Mr. VANHORN, of NewYork. The passage, Mr. Speaker, of some law by this Congress No, sir, amending the election tem of this District placing all upon an equality, and wiping out all distinctions as to caste or color, is, in my judgment, both properand necessary, and demanded by the loyal people of the country, who have a right to be heard in the solution of all matters or questions that may arise in the government of the District. The bill as it now stands is not one of my choice, from the fact that I prefer to treat this question of colored suffrage in this District as a new question, and get all the benefits that a fair and reasonable trial of it may produce, regulated and qualified by such restrictions as sound judgment and a wellguarded policy may dictate. I do not say that I will not support the bill as it stands, for I am in favor of some positive action in this direction, and if called upon to vote for this bill as an alternative I may do so; but still, I think greater and better results will flow from a measure embodying, in part at least, the propositions of my colleague. [Mr. Ham1] which, while it secures equal rights to all, or places all upon the same level as to privileges and restrietions, answers the great end to be secured and all that justice now deinands. I am in favor of impartial suffrage here; impartial as to caste or color, and giving all. the same incentives to adopt and carry out a course of rectitude, industry, and enterprise which shall result in a condition of thrift and intelligence that will make them worthy of the privileges and blessings conferred. I cannot conceive howan one can be injured by such a policy and sue a result. Prejih dices of long standing may be encountered, it is true; but it is time they were overcome and demolished, and no longer allowed to rule the individual or the community upon questions of such vast importance, where sacred rights are at stake, and their protection and safety depend upon a candid and honest judgment in the case. In the discussion of the principles of this bill almost every one has been betrayed into a General debate upon the rights of the colored race as it has existed in our country from the time of its 1st introduction, as well as those rights which it is conceded generally the war for the Union has extended to it. I will not take the time of the House on this occasion and under this measure to enter into such a discussion to any great length, but merely to refer to some of the positions taken by some gentlemen upon the other side, leavingt ediscussion of general questions for a future occasion when more properly in order. They seem to have forgotten, in their advo cacy of slavery, that we have passed through a fierce war, begun by slavery, waged against the Government by slavery, and solely in its interest, tomore thoroughly establish itself upon the western continent, and crush out the best interests of freedom and humanity; and that this war, guided on our part by the omnipotentnrm of the Invisible, made bare in our behalf, has resulted in a most complete overthrow of this great wrong; and by the almost omnipotent voice of the republic, as now expressed in itsfundamental aw, it has no right to live, much less entitled to the right of burial, and should have no mourners in the land or goin about the streets. such speechcs as those of the gentlemen from NewJersey, [ML Roarms] and from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Bonny] and my colleague and friend, Mr. Ginsu2a] who represents, with myself in part, the Empire State, on us back to the days and scenes before the war, when slavery ruled supreme, not only throughout the land, by and thrOugh its hold upon power, which the peolo, in an evil hour, adiven it, but here in these Halls of legislation, whiere liberty and its high and noble ends ought to have been secured by just and equal laws and the great and paramount object of our system of government carried out and fully developed. They 1 seem to forget that liberty and good government have been on trial during these 5 years last past of war and blood, and that they have succeeded in the inighty struggle. They forget that Providence, in 1,000 ways, during this fierce conflict, has given as evidence of His favor, and led us out of the land of bondage into a purer and a higher state of freedom, where slave, as an institution among us, is no more. why do they labor so long and so ardeutly to resurrect again into life this foul and loathsome thin 7 Why cannot they forget their former love and attachments in this direction, and no longer cling with such undying grasp to this dead carcass, which by its corruptions and rottenness has well ni h heretofore poisoned them to the death? why not awake to the new order of things, and accept the results which God has worked out in our recent struggle, and not raise the weak arm of flesh to render null and void what has thus been done and thus attempt to turn back the flow of life which is overspreading all and penetrating every part of the body politie with its noble purposes and exalted ho cs?