Mr. ROGERS. I am glad that the gentleman has interrupted me, because, probably, without his interruption I might have been placed inafalse position with regard to the true object of the argument which I an; attempting to resent. I am not licre to advocate thesright to enslave any man. I am here to protest, as much as the gentleman himself, against holding white men or black men in slavery. But I desire to show the status and standing of the African race, as not having been considered fit to enter into the politica community with the white people of the country. I do not seek to idolize or sustain the system of slavery as it has existed in this couutr or any other, because I think that the enlightened intelligence of the present age would not warrant me or any other man in standing here to argue, in the face of the consequences which have lately over taken this class of beings, that they ought to be held in slavery. I am willing to admit that slavery existed, as the gentleman asserts, in Greece and Rome; and affirm that in those countries the highest intelligence of the age and the noblest patriotism were exhibited by those who at the same time held white men in slavery. But that was a dark and barbarous age compared to the enlightened wisdom of modern times; but as men advanced in enlightenment and civilizatitm, the holding of white persons in bondage became obnoxious to the educated reason of humanity. But I say that the moral right to hold slaves was not denounced by the Saviour of the world when He cameto proclaim peace and goodwill to all men. The records of biblical and profane history refute the idea that slavery is necessarily immoral, since it did not call forth the indination or rebuke of the Saviour of the world when He was pursuin His sublime ministry among a peeple who he (I millions of white men in bondage. I say that in still earlier days the oracles of God were committed to slaveholding prophets and patriarchs. The highest form of civilization and the noblest development of manhood that can be found in olden times is found among the ancient slaveholding commonwealths of Greece and Rome. Among the wreck and ruins of their genius we find the germs of many of the most vital principles of our civilization; but the white slaves were made so by war, and not on account of the inferiority of the races.