Mr. ROUSSEAU. I am obliged to the Gentfrom Iowa, whether acting as the agent of others, or acting for himself, and to the House for the courtesy extended to me. I was saying that we constantly hear talk here about guarantees. I ask, what do we want with guarantees from the insurrectionary States? What right has the nation to ask guarantees from a portion of the people? A guarantee, to be worth anything, and mean an thing, ought to be binding on all the poop e and all the States alike. 'I deny the right to demand of Massachusetts guarantees which are not demanded of SCarolina, and vice verse. I insist that a guarantee, to be binding at all, ought to be binding upon the whole people of the U.S. And, sir, itisa paltry excuse to talk about danger from the southern States. We have conquered the people there. They will never be in power again in our time, and perha 5 never again as compared with the balance of the nation. Mr. Speaker, the men who have put doWn this rebellion, the soldiers of the war, have no fear of the rebels either with or without arms, and, sir, strip them as they are now stripped, and who can lay his hand upon his heart and say that he fears them 7 I said, sir, awhile ago, that fiings had been constantly made at my native State, in my hearin, upon this floor; and last and least of all tings and everybody, let us give a moment’s attention to the member from Iowa, Mr. Gnixxsti.] who 1st assailed her here. 'hortly after Congress assembled he assailed my State and myself; he charged that I had degraded my native State by saying that I would defend my family against the agents of the "reedmen’s Bureau. I‘hat member was pleased to say on the floor. in answer to a suggestion of my colleague, [Mr. Sauna] that he did not know whether I had fought 4 years on the rebel side or on the Federal side in the late war. I had under my command and fighting under me from that member's State, some of the bravest troops from any State in the Union. I was in the war from the beginning of it until the end. In the Northwest I was known to have been in the Federal Army; but that member said he did not know whether I was on the rebel or the Federal side. I do not suppose a member in the House believed one word of what he said.