Mr. ROUSSEAU. I trust, Mr. Speaker, that in what I may say I shall not follow the example of the member from Iowa, bil shall deport myselfin a manner worthy of my position here. Sir, when making some remarks in this Heuso on a former occasion, I alluded to the outrages committed by agents of the Freedmen's u reau in the city of my home. I stated a case in which a man with his wife anddaughterl were about to be arrested and held over night, and then tried in the morning by an unauthorized person, the agent of the bureau; that they had appealed for protection to General Watkins, the commander of the 110st at Louisville, and I joined in insisting that they should be protected. In alludin to that, I said that if any man, without law ul authority, acting in‘ defiance of the laws and Constitution, though claiming to act under the authority of Congress assertiu the right to act as judgeqsher iTT, and jailor, aIcombined in the same person shouldtreat m family in that way, I would defend them, on though blood came from it, I would strike for my family. That was what I said. So far was I from supposing that in those remarks I had offended anyone, that observing the person then occupying the chair [Mr. GRIXKELI] to be so exceedingly polite to me during my speech I asked a gentleman the next morning to introduce me to him thntl might thank him for his attention to me. Hence I was much surprised to learn from the Globe a day or 2 afterward that I was charged by him with having uttered sentiments that degraded my State; that I had threatened to sh60t an officer in the discharge of his duty. why, sir, it was not the duty but against the duty of this man to make an arrest of this sort, to invade the privacy of a man‘s family and to outrage the laws by a violation of personal rights; and it was this I complained of. Sir, there was no reason for that assault upon me. I replied to it upon that occasion in what seemed to me fitting terms, and the matter passed b. Today, in alluding to the State of Kentucky, I referred to it again. The member from Iowa had said very cavalierly and with much contemptthathe did not know whether I fought on one side or on the other, on the rebel or on the Federal side. I have said today, and believe now that members will sustain me in the assertion, that he did know on which side I fought.