Mr. SAULSBURY. I hope that amendment will not be adopted. The amendment proposes to have re iments of negroes. otherwise called “ colored cavalry."’ Where is the necessity for that? Cannot white men be found to enter into your Army and compose our regiments of cavalry and infantry? Are there not 100s of1000s of white men in this country who have for the last 3 or 4 years been engaged as soldiers in the Army, some of them as members of cavalry regiments. seeking employment every day? Time and again, since‘ the commencement of this Congress, I have had white men who have been employed in the Army come to me begging me to look for employment for them, even as laborers, to do the hardest kind of work, that they might get bread and clothing. Do you suppose if the opportunity was given to those men to enter into the army again that they would not prefer domg so to being starved or bein kept out of employment? There are 100s and 1000s of white men who have been engaged in your Army who would gladly accept the place of soldiers in the regular Army. I presume there can be no doubt, if it was known generally to the men who have been soldiers that there would be an o portunity for them to enlist in the Army an or this bill, they would do so. If enlistment offices were opened throughout the U.S. plenty of such men would be found. It may e said there are offices open now. It may be so in some localities, but it is not so all over the U.S. I undertake to say that in my own State a regiment of white soldiers can be found who would gladly enter the Army, men out of employment, men seeking employment. if it be true and I assume it to be true, that it is perfectly within your power to fill up every regiment in your Army with white soldiers, where is the necessity of saying in this bill that so many regiments shall be composed of ne 0 soldiers? Are they better soldiers? Have iey manifested more valor on the field of battle than white soldiers? Would they carry your standard aloft more proudly and gallantly than your white soldiers? If not, where is the necessity for saying positively in this bill that so many regiments shall be composed of these negro soldiers? Mr. President, if the object of Congress is, and certainly it should be, to restore kindfcel ings and friendly relations between the different sections of the country, they should do nothing which in itself is calculated to aggra vate feelings already excited or to arouse feelings which may now be dormant. What would be the effect if you were to send negro regiments into the community in which I live to brandish their swords and exhibit their pistols and their guns? Their very presence would be a stench in the nostrils of t lepeople from whom I come. A no 0 soldier riding up and down the streets an through your eduntry, dressed in a little brief authority, to insult white men! I have no objection to soldiers of the regular Army being stationed in any community in which I live. In former years, when I wu from home, in other States, I have been in the neighborhood of gurrisons, and I have seen the soldiers generally well behaved; but if you were to send and quarter among white people a regiment of negro soldiers, to march mto their Villages and to deport themselves as it is most likely they would, what would be the consequence 7 You must expect collisions. If entle men who are so anxious to have negroes m the Army of the U.S. will take them among themselves, and provide in the bill that they shall be stationed in their section of country, I have no objection; but ifthe object is to station them in my State, I object to it. There is no necessity for it. I presume we shall have some of these colored gentry, if they are made a part of the Army, in my State. The present head of the War Dept has not been so unmindful of my State as to debar us the pleasure of soldiery once in 2 years, about election time. Suppose that his divincness or divinity I believe the SecyState would have him to be shonld take it into his head to send into our State, when election day comes again, a regiment of negro soldiers to guard our polls, do you suppose there is a white man in the State that would not assist in driving them from the polls? If there is, he is unworthy of being a Delawarian. Sir, it is peace that I want. I knew that in some sections of this country, just as sure as you send these negro soldiers among the people, there will be strife, ill blood, bad feeling; and that this sendingof such soldiers into some communities will lead to nothing but outrage and bloodshed. If you want a standing army, large or small, give us white soldiers and there will be no complaint; but, sir, you must know that in many sections of this country sending negro soldiers and quartering them in the midst of particular communities would engender sirifle, and in all probability would lead to blood s e. It maybe said that I have an antipathy, a hatred, to this class of people. It is not true. I do not s cak from unindness toward them. I believe think as well of them as the rest of you do. [know them as well. But it is for peace, quietness, and the observance of public order that I want your Army to be filled up with white men. lt will be time enough when you cannot get white soldiers in your regular Army to appeal to the patriotism of this supe rior negro race; but until there is failure in procuring white soldiers, peace, harmony, and ind feeling demand that the negroes should not be incorporated into the regular Army, but, that it should be filled up from our own race. I do not wish to argue this question; I presume it would be of no use to do it; but I have felt it due to myself to make this objection.