Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, the other day, in my absence from my seat, my colleague thought proper to present to the Senate certain resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin that were not addressed to this body, upon which the body could take no action whatever; resolutions condemning me in the severest terms; resolutions instructing me to resign; and the grounds upon which they were placed were that sustained the administration of President Johnson. Is that what my honorable colleague calls toleration of a difference of opinion I Does my colleague indorse those resolutions? Mr. President, in regard to this great question of the relations the President bears to the party which elected him, my colleague falls into a very great mistake in supposing that the party which elected Mr. Johnson was the old big party. Not at all, sir, True, there were a great many persons who had been in the Whig party before it was dissolved that joined the Union party; but let me tell my colleague that in the organization of the Union party it was the Free soil Democracy uniting with the elements of the dissolved Whig party that made up that Union party which won the victory. From 1854 to the present hour there is not a single doctrine laid) down in the platform of the nion party to which Mr. Johnson has in the slightest degree proved false since he became POTUS. Sir, that party was organized in 1854, upon the dissolution of the Democratic party. he Democratic party dissolved on the repeal of the Missouricompromise and the attempt to enforce slavery in the Territory of Kansas. Then that portion of the Democratic party which was opposed to the extension of slavery, uniting with members of the Whig partyentertaining the same sentiments, which party was already dissolved, formed this great organization denominated the Republican party of the U.S.; and, sir, the fun amental elements on which that party was organized in 1854 were the union of the States, opposition to the extension of the institution of slavery, and the preservation to each and every of the States of its supreme control over its own domestic institutions. In 1856the sole issue was the extension of slavery; in 1860 it was the same issue. hen after the success of Mr. Lincoln as the chief of the Republican party we entered upon another issue. What was it? A war to sustain the Union against the secession of the South. As the war progressed slavery was put at stake, slavery was thrown into the scale; and the question which in 1861 was, shall the Union be dissolved, shall the Government live or die, was changed in 1863 to the question whether slavery or the Union shall die. Sir, under the administration of Mr. Lincoln and the supermtending providence of Almighty God, and next to that the patriotism of the American people which filled u our armies and filled our lreasury, we succeeed at last in winning the great victory, sustaining the Union, and crushing the institution of slavery. To crown that great victory we brought forward the constitutional amendment. My honorable friendfrom Missouri[Mr. Hasosasou] has the honor of introducing it into this body. The Senfrom Illinois, [Mr. Tauununnfl as chairman of the ComJudiciary, has the honor of conducting it during its discussion here. I, as an humble member of this body, took part in that debate. Though the measure was introduced by the Senfrom Missouri, it was my good fortune, and I look back to it with pride, to make in this body the 1st speech that was made in favor of that amendment to the constitution. From that hour until during the present session, when we have succeeded in caring this amendment and having it adopted by t ree 4ths of all the States, I have looked forward with an eye single to the accomplishment of that great victory. I ressed it in this body and elsewhere; and when many of those Gentlemen on this floor who new claim to be the special champions of freedom told me over and over again that we could neither carry the amendment through Congress nor carry it through the States. my faith never faltered for an instant. Here and elsewhere and every where, as both the Senators from Massachuse tts well know, I insisted that we could carr the amendmentin this body and carry itthrough the HoRep, and that we could carry it through the country and carry it through 3/4ths of the State Legislatures, and that the adoption of that amendment would be the crownin, final, crushing, eternal victory over the rebelion by removing forever the cause which had produced it. Sir, steady to that purpose, with a faith which in darkness has no car and in danger feels no doubt, I pressed on and on, in a no of opposition here and elsewhere, until have seen it accomplished. Now, Mr. President, in relation to the question upon which we are at present divided, when did this division begin? What did it begin about? Last spring, one year ago, every member of the Senate on the Republican side but 6 and I will name the men, and there shall be no mistake about it was in favor of the resolution recognizmg Louisiana.