Add the original text of the Constitution, declaring that “the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.” These words, already expounded by judicial interpretation,[224] are now elevated and inspired by the new spirit breathing into them the breath of a new life, and making them yet another source of Congressional power for the safeguard of equal rights. But I have not done with my friend. I am going to hand him over to be answered by one of his colored fellow-citizens who has no privilege on this floor. I put George T. Downing face to face with my excellent friend, the Senator from Maine. The Senator will find his argument in one of the papers of the day. I shall read enough to show that he understands the question, even constitutionally:-- “But I come directly,” says he, “to ‘misconception,’--to thwarting justice. The Senator”-- Referring to the Senator from Maine-- “opposes Senator Sumner’s amendment; he says it invokes an implication of some principle or provision of the Constitution somewhere, or an implication arising from the general fitness of things possibly, to enable it to invade the domiciliary rights of the citizens of a State.” These were the precise words of the Senator; I remember them well; I was astonished at them. I could not understand by what delusion, hallucination, or special _ignis-fatuus_ the Senator was led into the idea that in this bill there is any suggestion of invading the domiciliary rights of the citizens of the States. Why, Sir, the Senator has misread the bill. I will not say he has not read it. He certainly has misread it. And now let our colored fellow-citizen answer him:-- “I do not speak unadvisedly, when I declare that no such end is desired by a single intelligent colored man; no such design can be gleaned from any word ever spoken by Charles Sumner; his amendment cannot by any reasonable stretch of the imagination be open to the implication.” Not a Senator, not a lawyer says that; it is only one of our colored fellow-citizens whom the Senator would see shut out of the cars, shut out of the hotels, his children shut out from schools, and himself shut out from churches; and seeing these things, the Senator would do nothing, because Congress is powerless! Our colored fellow-citizen proceeds:-- “The amendment says that all citizens, white and black, are entitled to the equal and impartial enjoyment of any accommodation, advantage, facility, or privilege furnished by common carriers, by innkeepers, by licensed theatres, by managers of common schools supported by general taxation or authorized by law. Does any of the same invade the domiciliary rights of a citizen in any State?” That is not my language, Sir; it is Mr. Downing’s.