Mr. JOHNSON. I was satisfied that the letter had nearly all been fetlll, and could not imagine what more the writer could have said. When the fact of the existence of a letter of this description was brought to the attention of the Senate some time ago I expressed great surprise, and stated, as well as I recollect, that I could hardly believe that it was an official letter, and I thought that the Secretary, in directing it to be published, as would seem to be the case, had acted with great imprudence, to say the least of it. Now, the Secretary fizlls us“: Sometime in April last I received, amongunedicial letters upog‘ pohtteal questionsfrom citizensat homeand abro, one of this character which was addressed to myself personally, and whichbearsdate the 24thof March last, from amcsE. Harvey. Esq." The letter was intended to be a private communication to the SecyState. The writer never contemplated that it should be published. It was written evidently with no such design; but, as the Secretary says, itwus precisely like various other letters of the same 'ind that he had received from persons abroad, persons either in or out of official connection with the Government. The Secretary tells us that he showed this letter to the President, and the President su gested that it might be as well to publish it, an that he published it in consequence of that suggestion. The Secretary goes on further to say that if anybody is to be blamed it is not the writer. Clearly, the blame is to fall, if at all, on the Secretary and President for sanctioning it; but in publishing the letter the Secretary says he but not the slightest idea that it contained any reflection u.on Congress or any member of Congress. 0 looked upon it as containing a mere expression of opinion upon the political condition of the countr, witIrout dreaming that it could be.tortureddo not use his language, but the substance into an attack upon congress. Now, with due deference to the Secretary and to the President, I think they made a great blunder in publishing the letter. It is a letter that never should have been published, looking to the relations in which the Executive stands to Congress, and it is a letter that never should have been published looking to the character of the letter, it being a private one from the writer to the Secretary 0 State. It was published without consulting the writer, and l have every reason to believe, from my kaowled e of the man, that if he had been consulted he would have refused positively to allow it to be given to the public. I agree, therefore, with the honorable member from Ohio [Mr. WADE] that it is not right to base any action as against the writer 0 this letter on the fact that without his authority, and contrary to what I think propriety demanded, the letter has been given to the public. He has, as for as I know, very faithfully discharged his duties. The honorable chairman of the committee on Foreign Relations perhaps knows that‘better than Tdo; but I have never heard any complaint urged against him in relation to the manner in which his duties have been discharged. The HoRep proposed to abolish the mission. That it was ound, I suppose, could not be done, and the committee of conference have adopted another measure, and that is to prevent the incumbent of the mission from being paid at all for his services.