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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



by any act of mine allow that part to be sacri- 

 ficed ; but it is all in the hands of the Senate. 

 They will do as they think best by their votes, 

 and I shall submit." 



The Vice-President : "The question is on 

 the amendment of the Senator from New Jer- 

 sey to the amendment of the Senator from 

 Massachusetts." 



The question being taken by yeas and nays, 

 resulted as follows : 



sen, Goldthwaite, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Mor- 

 rill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Patter- 

 son, Pool, Scott, Sherman, Sprague, Tipton, Vick- 

 ers, Wilson, Windom, and Wright 29. 



NAYS Messrs. Ames, Blair, Clayton, Davis of 

 West Virginia, Gilbert, Hill, Hitchcock, Johnston, 

 Kelly .Logan, Norwood, Osborn, Pomeroy, Eamsey, 

 Kice, Robertson, Schurz, Spencer, Stevenson, Stock- 

 ton, Sumner, Thurman, Trumbull, and West 24. 



ABSENT Messrs. Alcorn, Bayard, Brownlow, 

 Buckingham, Casserly, Chandler, Cooper, Davis of 

 Kentucky, Edmunds, Ferry of Connecticut, Hamil- 

 ton of Maryland, Harlan, Howe, Kellogg, Lewis, 

 Nye, .Pratt, Saulsbury, Sawyer, and Stewart 20. 



So the amendment to the amendment was 

 agreed to. 



The Vice-President : "The question recurs 

 on the amendment of the Senator from Massa- 

 chusetts as amended." 



Mr. Carpenter : "I move to amend the 

 amendment by striking out the fourth section." 



Mr. Cole said : " I move to strike out the 

 fifth section, and substitute what I send to the 

 Chair." 



The Chief Clerk : " The words to be stricken 

 out are" 



That every discrimination against any person on 

 account of color, by the use of the word " white " in 

 any law. statute, ordinance, or regulation, is hereby 

 repealed and annulled. 



" And it is proposed in lieu thereof to in- 

 sert" 



That every discrimination against citizens of the 

 United States on account of color, by the use of the 

 word "white" in any law, statute, ordinance, or 

 regulation, is hereby repealed and annulled. 



Mr. Cole: "I am not disposed to detain the 

 Senate more than a minute on this amendment. 

 It will be observed that the only change in 

 the section is in substituting the word * citi- 

 zen ' for ' person.' This law relates to citizens 

 of the United States, and I apprehend was not 

 really intended to go further than that. We 

 are not in this case legislating for ' all the 

 world and the rest of mankind,' but for citi- 

 zens of the United States ; and, in reference to 

 that view, I apprehend that there can be no 

 great objection to the adoption of this amend- 

 ment." ' 



Mr. Trumbull said: " It is material to me to 

 get strength to the bill, and that is why I am 

 opposed to this whole thing. The Senator 

 from California certainly does not deceive 

 himself so much as to suppose that Senators 

 do not understand, and that the whole country 

 does not understand, that every person op- 



posed to amnesty is voting for these amend- 

 ments. Where do you find the votes of those 

 who have announced on this floor that they 

 are opposed to amnesty? They are for these 

 amendments all the time. You cannot pro- 

 pose an amendment they will not vote for. 

 But I am for the bill as it passed the House 

 of Representatives, opposed to all these amend- 

 ments ; and I want to say a word about this 

 particular amendment. 



"But I did not propose to enter into any 

 argument in reference to this matter. It is 

 amnesty that I want. I want to see the peace 

 of this country restored ; I want to see the ir- 

 ritating questions which are keeping up the 

 animosities of the people, engendering bad 

 feeling all the time, which have led to the mis- 

 erable governments that we now have in some 

 of the Southern States I want that state of 

 things to be done away with. When we passed 

 the fourteenth amendment, Mr. President, we 

 passed it, so far as it excludes certain persons 

 from holding office, for the public safety; that 

 was the consideration: not to punish any- 

 body. We thought that the public safety of 

 this country required it at that time. When 

 we had just freed the colored people and new 

 governments were to be organized in the then 

 late rebel States, we thought it would not do 

 to let the men who had been making war upon 

 the Government, who were hostile to it, who 

 were hostile to the few Union men that lived 

 in those States, and who were hostile to the 

 colored people, take possession of the newly-or- 

 ganized State governments, because we feared 

 that they would enact laws which would op- 

 press the colored people, and laws that would 

 be unjust to the few Union men who had been 

 there during the war, and it was necessary 

 that time should be allowed for the colored 

 people to become accustomed to their new 

 situation that they might assert and defend 

 their rights; but it was never intended to 

 perpetuate' these disabilities. The clause was 

 inserted in the fourteenth amendment, that 

 they might be removed by a two-thirds vote 

 of Congress, with the expectation that they 

 would soon be removed. It was never in- 

 tended as any thing more than a temporary 

 measure. Now, the public safety does not re- 

 quire it to be continued, as I think, and I want 

 to see the amnesty bill passed, and I am op- 

 posed to the whole amendment, because I 

 think it is calculated to defeat amnesty. All 

 these amendments I regard as designed, by 

 many Senators who vote for them, to defeat 

 amnesty, for I find that every Senator who is 

 opposed to removing disabilities votes for these 

 amendments. 



"But I wanted to say a word about the par- 

 ticular amendment of the Senator from Cali- 

 fornia. He is aiming to hit the Chinese. 



"Mr. President, we have provided by law 

 that the pagan from Africa, the idolater, the 

 cannibal, the Hottentot, can be naturalized 

 under our laws. The Senator from California 



