Mr. HENDERSON. The Senator addressing the body is not so able. but it is a little strange he has not already indicated to the ever guick and ready mind of the Senfrom Indiana what his purpose is. Certainly he has displayed no ability whatever if he has failed to made himself understood by that Senator. I have no objection, however, to making the statement in answer to the question so plain, “ that he may run, that readet it.” The idea has gone abroad, and it is most carefully urged, that Congress has resolved to govern the southern States as provinces, that the committee of 15 was organized to carry out this purpose. The party that opposed Mr. John sons election take this opportunity to announce nrties in this maze of incon their devotion to the Union, and clamor for immediate restoration. Of course military rule is denounced. This is a strong card. I (lis like military law as much as any man. The whole country dislikes it. Even the soldier, reared under our institutions, who enforces it, dislikes it. Congress is arraigned for taxing the southern people without representation. This is another powerful argument, an argument that could not be answered, if the very organisations now presenting themselves did not propose to tax half their people, for all time to come without any voice or representation now, and without hope of it in the future. Again, we are charged with being disunionists. We are so desi mated in the columns of lending iapers. An why is it? The people are tang it to believe that harmony and peace and good will rei supreme in the southern States; that they iliiwe loyal governments organized, administering justice without delay, sale, or denial, and protecting all their inhabitants; that the spirit of rebellion is far removed from them, and they only need an opportunity now to show their old proverbial love and at tachment for the Union. The war was waged for the Union, and the people long to see it restored. This natural desire is seized upon to array hostility to Congress. The Presicut is praised; his reconstruction policy indorsed in the strongest terms. Lincolns reconstruction policy, in form the same, but differing only in that it brought Union men to congress and secured another State to the Union in case of confederate success, was denounced by the some. men. conrrress is arraigned for the Freedmens Bureau bill. I do not like it myself, and only supported it as a means of getting what is right. I had nothing to do with the committee of 15, and I hold now that the HoRep cannot control my vote, against my will, in the admission of a Senfrom one of the seced in Staes. NOlaw of Congress can control it. "Tie States are in the Union, but in the Presidents view the are not yet out of rebellion. The Attorney ( encral says they are not, and the President treats them worse than provinces. If the rebellion is overand the cause of it removed, why these proceedings which I have enumerated? Mr. President, I think I have shown that the Executive is estopped from complainingof Congross. Political mrties cannot consistently applaud the Presicut and then say one word against Congress. Does the President design continuing this military rule after the Representatives are admitted? If necessary now, will it be less so after admission? My friendfrom Indiana, however, with all his instincts against these things is no doubt ready to join in the general and say, great is the President and accursed e the ] acobins.