Mr. DOOLITTLE. I will simply so. to my honorable friendfrom Michigan that desire to treat him with all courtesy, but this is not a question connected with the thread of my argument and I desire to pass on to other points and other topics. I was speaking of the history of this reconstruction policy, and saying what had been done in fact. I said that Mr. Johnson, then a Senator in this body, resigned his position here to go home to the State of Tennessee for the very purpoae of carrying out the reconstruction pohcy of Mr. Lincoln. He was appointed military governor of Tennessee for that purpose, and he acted in that capacity. He organized, or aided in the reorganization of the State government of Tennessee, and had been engaged in that business for a year and a half before the nominations were made for President and VEEP in 1864. Mr. Lincoln having adopted that policy, and having acted upon it, was renommated as POTUS, that being a art and parcel of his policy and of his Adminis trationas much as any other. I know that when in the convention at Baltimore the proposition was made to have delegates from Tennessee admitted, it. was objected in that convention that Tennessee was not a State in this Union, that she had no right to representation in the national convention; an when Mr. Johnson was proposed as VEEP he was objected to for the same reason. But the convention, then representing the pea air: of the U.S., representing the cat. nion republican party, renominated Mr. Lincoln, and ) nominated Mr. Johnson, because, among other reasons, Mr. Johnson had been engage to the satisfaction of the people whom I. ey represented, in this great work of reconstruction. 1 Sir, to arrest the progress and policy of this work of reconstruction, we know that 2 prominent members in both Houses of congress issued a protest to the country against this policy of reconstruction after the nomi nation had taken place. But did it arrest. the current of events? Did it prevent the great mass of the people from indorsing, sustaining, and reaffirming that policy in the election of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson? Not. at all. It was like dropping a pebble into a great stream, a momentary ripple and the current flowed on. Mr. Lincoln and Johnson were elected Pre8 ident and VEEP This policy was continued as a part and parcel of the policy ofour Republican Administration. Louisiana a year ago was organized and presented to the 2 Houses of Congress her representathes. How were they received by the Senate of the U.S.? Our ComJudiciary reported that Louisiana was properly organized and entitled to representation. They reported a resolution to that effect. It came up for actionin this body near the close of the session, I think as late as the lat day of March. How was the proposition received here then by the great mass of the Republican Senators on this floor? My honorable friendfrom Illinois will remember very well that when the night was fixed and agreedyupon on which the question was to be taken, every member of the Republican party but.six on this floor was in favor of action, and action then, and that there was a clear, unquestioned majority, and alarge majority, in this body, notwithstanding at. that time those who claimed to represent the Dem ocratic party on this floor Opposed the recognition of Louisiana.