Mr. KELSO. I yield to my colleague so much time as he may need to finish his speech. oMr.LOAN. The better to conceal their it was proposed to organize a 3rd or jJaowhn”son party, and for that object the “lock convention was called and held in Philadelphia on the 14th of August last. But no one was deceived by its mummeries. The least informed and the simplest minded clearly understand that on these great questions there are but 2 parties one for the country and the other against it. In the very nature of things it cannot be otherwise. He who created the universe created a heaven above and a hell beneath. There was no provision made for an abiding place for the 3rd or the Johnson party;. }. those who are unworthy of admission with the Union people in the courts above must be content to be collected together with that mass of discordant material down below. Apostates and renegades, rebel sympathizers and rebels, guerrillas, bushwhackers, and cut throats, harmonize with the most wonderful unanimity on the presidential policy; and I am sure that noo can be given for their separation hereafter. All the agencies that result from the blandishments of high official power and from the immense patronage of the Government, sufficient to corrupt any people less intelligent or less honest than ours, were brought to bear to bribe the people with their offices and their money to forsake their devotion to their country and its free institutions, its free ideas, and free speech. It is, not necessary for me to enter into any detail of the desperate and reckless manner in which these agencies were used, as they are matters of public notoriety and are known to all. It is proper to say that they met with that signal of which was their just fate at the hands of an intelligent, virtuous, but outraged people. In this canvass questions were raised and discussed before the people, one of which at least has a pertinent bearing upon the question now under consideration, and that is: why did not Congress, when it became evident that