Mr. DOOLITTLE. do not desire to be interrupted until I finish one sentence. I say to that Senator that so far as the rights of the freedmen are concerned, I am willing to compare my course of action in this body or elsewhere with his. I say to that Senator that I labored as hard as he has labored to secure the rights and liberties of the freedmen, to emancipate the slaves of the South, and to put an end forever not only to slavery, but to the aristocracy that was founded upon it; and I have never, by word or deed, sai or done any thing, as a member of this body or elsewhere, tending to build up any oppression against the freedmen, tendingto destroy any of theirrights. I say to that honorable Senator, and I am ready at any time to meet him in argument upon it although it is drawing me now from the question in dispute, that I. myself prepared and introduced here and urge a bill whose provisions defended every right of the freedmen just as much as the bill to which we have now made reference, and I am prepared to do so and to defend their rights with the whole power of the Government. But, sir, the Senator has drawn me off from the immediate question before the Senate. The immediate question is, whether the jan guage which he uses, “all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., ” includes these Indians. I maintain that it does; and, therefore, for the purpose ofrelievingit from any doubt, for the purpose of excludin this class of persons, as they are, in my ju gment, utterly unfit to be citizens of the U.S., I have proposed this amendment, which I borrow from the Constitution as it stands, which our fathers adopted more than 70 years 0, which I find also in the civil rights bill in! ich passed this present Congress and which I find so in the 2nd section of this constilntiona amendment when applied to the enu meration of the inhabitants of the States. I insist that it is just, proper in every way but reasonable, that we exclude the wild Indians from being regarded or held as citizens of the U.S.