Mr. GRINNELL. Not to the gentleman, personally, but to the State that he is defending here and not only himself, but his colleagues. who do the same here day after da. The Legislature of Kentucky has been in session for 2 months, and have it from the best authority that every Union man elected to the Kentucky Legislature that it was possiblefor them to turn out under any pretext they have turned out of that body. ow. let us see what are the laws of Kentucky, which are so just and honorable and equitable and when 1866. 653 we come to seewhat those laws are and what are the rights of the white man, and that the black l, man has only partial rights, I think I shall be i understood when I say that the writ of habeascorpus should be suspended until there is a spirit of justice exhibited by the State of Kentucky. The white man in Kentucky can testify in the courts; the black man can testify against himself. The white man can vote; the black man cannot. The white man if he commits an offense, is tried by a jury of his peers; the black man is tried by his enlightened, unprejudiced superiors. the rs e of a negro woman by a white man is no o ease; the rape of a white woman by a negro man is punishable by death, and the Governor of the State cannot commute. A white man may come into Kentucky when he pleases, the free negro who comes there is a felon, though a discharged soldier and wounded in our battles. A white man in Kentucky may keep a gun; if a black man buys a gun he forfeits it and pays a fine of 5 dollars, if resuming to keep in his possession a musket which he has carried throng the war. Arson of public buildings, if committed by a white man, is punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary or a term of from 7 to 21 years; if committed by a black man the punishment is death. Arson of a warehouse, etc., when committed by a white man, is punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to 6 years; when committed by a negro, the penalty is death. If a white man is guilty of insurrection or rebellion he is punished by being called “chivalrous.” I instance the rebel General Forrest, who murdered white men at Fort Pillow, and is reputed the most popular man South. If a negro rebels, or conspires to rebel, he is punished with death. These are specimens. Under this code sustained by public sentiment, most certainly that archtraitor, Breckinridge, can come back to the Senate; and I apprise all the aspirants for senatorial glory in old Kentucky, who are not on that side, to “ Hang up the fiddle and the bow. Lay down the shovel and the bee.” I do not wish to be personal, and have no pleasure in these exposures; but so long as it is asserted that this Freedmens Bureau is a partial, unnecessary, speculating affair, I wish to call attention to the fact that in the State of Kentucky, during the last 5 months, more white refugees than freedmen, in the proportion of 7 and one 4th to one have received rations at the hands of the Government; that this bureau has kept in schools in the State of Kentucky 14,000 black people; and I do not know but that is more than all the white attendants of schools in that State, out of the cities. I do not know how that may be. I only know that loyal teachers are closing their schools, while rebels are obtaining a good support, and that statute may now be enforced wtheh imprisoned a northern lady teacher in a penitentiary many years for pointing anegro to the north star and here I recall an incident. Not many years ago, a fugitive from Kentucky, partly white,:1. young man, came to my house. After he had eaten his breakfast he looked round and saw a picture on the wall, a representation of the Saviour upon the cross. Looking at that picture, he said, “What are they doing with that fellow up there?" “Why, ” said I, “that is the Saviour on the cross.” “ The Saviour?” “YesJesus.” “Oh, yes, Ive heard of that felloiv. Hes dead now, I believe.” such is the ignorance which is the result of Kentuckys laws, forming a public sentiment which led it to be the truth of history, that before the rebellion Kentucky fattened her noble Durhams for northern shambles, and bred women and children and sent them down to the slave markets of the South. Yet now. when the Government, acting in concert with the philanthropic spirit of the country, proposes to feed the refugees and freedmen in that State, it is denounced as unconstitution al, the offspring of false philan thropy. The claim of a race is denied, when “ Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields. which is of you kept back by fraud. crieth; and the cries of them which have reapedare en"teredinto the cars of the Lord of Saboath. Yo have lived in pleasureon the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourishedyour hearts asin the day of slaughter.” But let me press my application. This bill is for the benefit of Kentucky and 1,000s in want. Your President has suspended the writ of habeascorpus there. He has been acting under his oath. Your Attor nc General sanctions that suspension. The Ca inet of the U.S. sanctions it. This Congress believes it to be right and what, I repeat, are fyou goingto do with that people? I mean the refugees and colored people. They have no schools.