Mr. BINGHAM. The gentleman, Iwasjust going to say, seemed to undertake to fortify his position and to forestall anyremarks upon this subject by referring to the fact that the amendment now pendin isin behalf of a corporation. Sir, the State itse f is but a corporation; but ili pr those who compose each are citizens of the country. In this respect they are all alike; and they are a very disorganized body of corporators at that. For myself, Mr. Chairman, cannot see the statesmnnship of saying that no quarter whatever shall be given to those people; that nothing is to be done for them, or oven attempted to be done, but to exact the uttermost furthing at once and without one day of g race. After you shall have done this, what will on have accomplished? If you give the southern people no kind of encouragement to attempt anything toward improveinciit and the organization of industry an the development of their resources, what assurance have you that they will ever attempt anything? The amendment new pending proposes simply to say to those people, “ Go on and build your railroad connecting your 2 States of Florida and Alabama; procure the iron necessary for the purpose; if it be foreign iron and liable to duty, give security satisfactory to the Government for the ultimate payment of the duties, and for the payment semi annually, in old, of the interest thereon during the perio of the 5 intermediate years of extension.” That is all there is in the proosition. Sir, I am willing, an deem it my duty, to assist by special legislation, if you please, in workinr' out speedily such results in the South as willbmak that unbroken column of rebel States extending from the shores of the Potomac to the Rio Grande. I thank the ComWays&Means for the pending proosition nndt Statesinanship which under ies it and i ied iirit. Its adoption can do no harn cont as unworthy of a moment’s conside ion any suggestion that the adoptionof a proposition like this will be a precedent which may bring disaster upon the country. Anything that is calculated to wake up intelligent industry through that vast tract of country held these last 5 years in the embrace of rebellion, which was an embrace of death, Ihail as an omen of that “good time coming” when those States will be restored and the supremacy of the Constitution acknowl edged in ever State hitherto in insurrection. Having said these few words in favor of the proposition of the committee, I now withdraw my amendment to it.