Mr. TRUMBULL. The Senfrom Maryland thinks it does. It declares also that “they are endowed by their Creator with certain in alienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: that to maintain these ends Governments are instituted among men.” I think that declaration, that “all men are created equal ” applied as much to the black as to the white man; but "IE Senfrom Kentucky [Mr. DAVIS will not admit that. I think it irbest, there re, when we are enacting a statute on this subject declarato of what the law is, for that is all this bil amounts to) to put it beyond question. The Senfrom Oregon as red if these persons were not citizens without this declaration. In my judgment the are; in my judgment, persons born in the U.S and owing no allegiance to any foreign Power are citizens without regard to color; but it is desirable to place this matter beyond question, and therefore we are passin a law declaratory of what, in my judgment, the law now is, in order to remove any doubts that anybod may have about it; and for that reason I think it better to retain the words without “distinction of color” that there may be no dispute that the word “persons” means everybody. If the Declaration had said, “all men are created equal without distinction of color, ” it seems to me it would not have been possible even for the Senfrom Kentucky to contend that negroes were not embraced; but he does now so contend. Therefore, I think we had better retain the words “without distinction of color.” Various suguistions in regard to amendments have been made to which I, individually, would have no objection, but I see that the moment we yield to an amendment in order to satisfy one member of the Senate, we get into a difficulty with some other meinber. We have that difficulty now in regard to the Indians. I wish this whole Indian question was out of the way. It is not the great object of the bill. I was satisfied with the proposition as we 1st had it; butin order to remove the objections of others we have changed its phraseology until now it stands in the form in which it has just been read from the desk; and that, upon the whole, I think is the best form in which we can put it, and I trust the Senate will adhere to it as it is.