Sir, I sound the cry. The rights of the colored race have been sacrificed in this Chamber, where the Republican Party has a large majority,--that party, by its history, its traditions, and all its professions, bound to their vindication. Sir, I sound the cry. Let it go forth that the sacrifice has been perpetrated. Amnesty is adopted; but where are the equal rights of the colored race?--still afloat between the two Houses on an imperfect bill. And what is their chance? Pass the imperfect bill and still there is a denial of equal rights. But what is the chance of passing even this imperfect measure? Who can say? Is it not a sham? Is it not a wrong which ought to ring through the land? Sir, I call upon the colored people throughout the country to take notice how their rights are paltered with. I wish them to understand, that here in this Chamber, with a large majority of Republicans, the sacrifice has been accomplished; and let them observe how. They will take note that amnesty has been secured, while nothing is secured to them. Now, Sir, would you have your work effective, you should delay amnesty until a bill for civil rights has passed the House, and reaching this Chamber the two measures will then be on a complete equality. Anything else is sacrifice of the colored race; anything else is abandonment of an imperative duty. The Senate then adjourned at ten o’clock and twenty minutes on the morning of May 22d. Nothing further occurred on this interesting subject during the remainder of the session. The Amnesty Bill became a law. The Civil Rights Bill was not considered in the House; so that even this imperfect measure failed. At the next session of Congress Mr. Sumner was an invalid, under medical treatment, and withdrawn from the Senate, so that he was unable to press his bill; nor did any other Senator move it. * * * * * December 1, 1873, on the first day of the session, Mr. Sumner again brought forward his bill in the following terms:-- A Bill supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication,” passed April 9, 1866.