Mr. COWAN. I congratulate the honorable Senator upon it; and now all I wish is that he would go down to the Freedmen’s Bureau I believe the transportation is free and ship up a 100,000 negroes to Maine; ta re a 100,000 of them there; I have no doubt they would be well treated. Then these philanthropic people would have an o)portunity to exercise their skill. They would have an opportunity there to educate them and develop them, and they would see after awhile exactly what they could get out of them. If that were done, I could understand the philosophy of a movement like this. I believe I should agree to almost any new proposition ifsufficient evidence was given to me that the people who urged it were honest in their desi us, and had not some covert advantage which t icy expected lurking behind it. If Massachusetts had as many negroes as SCarolina, I could well understand her advocacy of this as being from the purest motives; but when I “ find her saying You take the ossum and I will take the tur key, or I will take the turkey and you take the possum, " I do not understand that kind of talk to be fair. And, Mr. President, I am opposed on principle to meddling with this matter. I am opposed to it again on the ground that to me it ooks to be unjust, unfair, taking an unfair advantage of people at an improper time. Is this a time to amend the Constitution? I ask honorable Senators if in their opinion this is a time when the Constitution can be amended well and properly, because, asI understand it, if we are to amend the Constitution we must amend it in such a way as to be satisfactory to the people everywhere, not merely the people of Massachusetts or the people of Michigan, but to the people of Georgia and the people of Louisiana, to the people of all the ‘tates. Does any man want an amendment to the constitution forced through here junder circumstances of this kind, against people who are unable to resist, against people whom you will not hear, and in the face of a numerical majority in the country against you? Do you an pose that is going to be beneficial? I ask in all sober earnestness, is there anybody who supposes that that will be for the benefit of the country? Again, suppose you pass this amendment to the Constitution, and suppose the southern States either for the purpose of getting themselves into line with you or for the purpose of increasing their political power under it, should admit the negro to the franchise, will your children and your homes and your govern ments be the more secure for that? hat is the difficulty under which you labor today? Is it that you have not voters enough? Is it that the food upon which the demagogne fattens has grown scarce and he has grown thin? Or is it the reverse? Is it not because demagoguism is rife everywhere; and is not demagoguism rife just in proportion as you furnish it the material upon which to work? Degrade your franchise, put it down in the hands of men who have no intelligence, no virtue, and, what is worst of all, no independence put it into the hands of men who have nothing to hope from it except in so far as they can use it or corrupt purposes, and shall we be safer then, I ask? IDo you an)POSG that the people of the States in which there are negroes will send you more intelligent, more learned, more virtuous, and more independent Sens&Reps here if you make this change than the would without?