Mr. SAULSBURY. Mr. President, if it was possible to make a thing wholly bad any better by amendments recognizing its bad principle, perhaps this amendment might be better than the section which is proposed to be stricken out; but while I would exclude no white man in the DistCol or elsewhere from exercising the right of suffrage because he could not read or write, I would not in the DistCol or elsewhere vote for negro suffrage under any circumstances or with the requirement of any amount of education. Sir, there are about 35,000 of this class of people now in this District I am told. There are about 100, inhabitants I am informed in the District. Pass this bill, and this “paradise, ” as the district was said to be when the bill giving freedom to the slaves of this District was passed. will be their paradise indeed, and in less than 2 years from this time it will be flooded by negroes from all parts of the country, and your mayors and your corporation officers will be composed of negroes. Sir, I want to keep my humble record right upon this question of ne gro suffrage, and therefore although an amendment to this bill might possibly be better than ihe original bill, yet that amendment recognizing the right of the negro race to vote I cau not under any circumstances vote for it. I do not believe that the interest of the people of this District, whether white or black, requires such an enactment as this. In my own State, more than one 5th of whose inhab itants are composed of negroes, would I vote for any such measure as this? No, sir. Is there a Senator on this floor who, if in his own State there was such a proportion of negroes to the white population, would vote for giving the right of suffrage in his State to the negro race? Sir, it may do very well for gentlemen representing States in which there are not enough of the negro race to make mile posts along the public roads to vote for a measure of this kind, because it is hardly within the range of possibility that any great amount of injury can result to such States; but where the races are so nearly equal, and where it is reasonable to suppose that the “paradise” opened up for negroes will be filled with more negroes than whites, I hold that I should be derelict in duty to my own race, which I believe to be superior in all respects to the negro race, if I were to vote to give them the right of suffrage under any circumstances whatever.