Mr. ELDRIDGE. No, sir. I believe, Mr. Speaker, I have said pretty much all I desired to say. Much is said for the purpose of prejudicin the public mind about the readmission of retI haned traitors into the councils of the nation, and the question often suggested as to whether we can become reconciled to them. Sir, the war is ended; peace has been agreed u on; and men who have been in arms have lai them down. There is an agreement that we will forgive them, and ifthe fraternal union of our fathers is ever restored we must. Doyou expect that those people will ever become reconcied to you if you do not become reconciled to them? and can that ever take place if you talk as the Gentfrom Kentucky [ML MCKEE] has talked this afternoon? I you would hang thern all; ifyou would crush them all; if you would hate them forever, do you think they can shake hands with on, and live upon terms of amity and friendship with you? You wonder that they are not instantly reconciled to you; ou wonder that the do not at once forgive an forgot the past. but who here of the prominent politi cians of the Republican party has ever been able to forgive? You are the conucrors; you have triumphed. You can aflbr to be magnanimous. You can forgive without mortification. But can they do the same? Consider what they must suffer. I excct that it will belong years before these bloo y days will be for gotten either in the North or in the South. But we must live together as one nation, as one people, and the sooner we can forget and for give the better; the happier, the more prosperous and happy shall we be as a nation. I did hope that a better and a kindlier feeling was growing up in the North; but when I hear men talking about branding traitors and making them wear the brand upon their foreheads until the snows of winter shall lie upon their graves, such hatred, such malignity, it seems to me, will not only keep alive, but perpetuate forever, sentiments of alienation and, hostility. The Union of our fathers was a Union of fra ternal feeling and mutual interest, and we must restore that Union, or the duty resting upon us will not be rformed. If you are unable to forgive and orget the past you cannot expect the people of the South to forget and become reconciled to you. They may have been wrong; they were wrong; but this fact does not change the nature of men. Human nature is the same everywhere. I am preared to forgive, in the interest of country and nion. Upon no other condition are we promised forgiveness by divine authorit.