Mr. COWAN. One word, sir, with the permission of the Senator. I have only to say that the constitution of the U.S. makes provision by which the rights of no free man, no man not a slave, can be infringed in so far as regards any of the great principles of English and American liberty; and if these things are done by authority of any of the southern States, there is ample remedy now. Under the 5th amendment of the constitution, no man can be deprived of his rights without the ordinary process of law; tint? if he is, he has his remedy. How are you goin to prevent it? If he does not know his remedies, or if those who back him do not know his remedies, how are we to frame laws and how are we to make provision in violation of these very provisions of the constitution by which to place a sentinel over every freedman all through the South? I should like to know the particulars of which the honorable Senator complains. I would like to have the very statute read here by which the freedman is deprived of his rights aiier he is once emancipated under the amendment of the constitution guarantying liberty to everybody. These general assertions and these particular charges are made here; but are we to alter the whole frame and structure of the laws, are we to overturn the whole constitution, in order to get at a remedy for these people? If they are put upon the same footing as white people, then they gave the same remedies as white people; they have the same remedies that the honorable Senator has, or that I have, or that any other Senator has 3 and there is no necessity for this new jurisdiction, this new power that is to be invoked for their protection. We have beg told that if a man was made free, and particularly if these colored people were made free, that that was all that was necessary; that then they would take care of themselves just like other people; and if the laws were framed Generally so as to operate upon all people, they won d operate upon them, and they would take advantage of it and protect themselves. N ow, I should like, to have the particulars of these outrages that are to be committed upon these peolc.