Mr. GRINNl ZLL.I ask the gentleman to yield a few moments for a personal explanation. “Mr. Wisnou. Certainly. “Mr. Gammon. Mr. Speaker.it is with the grant est reluctancethat I rise tosay anything which might seem personal. I have been a member of this [louse for 3 sessions and in all that time I have had no perlonal contest and no unkind feeling toward any person in the House. I claim to be a man of peace. claim 1st to be a gentleman. But. sir, when any man. I care not whether he stands 6 feet high. Whether he wears buffundcarries the nirofn. certain bird that has a more than usual extremityof tail wanting in the other extremity.saysthat he would not believewhat I utter. I will say that I was never bo“rn to stand under no imputation oftlmt sort. The gentlemanbeginscourting sympathy by sustaining the POTUS PfCfllflltory to his assault upon me. Now. sir. if he is a de fender of the POTUS.all I have to say is. God save the President from such an incoherent.brainless defender. Equal in valor in civil and in military life. His military record! Who has read it? In what volume of history is it found? "Some time ngothe gentlemannakedsunroof us What did youdoin the rebellion but iuake speeches? And he told us that vhe wasin the field and gotsome little reputation with half way secession kentucky. But where washe in any great.fight? Ask GenlGrant or any of the lendingolIicers. Where was he in thojtrcat fights? Ask General Grunt if you want his private opinion about him. Go to the general dimers: and sincehe has alludedto Iowa. I will give the opinion of ii. lending officer from that State. for not.two weeksagohe told methat when there was it noisein campthe mensaid it was either a rabbit or GeneralRousseau. Ho thodcfendersof the soldiers of Iownl Sir. theywantno such defender; they wnnf, noneof his defense. He has not led themin the bnt tle and it is all pretense: it is the merest mockery: it is the meresttrickery, the merest blowing of his own born. for him to say that he led our roldiirs, Where irzis the deadly hail when they were under his command? But he comes here to triiduco a humble personlike myself. In the 1st place. he chargedmewith sayingwhat I neverdid say. When he went down to make ascech to the Fenians in NewYork he is reportedto avesaidthis: ‘As [said on the lloor of Congresson one occasion.as n iling was made at my native Stateby a pitinble nilitiriiin from Iowa. [llissesd You will excuseme or giving his name.but I believe it wasone (ininxiti.i.' “It was‘ono Gnisxsu.’ that he alluded to. But I never made any fling at Kentucky. Thatis iuy name. I am socalled and so known where I live. But that is not all. He was not.contentwith using my name.but he refersto the honorable Gentfrom Pennsylvnnia. [Mr. STEVEXS]in these terms: man is n.mist ream and I cannot find words to exress my dis'zustand contemit for hitn.’ To whom oes that relate? To a merittor of this House! And here he stands up. 6 feetand over, calling himselfn buttoned upgeneralofficer." “New. sir, I wish to do nyany unfriendliness toward the gentlemanor toward the State of Kentucky. deny that I ever made any remark which could be construedto mean anything unfriendly in that ro spoct. So far from that being the case. I have held hcnluckyin liiglhrcgii rd. I haveheld in high regard the gentleman who preceded in Congressthe Gentfrom Kentuckywho has spoken to dny. Ilis predecessor writes to me that he will be returned ere by 5 or 10,000 mniority “New. sir. why should I speak of this mutter? Certainly not because I believethat mypeoplewould doubt my word. Sir. allusion lfns beenmade to the soldiersof the different States. I am proud to say that I representadislrict thatsent 13,000 meninto the Army. Can thogentleninn saynsinur h? I did spook somcthing about the menfromKentucky fighting on both sides. Sir. I have been sent hereby a majority of 7,000; and I do not go to the state of Kentucky for indurscuient.nor do the soldiers of Iowa. Their record is made and it was not made under the leadership of any man from Kentucky. It was made under the leadershipof their own coloncls and generals and under GenlGrant and GenlSherman . When the gentlemengetsup here and claims the honor of having led the loivit soldiers. I say that they were not so led; that they spurn such an intimation; and in this I meannothing personal."