Mr. DOOLITTLE. But it is afact whether they went involuntarily or involuntarily; you cannot settle it by a law. It is a question of fact, and upon thatquestion of fact whether they went involuntarily or involuntarily de pends the guilt or the innocence, just as in the commission of any other offense. The idea of holding a person responsible for what he does under comulsion, by force, at the point of the bayonet, riven by a squad of men who perhaps took a young man and forced him into the army at the peril of his life, is a very different thing from what it is when he voluntarily goes in of his own accord. Now, Mr. President, in relation to these appointments to the Naval Academy, and to the Military Academ, they are appointments, so far as I understan, that are generally apportioned throughout the country to each congressional district. The various congressioual districts of the country claim the rightto have these scholars or cadets sent from the districts, and in order to select the one most proper to be put at the Academy, the right has been given by law to the members of Congress to select them. Now, the right being given by law to the members of Congress to select, suppose. there is a member of Congress from Kentucky, or Tennessee, or Maryland, or Virginia, or any of those States where some of the boys have gone into the rebellion, who hasan appomtment to make. It becomes a question for this Representative to determine, and determine for himself; he has the right to make the selection, and we by law now assume to declare, if this amendment is adopted, that he shall not select any oung man who has been in the rebel service, who went involuntarily, but he may select one if he has been conscripted and forced to go in. I do not see any injustice in it, and I think that we ought to draw the distinction between the voluntary and involuntary rebels, between the rebels who of their own intent made this rebellion, and those who were forced into it when military authority or power was established over them. I would carr that distinction out in very many ways, holing those responsible who moved in it, who voluntarily went into it not those who were forced into it.