Mr. JOHNSON. Then as to this, I am sure I must be right. The honorable member and all of us are very anxious to bring about a state of peace and quiet and harmony. We want to be brothersal all sectional differences to be forgotten; all former animosities to be cast into oblivion. We want to be what our fathers were, what your ancestors of Massachusetts were in their relation to the men of SCarolina; in the language of Webster, going shoulder to shoulder through the perilous conflict of there evolutionary struggle, moistening every field of battle in which they were engaed with their joint blood, feeling the arm of ashington resting on them alike for support. We want the men of Massachusetts to he now in relation to the men of Maryland and Virginia what they were then. We invoke the memories of the past. We pray that the spirit of Washington may be over and around us to guide us to a correct conclusion. Hewentthe moment he was called to defend Massachusetts. He drew his sword 1st in the struggle to maintainher rights, and he did not go alone. Every southern State rushed to her rescue. We came out of that struggle as we went in, brothers, an imated by an equal love of country, hoping to achicve or the benefit of all a national renown, and a prosperity without example in the worlds history. Madness separated us. The South, I beg you to remember, has not been wholly to blame; why it is unnecessary to say. There is no man conversant with the history of the times but must feelI felt it in this Chamber, I felt it in the peace conferencethat although the treaSOn was culminated into actual perpe tration by the South. it never could have occurred but for the misjudged conduct of the North. I do not designate any particular State. But we have gone through the struggle, and we are out of it, successfully out ofit. Iow is that former concord to be ree stablished? By seeking to deprive the southern States of any part of their political influence, leaving them subject to your taxing power, even increasing that power as againstt em? By passing laws adverse to what is known to be the sentiment of their people laws which assume, not that they are not competent, but that being competent they are unwilling to perform the duty which they owe to their country? Gentlemen, you misunderstand them. No man in this Chamber raised his voice earlier, or did more, to the extent of his means, to defeat the arricidal effort to destroy this Government than I did; but I knew these people. I knewand therefore my aprehensions were the greaterthat if their leaers should be put in a situation in which they could arouse the hearts of those people, they had that within them that would cause them to go to the utmost limits men could go and so far they have gone. It is idle to denyI rather feel proud of the factthat they exhibited upon the battlefield the highest elements of human courage which can be exhibited upon such an occasion. Some of them may have acted with an entire forget fulness of all the injunctions of humanity. So have someof our soldiers. Private houses have been given to the flames, and innocent women and children driven out at night to seek shelter of whom and where they could. But these are exceptions; and these we should try to forget. How can this strife be soonest forgotten? Bring them back; take them by the hand; say to them, “You have wandere away from the household of your fathers; you have seen the error of your ways; you ask to return; we receive you with open arms and with warm and gushing hearts, ” and rely upon it that such men as will be sent here will be as faithful to the constitution as either of us. Look at the conduct of the ir military men and our militar men. How do the meet? How do Grant an Sherman and Meade and Sheridan and Thomas meet their former comrades, lately their one mies, now that the war is over?