Mr. TRUMBULL. I do not know that I stated it to the Senate. I might as well have stated to the Senfrom Delaware that the clause which declared that slavery should not exist anywhere within the U.S. means that slavery should not exist within the U.S. ! I could make it no plainer by repetition or illustration than the statement itself makes it. I reported from the ComJudiciary the 2nd section of the constitutional amendment for the very purpose of conferring upon Congress authority to see that the 1st section was carried out in good faith, and for none other; and I hold that under that 2nd section Congress will have the authority, when the constitutional amendment is adopted, not on! to pass the bill of the Senfrom Massachusetts, but a bill that will be much more elicit to protect the freedman in his rights. We may, if deemed advisable, continue the Freedmens Bureau, clothe it with additional powers, and if necessary back it up with a military force, to see that the rights of the men made free by the 1st clause of the constitutional amendment are protected. and, sir, when the constitutional amendment shall have been adopted, if the information from the South be that the men whose liberties are secured by it are deprived of the privilege to go and come when they please, to buy and sell when they please. to make contracts and enforce contracts. I give notice that, if no one else does, I shall introduce a bill and urge its passage through Congress that will secure to those men every one of these rights: they would not be free men without them. It is idle to say that a man is free who cannot go and come at pleasure, who cannot buy an sell, who cannot enforce his rights. These are rights which the 1st clause of the constitutional amendment meant to secure to all; and to prevent the very cavil which the Senfrom Delaware suggests today, that Congress would not have power to secure them, the 2nd section of the amendment was added. l There were some persons who thought it was unnecessary to add the 2nd clause. It was said by some that wherever a power was conferred upon Congress there was also conferred authority to pass the necessary laws to carry that power into effect under the general clause in She constitution of the U.S. which declares that Congress shall have authority to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution any of the powers conferred by the constitution. I think Congress would have had the power, even without the 2nd clause, to pass all laws necessary to give effect to the provision making all persons free; but it was intended to put it beyond cavil and dispute, and that was the object of the 2nd clause, and I cannot conceive how any other construction can be at upon it., sir, I trust this bill may be referred, because I think that a 8: this should “mean out character rate consideration going to some of the committees of the Senate But the object which is had this bill I heartily sympathize with, and when the constitutional amendment is adopted [trust we may pass a bill, if the action of the people in the southern States should make it necessary, that will be much more sweeping and efficient than the bill under consideration. I will not sit down, however, without expressing the hope that no such legislation may be necessary. I trust that the people of the South, who in their State constitutions have declared that slavery shall no more exist among them, will by their own legislation make that revision effective. I trust there may be a feeling among them in harmony with the feeling throughout the country, and which shall not only abolish slavery in name, but in fact, and that the legislation of the slave States in after years may be as effective to elevate, enlighten, and improve the African as it has been in past years to enslave and degrade him.