Mr. ROGERS. I can answer that question by stating to the gentleman that it is not improbable that, even without any constitutional legislation, the States (as many of them have already done in a qualified form, and some upon an unualified basis may yet allow to the negroes the same political status that the gentleman says may e allowed to the man under 21 and the unnaturalized foreignel. The gentleman s suggestion, therefore, does not affect the force of the argument which Iam endeavoring to present. Why, sir, I undertake to say, and I defy contradiction, that this proposed amendment will give to negroes rights that it will not allow to white men. It Will allow a State to retain its full quota of representation, though it should disfranchise all its white citizens, not on account of race or color, provided it will enfranchise the negroes. White men may be disfranchised to an unlimited extent by the States and the States still be allowed representation for that whole race; yet if they do the same thing to negroes that whole race is excluded from the basis of representation. It appears to have in its body, in its soul, and in its life only one great object and aim, that is, to debase and degrade the white race and to place upon a higher footing than the white men are placed, under the constitution, this African race. Now, sir, at the formation of the Constitution of the U.S. there was not a single State of the whole 13 which adopted that instrument that did not impose conditions upon the right of suffrage to the white men. Every State constitution which existed at the time the States entered into the Union, and for a long time afterward, imposed qualifications as conditions precedent to the exercise of the right of suffrage on the part of the white men. No man will deny that on this or on the other side of the House. The or nic law of the land, if amended as propose, will give congress the sovereign power and right to control the States through its power of refusing representation unless the States acquiesce in the contemptible doctrine of negro suffrage. This amendment allows the States in their sovereign capacity to exclude white men from the polls on the ground of property or any other reason, except race or color, while it deprives the States of representation for doing the same thing to the colored people, as the intent of the States would be construed to be their act, exercised by them, upon the negroes, on account of race or color.