Mr. KELLEY. WhatI have to say is unwritten, and I prefer to go on while the glow is on me. Mr. Speaker, in asking the consideration of the House to the bill now before it, I was actuated by no temporary impulse, no gust of passion. I did it in view of the ICSPOIJSIbil it that rests upon this Congress, and in view of the gravity of the questions which mark the era in which we live. In reparing to begin the work of reconstructing the grandest of human Governments, shat. tered for a time by treason, and in endeavorin to ascertain what we should do and how an when it should be done, I have consulted no popularimpulse. Groping in way through the murky political atmosphere that has prevailed for more than 30 years, I have seated my self at the feet of the fathers of our country that I might as far as my suggestions would go make emin accordance with the principles of those be constructed our Government. I can make no suggestion for the improvement of the primary principles or general structure of on government, and I would heal its Wounds so arefully that it should descend to posterity unstained and nirmarred as it came, under the guidance of Provrdence, from the hands of those who fashioned it. Sir, let us ascertain, if we can, whether they have furnished as guides for this trying hour. I am denounced as a radical. Thank God! the term is coming to be honorable. Men know that he only is a radical who stands by the eternal principles which God ordained, and one such, having the Almighty with him, is ever in the majority. I come to my duty, however, with Washington and Madison to guide me, and I find that the term “radical did not frighten them. In the 1st volume of the Madison Papers, pug? 287, I find a letter from Madison, written atNewXork, April 16, 1787, to General Washington. Mark tedate and consider the duty in which Madison and Washington were then engaged, or about to en e. o other era in American history is so an ogous to this of ours as that was. Ours is, as I have said, the work of reconstruction. They were contemplating or engaged in the worlr of construction. The Confederacy had failed, fallen to pieces, was almost as dead as the late confederacy of the southern States; The Union did not yet exist ithad to be created. The principles that did those to whom that great work was conli edwe may safely adopt.” Dear sir, ” said James Madison to Washington, “I have been honored with your letter of the 31st March and find with much pleasure, that your views of the reform, which pnght to bepursuedby the convention, give o. auction to those entertained. the gn portnnq application: will dishonorthe council !:lflllll! propou them and may fornent the internal malignity of the disease. at the same time that they producean ostensible palliation of it. Radical allmnptaa, llhouph uncucccaquwl, ill alleaujrmiu the author of lhm I turn now to the Federalist, No. 39 to a paperalso from the pen of James Madison, examining “the conformity of the plan of Government to republican principles, in which he says: “The 1st question that offers itself is. whether the general form and aspect of the Government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form we be reconcilablo with the genius of the people of Amerion; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with (but honorable delay urination which animal“ every volaru of freedom, torat all our)Irtrcul experimemn on the capacity cafmanlnnd for 8tlf government. If the plan of the conventiou, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character imadvocates must abandon it C as no longer defensible.” I $UQUiO l. “It is essential to such a Government that it be derived from the Great body of the society. not from an ine onaiflerablo proportion, or a favored class of it; otherWisealinndful of tyrannical nobles. exercising thiehr oppress tiooptshbey rank deolef graet piuonbli coafnths, eir oewlacirms. for their verninsn the honorable title of republic.” He does not seem to have agreed with my distinguished colleague from the 6th district, [Mr. Bovsa] that poverty is a cause of exclusion from the ballotbox.