Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, I did not hear all the remarks of the Senfrom Massachusetts in reference to the State of Del aware and the judge of the U.S. district court there; but I heard this exPression fall from his lips: “the little petty judge in the little State of Delaware.”. Mr. President, from my infancy I have known this “little petty judge” in the State of Delaware; he had the confidence of my father and I bear his name; and I take occasion here to say, not only in reference to the allusion now made to that venerable man, but in reference to the flood tide of abuse which has been hurled against him by the Radical Press of the North, that there is no man within the limits of the U.S.A. who throughout life has maintained a more honorable fame than Willard Hall, of the State of Delaware, district judge of the U.S. Appointed to that position by President Monroe before the Senfrom Massachusetts was old enough to mingle in the counsels of men, he has lived until the frosts of age have whitened his head without stain and without reproach among his fellow men. A Christian, if there be one within the limits of this entire country, who gives to char itable and religious objects every year he lives more than the amount of his salary, devoted heart and soul to every good word and work for the improvement of his fellow men. Now when the grave is obefore him, he is assailed throughout the length and breadth of the U.S. because in fidelity to his oath of office and to the high trust committed to him he fearlessly stands the defender of the Constitution of his country and vindicates it in his high office. Sir, that distinguished judge does not belong and has not for many years belonged to the political party with which I act. If advocacy of the war after it commenced, if support of the war after it commenced, constituted loyalty, he was among the most loyal. He wished to avert the calamity of war, but when the country was engaged in war he was one of those who wished that success might attend your standard. I take occasion too, sir, to say, in reference to that judge, that among all the district judges of the U.S. there are none abler. When appointed district judge for that State he was at the very head of the bar of that State. It was a pecuniary loss, a sacrifice to him to accept the position. It matters not to him whether you increased his salary or not, but when you increase the salary of one judge you cannot justly discriminate as against an other. And in reference to the “petty State of Delaware” or the “little State of Dela ware, ” I do not Presume the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts meant any reflection. It is true, sir, that she is not extensive as far as her territories are concerned; but there is one thing that can be said, she was the 1st to adopt the Constitution under which we formerly lived, the Federal Constitution, and under no circumstances has she through any dept of her government done aught at any time in violation of that Constitution or in opposition to the Union for which that Constitution was formed. It cannot be said of her that she has ever advised resistance even to Federal law. It is no fault of hers if wild and maddened schemes for the perpetuation of a political party in power have plunged this country into horrid civilWar. It is no fault of hers if your federal Union is this day destroyed. She has advocated none of the wild, unconstitutional doctrines which arrayed brother againstbrother, State against State, and section against section; but throughout her whole history, observing with fidelity the bond of union into which she entered with other States, she has trespassed upon no rights of others, and only claimed that she should be respected in her own. And throughout all her history she has shown a devotion to the Constitution of the country and to the union of the States which had it been followed by Massachusetts and other States, would have saved us from the calamities under which we now suffer; and instead of every household being this day clothed in mourning, instead of almost every eye in this country having been bathed with tears, there would be nothing but joy, happiness, and prosperity everywhere.