Mr. WADE. I move to amend the amendment by striking out “two” where it occurs and inserting “ four, ” so that there shall be 4 regiments of colored cavalry. If this amendment shall be adopted 1/3rd of the cavalry force under this bill will be composed of colored troops. I offer the amendment for this reason: in time of peace it is exceedingly difficult, we always found it so, and will find it so again, to keep your white soldiers from leaving the Army. They are, unfortunately, more apt to desert, as the history of the war, and especially as the experience of the Army after the war was over shows. As an illustration, in Kentucky there were 2 re iments of colored troops stationed for a long time and about 2 regiments of white troops. I believe after the war, before those troops were mustered out nearly one fbnrth of the white troops deserted, while not more than one or 2 of the colored troops over deserted. They were quite as efficient as the white troops, as well disciplined, as formidable in the field, as effective in any service that they were put to. So far as this argument about conciliation is concerned, the time for conciliation is gone when there is a necessity for stationing the Army in a portion of the country. They are not put there as peace makers, nor osconcilia tors. They are put there to put down‘ all wrongful opposition to the Government. If it is necessary to station troops anywhere to keep the peace in this nation, I do not care how obnoxious they are to those who undertake to stir up sedition. I would not vote for raising any troops if it were not necessary that they should be stationed in certain localities for the purpose of maintaining the peace of the country. They are expensive. It is a very disa greeable necessity that compels us to increase our Army at all; but if it is necessary, as we are told it is, for fear of insurrections i n divers parts of the country, I care but little whether the insurrectionists like the kind of troops that we station there to keep them in order or not. We do not put them there to please them. They would be better pleased to have neither white nor black soldiers; but we look to the best interests of the country, and consider which class of troops can be kept there best in time of peace, which can be the most easily raised, and which remain the most ermanently at their post. the one class is a ways to be depended upon just as well as the other, for our experience in the last war shows that the colored troops fought just as well as the white troops did; all of them fought well, and nobody could complain of them. As Lhave said, they are as efficient; they are easier to be got; they remain on hand better; and therefore we should increase the proportion to 1/3rd at least; I do not think it will be any too many.