Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend when I came here today to participate in this debate, nor did I expect when Icame here to be entertained with debate of the character of that indulged in by the Gentfrom Illinois, [Mr. ingERSOIL] Indeed, I should not now say anything did I not feel it was my duty, when a man holding a high official position in the U.S., the highest within the gift of the people, is assailed in his personal, political, and national character, as a representative of the people to sustain him in the principles which he has enunciated, and which I believe to be the true Union principles of the country. Nor do I, in the remarks I intend to make, exct to indulge in any loose charges against those who represent the Republican or socalled Union party. I am not ready to believe that the rank and file of that party are disloyal to their country, nor am I wrllin yet to believe that those 1800,000 men who supported George B. Mc Clellan in 1864were disloyal to the country and wished to accomplish its ruin and to establish a despotism in place of the free Government which dese end to us from our forefathers. But while I support the doctrine of the POTUS with the rank and file of the Democratic party, it is from the fact that the doctrine he has enunciated now, and the doctrine he has always enunciated, is the doctrine of constitutional liberty, which is the very life and soul of our form of Government, without which the light of liberty would go out and we would sink into despotism. I take the ground here, and without fear of successful contradiction, that AndrewJohnson has not violated any principle he ever enunciated, that he acts today under the solemn obligations of the oath which he has taken to support the constitution in all its integrity that he has betrayed no principle or party, and that his only ambition and is only hope are to sustain this great and glorious Union in the pristine vigor which it had before the war commenced. I am ashamed, sir, at the situation which affairs have taken in this country. I wcc, in silent sorrow that a Representative of the U.S. Congress should et the attention of this House and countryin vi ifying and abusing as true and noble a patriot as ever stood up in any country in defense of its imeriled existence; a man, sir, who left the caste of the U.S. in resouse to the call of his country; a man who, a though southern born, still imbued with the teachings of the fathers of the Republic, stood with those lovers of his country whose blood has been so freely shed upon southern soil; a man who has been identified with the Unionists of the South from the commencement, and whose defense of our flag, emblematic of the principles of constitutional freedom, made him the envy and admiration of all civilized nation:Yes, sir, he left the Sea ateof the U.S. for the purpose of vindicatin the founders of his country, and to stand by the principles embodied and set forth in the DeclarIndep and the Constitution of the U.S. Sir, I would not degrade this House so much as to dese end to the position which has been taken here today by the honorable Gentfrom Illinois in vilifing, abusing, traducing, and slandering as noble a strict as ever lived upon the face of this carth.