Mr. COWAN. I do not know about that. We have been entertaining Massachusetts ideas for a very long while, and I must confess that they have never attained to any very warm reccption there. Massachusetts is supposed, on the part of the Teutonic tribes who inhabit the State from which I come, tobe somewhat vaga rious in her political notions, somewhat vislon ury. I suppose they have not yet forgotten the time when you cut 05 the ears of our Quakers for going up there and trying to proagate their notions among you. It may be that that still sticks in the minds of our people. I do not know why it is, but the have not very high regard for the polities of Massachusetts, nor, I may say, for its poetry, either, in Hiawatha. But to come back;I am taken to task for the votes which I have during the war. I want simply to state a few of the things which guided me during the war. In the 1st place, we were in the war, and I was utterly and totally opposed to any discussion of the causes of the war; I was utterly and totally opposed to the discussion of any of the issues which had divided the people of the North in the past; and above all Thought it was of the utmost importance for every patriotic man to avoid giving offense to the Democratic party, constituting as it did about 1/2 of the people. I was, moreover, opposed to every measure, no matter by whom concocted, that was calculated in any way, either directly or indirectly, proximately or remotely, to rovive any dissensions between the Republican party and the Democratic y during the war and who did revive tern? It the Democratic party stands before the country today a great party, almost equal to yours, by virtue of whose schemes does it stand there? By virtue of whose projects? Upon whatment did it feed? I can tell the honorable Senator; it fed upon the measures, and the very measures, which he blames me for opposing. About the very 1st item of grand political ca ital which was given to the Democrats of the orth was the confiscation bill. Was Mr. Lincoln in favor of that? Was that a measure of his? I opposed it.