Mr.???. I cannot allow an opportunity so favorable as this for advocating the cause of universal education to pass without saying a word. I must point to the distinguished Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. KELLEY] as the barrier to universal education on this question today. I support the resolution, and ask for its extension to the people of this Union without regard to sex, race, or color. I ask it for the benefit which we all know education confers upon the people in every walk of life. But the policy suggested by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania would debar the children of the southern States from the advantages of education, so necessary for the management of their own affairs and for their defense against the force of armed militia under the Republican organization, which is sought to be imposed upon the southern States. Sir, what is the core, the center, the vital principle of that organization as declared by its journal in this city? It is that none but soldiers are to be elected to office by the suffrages of the grand army of the Republic. It is an easy transition from the militia organization to the ballot box, and the tenacity and persistency of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania in excluding the white race from the advantages of education will, if successful, result in the degradation of the white men in the southern States. If his system has any other object, let him declare it. If the policy of this Government is to extend the benefits of education to all, then in the name of the Constitution, which is based upon the intelligence of the people, do not shut out the ten States or Territories, or whatever you may see fit to call them, from education simply because the people of that section differ from you on political questions. They have been arrayed in battle against you for want perhaps of that superior . which you have received. I ask, is it wise or just to exclude from the advantages of knowledge the children of the soldiers who were in the rebel army? Sir, extend to them kindness and give them the opportunity of acquiring an education that shall fit them for becoming good citizens of the Republic in future. The gentleman says the trustee has been false to the trust. He looks upon these States as trustees and as having violated their trust, and to maintain his own consistency, with loud mouthed denunciation of the men who fought, he proposes to exclude the children of those men from the benefits of education. Sir, if the gentleman has seen in the city which he represents here, and of which he is a worthy ornament, the advantage of public education, if he has seen it in other cities, notwithstanding the disturbances which arise from the great diversity of population and the variety of nation alities there, what in the name of sense will be the result throughout the vast region of country lately in rebellion? The light of the truth carried by the printing press throughout that section is by the action of that gentleman and his friends to be excluded from the southern people. Why does he exclude them? That he may maintain a concentrated political organization within this body, where he may speak all he knows, while those he assails are without a Representative on this floor. He would continue the tyrannical supremacy of Congress over a downtrodden, ignorant people, excluded from opportunities of education more dear to the patriot and the Christian than the ballot itself. The very Bible, about which that gentleman prates with such a pretense of philan thropy as being excluded from the black man, he would by his system exclude from the white people of those States. Oh, hypocrisy thy name is politics; and when tho. arrayest thy self in human form thouspeakest in the loud mouthed words of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania. [Laughter]