Mr. CHANLER. I think this proposition comin from the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Srsvsxsi is certainly consistent. I do not see why on ored troops should not be employed in this branch of the service as well as in any other. I do not doubt but that the colored troops are valuable soldiers and foughtwell in the late war. I am willing to go ur ther and invite the Gentfrom Pennsylvania to take the lead and authorize this Government to enroll colored troopsas Officers in the U.S. Army. A petition has been presented to the House on this very subject, and the ComMilAffrs refused to grant its prayer. You have soldiers enough here to witness it, and the whole country has witnessed the sincerity of your orments in behalf of the colored troops. I Hannibal crossed the Alps and is wort 1yof being quoted here for introducing colored troops into his army, go on and let your Hanniballs supplant your Grants. There is a list fpublished in the morning pppers of today O military members of this House who propose holding a public meeting in this city, their names are ended by the distinguished chairman of the Military committee and it contains with one or 2 exceptions the names of all the qflicers who are members of this House upon the other side, who served as volunteers in the Army of the U.S. I do not see the name of any man who served from this side of the House. although there are those who so served. I wish to know from the chairman of the Military Committceit he shrinks from placing the officers of the Army of the U.S. in competition with negroes. Is he afraid to enter into that fair and open field of competition to which he has invited the common soldier to enter in this proposed reorganization of the Army? Is it. fear or is it prcjudice that leads him to refuse to do that? is he ignorant of the capacity of the negro, or is he influenced to such an extent by the narrow minded habits of life in which the honorable gentleman has been educated that he cannot see the injustice of his own bill? Now, if his system of organizing the American Army is worth anything, it should be consistent; it should be a unit with itself. There should be no dillelence or distinction on account of race or color either in the ranks or among the otheers. The gentleman seems to shirk the responsibility of elevating the negro race. The gentlemen of the Military Committee seem to tremble for their own personal distinction in that respect. I look with eagerness and interest to the course pursued by the honorable Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. STEVENS 1 His intimate relations with the colored race, his knowl edge of their virtues and their fase inations enablehim to advocate the necessit of giving the colored race on o ortunity O entering the military service O Slis country. He understands fully the reasons why the doors should be thrown open to the dese endants of the black race, who hear the proud stains of the highest men in the Government of this country to doy or in the past, whose mothers were the victims of the seductive charms of the witty white man. I congratulate the venerable Gentfrom Pennsylvania, that he is not ignorant of their virtues. their courage or their merits and I respect him when e comes forward as the champion of the black race, and insists that the POTUS, under his general power as the Commander in Chief of the armies of the U.S shall invite the worthy of the black raceto positions in it: and do it. too. under the provisions of the civil rights bill. which, having made them citizens of the U.S. should also admit them as members of the Army by this bill to reorganize your Army. The civil rights bill having been passed. the laws under which your Army is now organized gives the power to the Commander in Chicf of the Army and [wish to see no laggard philanthropy huddling about the poor privates of the Army. but they should be allowed the highestgrades that white men have been allowed to reach. Now, the gentlemen of the Military Committee know very well the ability and capacity which the corporals and sergeants of the colored troops have acquired by their service in the Army to this time and I want to know why. in the present state of public opinion. those gentlemen have not brought forward in their bill a proposition so laudable. so consistent, so patriotic. so just and so absolutely necessar to meet the exigencies of the civil rights bill which they have forced upon us. I do not want to see the gentleman. the chairman of the Military Committee. confine his liberality to the private soldiers of the regular Army, I want to see him. with that man y courage which has always characterized him. take the part of the humble officers of the colored troops, the sergeants and corporals: take them byt e hand and lead them upto the POTUS, the Commander in Chief of all our armies and claim for them positions as officers in the Army. He knows the arguments which have been used here so often on every occasion. The blood of our brave colored troops has flowed in rivulets upon every battle field of this great war. while those who ured by persistent arguments the necessity for die use of the black man as a soldier remained here in this House, or but sel dom exercised their prowess on the field. I hope an amendment will be made in this spirit. I hope the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. STEYEXS] will lead us on. He is the Moses of the day. Let him lead onin this great work; and let the gentlemen of the MIiitary Committee hold up the hands of the modern Moses, so that these people may pass over in safety and the time will not be for distant when the military organization of this country will be filled by the patriotic members of the colored race.