Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I know not that I am called specially to give utterance to my thoughts on this measure. The report of the committee does not meet my expectation, and one of its propositions is in conflict with some of my we l considered convictions. If, however, those with whom I am sent to coop erate in this House deem this measure wise and expedient, I will vote for it. I am prompted to speak because it will enable me to gratify gentlemen on the other side of the House, by allowing them to hear voices from one of the disfranchised States. They will, I know, he gratified to learn that they are not entirely voiceless or powerless on this floor. One thing attracted my attention and doubt less that of others while listenin to the speech of the Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. Fise al) and that of my eloquent colleague, [Mr. Bovsa] and that was that either of them embodied in the text of his speech:he text of the amendment they were discussing. I do not think this omission was accidental. I apprehend they would rather their constituents should read their deiiunciatory remarks than the language of the propositions under consideration. They have not discussed any provision of the proposed amendment. I1 will not sa they dare notdise iiss them clause by clause an denounce them as they have, but it would evince a high de cc of political courage. et. us look at these revisions so fearfully denounced by the gent cmen. Does my colleague think he could go safely through his district in Pennsylvania denouncing the proposition to embody in the Constitution of the U.S. a provision that No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the U.S.: nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any personWithin its Jurisdiction the equal protection at the laws? There is not a man in Montgomery or Lehi h county that will not say those provisions ought {g be in the Constitution if they are not already ere. Again, sir, dare he read to his constituents the language of the 2nd section and reiterate his denunciations of it I It is as follows: SEC.2. Ropresentatives shall he apportioned among the several States which may be ine udedWithin this Union accordingto their respective numbers. counting the whole number of persons in each State. excludin Indians not taxed. But. whencyer in any Stat ct o elective tranchise shall be denied to any portion of its male citizens not lcssthan 21 years of age or in any way abridged. except forpar representation reibnelsliuoenhoSr toattheesrhcarlilmhee. The dubeaesdiso in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens not lessthan 21 yearsof age. Shall the pardoned rebels of the South include in the basis of representation 4 million people to whom they deny political rights, and to no one of whom is a owed a vote in the selection of a Representative? Can he tell the men of the boroughs of Nor ristown and Allentown that one red handed rebel in SCarolina is of right and ought to be the equal of 3 of the best and most patriotic of them on the floor of Congress or in the college for the election of President and VEEP? He dare not do it. The would spurn him and the insulting proposition. he men who fought the rebels and crushed their confederacy would say, give us at least equal consideration and power with the traitors against whom we fought, and who caused the death of 300,000 of our patriotic brethren. I come, sir, to the 3rd section. To strike that out would, in my judgment, be to emas culate the amendment. It is as follows: SEO. 3. Until the 4th day of July, 1870, all persons who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection. giving it aid and comfort, shall be exeluded from the right to votefor Representation in Congreu and fur zlerfors for Presidentand VEEP of lhe U.S. Who ought to govern this country? The men who for more than 4 years sustained bloody war for its overthrow, or they whom my colleague designates as “that prescriptive bodyof men known as the great Union party” who maintained the Government. against the most gi antic rebellion since that which Satan led? quote my colleagues language, and I ask him whether he dare go before our fellow citizens and argue that magnaniniity requires us to hand the Government over immediately to the vanquished but unconverted rebels of the South. He says, and so does the Gentfrom Ohio, that those States are in the Union, and that their co le cannot be disfranchised.