Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, in the remarks which I intend to submit tolthe House upon the consideration of this most important question, I shall endeavor to confine myself strictl to the subject under consideration; nor will attempt, as has been done by the honorable Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. KELLEY] to throw any charge of disloy ty or insult into the face of those who disagree with me upon the great politicalquestions which for 4 years have agitated the people of this country. From the foundation almost of the world, at least for 1,000s of years, men have disagreed upon political and religious subjects; and it appears to me that it shows a great want of courtesy upon the part of those who are opposed to the views of this side of the House on questions of policy which interest the country to charge them With being secessionists and rebel sympathizers. I think that the history of the count for the last 4 cars, and of the party to which I have belon c all my life, will s ow, notwithstanding the c ar cs which have been made, that no urer and nobler patriotism has been exhibited y any class of people than by those who belong to the party o posed to the party now in power and I am willing to accord to those who are advocating this extreme and radical change in l the social status of the people of this country with being influenced by convictions of right and conscientious duty.I am not here to charge them with an attempt to interfere with the interests of the country knowingly; but I am here to say to the conservative men who have not followed in the radical footsteps of the leaders of the Republican party that it is time, now when peace has resumed) its functions, that that part should stop and think before they make such a radical change in the political status of the people. I hold that there never has been, in the legislation of the U.S., a bill which involved so momentous consequences as that now under consideration, because nowhere in the history of this country, from the time that the 1st reins of party strife were drawn over the land, was any political party ever known to advocate the doctrine now advocated by a portion of the party on the other side of. this within the last year and during the heat and strife of battle in the land. The wisdom of ages, for more than 5,000 years, and the most enlightened Governments that ever existed upon the face of the earth have handed down to us that grand principle that all Governments of a civilized character have been and were intended especially for the benefit of white men and white women and not for those who belong to the negro, ndian, or mulatto race. hen the DeclarIndep was made there were 13 colonies which joined in the formation of it. In every one of those colonies were negroes, who were not entitled to exercise the political privileges allowed to the white people. In every one of those colonies slavery existed when the DeclarIndep was made, and in all but Massachusetts when the constitution of the U.S. was framed. When the honorable Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. KELLEY] undertakes to plant himself upon the footstool of our fathers, he lants himself upon the doctrine as enunciate by the SCOTUS, as under stood by our fathers at the formation of the DeclarIndep and of the constitution of the U.S., that no persons in this country at that time were considered as citizens but the white race, House, except