Mr. HENDRICKS. I spent about half an hour, I think, of the time of the Senate, which I have occupied in discussing that very question, and trying to show why I thought it was not right and it was not expedient for the U.S. Government to attempt to control the right of suffrage in the States. If I failed in the course of that argument to satisfy the Senator, I cannot do it now, as I am about closing my argument. question made by my colleague, whether these States shall be kept out until all the leaders of the rebellion have met a felons doom. That is the proposition. I resist it. I ask that these States shall come in now. Congress has no control Over the punishment of anybody; that is with the Executive, if the Executive has any control overit at all, oritis with the judiciary. You can judge for yourselves whether the reasons given by Chief Justice Chase why he will not hold courts in Virginia are satisfactory or not. You can judge for yourselves of the reasons given by the AttyGen of the U.S. why the trial of Mr. Davis can not. take place outside of Virginia. I do not choose to discuss these questions. If m colleague and other Senators are not satisfie with the decision of the AttyGen, let them go and argue it. with him. I have not taken time to decide it for myself. The AttyGen says that he cannot be tried properly outside of Virginia. I do not suppose that any Senator asks that anybody shall) be punished except upon some trial. 1 on do not want anybody to go to Fortress Monroe and shoot JeffersonDavis. Ifyou want it done, let the man who wants it done in that way go and doit. I want him and all others that are to be punished to be put upon trial before a courthavmg uris diction of the cause; where the proceeings, where the finding, where the execution may be worthy of the great country and the great people with which we are connected. But, Mr. President, these Senators want more blood, and they do not like the course of the POTUS; and how is it between them and the President? I have spoken of the Senfrom Oregon, be living out in the shades of the mountains, and beyond them, and his people having seen but little of the hardships and terrors of this war. They scarcely knew ofit. The sound of the cannon could not pass beyond the mountains. They would scarcely know of it if the taxgatherer did not go there. The Senfrom Michigan, [Mr. How. mn] the Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. 7ADE] my colleague, ask for more punishment upon rebels than the President is willing to give. How do