Mr. FAltNSWOltTH. Mr. Speaker, it is well known to every man who has read the history of our country that at the time of the formation of our Governmentit was expected and believed by the men who made it that slavery would die out in a very few years; and the fin mers of the Government resorted to some shifts and compromises in the belief that slavery would shortly come to an end. They were very careful in making the constitution to avoid inserting in it the word“ slave” or “ slavery.” They sought to make an instrument which future generations might subject to the closest scrutiny, without finding in it any evidence that slavery ever had an existence in this land. But, Mr. Speaker, we have now a different state of things. That class of people who were then held as slaves are now emancipated. We have learned, by sad experience, that what have been called in these days “ the compromises of the constitution ” have proved a Pandoras box, out of which have come all manner of evils to afflict this country. They have brought on this war. They have produced all of this bloodshed in the struggle through which we have passed for the last fouryears. All these grew out of it. We now, at the termination of this struggle, for the 1st time hold the power to do right. If the people of the U.S. will but rise up to the standard of (Int and mete out the full measure of justice which has been so long with held from them, they have the power to do it. This Congress has a majority in favor of these principles, and ought to pass such an amendm ent. as is required byt e emergency. The States not in the rebellion are numerous enough to ratify an amendmentto the constitution; and I verily believe if the men elected to this congress as Republicans would vote together for such amendments to the constitution as they in their Couscicnce s approve, they would be incorporated into the constitution, for the States would) adopt them; it is only because of the timidity of men, it is only because they are afraid to come up to the mark. I say that the people who are behind the people are more radical than we are ourselves. They are radical, gentlemen, most radical. They desire this Congress to do right, and they believe that right consists in enfranchising the loyal people of this country without regard to race or color, and that if anybody shall be disfranchised it shall be the white rebels and traitors who have been seeking to overthrow the country.