Mr. DOOLITTLE. Nor, Mr. President have Iwaited in vain? Her vindication an triumgh have come, and sooner than I expecte. I have seen an utter abandonment)y Congress, and even by the radicals in congress of negro suffrage as a condition precedent to reconstruction at.the South. With an overwhelming majority a majority of more than 2/3rds u ainst the President every Senator in this be y, except Mr. SUMNER of Massachusetts and Mr. Bnowx of missouri, on Saturday, by a deliberate vote surrendered negro suffrage as a condition of reconstruction; surrendered the peint, the very point. of diffipence and of war on me, the ground and only ground, of principle upon which this war was begun and has been waged by Congress upon the President. All the world knows that all else is but an after thoughtmere pretexts seized upon after the war was actually begun. 3;. 'li Yes, sir, I have seen every Senator in the majority except the 2 I have mentioned, and among them I have seen my colleague, and even the Senfrom Ohio, [Mr. WADE, ] and one of the Senators from Massachusetts, surrender negro suffrage as a condition precedent to reconstruction. And yet, sir, I do not question the motives of my colleague, nor charge his action as cowardly or inconsistent. He has, I doubt. not, arrived at the conclusion that it was unwise to insist upon this thing longer; at least that before doing so again he had better wait until the next fall election. But I ask those men in Wisconsin who condemn me as abandoning the cause of liberty and republican government for refusing to insist upon negro suffrage, a thing which was abandoned when the struggle come, and Greek met Greek in the tug of war. If it be wise in my colleague and the Senfrom Ohio to give it u now, aftera long and final struggle which as re' sulted in open war between the majority in Congress and our Administration, was it not. wisdom in me thus to foresee the evil and do my utmost to prevent it? Who does not know that if we had yielded in that convention and admitted the Paine resolutions into that lat form there would have been no Re ub ican majority in Wisconsin? There wou d have been a Democratic Governor and' a democratic Legislature. There would have been no tyrannical Republican caucus able to control a inajorit of the Legislature, and to do nounce in such unjust terms either the President or myself. "i"! As to the other charges, that I maintain that the southern peeple are the inhabitants of States, and as such, ii on obedience to the laws and Constitution of the U.S., are entitled to representation in Congress whenever they send Sens&Reps properly elected and qualified under the Constitution and laws, I have said upon other occasions all I desire to say. My opinions are unchanged, and my conviction of their soundness remains uushaken. They are, in my opinion, based upon truth and justice, and they are born of God). I will only add that this famous story of State suicide, that.the southern States have become Territories, and should be organized and governed as such, have almost ceased to have advocates. It strutted its brief hour and has passed from the stage. The position of my collea o, with which he began the session, to establish territorial governments for the southern States, is utterly abandoned. The truth is, they are not territories and cannot be made such. They are States under the Constitution. The very amendment proposed to the Constitution, and for which he voted, admits them to be States capable of" the highest acts of States. 4“ 18% under the Constitution, namely, not only of governing themselves and making their own constitutions, but of taking part in amending the Constitution, and thus help to frame the fundamental law of all the States. Sir, this abandonment of negro suffrage as a condition precedent, and of this doctrine that the southern States are not States, but in the territorial condition, is either sincere or hypocritical. I am bound to think it is sincere, and yet there are some persons like Wendell Phillips who declare that it is abandoned only for the present, and for a purpose; to tide over the fall elections. In short, that it is both hypocritical and cowardly. But I do not say that. I think it is sincere. It is because, after a long and earnest struggle, gentlemen have come to the conclusion that the only wise and practical theory, the only possible adjustment after all, is substantially to adopt the Lincoln policy of restoration, imroved as it has been by the logic of events under the administration of his successor. To submit an amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. to the ratification of the Legislature of a State, and at the same time to contend that there is no State to have a Legislature; to say that ablegislature which can ratif an amendment to the Constitution of the cannot elect Senators, is a monstrous absurdity. With all respect for others, I think if I should say that, my friends would say I had lost my reason. Sir, I shall not pursue this subject further at this time. I have briefly answered these charges, and shall upon some other occasion be prepared, before the people of Wisconsin, to an swer any further explanation which may be proper.