Mr. RAYMOND. I do not think they possibly could be, because that does not imply anything about the powerot those States here after. am simply speaking of what we have 4110right to require them to o. Whether they have slavery. There is another thing which we have the right to require; and that is the prohibition of We have the right to require them to do this, not only in their State constitution s, but in the constitution of the U.S and we have required it, and it has been conceded. They have also conceded that Congress may make such low: as may be requisite to carry that prohibition into effect, which includes such legislation as me be required to. secure for them protection of their civil and personal right. stheir “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This I am sure 1 the gentleman will concede to be a substantial Q to abide by all the obli itary generals prescribed,tions of the rebel surrender in the field; and the guarantee 11 milaced beyond the power of State to recall or repeal. These things the POTUS has deemed it his right, as Commander inChief of the armies of the U.S., to demand at the hands of the States which have been defeated in their attempt to separate themselves from the Union, as e condition of relaxing the bonds of military authority over them i and restoring to them again the control of their local State afihirs. He made these the conditions upon which they would be allowed, so far as his rightful authority extended, to resume the practical exercise of their functions as members of the Union, which had been suspended by their rebellion. He has done this in the exercise of his lawful authority as Commander inChief of the Army of the U.S., and was therefore res, onsible for the complete suppression of the resilica and the restoration of peace, order, and loyalty in the regions where theyhave been for a time disturbed and overthrown. He has done it through agents, exercising a delegated and just authority acting on his behalf and in his namejust us his mil terms and condi fact that these concessions have been granted, afords at least a fair resumtion that those who make them intend hereafter in good faithtions and fa fill all the duties imposed by the institution and laws of the U.S. It may possibly be wise for us to dismiss all these concessions and all these guarantees given by 8 million people and sanctioned by the most solemn forms of legislation, as utterly worthless and insincere. at that is a matter upon which each individual must exercise his own discretion upon his own responsibility.