Mr. iAltNSWORTH. Well, sir, it is not worth while for us to discuss the platform of the Chicago convention. The people of the country understand it very well, and have delivere their verdict upon it. This is getting off from the subject I was discussin, which was suffrage in the District of Colum in, and the topic immediately under discussion was the vote which was had here. I remarked, and I believe it is a true remark, that every sympathizer with the rebels in the DistCol who was entitled to vote on that day went to the polls and did vote against negro suffrage, whi eIdo know that it was generally understood among the friends of l negro suffrage in the DistCol that the election was a mockery and a farce, that they would stay away from the olls, and would not participate in it at all. hat was the result? The result was that those and those only, voted, who had predetermined against negro suffrage. It was not an expression of the popular will at all; it was not even an expression of the popular will of the white people, saing nothing of the men who were to be affected by the vote. Why, sir, in other respects colored men are treated by the Government as citizens and as men. I have already alluded to the fact that we compel them to bear arms in support and defense of the Government, and also to that other important fact, that we tax them for the support of the Government. These are the 2 most essential duties and services rendered by the citizen to his Government, that he contributes of his money and defends it with his arm. Tell me who will, that a man who contributes by his means and his indust to the support of the Government under which he lives, which has not been even the Government of his choicefor he did not come here he was born hereand who has shed his blood and given his right arm for the support of that same Governmenttell me who will, that that man has no right to a voice in the choice of his rulers, and has no lot or part in the Government. Sir, it seems to me to be strange that we should be under the necessity of standing here at this day, past the meridian of the 19thcentury, after such a war as we have just gone through for the maintenance of those principles, and have to argue at length n on the right of man to selfgovernment. y, are the dark ages coming again? Is the sun enshrouded? Are we just entering upon a season of gloom? Are the minds and hearts of men becoming clouded? Is iiuStice dying? It would seem so. It is so simp ea question, so plainly enunciated, one that we have fought for so long, the right of man to selfgovernment. Now, I venture to say that when it comes to the question whether we shall remit power to the hands of rebel traitors with white skins the Gentfrom NewJersey will be found in favor of doing it, and so will my colleague. I would like to know right here, now, whether they are not in favor of giving to the rebel soldiers who have been fighting against this Government for the last 4 years the right to vote.