Mr. WILSON. The speech the Senfrom Pennsylvania has just made, and the statement he has made to us in regard to his campaign in Texas, gives to me a key to his line of policy here, and I think I now know him a great deal better than Idid. I will say to the Senator that it seems to me a very strange thin that we are discussing in the Senate of the U.S. today whether we shall send men who have fought in the rebel armies to WestPoint to educate them at the public expense with the sons of men who have given their lives in the defense of the country. What will the young men of this country, whose fathers and brothers and friends have fallen in this war, think of the Congress of the U.S. if we send men who have fought in the rebel armies, and perhaps shot down their fathers and brothers and friends, to WestPoint to be educated with them? I am surprised that any Senators here should advocate a pol icy of that character. I am willing that the oung men of the South should be educated, and educated in our colleges and schools, any where and everywhere, at their own expense. I hope they will be educated, and tang it better than they have been taught in the years of the past; but for the Government of the U.S. to permit the men who have served in the rebel armies to be educated at WestPoint at the public expense seems to me to be to elevate treason an to put a mark of dishonor upon fidelity to the country. It isa fact everywhere manifest about us that every effort is being made that can be made to make rebellion and treason respectable. As to the amendment just moved by the Senfrom Illinois, I agree with the Senfrom Maine that we had better keep it oh“ this bill. I am willing to do anything that is liberal and fair toward the people of the rebel States; but, sir, to take temen from their armies and put them with the oun men of this country to be educated at Vestffoint, or at the Naval school, seems to me little less than elevating treason at the expense of loy alty to the country.