Mr. DAVIS. One word in reply to the honorable Senfrom WestVirginia. He adverted to the picture of indolence, of vagrancy, and of povert that I had drawn of the negro, and attribute that to the fact that the negroes who had those habits, and were in that condition, received no reward for their labor. I beg to inform my honorable friend that it was the free negro exclusively of whom I was talking and whom I was describing. The slave ne prois made to work, or has been heretofore, byiliis master. His health and his comforts were all cared for. He was fully and comfortably fed, well clothed, well housed, taken care of in his sickness and in his old age. All these features of the slave negro depart, in the State of Kentucky, and have done so from time immemorial. from the freed negro the moment he is turned out to the enjoyment of his freedom. Why, sir, the vagabond negroes that are hover in over this Capitol like a dark cloud have been allured from labor to idleness by the measures of Congress. It is such measures as this that seduce them from labor, from throwing themselves upon their own resources, as the onorableSenfrom WestVirginia says they ought to be thrown, and that brings them here. Ifyou would just introduce measures that would start these lazy indolent negroes from this Capitol Out to work. they could themselves make enough to subsistall the paupers, and ten times as many, in this DistCol. This is only one rendezvous of lazy, indolent negroes. here are 1,000s of them scatter all over the whole of the slave States. Sir, change our policy; introduce measures that will drive these negroes from the cities, that will start them out to work, and to work upon their own responsi bility. There is no truth in the idea of these negroes becomin" the dupes and the victims of the white man. Illicre is no truth in it. My honorable colleague gave a picture of what has always been the policy of Eentucky, and the laws of Kentucky, toward free negroes. With a few exceptions, they have all the civil rights that any white man has. They are subject to some severer penalties: for instance, rape committed by a white man is punishable by confinement in the penitentiary; when perpetrated by a negro upon a white woman, it is punishable by death, and it will be so punish able in that State until the last trump blows. All the legislation that maybe devised by congress, an all the oppressive and unust discriminations sought to be introduce against the white man, and to stifle the reserved rights of the States, to overthrow their governments and their independence of legislationall these measures will never drive the State of Kentucky from a modification of that law.