Mr. GRINNELL. I cannot, as I hasten to submit a few items. This bureau is in charge of 800,000 acres of land, and 1,500 pieces of town property. It has issued more than 600,000ations to refugees, and 3, 500,000 to freedmen. It has treated 2, 500 refugees in hospitals and decently buried 227 of them. It has treated 45,00Ofreedmen and made the graves for 6,000 of the number. Transportation has been furnished to 1, 700 refugees and 1, 900 freedmen. In the schoolsthere are 80,00opeople that have been instructed by this bureau and now it is proposed to leave all these children of misfortune to the tender mercies of a people of whom it is true by the Spanish maxim, ” Since I have wronged youI have hated you.” I never can. Our authority to take care of them is founded in the constitution; else it is not worthy to be Our great charter. It gives authority to feed Indian tribes, though our enemies, and a justinterpretation cannot restrain us in clothing and teeding unfortunate friends. In providing schools we can turn to the same authority which led to the gift of millions of acres of the public domain for the purse of establishing agricultural colleges in t iis country. These possessory titles under GenlShermans order to lands on the SeaIslimds give constitutional gentleman great concern; but should they? Vere not the lands abandoned, and had not those who followed GenlShermans army need of a home? There appeared gentlemen with a suavifer in morlo, and set up that the negro was a disturbing force, and they wished him to “contract” or to remove where he might enjoy a 4acre tract of loud in Florida, and give up their possessory titles. I heard these gentlemans plausible and earnest arguments for the recovery of millions worth of lands forfeited, and I heard but one negro, an ellslave, upon the same subject, and I am constrained to say that the simple honesty of the exslave was more persuasive than the maritaof the exslaveholders and their advocates, who abjure as a punishment for rebels confiscation and the use of hemp. Those lands by the sea, abandoned, were moistened With the sweat and blood of those who toiled there, paitently waiting for the year of jubilee; and whon asked to restore them by an act of congress I answer, I never will ban party to anyone injustice. I believe it is the Christian duty of this Government, as it has been the duty of the various philanthropic societies and religious associations, to take care of these people. At the homes of the sons of the pilgrims on our remotest prniries contributions are made for the refugees and freedmen, and the Society of Friends. who have anged the dimensions of these sulfering people, bid among the mount ains in camps and hospitals. have set us an example of fidelity. They could not take up arms with a good conscience. yet they were the 1st in the hospitals and the longest there, refusing to receive compensation, munificent in their quiet charities; and now they come to us lr om Maryland, and all our States, asking protection for their agents and schools. their school houses have been burned since the Sitting of this Congress, and so near to us that the very flames of the conflagration might have 11 hted up this Capitol. These are a few hues of their memorial: “In Maryland, whero emancipationwas otfectedb statute law some some time before the Presidents proclamation. about 40 schcolswero establishedby the Muryland Association for the Moral and intellectuul Improvement of the Colored Peopls of that State. Of theseabout one 4th have been. Within a few months. brokenup: meetingand schoolhouses have beenburned, and teachers assaulted and driven away. In the States recently in rebellion, the are subject to wrongs and outrages from which they have no rodrcssunder existin laws, which were made to subservo the system of slavery. Your memorialists therotoro submit, that as the Government. for its own purposes. changedtheir condition and doprived them of the care incident to it, and upon which they depended, it has becomebound. by every consideration of justice and honor. to assume their guardian shipiind to prevent them from sutferin y the change. We are glad to seethe subjectso forcibly urged upon Congress both by the President and SecWar. In the opiiuion ofyour ineuiorialists this solemn duty will not o accomplished by the more adoption of the late amondment to the constitution, which provides for the legal abolition of slavery. Much of the real and 20110113] property in the parts of the country in hie thesowards of the Government live. is. y reasonof the rebellion, suhieetto forfeiture and the lives of many persons to the penalties of treason and if it be desirable to restore this property to those who have incurred its forfeiture, an proclaim a General amnesty on their behalf. it is not less desirable to fulfill the obligations of the Government townrdv tha people who wore their slaves, and whoseuu requited toil accumulatedmuch of that property.” Mr. Speaker, there is today deyolved upon iisI care not who decries “2; I Wlll not evade ita. high, solemn, and religious duty. We should be worse than barbarians to leave these people where they are, landless, poor, unprotected; and I commend to gentlemen who still cling to the delusion that all is well to take les sons of the Czar of the Russias, who, when he enfranchised his people, are them lands and schoolhouses, and invite schoolmasters from all the world to come there and instruct them. Let us hush our national songs; rather gird on sackcloth, if wanting in moral courage to ran the fruits of our war by being just and considerate to those who look up to us for temporary counsel and protection. Care and education are cheaperfor the nation than neglect, and nothing is plainer in the counsels of Heaven, or the worlds history: “There is the moral of all human tales; Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. 1st freedom and then glory; when that fails, Wealth. vice, corruption urbarinmat last and history. with all her volumes vast, ath but one page.” This discussion is not plainly promotive of the most commendable temper. I e honorable Gentfrom Kentucky [Mr. Rousseau] declared 0n Saturda as I caught his language that iflie were arreste on the complaint of a and brought before one of the agents onf eglro this bureau, when he became free he would shoot him. Is that civilization? It is the spirit of barbarism, that has too long dweltin our land, the spirit of infernal regions that brought on the rebellion and this war.