Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, what is the title of the bill? Iask the question, because I want to call the attention of the Senate to the application of the remarks of the honorable Senfrom Ohio to the reaf matter before the Senate. The title of this bill is, “ A bill to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the U.S.” this not a bill with reference to the military establishment in time of war or insurrection; and therefore the remarks of the Senator about stationing these troops among the people to keep down insurrection and rebellion, &c., have no application. The bill refers to a time of peace. Now, sir, in time of peace it has been thus so from the foundation of the government to the present hour you have had your barracks in different parts of the country where the regular Army has been stationed, not for the purpose of keeping down insurrection there, but in order that in case of war they might be ready to serve their country. The object of this bill, I apprehend, is to have a regular army of a certain number of men who shall be stationed in different parts of the country, this being a time of peace, not with a view of any present existing difficulty, but that in case of war; of any kind, in the event of anything happening that might require their services, they may be on hand in orderto serve their country. The honorable Senator does not care whether he pleases the community in which these troops are stationed or not; but I do. If I thought that the selection of one class of troops and stationing them in a particular community would be particularly offensive to that portion of the country, whereas the stationing of a different class would not be objectionable, I would consult the feelings of the community where the troops were to be stationed, and would see that I did nothing to engender strife or to causedisquictndc. Mr. President, from the foundation of the Government up to the present time, or at least until the late civilWar, it was never deemed necessary or proper to have negroes in your regular Army. The men who founded your Government, the men who preserved the foundations of the Government up to the late civilWar, never feltit incumbent upon them, or consistent with the duty, or consistent with the dictates of their judgment, to employ this class of people in the regular Army. Where is the necessity for it nbw? None can be shown. I do not presume that anyone will contend that it is impossible to fill 11 your regular Army with white men who Wlll enlist in it. The number of soldiers to be enlisted is not so large but that the amount can be readily had of white men. But the honorable Senator seems to think that negro troops will not be so apt to desert as white troops. Mr. President, that certainly is making adistinction in favor of negrotroops of fidelity to duty to the disaragernent of the white troops. The Senator oes not mean that. He says the all fought well. it is the 1st time, however. I have ever heard that they were more faithful, less liable to desert, that they regarded the performance of duty more sacredly than white troops. It is not my intentibn to argue this question at length. I know that the subject can hardly bementioned but that feeling is engendered and motives misap rehended. I rose to make the objection simply because I believe in my heart that incorporating negro troops into the regular Army in time of peace would be offen sive to the community in which they were stationed. I have no doubt it would be offensive to the regular Army with whom they are called upon to associate; that is, with the white troops who in part are to compose that Army. It is therefore simply that we may have an army composed of our own race, believing that the Army can be filled up with men of that race, and believing that the stationing in any art of this country, in time of peace, of w its troops would not be objectionable or offensive to any portion of the people, they being commande by competent officers it is for that reason that I object to incorporating into the regular Army, a thing that never has been done before, the negro race. In the civilWar you had them as volunteers, and you drafted them; but you never before undertook to enlist them into your regular Army and make them a.part of your peace establishment; and I therefore appeal to Senators not to do it now in the absence of all necessity for it. What can be the reason for incorporatin them into the Army? To give them emp oyment‘? why, sir, the industrial pursuits of life and agricult ure, in many portions of the country, are suffering for the want of laborers. They are particularly and peculiarly adapted for that ind of work; but, sir, to ride in your cavalry, to be stationed in your barracks, to 0 out visiting to neighboring towns to show whatim portant personages they are, and to be oifcn‘ sive, as they necessarily will be from their very nature and character, to the white portion of the community among whom theyare stationed, such a thing should be guarded against and avoided, unless there be absolute necessity for it. I have heard no reason showing why they should now be incorporated into the regular Army. I have heard no one say that it is impossible to get white soldiers. Unless it is impossible to get white soldiers, I think it very unwise to depart from the settled practice of the Government from its foundation to the present time.