Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Speaker, I think that the very language of the law to which this resolution refers demands that we should adopt it. I think, too, that the course of things in Tennessee demands it. Congress made provision for the education of the youth of the country by means of agricultural colleges or universi ties, and in i. so declared that States should be the trustees of the fund. Tennessee is a State with her representatives in this Hall and in the Senate Chamber. More than that, sir, she h?s shown her fitness as a State, to administer a fund of this kind. She has established an educational system which embraces all her people, and I see by the papers of today that that is to be the governing law of all her institutions. She is organizing a militia with cavalry regiments for each county, and is enrolling alike the black and the white citizen to serve side by side in the cause of order and law., Therefore I say there is a trustee that may accept the fund for Tennessee. But I affirm that gentlemen use erroneous terms when they speak of ten other “States.” There is no other “State” to which the resolution under consideration will apply. There is no “State” of SCarolina or of Georgia or of Texas. There were State governments there; but they were overthrown. AndrewJohnson not a very good authority in general, but one that may be accepted on this point has told the world that the people of what were those “States” have been deprived of all civil government. Since the overthrow of those States took place the lawmaking power has never reorganized them. The bastard States, as they are called, are but a work of usurpation, and are in the hands of people who have shown themselves, not only once, but 100 times, unfit to administer a fund for educational purposes. Sir, the statute books of the country are swollen with grants of land to the old southern States for educational purposes; and I challenge gentlemen to show J.any one of the grants was ever faithfully administered and applied within those ten overthrown States. As much land has been given to the southern States for educational purposes as to those of the North, and yet where are their common schools? They had none, but they had laws prohibiting Christian benevolence from teaching children or adults to read the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments, while they were squandering rich grants of lands made for educational purposes.