Mr. LANE, of Kansas. I have no assurance from the POTUS on that or any other subject; but this I do know, that the Republican party of which I am a member is crumbling to pieces, and that every day we postpone the reception of these States tends to insure the destruction of that party. I know further, that if both branches of) the Congress of the U.S. pass this JtResolution and the President si us it, itwill bring the republican party and the president of the Republican party together in harmony, and continue the political power of this country in the hands of that rty. Sir, have been laboring for months to har monize the POTUS with the majority on the floor of Congress. I thought yeste ay that there was a hope of securing such a result. It did seem that some of the members of this body were disposed to har monize with the President. I proposed to go very far yesterday to secure that liarine n. But while pursuing this course, we were awakened by one of the most vindictive assaults ever made upon any official by either friend or opponent from the Senfrom Ohio [Mr. WADE] a!l assault upon my personal friend, a man who for 2 years sat side by side with me here, whom I learned to respect and admire for his pluck, his ability, and integrity, and to love for his manly virtues; a man whom I originally selected as the candidate of the Republican party for the 2nd office within the ift of that party; a man whom Iurged on the le publican convention at Baltimore as their can idate; a man whose election I did my utmost to secure against the efforts of the Senfrom Ohio. In the most critical moment of that political campaign an assault was made on our presidential candidate in the same spirit evinced by him yesterda in his attack upon the President. I defened the candidate of the Republican party against that assault, and I defend the Pre ent of the Republican party against the assau t of yesterday. he comes to the stile.” “A despot!” “ Adictator i” In what? In seeking to reconstruct the rebellious States in violation of the wishes of the Congress of the U.S.? When Mr. Johnson took his seat in the presidential chair, I ask on, sir, what had congress done? The people of the U.S. iad done this: Mr. Lincoln had marked out the policy of reconstruction, since adopted by Mr. Johnson, and the people of the nite States, the party to which the Senfrom, Ohio and myself belong, indorsed by y triumphant majorities that very reconstruction policy. A despot for proposing, in violation of the wishes of the Congress of the U.S., to reconstruct the insurrectionary States upon the theory expressed in that JtResolution annulling the ordinances of secession, ratifying the amendment to the Constitution abolisliin slavery, repudiatin the confederate debt, indorsin vthe nations debt, and extending sutfra e to alcolored men who can read the Constitution of the U.S and sign their names, and to all colored men owning and paying taxes upon $250 worth of reert l p lifr. lzresident, I am not as conversant with the constituency of the Senfrom Ohio as he is, but I venture the assertion that outside of NewEngland there is not a single northern State in this Union but will by a inajorit vote to indorse the policy of reconstruction advised by President ohnson and expressed in that JtResolution. You cannot carry before the people of this country suffrage to the unquali ged black man. You caifnot find a State in this Union outside of NewEngland, in in judgment, that will indorse that polic. Eestfict it to a qualification clause, as the POTUS recommends, and you can carry the Republican Union party everywhere and with unanimity. fE The POTUS “a des pot” for exercising a constitutional right in vetoing a bill passe by Genessl Mr. President, had the Senfrom Ohio occupied the position which is occupied by President John son, in my judment, he won (I have vetoed the civil rights hi 1. “A despot!” What is the exercise of the veto power? It amounts merely to a vote to reconsiiler, with the lights given in his reasons for the veto. When before has the exercise of a constitutional right justified a political friend of the POTUS in denouncing that President as a despot and adictator? He has been and is now, in in judgment, as anxious to harmonize the didculties in the Union party as any Senator upon this floor. If he was met in the same spirit, that party would be reunited and this Union would be restored. His advances are met by insult; his advances are met by denunciation from the leader of the Republican party upon this Senate floor in language without a parallel. Mr. President, so far as I am concerned, I propose today and hereafter to take my position alongside the President of the republican party and stand there unflinchingly so ong as he remains faithful to the principles of that party, defending him against the Senfrom Ohio as I defended his predecessor against the same Senator. I should be glad to have the JtResolution lie upon the table for the present, and be printed.