Mr. DOOLITTLE. I am not talking about that agreement now. I am talking about the struggle we had here to come to a vote, and I say that when the struggle was to come to a vote on this question, there were but. 6 Republican Senators on this floor who were opposed to coming to a vote; and it was the determination of tehonorable Senfrom Massachusetts, Eur. Sexxsa] who remembers well what e said, and of the Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. wADE] and one or 2 others, to use all the parliamentary tactics of opposition to prevent a vote, even if thereby the remainin time of the session was consumed and the appropriation bills lost. that defeated it. I undertake to say that this body, as a body of Republican Senators, indorsed and sustained the policy of reconstruction adopted by Mr. Lincoln as late as March one year ago. These are facts that cannot be denied. Congress adjourned on the 4th of March, 1865, and as is was the state of the case in the Senate of the U.S., Mr. Lincoln had a right to believe, and did believe, that a majority of his friends were with him on the eat question of reconstruction; and it was or that reason that he told the Senators elect from Louisiana, who publish the statement over their own hands, “ Persevere, Louisiana will be recognized by the next Congress, and you will be admitted to your seats.” Time passed on; victories were won; Richmond taken, Mr. Lincoln, but 3 days before his death, have expression to this policy, and in aspeec which I think no man on this floor would undertake to answer, urged upon us and n on the people that it was our duty, if we did, not wish to demoralize and disperse our friends, the Union men of Louisiana and the other States, to recognize them, not turn the cold shoulder upon them, but. to take them by the hand and to welcome them into the fra ternity of States. Mr. Johnson found this policy adopted by the Administration preparedho his hand. The great man now departed, whom we so much loved, who was the chosen leader of the great American people in the terrible time through which we have been called upon to pass, had himself laid down the track in which the car of state was to move on. The train was made up; the engines were in full motion, carrying the car of state forward to its desired end, when in come certain gentlemen who conceive that they are much wiser than the Republican party that nominated Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Johnson, and propose to throw down obstructions on the track, to throw off the car of state from the track on which it is going, and then claim that they are acting in the name of the great Union Republican party of the U.S.