Skip Skip PETITIONS and )IEMORIALS: Mr. RAMSEY presented a JtResolution of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, in favor of a grant of land to aid in the construction of slackwater navigation on the Can nonriver and lakes, from Red Wing, on the Mississippi river, to the Minnesota river, near Mankato; which was referred to the ComPubLands, and ordered to be printed. He also presented a JtResolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the passage of a law granting a bounty to certain members of the 2nd Minnesota cavalry; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs , and ordered to be printed. He also presented a memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of military posts on the northern overland mail route from StCloud, in that State, to Fort WallaWalla, Oregon; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs and the Mi litia, and ordered to be printed. Mr. NORTON presented memorials of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of the establishment of mail routes from Hutchinson to Torah; from Watertown, in Carver county, via Winstead and Bergen, to Glcncoe, in McLeod county; from Blue Earth City, Minnesota, via Fairmount, Jackson, and Sioux Falls City, to Yankton, the capital of Dakota Territory; from Henderson, Minnesota, to Fort Rice, on the Missouririver, and from Fort Wadsworth to Devils Lake, in Dakota Territory; from Hastings, in Dakota county, to Cannon Falls and Kenyon, in Goodhuc county, by the way of NewTrier, in the county of Dakota, and State of Minnesota, and for the establishment of a postoffice at NewTrier; which were referred to the ComPostOtiicos. Mr. CONNESS. I present the petition of B. Dean. president, and the board of trustees of the Alameda Coal Mining Company, a corpo ration authorized under the laws of California, praying that an act may be passed for extending the time for entering the coal lands in that State. Having introduced a bill on this subject which has been referred to the ComPubLands, I move that this petition have the same reference. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER presented a petition of colored soldiers enlisted between the 15th of June and the 4th ofJuly, 1864, praying that congress will pass an act giving them the same bounty as soldiers afterward enlisted; which was referred to the ComMilAffr and the Militia. Mr. SHERMAN presented a petition of citizens of Carroll county. Ohio, who have served in the Army during the late war, praying for the usage of alaw equalizing bounties, giving to the volunteers of 1861 and 1862 the same bounties as those of 1868and 1864; and for the grant of 160 acres of land to each volunteer who served during the war; which was referred to the ComMilAffrs . He also presented the memorial of Jesse Baldwin, suggesting a mode of resuming s iecie payments, and praying for the repeal of the regaltender law; which was referred to the ComFinance. Mr. SUMNER. I offer a memorial from persons representing 280,000 citizens of the U.S. colored citizens of the State of Tennessee, remonstrating against the admiasion of Sens&Reps from that State as it is now organized. They set forth in their memorial, which is very brief, that “0n the 7thday ofAugugt last a convention of colored men was held in this city. [Nashville] there being a sutheient number of do ates from eachdivision of the State to obtain the sentiments of our people. Afferdoliberating forfour days and passing Ipeh resolutions as it was thou in would be condu cive to their mpmvameat, it odiournod. “Among other things it wasresolved that the colored peopleof thestate of Tennessee respectfully and solemnly protest against the congressional delegation from this State be u admitted to seatsin your honorable bodies mil It c Legislature of this State on actssuch laws as shall secureto us our rights as free men. I We cannot believe that the General Government, Will allow us to be left without. such protection nfter knowing, as you do, what serviceswe have rendered to the causeof the preservationof the Union and the maintenanceof the laws. We have respectfull po titinned our Legislature upon the subject, and have failed to not them to do anything for us. saying that it in: premature to legislate for the protection of our ru: i s.: We think it premature to admit such delegation. It is true we hlHOHIO vote, but we neverthelcss desire and Wlll do anything we can to support the Governmentnt. “We deem it unnecessary to attempt to make an argument in favor of our protest believing. as we do, the Justice of our cause to lie a far better argument than we could make yet it may not be amiss to say that, inasmuch as the U.S. constitution guaranties to every State in the Union a republican term of government. we are at a loss to understand that to be urepublican government which does not protect the rights of all citizens, irrespective of color. “Beium impressed with these conVictions. we can dniogtnrifeietrdaainsser moinblya, epnptceiirltinaignitnegtyhoeuhr ohpoentohraatbwleea will be heard and our cause considered. "The Government did not forget to call for our help, and now we think that we have a right to call upon it.” In presenting this memorial desire to express my entire sympathy With it. I feel that a community which despoils 280,000 people of their rights cannot expect to be recognized as a republican government. The colored inemorialists are right, and when they ask that their case shall be considered I hope that; they will have at least that indulgence, even if Congress does not grant them their rights. I move the reference of this important memorial and protest to the JtCommee of the 2 Houses having this subject under consideration. The motion was agreed to. Mr. SUMNER. I also offer a petition of citizens of the DistCol similar to the petitions which I presented yesterday, calling upon Congress to provide irreversible guarantees in the work o reconstruction, so that we shall have security for the future, and, among, those guarantees, proposing the enfranchisement of the colored race. I may say, air, that I am glad to present this petition from citizens of the DistCol, because it shows that there are good people here who are not indifferent to the great cause of equal rights. I am more disposed to make this remark because I see notice of a public mectin of whites in this city in the hope of arresting this cause. Of course the whites can meet if they please, but any vote on their part will be under the circumstances little better than an absurdity. Of course such a meeting called under such auspices will vote to continue their unjust pretensions. Squatters who for generations have squatted on the rights of others do not quietly give up their claim. The whites of the DistCol, in respect to the colored peois, are no better than s uatters, and it is our duty todisposaess them. creafter nobody should be allowed to s uat on the rights of others, civil or political. move the reference of this petition to the JtCommee. The motion was agreed to. Mr. HOWARD. I present the petition of 3740 colored men of SCarolina, in which they respect fully ask Congress, in consideration of their unquestioned loyalty, exhibited by them alike as bond or free, as soldier or laborer, in the Union lines under the protection of the Government, or within the recl lines under the domination of the rebellion thatin the exercise of our high authority over the relistablishnient of civil government in SCarolina their o mil rights before the law may be respected; flint in the formation and adoption of the fundamental law of the State, they may have an equal voice with all loyal citizens, and that Co ss will not sanotion any State constitution wluch does not secure the exercise of the right of the elective franchise to all loyal citizens otherwise qualified in the common course of American law, Without distinction of color. The petitioners proceed toss that “without this political privilege we wi have no security for our personal rights and no means to secure the blessings of education to our children.” “ The State, ” they add, “needs our vote to make the State loyal to the Union and to bring its laws and administration into harmony with the present dearly bought policy of the country, an we respectfully suggest that had the constitution of SCarolina been free, as we now ask that it shall be hereafter, this State would not have led 1/3rd of the U.S. into treason against the nation. For this object your petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever pray, ” die. I take pleasure in being able to say, Mr. President, tint the persons whose names appear to this petition are real gersons, and that very many of them have ren ered important services to the cause of the Union during the rebellion. I ask that the petition may e referred to the JtComReconstruction, socalled.