Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, the Senfrom Nevada, llir. Nvit] in the course of his remarks yester ay was pleased to allude to me as having been instructed by teLegislature of Wisconsin to resign my sea in the senate, and as misrepresenting my constituents on this floor. It is not my purpose today to go into any lengthy argument to defed my course here. I may ask teattention of the Senate to that matter on some other occasion, when those resolutions shall arrive of which we have been informed in advance by the telegraph. I will only say for the present that when I entered upon my 2ndterm of office as a Senator for 6 years frbm the 4th.da of Mareh, 1863, at your desk, sir, I took a so emn oath, not to obey the resolves of the individuals who might happen to be elected as members of the fiegislature of Wisconsin, Or to follow the opinions or caprices of any other bod of men, but to support the Constitution of the U.S., and faithfully to discharge the duties of the office which was placed upon me; and God helping me I shall, keep that oath. Upon the other allegation that I stand here misrepresentin the views O my constituents, the people of ise onsin, I will only say that by no word or vote of mine on this floor have I in the slightest degree deviated from the formally eitpressed opinion of the Union part in Wisconsin in its last convention, upon whie this very Legislature was elected, as well as the Governor and State officers not in one word, not in the dotting of an “ i” or in the crossing of a “t.” But, sir, there were 2 propositions brought forward in that convention which, by alarge majority, were put aside: 1st, the reposition to make negro suffrage, as it is cal ed, a party test in the State of Wisconsin; and 2nd, to make it a further test that no representative from the southern States should e admitted into Congress, and the States of the South should not be admitted into full communion until they should adopt imartial suffrage suffrage just as free to the blacks as suffrage exists in favor of the whites. Those 2 propositions, by a large majority of the Union convention of Wisconsin, were laid upon the table; and upon that vote, and because I acted with the convention in favor of putting those resolutions on the table, I am called in question by certain gentlemen in Wisconsin and elsewhere. In support of the action which the majority of that convention assumed to take, and which I advocated, and for which, so far as I had voice orinfluence, I admit myselfto be responsible, what did we so I We said to the people of Wisconsin, in a vance of the election to come off, “ If you adopt negro suffrage as a part of your party creed in Wisconsin you will be voted down a majority of 1,000s; 4/5ths of the soldiers who have come home from the field will vote against;it and the soldiers of Wisconsin who are still in the field will also vote against it." Now, what are the facts? We went into the canvass; w. but aside he resufirage as an issue; and what did we 0? We elected a Union Legislature and a Union Governor and State oficers b, y 10,000 majority. But What bedame o negro suffrage? It was voted doyvn by 10,000 majority in the State of Wisconsin. the result justified what the majority said in the Unionconvent ion, and what among them said. When the soldiers of Wisconsin came to vote, 4 out of every 5 of them voted against it. What was the fact in relation to the soldiers in the field? There were still 1, 172 votes cast by ouryso diers in the field, and out of the 1, 172 votes that were cast on the question of negro suffrage how many do you so pose vet for it? 3 and yet mental about pressing negro suffrage as a political nestion before the people of the country, and denounce me because I had the courage to tell the people of, Wise onsinwhat I.tel the Senate ere: lplace your selves upon thnt issue and you wi be buried out of sipt. They would have been buried in Wisconsin had the not, followed my advice, which saved the nion party in Vlise ousin, and elected this very Legislature which now undertakes to instruct me on thisquestion as to how I shall act and what I shall do. The other point was whether we in Wise onsinand there this great battle began should insist, as a condition precedent to the admission of the representatives from the South, and the admission of those States into full communion, upon negro suffrage at the South. The people O Wisconsin decided ainst it, and they will decide against it a buned times over.