Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, this resolution, as the House is aware, has received its 1st and 2nd readings. It comes back from the committee in the precise form in which it was originally reportc. I do not propose at present to detain the House with any very extended remarks in support of it. I ask, ow over, the attention of the House to the fact that the amendment proposed stands in the very words of the Constitution of the U.S. as it came to us from the hands of its illustrious framers. Every word of the proposed amendment is today in the Constitution of our country, save the words conferring the Express grant of power upon the conass of ta U.S. The residue of the resolution, as the House will see by a reference to the Constitution is the language of the 2nd section of the 4th artic e, and of a portion of the 5th amendment adopted by the 1st Congress in 1789, and made part of the Constitution of the country. The language of the 2nd section of the 4th articIeuis— “The citizens of eachState shall be entitled to all privileges and humanities of citizens in the several totes. thThe 5th article of the amendment provides Bt "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property. without due process oflaw." Sir, it has been the want of the Republic that there was not an exress grant of power in the Constitution to ena la the whole people of every State, by congressional enactment, to enforce obedience to these requirements of the Constitution. N othin can be plainer to thoughtful men than that i the grant of power had been originally conferred upon the con, gross of the nation, and legislation had been upon your statute books to enforce these requiremeuts of the Constitution in every State that rebellion, which has scarred and blaste the land, would have been an impossibility. I ask the attention of the House to the further consideration that the proposed amendment does not impose upon any State of the Union, or any citizen of any State of the Union, any obligation which is not now enjoined upon them by the ver letter of the Constitution. I need not remiu gentlemen here that the constitution, as originally framed, and as adopted By the whole people of this country, provides at— “This Constitution, and the laws of the U.S. which shall bemadein pursuancethereof and all treaties made or which shall bemade,under the authority of the U.S.,shall be the supreme law of the land; and thojudges in every State shall O bound thereby, anything in the constitution or wsof any Stateto the contrary notwithstanding." Could words be stronger, couldwords he more forceful, to enjoin upon every oliicer of every State the obligation to obey these great provisions of the Constitution, in their letter and their spirit? I submit to the judgment of the House, that it is impossible for mortal man to frame a formula of words more obligatory than those already in that instrument, enjoining this great duty upon the several States and t he several officers of every State in the Union. and, sir, it is equally clear by every construction of the Constitution, its contempo raucous construction, its continued construction. legislative, executive, and judicial, that these great provisions of the Constitution, this immortal b1 l of rights embodied in the constitution, rested for its execution and enforcement hitherto upon the fidelity of the States. The House knows, sir, the country knows, the civilized world knows, that the legislative, executive, and judicial officers of e even States within this Union within the last 5 years, in utter disregard of these injunctions of your constitution, in utter disregard of that official oath which the Constitution required they should severally take and faithfully kecp when they entered upon the discharge of theirrespective duties, have violated in every sense of the i word those provisions of the Constitution of the U.S., the enforcement of which aic absolutely essential to American nation aity. By order, then, of the committee, sir, and for the purpose of giving to the whole people the care in future of the unit of the Government which constites us one people, and without which American nationality would cease to be, I pro ose the adoption of this amendment to the House, and through the House I press it upon the consideration of the loyal people of the whole country. I do not propose, Mr. Speaker longer to detain the House with the consideration of this amendment, but submit it to the careful and disfiassionate judgment of every gentleman in the House.