Mr. WILSON. I do not know that it was pursely postponed for that reason. I do know, owever, that there were Senators who were in doubt in regard to the form the measure should take. Some Senators wished for a measure based on intelligence, and it was a little uncertain 3rds vote for pure manhood suffrage. measure went over by the assent of many of its most earnest friends, in the full conviction that the voice of the country, the growth of public sentiment which was great every day then, and has increased every day since and enable us to carry a clean bill for the District early in this session. We were not mistaken in our anticipations. This bill, embodying pure o suffrage for women. That question has been discussed for many years by ladies of high who have given years of their lives to the cause of liberty, to the cause of the bondman, to the cause of justice and humanity, to the improvement of all and the elevation of all. No one could have heard them or have read their speeches years ago without feeling that they were in earnest. They have made progress; these women have instructed the country; women and men, too, have been instructed; progress is making in that direction; but the public judgment is not so pronounced in anyone State today in favor of woman suffrage o to or create any large and general movement it. Time is required to instruct the public mind and to carry forward and to concentrate the public judgment in favor of woman suffrage. All public men are not in its favor as is the Senfrom Ohio, as has already been proved in this debate. I am therefore, sir, for keeping these questions apart. I am for securing the suffrage for the colored race. I am for enfranchising the black man, and then if this other question shall come up in due time and I have a vote to give I shall be ready to give my vote for it. But to vote for it now is to couple it with the great measure now pressing upon us, to weaken that measure and to endanger its immediate triumph, and therefore I shall vote against the amendment proposed by the Senfrom Pennsylvania, made, it is too apparent, not for the enfranchisement of woman, but against the enfranchisement of the black man.