Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, I rise to present the certificate of election of Hon. Joan Po01. as aSenfrom the State of NCarolina, for the term ending March 4, 1867. I owe it to the Senate and to Mr. POOL, as well as to myself, to state that he was, and is, and always has been, a devoted friend of the Union. He was a Union candidate for Governor of the State of NCarolina in 1860, before there was any imminent danger of secession. He canvassed the State, and opposed the secession movement by every means in his power to the very last moment. After the ordinance of secession was passed he retired to private life, and refused to take any part whatever in political affairs, even to vote in local elections, for 2 years. When the Union men of NCarolina commenced a peace movement in order to embarrass the rebellion, he threw himself into the movement and drew down upon himself both the anger and the persecution of the rebel authorities and the sympathizers with the rebellion. In 1864, when peace meetings were being held by the Union men of NCarolina, and were sometimes suppressed by the military authority of the rebe s, and arrests were made under the proclamation of Governor Vance, he threw himself firmly into the opposition to those acts of the rebellion, and in favor of the peace meetings and the peace candidates. He took an active part in running Union or peace candidates for the Legislature of NCarolina, and consented himself to become a candidate for that purpose, ine rderto embarrass the movements of the rebellion. He introduced resolutions into the State Senate for the appointment of commissioners to treat with the U.S. for peace, and urged their passage, and came within 2 votes of succeeding in carrying them through the State Senate. From the he inning, during the whole rebellion, and since, c has doneal in his power to sustain the cause of the Union. After the war of blood was over, he became actively engaged in favor of the re construction of the loyal State government of NCarolina. He was elected to the State convention for that purpose, and advocated the passage of the resolution annulling and declaring void from the beginning the act of secession and all things growing out of it. Under such circumstances has he been elected to the Senate of the U.S. As I said in the beginning, I deem it due to the Senate and to him and to myself, in rising to present his credentials as a Senator, to make this statement of his“ character as a devoted friend of the Government of the U.S. I ask that the credentials, for the present, lie upon the table.