Mr. CHANLER. I regret exceeding lythat the gentleman forgot to do what he intended to move the previous question to prevent de batc; but such a resolution as that cannot pass without rebuke from this side of the House, and unprepared as we are to meet it, we are forced from is omission to discharge his duty toward the colored soldiers, to meet him at once. He proposes to refer to the select committce of 15 this resolution, a question entirely distinct from the purpose for which that committee is raised, and to place it side by side with the most important question ever rcferred b this House. licse men, whom he and we all know to be yet in a condition of transition, he wishes to put upon a footing equal to those who not only in this war, but in every war, have carried the arms of this Government mnd have secured to it under the national banner victories as great as those achieved by any nation, and greater by far than those achieved by the race of which the Gentfrom Illinois is the champion. I will not attempt that this time to assail the motive of the gent eman in giving to the black soldier his right and claim to the admiration of the white man. My object is to assail none, but I wish to appear here as the advocate of those the gentleman has assailed, and upon the threshold of this session to see that no stigma shall be cast upon the foreigners who may not. have understood our language or known our laws, and this side of the House remain silent. The merits of this nestion the Gentfrom Illinois is better able to describe than my self. We know the services the black soldier has rendered to this Government, and when the time comes for rewarding him for his past services by those emoluments which are bestowed upon the brave and the suffering I will not be wanting in that hour. But there is, and undoubtedly will be, a difference between us as to the amount of reward to be meted out. I do not, with that gentleman, consider that the problem of the negro race is solfed. Iam not. prepared at once to raise them from the humble pedestal upon which they now stand, to that high point of public approbetion which the foreigners in this country have won for themselves 1 through generations of toil, suffering and oppression. I take issue with the gentleman on that point. He assumes that the problem it solved and that the black man is our equal. I deny the proposition, but I do not mean thereby to decry the lack man. I waive all such comparisons; but I deem this resolution an act of positive injustice in its wording; and I hope I am not using too strong language in saying that I deem it an insult to the white citizens of the U.S.