Mr. HENDERSONi I of course do not rise for the purpose of debating this question any further. I have occupied too muc of the time of the Senate already. I have been a peeled wby friends with whom Iain acting politically to withdraw my amendment. I have felt very much disposed to do so, but u n reflection, inasmuch as I shall be compelle to vote against the amendment proposed by the committee and also against the bill of the Senfrom Massachusetts if I were to withdraw this proposition, it seems to me it would place me in a very awk Iward position before the country. I should have withdrawn the only proposition which I can support, and then refused to support the other propositions. It seems to me that inas much as we feel the necessity of doing something it will leave my motives to be very much misinterpreted. I believe that the amendment I offer is the true proposition; I believe that it is just to the North and just to the South. I believe today, as conscientiously as I ever believed anything on earth, that the southern people themselves will be bettered by this amendment. I believe that they will accept it; I feel confident that in the course of ayear or 2 they will gladly accept it. There is no species hey argue that the negro is notqualified to vote at present. They may exclude him on account of the fact that he is not educated and yet not exclude him on account of race or color; but then they are compelled to exclude a great many other persons who are whites, and those whites and negroes combiningin the course of a few years will comel the suffrage to be extended to whites and blacks alike. It is the proper amendment. I am aware that the Senate will vote it down now. Let them vote it down. It will not be 5 years from today before this body will vote for it. You cannot get along without it. You may adopt the other proposition, but the States will not accept it; the northern States in my judgment will not accept it, because they will misapprehend the meaning of it. The Senfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. W11.son] whohasjust s oken with a great deal of warmth, says the objec t of it is to secure negro suifrage, and he says 9/10ths of the people backing him up today intend that that shall be the result of the amendment. If 9/10ths of the loyal people who stand at our backs sustaining and supporting us today believe that it ought to be done, why not do it directly? Why not come up squarcly and do it? It is right, it is fair, it is just. The South itself cannot exist in peace without extendin modified suffrage to the ne 0, and we all now it.