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In the Senate, the committee on retrenchment pro- 

 posed, 134; have any of these persons urged this in- 

 quiry on the Senate ? 134; if not, can such a commit- 

 tee satisfy the country ? 134; no Senator in this body 

 opposed to the most searching inquiry, 135; the Sen- 

 ator is evading the question, 135; will this committee 

 do their duty? 135; every one voted for this measure, 

 135; rules of parliamentary usage, 135; how do Sena- 

 tors vote on the subject of investigating these abuses ? 

 136; where are the Senators who were in favor of this 

 thorough investigation? 136; not one is on the com- 

 mittee, 136; original amendment to the resolution, 

 136; what foundation is there for the assertion that 

 no Senator who sustains the inquiry is on the com- 

 mittee ? 137; assertions of fraud in the public service, 

 137; a statement of facts, 137; who gave this a party 

 turn ? 138; no more legitimate subject of inquiry can 

 be made than the connection of the patronage of the 

 Government with the freedom of suffrage, 138; mo- 

 tion to amend the amendment agreed to, 139; the 

 amendment agreed to, 139. 



In the Senate, a bill for the removal of legal and po- 

 litical disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amend- 

 ment to the Constitution, 140; features of the bill, 

 140; the interest of the country demands its passage, 

 140 ; necessary to extend relief much further than it 

 would have been justifiable a short time since, 140; 

 amendment offered, 140; wiser to end the matter and 

 pass the bill, 141; let us be just before we are gen- 

 erous, 141; this is a great peace-offering to the coun- 

 try, 141 ; amendment offered relative to social equal- 

 ity, 141; half the people of Georgia excluded from 

 equal rights, 142; colored persons prefer the separa- 

 tion from the whites, 142; a vindication of inequality 

 as a principle or a rule, 142; I intend to see that, 

 under the institutions of his country, the colored man 

 is equal everywhere, 142; in hotels and on railroads 

 all are subject to the regulations of the proprietors 

 and companies, 143; I object to this great Govern- 

 ment descending to the business of regulating the 

 hotels and common taverns of the country, 143; the 

 amendment read, 143; the treatment which this bill 

 has received, 144; the time has come when these disa- 

 bilities ought to be removed, 142; the amendments 

 hazard the bill, 144; a majority can pass the amend- 

 ment, but the bill requires two-thirds, 145; why en- 

 danger it by pressing the amendment? 145; we have 

 in Mississippi just such a law as the colored people 

 are content with, 145; the individual disqualifications 

 as to holding office should be considered, 145; this is a 

 safe and sound measure of public policy, 146; amend- 

 ments rejected, 146 ; other amendments to except 

 members of Congress moved, 147 ; rejected, 147 ; 

 amendment not to remove legal disabilities, 147; re- 

 jected, 147; amendment to limit the backward effect 

 of the bill, so as not to validate the election of any per- 

 son at the time ineligible, 148; agreed to, 148; bill re- 

 ported to the Senate, and the civil rights amendment 

 renewed, 148; the amendment is the most flagrant vio- 

 lation of the Constitution that has ever been proposed 

 in the Senate, 148; these amendments are calculated 

 to defeat the bill, and they are voted for by those 

 heralded as friends of amnesty, 149; the amnesty bill 

 should be a proper one, 149. 



Slavery in its original pretension reappears in this 

 debate, 149; extent to which the equality of the slave 

 has been recognized, 149; this ia not enough, 149; the 

 denial of any right is a wrong that darkens all the 

 rest, 149; rights denied, 149; two excuses show how 

 groundless is this pretension. 149; the first excuse is 



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simply misrepresentation, 150; the other excuse finds 

 equality in separation, 150; vain to argue that there 

 is no denial of equal rights when the separation is 

 enforced, 150; without the amendment, the original 

 civil rights law is imperfect, 150; unite now in an act 

 of justice to a much-oppressed race, 150 ; duty to 

 these millions is foremost, 151; strong reasons why 

 it should be united with amnesty, 151. 



Some suggestions respecting this amendment, 151 ; 

 it declares all citizens entitled to the equal enjoy- 

 ment of the privileges of inns, churches, etc., 151; no 

 one desires, this, 151; it imposes penalties for any 

 violation of this equal enjoyment, 151 ; churches and 

 cemeteries established exclusively for each color 

 should remain so, 152; who is to collect the penalty 

 of a whole congregation? 152; enormous penalties, 

 152 ; is the amendment within the constitutional 

 power of the Government? 152; it should be prop- 

 erly amended, 153 ; no sound principle is sacrificed 

 by granting amnesty, 153; this amendment is an un- 

 unfriendly act, 153. 



In the House, the rules suspended to put upon its 

 passage a bill to remove legal and political disabili- 

 ties, 153; features of the bill, 153, 154; bill passed, 154. 



In the Senate, the House amnesty bill taken up, 

 154; last bill of the House, the most liberal one, 154; 

 this is not the best recommendation of the bill, 154; 

 the point of order, 155 ; why not vote on the amend- 

 ment to the other bill ? 155; no men more undeserving 

 of amnesty can be found, 155; the first bill should be 

 proceeded with, 155; the question of order, 155; one- 

 half a bill passed by the requisite vote, and the other 

 half not passed, 156; the amendment has never been 

 referred to a committee, 156; under what clause of 

 the Constitution is it brought forward? 156; differ- 

 ence between privilege and protection, 156 ; what 

 says the constitutional amendment? 157; this amend- 

 ment is a plain usurpation of power that does not be- 

 long to Congress, 157; the fourteenth amendment, 

 157; any proposition to grant universal amnesty is a 

 violation of the spirit of the amendment, if not Its 

 letter, 158; what is amnesty? 158; expediency is the 

 principal argument in its favor, 158; you cannot con- 

 ciliate the authors of the rebellion, 158; put the ques- 

 tion on the ground of high principle, 158; troubles 

 may occur from decade to decade, 159; I want peace 

 with the South on correct principles, 159; grant uni- 

 versal amnesty, and the next step will be to pension 

 the rebel soldiers, 159. If the authors of the rebel- 

 lion are to become your companions on this floor, 

 Bhall not the Confederate dead become the compan- 

 ions of your soldiers in Arlington ? 159; why have we 

 had this impassioned denunciation of amnesty this 

 morning? 160; only account for it in one way, 160; 

 beginning of the great campaign of 1872, 160; how is 

 the rebel debt to be paid in the face of your four- 

 teenth amendment ? 160; at a loss to understand this 

 Administration and its supporters, 160 ; throwing a 

 tub to the whale, 161 ; the source of the language 

 "appropriate legislation," 161; what is appropriate 

 legislation ? 161 ; the argument strikes down every 

 State government in this Union as completely as if 

 every State constitution were annihilated, 162; what 

 is the argument? 162; I protest against any such in- 

 terpretation, 162 ; is there no such thing as State 

 rights? 162; this is the same old speech which has 

 often been heard in the swamps of Indiana, 163. 



What is the whole meaning of this question ? 163; it 

 is the experience of all civilized nations, that the com- 

 pletest amnesty is the best, 163; can it be said that the 



