Mr.JENCKES. That is another ound of discrimination in addition to those which have been already proposed. The proposed amendment does not prohibit discrimination arising upon quality or condition. I was alluding to another one. Some of the southern States, up to the breaking out of the war, had constitutions which prescribed a property qualification. Suppose this amendment were adopted and the State of SCarolina chose to annul the constitution recently proclaimed and to go back to that of 1790, and that the word “white” should be stricken out of it, I desire to ask how many freedmen, how many persons of African descent can be found who own in fee 50 acres of land or a town lot, or who have paid a tax of 3 shillings sterling. As far as I can ascertain from the statistics there would not be, if that constitution were restored and the word “white” omitted, over 100 additional qualified voters in that State. What sort of a community would that be? Since the basis of representation has been increased by emancipation every person of African descent would count in ascertaining the number of Representatives to this House. She would have an increased representation upon this floor and a diminished voting constituency. The same persons who carried that State into the rebellion, and urged secession on her sister States, would still select the Representatives by continuing to hold control in their elections. They would establish more firmly than ever the aristocracy of landholders. There would be an oligarchy which it would be impossible for us to overthrow. Mr. Speaker, ever since the adoption of the constitution of 1790 down to the time of firing on Fort Sumter, SCarolina was in practical relation to this Government as a State of this Union. She had been considered as having a RFG, and that which we had guarantied as such for many years we would be bound to guaranty to her hereafter. Stronger than ever this oligarchy would be enthroned upon their old seat of power, not upheld merely by slaves beneath it, but by the power of the General Government above and around it. She might make any of the discriminations which I have suggested, of age, of residence, of previous servitude, and of ignorance or poverty.