Mr. ROGERS. I am in favor of that result and I was just going to show the reason and justice of it. Why, ask the gentleman, should not the southern States, the colored population of which have been freed by the results of the war, have a representation based upon that population, the same as they were entitled to under the old constitution in regard to free men? Did not all the States which freed the slaves afterward have representation for 5 5ths of them? Under the constitution as it now is, representation in all the States is based upon their free men and female persons, without regard to their being of African, Asiatic, or European origin. The Constitution spreads its wings over the whole population; and because slaves in the South were not regarded as a properbasis of full representationit being decided in the celebrated Dred Scott case that they were not considered as people or citizens within the meaning of the organic law they had the representation for those slaves cut down to 3/5ths, on the ground that they ought to have some representation; and as they were mere chattels in the eyes of the law, the States in which that chattel property existed were not entitled to the whole representation that they would or ought to have had, under the organic law with regard to people of that race or color or status. Now, the result of the war has been to change the status of that whole population from slaves into free men. It is cogent and most forcible argument in favor of the wisdom, genius, and patriotism of those who adopted the old constitution of the U.S., that every free men in a State, of whatever color, was entitled to representation and that is one of the safeguards of the rights of the State. It was thrown around the States in order that they should have sovereign power to control the right of suffrage toal. The proposed amendment to the Constitution undertakes to consolidate the power in the Federal Government. It throws out amen ace to the States, and the inevitable result of the would be to induce every State in the Union to adopt unqualified negro suffrage so as not to deprive them of the great and in estimable right of rerepresentation for that class of population in the halls of the legislation of the U.S.