Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, we are told that “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” [Laughter] “Hope on, hope ever ” but you are doome to disagointment. [ aughter. Sir, during the shoe of this terrible war, with your military power at every 1011sin my State, with funds enough to accomplish any purpose that could be accomplished with funds; when I and other Democrats had to go to the polls under crossed bayonets and deposit our bal lots; when with my own eyes I saw your military driving honest voters from the polls and running them into the woods, when to my certain knowledge they had to sleep out and did sleep out in the pine thickets for 3 nights in succession, you were not able to carry the State of Delaware. The child is yet to be born and grow grayheaded that will ever see the State of deawnre become the disciple of Mussachusetts. We are not like a certain distinguished gentleman, who was once a flaming democrat, and has fi red largely, not on the field of battle, but ast e accuser of others, who left the State of Kentucky and went to Boston, as he said there in a public speech, to drink in liberty at its fountain. We o not drink liberty rbm an such fountain. We remember the great an the good men who have left for our instruction lessons of wisdom and of patriotism. We follow the light of their example. No modern rushlights attract us. We are a staid people; if the honorable Senator pleases, we are a conservative peeple, and we wish to preserve the constitution of our country as it was handed down to us by our fathers. We wish to preserve the form and system of government which they established. We want not the old house torn down and a new house built up by modern architects. We, and our ancestors before us, have livedin the temple of liberty which the great architects of revolution ary times built. It afforded shelter, comfort, and protection to our fathers and tous. Though foil and madness drove a portion of the people of 9 States into armed resistance against the Federal authority, we did not follow their example. We advised kindness. conciliation, and compromise, for the sake of the Union which our fathers formed and for the sake of the liberty which they bequeathed us and now, sir, that opposition to the Federal authority has been suppressed, that nowhere, in the language of the honorable Senator, does a hostile foot tread American soil; now that no hostile tia floats in the breeze challenging admiration on comparison with our own national flag, we say that the true policy of the American people is to come back to that system of government which their fathers established, and to the adminis tration of that Government in the spirit which the fathers practiced. Mr. President, if we shall follow their example. happy, fortunate indeed, will it be for the whole country. Surely there has been enough of animosity, unkindness, bitterness, and hatred to satisfy the keenest spirit of revenge. Let now the same spirit of kindness and conciliation which characterized the annual message of the POTUS be shared by the members of the 2 Houses of Congress, and soon, although war has trod the earth with the of a giant, peace, harmony, and prosperity with everywhere revai.