Mr. KELLEY. I am in the habit of taking care of my district, and mean to do it. Mr. Speaker, this section which is denounced as so degrading to the people of the rebellious States simply proposes, as I have shown, to restore to them at the and of 4 ears those rights which the sensible people of the South know the have lost, and which they despise Andrew ohnson for attcin ting to restore by unconstitutional means. e has committed, said one of them, in the letter from which I read an extract, a great blunder, if not a great crime; and that is the sentiment of the brave men who fought us in the South. The next section which the gentleman opposes is this: $20.4. Neither the U.S. norIany State shall assumeor pay any debt or obligation already incurred, or which may hereafterbe incurred, in aid of insurrection or of war against the U.S or anyclaim forcompensntionfor loss ofinvoluntary serviceor labor. There is not avoter in Pennsylvania that does not approve that proposition. The men of our State do not mean that the people of the U.S or future emigrants to the southern States shall be taxed to pay the rebel debts or for slaves set free by war; and I mean that they shall see what the provisions are that the entle men assail with broad generalities and lauations of our modern “Moses.” By the way, I may as well remark that entle men are mistaken when they suppose that Governor Johnson, in his speech to the colored people of Nashville, referred to the Moses of sacred h“istory. He did not; he referred to the Moses” of modern story. whose razors were “made to sell and not to shave." He should not be censured because the enthusiastic hope of the cor freedmen misinterpreted his allusion. at to resume. It will not do toavoid the terms of this amendment. Gentlemen will have to confront them face to face. I shall, Mr. Speaker, vote for this amendment; not because I aprove it. Could I have controlled the report 0tp the committee of 15, it would have proposed to give the right of suffrage to every Ioyal man in the country. I do not believe, with my colleague, that our Government rests on the complexion of its people, or the color of their hair. I believe that a patriot is a better citizen than a traitor. He talks of a proposition to enfranchise millions of negroes and disfranchise millions of white men. He does not use the language which his constituents will use, which is, that the friends of impartial suffrage propose to disfranchise traitors and to enfranchise patriots. They propose to punish treason and reward loyalty; and I know the people of Pennsylvania well enough to know how they will respond to that proposition.