Mr. LANE, of Indiana. 'It might excite their prejudice, and doubtless would; but let not the people of Delaware labor under any serious apprehension on this subject. We are only to have about 50,000 troops, all told, for over 30 million people, and when you divide them up how much will come to the share of Delaware? An ordinary guard with 2 corporals will be sulIicient for the State of Dela ware, even if they shall need a single one, which I do not believe they ever will. I apprehend no particular difficulty; so far as the people of Indiana are concerned, by stationing colored or white troops there, because we are a loyal pee ile, and it will never be necessary to station t cm there; but where it is necessary, it seems to me there is a peculiar propriety in the employment of colored troops. ‘hey are acclimated. They stand the climate and the diseases of the climate:1.grpat deal better than the white troops. The diseases of the colored troops in the South were much less, as the medical statistics show, than were the diseases among the white troops. They are peculiarly suited to the very duty that we desire them to perform, to keep order and preserve the peace in the rebel States. I apprehend that a loyal colored man is quite good enough to preserve the peace against a white rebel. I apprehend he is quite good enough to fight off the Indians from your northern front iers, or to guard your forts or fortifications, even in time of peace. Havin discharged so well and so llantly their duty in a time ofwar, I am not afraid to trust them with this mine r duty under circumstances of less dangerand less responsibility in a time of peace. do not know any distinction between the white troops and the colored troops further than this: that, so far as the history of the rebellion goes, it shows that these colored troops have discharged their duty. That they are the equal of the white race, my race and the race of the Senfrom Delaware, I do not now believe, nor perhaps shall ever believe. After 300 years of oppression the white race would be very different from what they are now. But I propose now simply to carry them into the Army, to protect them in all their civil rights, to make them believe they are men in the eye of the lawand in the eye of their Maker, to enable them to ameliorate their own condition and to reach the highest possible point of elevation their nature is capable and susceptible of. When we have done that and they have done that, both of us will have discharged our duty.