Mr. WILSON. I tell the Senfrom Pennsylvania that I know we shall carry these measures. God is not dead, and we live, and stand ipg upon the eternal principles of His justice, with a Christian nation behind us, and with Gods commands ever ringing in our cars, we shall in the future, as we have in the 25 years of the ast, march right straight forward to battle an to victory over all opposition. Sir, the Senfrom Pennsylvania asks me what I mean by the equality of men; and he puts the trifling question whether I mean that all men shall be 6 feethigh. There would not be many men equal to the Senfrom Pennsylvania if we measured by length. He asks whether I mean that one man shall weigh as much as an other, or have as much money. Why are these questions put? Does he not know precisely and exactly what. we do mean? Does he not know that we mean that the poorest man, be he black or white, that treads the soil of this continent, is as much entitled to the protection of the law as the richest and the proudest man in the land? Does he not know that we mean that the poor man, whose wife may be dressed in a cheap calico, is as much entitled to have her protected h equal law as is the rich man to have his eweledtliride protected by the laws of the land? Does he not know that the poor mans cabin, though it may be the cabin of a poor freedman in the depths of the Carolinas, is entitled to the protection of the same law that protects the a ace of a Stewart or an Astor? the Senator knows what we believe. He knows that we have advocated the rights of the black man because the black man was the most oppressed type of the toiling men of this country. I tell you, sir; that the man who is the enemy of the black laboring man is the enemy of the white laboring man the world over. The same influences that o to keep down and crush down the rights of the poor black man bear down and oppress the poor white laboring man. The Senator telLs us that if all men were equal and all men were learned, we could not get our boots blacked. I believe Henry Clay uttered that folly upon one occasion, and I am not surprised that the Senator should repeat it. It has been the language of the negro drivers in this country for 60 yearsof the men who had just as much contempt for the toiling white millions of the country as they had for their own black slaves. But, thank God! the toiling men of the country, the men who stand on their foesimple acres and call no one master but God, and call no man slave, the mechanics. the working men, have stood by the rights of hu lnanity just as the ranks of our army in Texas stood by their country and the old flag when Twirgs betrayed them. We have put down the robelion against the people; we have put down slavery, the rolific mother of all our woes; and we have uried deeper than lummct ever sounded the ideas and policy of the past. The Senfrom Pennsylvania may mourn over the degradations of the country; he may be alarmed at the tendency of the times; he is much exercised about the constitution. He has been dinning his interpretations of the constitution in our ears for 5 years. He has been warning as against violatin it; and ct, with the constitution in one ban and the Bible in the other, we have moved right forward and we have achieved what we fought for. e resisted every temptation to betray the cause of libert; we acceted civilWar rather than he tray the cause o God and of the people, and we have triumphed. We have something more to do, and we mean to do it, and if anybod doubts it let him undertake to arrest it. I to l the Senator we were born to do it. God almighty raised us 11 at this age to do this work, an we will do it. ginning with a little disabusedjj cred few, humbly sennga petition tot e case of ful of mamadgs Representativem ask this nation to abandon the slave trade and make free women and chil (iron in the national capital, with denunciations piled upon us, with political parties frowning upon us, we have gone on antiwe stand today masters of the situation. It is not our strength; we are no better than other men. The political organization that made this Administration sent us here and sent the Senfrom Pennsylvania here. Its men have the same weaknesses and faults as men of other political organizations, and we manifest them to the country every day. But we haveacce the d the sublime truths of the Declaration a open euce. We stand as the chain tdgs of human rights for all men, black and white the Tvide world over, and we mean that justiiiidf equal laws shall pervade every rood of this nation;and when that is done our work ceases, but not until it is one. If anybody wants to stop this mightywork, all I have to say to him is just to stand out of the way and let us go on to its accomplishment, for we shall pass through or over all opposing obstacles. Do not tell me that we are lowering the country. God knows the country has been lifted from out the depths u 1,000leagues to ward heaven wrthin the last 5 years. This nation is infinitely higher in the estimation of all the Christian and civilized nations than at any other period of its history. Whoever writes the history of this era must record that the only statesmen in America of this age were the antislavery men. Whoever writes of these events, greater and grander than those of any other period of the worldshistory, will write that no people did more, sacrificed more, poured out more blood. expended more treasure, organized more of the humanities and charities of Christian civilization for the alleviation of distress, or made a nobler record; and he will record the fact that our nublic men, weak,personally, as the are, and faulty asthey are, have comprehende the condition of the country, the duties of the hour, and moving with the eternalforces, have won victories for humanity that will send their names down along the ages for ever. Sir, where is the name of Abraham Lincolnto day? Slow sometimes to act, but always looking and workingin the right direction; maligned slandered, sneered at, accursed by enemies and complained of by doubting friends, who shrank from that glorious deed of emancipation that saved the country, he has left an immortal