Our country’s cause for which Greene contended was National Independence. Our country’s cause recently triumphant in bloodiest war was Liberty and Equality, the declared heritage of all mankind. The first war was for separation from the mother country, according to the terms of the Declaration, “That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States,”--the object being elevated by the great principles announced. The second war was for the establishment of these great principles, without which republican government is a name and nothing more. But both were for country. The larger masses, with the larger scale of military operations, in the latter may eclipse the earlier; and it is impossible not to see that a war for Liberty and Equality, making the promises of the Declaration a reality, and giving to mankind an irresistible example, is loftier in character than a war for separation. If hereafter Greene finds rivals near his statue, they will be those who represented our country’s cause in its later peril and its larger triumph. Just in proportion as ideas are involved is conflict elevated, especially if those ideas concern the Equal Rights of All. Greene died at the South, and nobody knows the place of his burial. He lies without epitaph or tombstone. To-day a grateful country writes his epitaph and gives him a monument in the Capitol. PERSONAL RECORD ON RECONSTRUCTION WITH COLORED SUFFRAGE. REMARKS IN THE SENATE, JANUARY 21 AND FEBRUARY 10, 1870. The arraignment of Mr. Sumner by Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, in the closing debate on the Virginia Bill, January 21st, included, as remarked in that connection,[228] a reference to matters of earlier date,--specifically among these being the Reconstruction Act of March 2, 1867, conferring upon the colored people of the Rebel States equality of suffrage with the whites.[229] Adverting to the fact that this bill was an amendment in the nature of a substitute for one from the House, and then reading the names of the Senators who voted for it, Mr. Trumbull asked,-- “Mr. President, do you miss the name of any Senator from that list of Yeas?--That was the vote by which that amendment was adopted.--The ‘Absent’ were, among others, ‘Mr. Sumner.’” And upon this showing, Mr. Trumbull concluded, that, “Unfortunately the colored citizens of the South have nothing to thank the Senator from Massachusetts for, in having the right of suffrage conferred upon them.” Mr. Trumbull continued:-- “Mr. President, this was not the only vote. A vote was taken, after this amendment was adopted, upon the passage of the bill thus amended; and the vote on the passage of the bill was Yeas 29, Nays 10, and among those Yeas is not found the name of the Senator from Massachusetts.