Mr. ROUSSEAU. It was to that language that 1 objected when I rose to a personal expla nation the day before yesterday. This House will see at a glance the difference between a gentleman saying that he will protect his wife and children against outrage, of which 1 was speaking when I alluded to that matter, and saying that he would kill a person who should attempt to arrest him on the exparte statement of a negro and when I got up here the other day, and said in my place that I used no such language, I meant just what I said, and in that regard the speech, as published, has been changed in no line, word, or letter, from what it was as reported by the reporters of the Globe who took it down. The gentleman can have his own ideas as to what he would do if his wife and children were arrested in the evening, as was the case to which I was speaking, and ordered to be held by the agent of the Freedmens Bureau until the morning to be tried, at his convenience. The gentleman can have his own notions; I have mine and I say here that a man who would allow such outrages to be committed as I indicated the other day, would do what I would not do. Gentlemen undertook to correct me the other day when I said these things were done while the bureau was under the orders of General Fisk. The agent was in charge of the bureau there under the orders of General Fisk. Be that as it may, if any gentleman would allow his wife and children to be arrested and taken from him without law, and led away between 2 bayonets in the hands of negroes, and imprisoned during the night to be tried at the convenience of the agent of the Freedmens Bureau, he is at perfect liberty to do so; butI would not submit to it. I would resist it, and if bloodshed came of it, let it come. I hold that the freedom and liberty I claim to enjoy is worthless if my family and myself are to be taken away from my home under these circumstances. This explanation, however, is a very small matter, and I do not wish to have thesepersonal explanations taking up the time of the House in this way. I believe there is not a man upon this floor who would not indorse the sentiments I have uttered, that under any circumstances he would stand by his wife and children and if the Gentfrom Iowa [Mr. GRINNELL] chooses to tell the House here today that he does not indorse that sentiment, then let him do so; I shall not envy his position. He may attempt a fling at Kentucky by talking about fighting on both sides of this question. Kentucky does not care what he may say; and I must say I do not care one cent about anything he may say. But I will tell him one thing, that whether on the Union or on the rebel side, he cannot point. to a Kentucky man who ever turned his back upon danger, or who has ever dishonored or degraded himself by deserting or failing to defend the cause he espoused and when that gentleman got up here the other day and said that I had degraded my State when I said I would defend my wife and children as well as myself from these outrages, he uttered what I then pronounced to be a slan der, and what I now reeat to have been a slani der. If I know mysel, I know that I could do no not that would degrade either my friends, my family, or myself and the language he then used was unnecessary and uncalled for; it was discourteous and unkind, and against the rules of this House, as I understand them and I did not know what else to do than to get up in my place here and pronounce it false and a vile slander upon me; and that I did and I think he should have done the same toward me, if I had assailed him in like manner and what I accord to other men, I must and will claim for myself. I regret that it is necessary to make these explanations. The language I did utter the other day, however, justified me in what I said here. If the gentleman had properly quoted my remarks I should have said nothing; but that he did not do. If there is a reporter here who will say thatI have not given the true version of my remarks, that what is published is not just precisely what I uttered on this floor, than I Will admit that I am wrong. 1866. 75s I ho a to hear no more said about this matter. this not worthy the attention of this House. I think enough was said about it the other day; more than I want to hear again.