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MIDNIGHT REPORT.
xxx coneaEss---F1Rsr SESSION.

xxx COMGAESS...FIR8T SESSION.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. April 7.
The House sat in Committee of the Whole
on the State of the Union-only business in
order being general debate on the President
Annual Message.
Mr.. Hogan, of Missouri, addressed the
House. He characterized the session as the
session of magazine articles, prepared and
spoken by members and published in the
Globe to such m extent that publication ex-
ceeded by three or four thousand pages the
quantity published in corresponding period of
the first session Of last Congress. What ben.
e6cial purposes had all these essays contribu-
ted? With the exception Of Eve or six, or
perhaps q dozen, of them there was not sol
itary new idea presented by them. They
we're but a mere repetition Of what had been
said by others, the verdict had been changed,
the ideas were the same. These speeches
might be almost regarded as law; for they
had their first, their second and ,heir third
reading. The principal topic Of all these
can descent A great deal of mistaken phi
lanthropy and sympathy exhibited for the
colored people when they were in sla-
very, and he proceeded to show from per-
sonal experience that the slaves Of the south
had not had such very hard time of it.
This part Of the speech brought out
series of Questioning from Messrs Price
Plantz and Morris.
Mr.. Hogan's answer stated that he believ.
ed slavery to be wrong that he was glad that
it was extirpated that he believed the De-
mocratic party could not die while liberty
lived; that all declarations about the negro
was great wrong perpetrated on Congress
and the American people.
Passing on to the discussing Of the re.
construction question, Mr.. Hogan proceeded
to show union system of the present policy
of the Republican party, with the action Of
Congress throughout the war, in the adop-
ton of declaratory resolutions in reference
TO the objects ofthe war, &C.. in admitting to
seats on the floor persons claiming to be re-
representatives. from Tennessee and Louisiana
and in other matters of general legislation.
Much of the argument of this session had
been against the President of the United
States. He had been denounced and abused
because his policy was sustained by Demo
Gratis in the House, but had he not been
nominated and elected because he was Dem
ocrat, and because he was Soutern man.
Democrats sustained him purely from patriot
ic motives.
Mr.. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, was the
next speaker. He had not sympathized, he
said, with the easy zeal which had been ex-
hibited for restoring the insurgent States to
their place IN the Union Immediately after
their armies had surrendered. He thought
the efforts premature. 1t seemed to him
that the work should have been undertaken
without haste, and without very great deib.
Grafton. He thought it should have waited
till the mad passions had subsidized, till the
whole nation had been made to feel that
treason was crime, till the policy to be pur.
sued with traitors had been settled, until
time had developed in these southern commu-
mites such elements of reconstruction as
would have made it successful, and until that
black and bloody spirit, baffled treason, had
been changed and purified by the transfigura-
ton Of such returning love for the old flag
and for the honor and glory of the republic as
would have brought US the semblance of gem
uine loyalty. He cordially approved Of the
joint resolution reported from the Recon.
struction committee relating to Tennessee so
far as it asserted or complied with the
absolute authority of Congress over
all questions Of that character.
But the reason was not quite free from OBJ.
jections in another aspect. 1t had not been
presented in the best FORM He thought it
could be much improved by making it more
direct. A portion Of its language was calcu-
lated to mislead many people. He meant the
portion of it which says Tennessee is hereby
declared to be one of the United States Of
America on an equal footing with other
States. That language was understood by
many to mean that Tennessee was now out Of
the Union. He was sure no such meaning
was intended, but that language was liable to
v1rc ctp ,ot.n md oho I.
resolution:o of such importance. He thought the
resolution might be much improved BY taking
out the words he had quoted and substituting
for them something like the following: Re.
solved, That the state Of Tennessee ia hereby
declared to be satisfactorily reorganized and
in fit condition to be established in her old
relation in Congress. He held that not an
acre of land in the southern region had ceas.
ed for moment to be under the National au
thorlty. No assumption or treatment OF
treason had changed the act Of Congress by
which certain territory was declared to be the
State of Tennessee. Even the most per-
sstent doctriness of secession or treason,
also every ordinance of secession must in.
evitably be treated null and void from the
beginning. The men who compared and
acted against the government and were still
in spirit, such men as had been
described in the testimony of Gen. Thomas,
should be compelled to stand back, to wait.
and feel for time the disabilities of trea
son. No consideration Of policy--no de-
sire 70 exercise magnanimity, no mesmeric
charm of expediency, should hide the over.
fact that the admission Of snch
men into the conacils Of the nation would
be crime more dsmnable than treason itself
there should be no system of reconstruction
that was not founded on the protection and
security Of union men in the South and of the
colored freedmen. The latter should have
the ballot which contained wonderful power
OF protection, and this would be only q re-
.urn 70 the old practice Of the country. For
q. Inc tine OF the Revolution il was only in
Two states, Georgia and South Carolina that
~. amc eoioreu freedman were refused SUFFRAGE.
The powers Of darkness could not tr;nmnh
IN their contest. In this matter of dn,v
towards freedmen the country WAS IN .r;:,
before the word and could not escsna ,ha
lu tgment Of mankind. apo 'ue
!. or Harding addressed the House hr;aAv
IN regard to the financial condition of ~
county. It was not BY . foreign loan or nv
SUBSTITUTING gold interest bearing bonds for
currency, nor ~ contracting the national cur.
payment. We must depend not mon them
or any Of them, but upon the productive "a.
sources Of the country. when our fsr.;I.
land, rich mines, flowing oil welis.I and iii
The elements Of national wealth. the dehn.
quent Of them would not only make snec;Sc
payment ofthem possible, but inevitable. 'But
until then no legislation could achieve that
desired object.
!, Mr.. Wilson Of Iowa said. presume that
sae message from the Senate 10 rsfereuce Is
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