Mr. KELLEY. For whom do we ask this legislation? In 1860, according to the census there were 14,316 colored people in this District, and we ask this legislation or the male adults of that number. Are they in rags and filth and degradation? The tax books of the District Wll tell you that they pay taxes on $1, 250,000 worth of real estate, held within the limits of this district. On one block, on which they pay taxes on 50 odd 1,000 dollars, there are but 2 colored freeholders who have not bought themselves out of slavery. One of them has bought as many as 8 persons beside himself, a wife and 7 children. Coming to freedom in manhood mortgaged for 1,000 or 1500 dollars as his own price, he has earned and carried to the southern robber 1,000s of dollars, the price extorted for his wife and children, and is nown freeholder in this district. They have 21 churches, which they own, and which they maintain at an an nual cost of over 20,000 dollars. Their communin members number over 4300. gin their 22 Sunday schools they gather on each Sabbath over 3000 American children of African descent. They maintain, sir, to the infamous disgrace of the American Congress and people, 33 day schools, 8 of which are maintained exclusively by contributions from colored citizens of the district; the remainder by their contributions, eked out by contributions from the generous people of the North; and every dollar of their million and a quarter dollars of real estate and personal property is taxed for schools to educate the children of the white people of the District, the fathers of many of those children having been absent during the war fighting for the confederacy and against our constitution and flag. Who shall reproach them with being poor and ignorant, while congress, which has exclusive jurisdiction over the District has till last car robbed them day by day, and barred the corof the public a coll against them? such reproach does not lie in the white mans mouth; at any rate, no member of the Democratic party ought to utter it. They take in, as the subscription lists of the 2 papers show, more than 1200 copies each afternoon of the National Republican, and over 3500 copies each moriiin of the Daily Chronicle.