Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, the zeal of my friendfrom Missouriseems to have run away with him. Having come from being a slaveholder to the position of advocating universal negro suffrage as the sovereign remedy for everything, he manifest: a degree of zeal which I have only seen equaled, I confess, by some of the discoverers of patent medicines who have found a grand specific to cure all diseases! Why, he says this bureau is of no account; give the negro the ballot, and that will stop him from starving; that will feed him; that will educate him! You have got on your hands today 100,000 feeble, indigent, infirm colored population that would starve and die if relief were not afforded; and the Senfrom Missouritells you, “This is all nonsense; give them the right of suffrage, and that is all they want.” This to feed the hungry and clothe the naked! He has voted for these bills; but if you will only just give the right of suffrage, you do not want to take care of any starving man, any orphan child, any destitute and feeble person that cannot take care of himself! It is the most sovereign remedy that I have heard of since the days of Townsends Sarsaparilla. [Laughter.] I am sorry that upon this bill, or rather upon the question of agreeing to an amendment which is proposed by the ComJudiciary and which, the Senfrom Missouriis in favor of, he shOuld have run 0K to make this speech, assailing everything that did not come up to his notions in regard to conferring the right of suffrage, which he regards as the cureall for all troubles and difficulties. Sir, I shall not discuss that suffrage question; but as I am on my feet, I do want to say a word to the honorable Senfrom Kentucky. I wish we could understand ourselves better. If I know my own heart, I am for harmony, I am for peace; and God forbid that I should put a degradation on the people of Kentucky. I never thought of such atin. I would sooner cut off my right hand than o such a thing. What is it that so excites and inflames the mind of the Senfrom Kentucky that he talks about the degra dation that is to be put upon her, the plunder of her people, the injustice that is to be done her inhabitants? Why, sir, a bill to hel the people of Kentucky to take care of the estitute negroes, made free without any property whatever, without the means of support, left to starve and to die unless somebody cares for them; and we propose in the Congress of the U.S. to help to do it. Is that a degradation? Is that an injustice? Is that the way to rob a people? The Senator says they will take care of them themselves. I hope and ray to Heaven they will; and if they will, I Will guaranty that the 1m I and no Federal officer will ever interfere with your regulations. All that is proposed is to secure to these people these very rights which you say they ought to have. Is that doing in justice to Kentucky? All that it is proposed to do is to feed and clothe the destitute and the hungry. Is it placing an indignity upon Kentucky to hel to do that if she will not, and not to do it at a1if she will? Sir, I have been as tounded at the denunciations that have been hea ed11ion this measure. The only question before the Senate iswhether this bill shall be general in its operations, or whether it shall be confined to the rebellious Stat with Kentucky added. upon principle I believe it ought to be general.) The ComJudiciary of the Senate, who have examined the subject, believe the bill ought to be general, and we have recommended to strike out from the substitute sent us by the HoRep that provision which confines its operation to the States in which the writ of habeascorpus is suspended. That is the question, and I ho is we may come to vote upon it, and disese of this bill before we adjourn.