name in the annals of his country and his race. When he fell under the pistol of the assassin more tears were shed in this country for him than for all the public men who have ever lived on the North American continent; and as the story of his assassination went over the world nations wept for the fall of the foremost man or the 19thcentury. It was because Abra ham Lincoln was our leader, the champion ofour ideas, that the world wept over his fall. There is not a man among us who, if he had filled that lofty place and been as true as was Abra ham Lluco n to our ideas, principles, and policy but would be mourned by the nations if he had fallen in the conflict. Abraham Lincoln was a good man, but it was because he was the champion of the cause of liberty that all coming generations will remember him and send down his name forever with benedictions. Just in prolnrtion as we individuany, and the politi organization to which we belong, have been true to our ideas. have we been strong. It has been this hesitation, this timidity, this quibbling that has been a burden for us to carry; and there are more Senators than one upon this floor who knows that we have not on y had this great cause of country and freedom to carry through the war, but we have had to carry the weakness of hesitating, halting, and uncertain public men upon our shoulders. I do not say that we have had to carry the Senfrom Pennsylvania, for he did not go at all; be neither took himself nor let us carry him; he was not much of a burden to us and not much of a stopin our way in the past, and he will not be in the future. He was not of us; he is not of us now, or he would not rise here and utter these sneers about the negros heel and the negros leg. The negro may not have so fine a cg as the Senfrom Pennsylvania, but there are many negroes vho have hearts quite as good as is the heart of that Senator an I know some of them with brains quite as capacious and quite as well trained as his own. Sir, it is time for men who rally around the standard of the great Union Republican party of the country to understand that this Christian people, with their keen sensibilities, their broad humanities, and their ripe intelligence for there is combined in the republican party a degree of intelligence and characternever before associated in any political organizationdo not want their feelings wounded by these vulgar sneers at a poor, oppressed race, which has been kept down for centuries, wronged and outraged. he Senfrom Pennsylvania should understand that the man who trifles with the sentiments and the maul sympathies of the American people is not likely either to lead them or to control them in the future. I wish to say nothing unkind of the members of the Democratic party, but where are they today? Why are they in a minority in conrcss? Why are they only able to control little Delaware and Kentucky, and not know how long they will keep either? That party was once the champion of the common people of the country, of the poor and lowly, and turned its back upon them; and the man who turns his back upon a poor black man, and allows him to be trampled under the foot of the oppressor, will turn his back on the white man, and let him be trampled under foot. It is this abandonment of the poor and oppressed which has brought that once powerful organization to defeat and sorrow. We shall, I trust, never fall in that way, for I have undonbting faith that we shall accomplish our Heavenasst ned work. The Senator talks as though e knew all about these questions oertaining to slavery and slaves, and as thong 1 the men who have been studying them for 25 years, who have traveled 100,000 or 150,000 miles, and spoken to a 1,000 or 1500 audiences on questions touching the cause of liberty in America, do not know anything about a cause to which they have devoted years of unselfish labor. I was sorry to hear such a thought uttered in the speech of my friendfrom Oregon, [Mr. Nesnrrnfl and the Senfrom Delaware [Mr. SAULSBURY] has often indulged in the assumption that antislaver veterans knew less of slavery and the slaves 1: an himself. I thinkwc know quite as much about slaves and slavery as that Senator. I will relatea little incident which will show that we understand the black men quite as well as that Senator, though he was nurtured in the lap of slavery. I remember here on one occasion, I think it was during the last session, the Senfrom Delaware came to me, said that his negro man, a most excellent man, a man for whom he had the greatest affection, had been drafted, and it won d cost him some $900 to get a substitute, and he asked me to see the SecyWar, and if possible to get him to release his man. The SecyWar thought he ought not to release so good a man, so the Senator raised $900, obtained a substitute for his dear friend, the slave, and that slave the next week ran away to Pennsylvania, where he enlisted and took the bounty. [Laughterj The Senator told us the other ay that Delaware was the last slave State, and that ho was the last slave holder. Now, to vindicate the truth of history, I want. to know if that runaway of his was the last slave. The Senator shakes his head. I give this billustration to show how little the Senator know his intimate friend. We have been told all through this war, ” You do not know these people.” Gentlemen tell us so now, and they keep telling it. The records of this country will show that we have not made a prediction on this floor for the last 5 years t rat has not been verified by the event. We have not taken a pesition or given a vote here that has not been sanctioned by the voice of the American people, and our position is impregnable, because we stand upon the solid rock of ages, with eternal truths around and about us to sustain us in our weakness and hear us onward, while we see these other lofty gentlemen who know so much about the constitution, and who are continually invoking it as a pretext how not to do anything, making false prophecies, trembling and straggling along our line of march. We move as the solid an compact columns of a great army move, and they very much lit: the stragglers that hover on the flank and rear.