immovably by the Government. lhey may have turned traitors now, but I shall need further evidence before I can yield to that conviction. Sir, if the 4 years of desolating war were all in vain; if the resistance to armed rebellion was all one grand mistake; if the achievements of your gallant soldiers, more glorious than any history had hitherto recorded, were all without a purpose or an object; if the brave 1,000s for whom widows and mothers still weep in unavailing woe went down to dishonored graves; if, as the sole fruit of all this mighty revolution, it is developed at last that your boasted republican Government is but a farce, and that in its administration no distinction exists between those who point the dagger at its Vitals, and those who lay their lives upon its altar, then open wide these doors, and welcome with warm embrace those now clamorin for admission here. Start not back from the grasp of their stained hands, though the drip with your brothers blood; for know at they but assert their rights, and that it was your folly that your brothers blood was shed. But if, on the other hand, your appeal to the brave and patriotic millions to array themselves in serried ranks, and march to almost certain death to save from destruction mankinds last hope for free government, was not one stupen dous lie ifyou would not turn to eternal shame the dee s of valor which are now your highest glory; if you would not cover with infamfy the graves, yet sacred. where the flesh of your allen kindred has scarcely yet moldered back toits mother earth; if you would not stamp the fratricidal mark of Cain upon themaimed and scarred survivors, then, in the name of the martyred dead and mutilated living; in the name of the great loyal North, whose blood and treasure were poured outlike waterin the nations cause; in the name of the millions struggling upward all oVer this green earth, whose fervent rayers wentup to heaven through all the drea struggle that your armies might succeed, I implore March 1 7, lg."., theys shape this {ifit the va r of our; 1 been wasted, and that shall not lose by legislation here, all gloriously achieved by its armies in but, malice toward none; with charity for all:ss in the right asGod givesus to see the striveto finish the work wearein i to bind ons wounds; to care for him who shall he battle, and for his widow and for his in all which may achieveand cherish a sting peace among ourselves, and with all