Mr. HENDRICKS and it is not right to tear the laurels from white brows to at them on the brows of the colored people. vheydid not put down the rebellion. It was the white men that did it. I am asked if they did not both do it. I do not know that they both did it. I know that there was an attempt to take Port Hudson, and that there was no taking it when the colored soldiers were in the front. I think it possible, from my readin of that transaction, that they were placed in a azardous position, where they should not have been placed when the mine was blown up at Ictersburg; there was a good deal of boasting for a few days as be what had been accomplished by the colored soldiers, and a good deal of comparison between the colored soldiers and the white soldiers, much to the prejudice of the latter; but when we came to know all about it we found that the reference to that, without reference to the ucs; colored soldiers did not accomplish much. The suprossion of this rebellion was a great under taing, and it took all the intelligence, the phys ical power, and the courage of the white men of this country to accomplish it. It was accomplished, and it is distastefultoiuc to hear claimed for a race that did but very little in it the honors tAhut. belong to the white men who were in the rmy. Now, sir, I am not in favor of giving the colored man a vote, becauseI think we should I remain a political community of white people. I do not think it is for the good of either race that we should attempt to make the Government a mixed Government ofwhite and black. I do not think it is for the good of the black man. I do not believe that the black man can maintain himselfiii that strife between him and the white man which that policy will establish. When it does come to a strife, we know what the result will be. We know when there comes that strife of races between the white men of the U.S., the mixture of the best blood of Euro e on this continent, and the black men, what will be the fate of the black man. I do not want it to come. I want a just policy, a fair policy, asafe policy, just to us, just to them, safe to us safe to them, to be adopted new that they are thrown in this new position and relation. But I am not in favor of plucin over the white man such a government as the reed inens Bureau establishes for such an end. I am not in favor of attempting to mix these races. I want to seethe white race kc)ta white. race, and the power in this country without mix ture and without an attempt at mixture. My colleague used a strou expression on this subject. That I may do imno injustice I will read his words: “Ifyou wish to avoid a war of races. if you wish to proucc harmony and peaceamong thesepeople, you must enfranchisethem all.” That is a speech that I think he has never made in Indiana, and I am a little curious to see the impression it will make when he 1st repeats it there. I know very well my colleague will never repeat it with any argument drawn from the military achievements of the colored men in its support. I think he will never make an argument that they are entitled to it because they have done so much toward achieving the results of the war. But in support of the proposition my colleague reads from hancellor Kenti He says: “Chancellor Kentis still moreexplicit on the present point for he says distinctly: “Ifas lnve born in the U.S. bemnnumit ted or otherwise lawfully discharged from bondagev or if ii black man be born within the U.S., and born free, he becomesthence lorwurd a citizen. Kent Gaammenlane4e th edition, 112. 57. note.” My colleague stops there. That is not the question that we are discussing whether heisa citizen or not. A man may be a citizen and not a voter. He may be a voter and not a citizen. But my colleague stops at a comma. He ought to have read to the period and then he would have read to the Senate the following: “But under such disubilitics nsthe laws of tho statec respectively may deoin it expedient to prescribsto free persons of color.” That is the entire sentence, that if they are made free they are citizens, but under such disabilities as the States may choose to prescribe.