Mr. WINDOM. I wish to make another extract from the speech of the Gentfrom NewJersey. He said, “ If you pass this bill you will allow negroes to comete for the high office of the POTUS” You will actually allow them to compete for the Presidency of the U.S. ! As for this fear which haunts the Gentfrom NewJersey, if there is a negro in the country who is so far above all the white men of the country that only 4 millions of his own race can elect him POTUS over 26 millions of white people, I think we on ht to encourage such talent in the country. ir, the gentleman has far less confidence in p. the white race than I have if he is sotitnid in regard to negro competition. Does he really suppose that black men are so far superior to white men that 4 millions of them can elect a President of their own race against the wishes of 30 milliong of ours? Ever since I knew anything of the party to which the gentleman belongs it has entertained this samemorbid fear of negro competition, and sometimes I have thought that if we were to conteni late the subject from their stand point we wouldiiave more charity than we do for this timidit and nervous dread which haunts them. I beg cave, however, to assure the gentleman that there is not the slightest danger of electing a black President, and that he need never vote for one unless he thinks him better fitted for the office than a white man. I wish now to refer to some of the positions assumed by the Gentfrom Wisconsin,Mr. Ewamom] who has just taken his seat. e hopes the negro question is at rest, and that we shall hear no more ofit. Let me say to him thatquestion never will restuntil this nation does justice to the negro and every other citizen in it. He says it overrides the State laws, and is therefore un constitutional. I believe the Gentfrom Wisconsin is at present one of the most earnest indorsers of the policy of the POTUS I lbelieve, sir. that the entire party on the other side of this Chamber indorse fully the policy of the POTUS, who has found it necessary through his general in Virginia to override one of the laws passed by that State affecting the negro. I ask, then, how they can consistently indorse that policy and at the same time declare a law of Congress is unconstitutional which does the same thing? But perhaps the gentleman claims that as these States have not yet been admitted to Representation in congress they are under military rule. I think he a so claims that those States are in the Union and always have been in the Union. Then the POTUS has no more right to override the laws of Virginia now than when her Representativu were upon this floor. I ask if it is consistent. to claim this bill as unconstitutional when gentlemen indorse the POTUS, who overrides the laws of a State in time of peace by military order? I indorse the President in setting aside those iniquitous laws of Virginia, and I believe this bill is constitutions.