Mr. BINGHAM, "That question I propose to answer, and with this I shall close what I have to say. I have before replied to the gentleman that those States, having entered into rebellion, the unlimited power for the common defense throughout their limits was exercisable by Congress by virtue of the very terms and intendment of the Constitution, and this power may be exercised by Congress until the time when those people return to their loyalty and fealty in of a manner as shall satisfy the people of the U.S., duly organized and represented in Congress, of their fitness to be restored to their full constitutional relations. If this is not law then it results that the moment you break the battalion of armedrebellion in the field of open conflict, that moment all the sovereignty that originally pertained to organized constitutional State governments im mediately springs into being without the power of challenge on the part of the nation. I deny that such is the fact. It remains for those who have been in rebellion after they have surrendered upon the field of conflict to exercise their right of petition, being citizens of the U.S., peaceably and quietly under the general operation of the Constitution, the general jurisdiction of which still extends over them; and Present to the Congress of the U.S. a constitutional form of government, republican as required by the Constitution, and in all respects conformable to the laws of the U.S., and thereby give some evidence of their disposition and fitness to return to that allegeance which they attempted to throw off by their treason, and which they always owed to the Government, and to be restored to the powers of organized States of the Union, which had protected them and theirs. When that day comes the government by the sword ought to and must cease and determine, and the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. to govern therein must then also cease. I desire to call the attention of the House to this proposition: that the effect of the amendment which I propose in the preamble is to make a solemn declaration to the country that this military authority is not to be exercised an hour after those States shall have been restored to their constitutional relations. What objection is there to this? I know that it is not necessary to do so; but is it not politic and wise to solemnly notify the world that you are going to exercise these extraordinary powers only so long as, in the word of the Constitution, it shall be necessary for the rightful enforcement of the Constitution and laws and the protection of life and property in the insurgent States? Incorporate this amendment in the preamble and thereby proclaim that this power is to be exercised only until those insurgent States shall have been fully restored to their constitutional relations to the Government of the U.S. This being done every one will be under the protection of the civil law, and the occasion for military rule will happily have passed away, and those disorganized States be restored to their equal political power in the Union. I desire to put this amendment into the preamble for the further reason that I wish thereby to notify in the most solemn form the men who constitute, perhaps, the majority of the people in those ten lately insurgent States, and who themselves were in open armed rebellion, that what they have to do, and all they have to do, in order to get rid of military rule and military.".is to Present to the Congress of the U.S. a constitutional form of State government in accord with the letter and spirit of the Constitution and laws of the U.S.together with a ratification of the pend amendment. af and had ettbeerminigned so.ne, Isira, mthsisurme iloitfartyhisru:lethcaetatshees Atamrye, rican people will have rule, civil or mili: in those insurgent States until they shall be fully restored to their constitutional relations. And in so far as they may be able under direction of law and the authority of law enacted by their Congress, they will protect all men in those States in life, liberty, and property until they can be fully protected under accepted constitutional State governments. When men in those States shall have fulfilled their obligations, and when the great people themselves shall have put, by their own right ful authority, into the fundamental law the sublime decree, the nation's will, that no State shall deny to any mortal man the equal protection of the laws not of the laws of SCarolina alone, but of the laws national and State and above all, sir, of that great law, the Constitution of our own country, which is the supreme law of the land from Georgia to Oregon and from Maine to Florida then, sir, by assenting thereto those States may be restored.at once. To that end, sir, I labor and for that I strive; and in order there may be no hinderance in the way, no unnecessary catch words inserted to get rid of that great amendment, I ask that this phrase “so called States” be stricken from the bill and preamble, and that this limitation upon the exercise of this great power of government be inserted plainly, declaring that military rule shall cease upon restoration.