Mr. HOGAN. I decline to yield to be interrupted in the middle of a sentence. I am makiii an extemporaneous speech, and now I have a most forgotten what I was.going to talk about. I hope it is not the purpose of the Gentieman to drive my thoughts and ideas away, so that when my remarks shall appear in the columns of the Congressional Globe there will be little there that I intended to say; for I want this to go to the country and now, when we have, at an expense of 1,000s of millions of dollars, and of 100s of 1,000s of lives while we have at a terrible sacrifice freed these people from the shackles of slavery, what are we doing for them? Sir, I know men of this race who have grown up among us who are excellent men, and many of whom command the respect of every body with whom they associate. There are colored men in my own district with whom I would feel it no disgrace to be in the closest affiliation; men whom I have known for years, and whose course I have watched intently; men who have by honesty, industry, and thrift acquired some comctciice; men who enjoy the respect of everybo ywith whom they are asso ciated. But, sir, these men, these elevated men, do not want the legislation which you are trying to crowd upon them. They were slaves once, but are now free, and they have commanded by their character, by their industry, by their thrift, by their sobriety, by their skill, the respect of those with whom they are asso ciated. You want now to put men whom you say have for years been crushed down into the very lowest dregs of degradation, men that you say have been made mere beasts of burden, right alongside of these men of color who have acquired property, and fortune, and intellect. You want to make them equal. Why, sir, they are as far above some of the race as can be by possibility conceived of. Let them come along as these gmen have done. You now tax the American people to support in indolence this large class. Why do you not attempt to support the smaller class also? I was down the month before last at Alex and ria. It was on a Saturday, balmy and light and beautiful. It was the 1st buddin of the early spring there and what did see? Why, I saw 1,000s and 1,000s of these people gathered together lounging around the streets, lying up against the sides of the houses, doing nothing and having nothing to do and why? Because the General Government of the U.S. is taxing the broken down, tax ridden people of this country in order to have the means to feed these paupers paupers only by our laws and by our action. Mr. Speaker, my time is nearly up, but I hope my friends will not deprive me of an opportunity of continuing my remarks.