Mr. CLARK. I am stating the argu some other people. Man derives the right from moment of his manhood and the equalityof his inanhood with his fellowman. Does anyone say, Mr. President, this is negro equality? So it is political equality, not social. This last is not tccreature oflegislation, or political organization, but of taste, propriety, and fitness. In some of the States the negro has now, and has for a long time had, the same political rights as the white man. The law makes no distinction for or against him, but he is left to acquire that position in society to which his abilities and behavior entitle him and why should not this be so? Was not your Government founded upon that ideathe political c quality of all men? Is he not entitled to his ifc as clearly and fully as the white man? That life may not be of the same consequence in the community as another life, but be it of more or less value, is not theiiegro just as much entitled to it as any other man can be to his? and has he not a right just as good to have it protected by law? So, too of all those rights nown as personal rights. has he not as good a right to come an to go at his pleasure as the white man? Just as much right to own aportion of the soil and have a home as the white man? and if he settlesb the side of another who does not quite relish is bein there, has that other any more right to drive o and exclude the black man than the black man has to drive off and exclude the white man? Has he not the same rightto defend his person and his property? Should not the tribunals of justice e equally open to him, and should he not be permitted to tell his story? “Certainly, sir, certainly, this is all proper. We grant you the negro should have all these rights; but he has no right to vote.” et us see. You admit the courts should be open to the black man, and that he should have the protection of the laws as fully as the white man. Wh, then, should he not have a part, a voteZ in determining the laws which are to be administered to him, or in the selection of the officers who are to administer them I Do you tell me he is too ignorant for such functions? I reply he is no more ignorant than many whites, and ignorance is no worse in a black man than in a white man, and if one is disqualified byit, so, then, is the other and yet, sir, I have never found one of those persons who oppose negro suffrage upon the ground of ignorance willing to exclude the white man for the same reason. I would at both on the same basis, whether with or Without restriction orqualification. If the negro should learn to read and write before he votes let the white man do the same. Again, sir, it has been said in a very respect able quarter, we “do not wish to make the grant of the elective franchise by the late in surgent States to their emancipated slaves a condition of their being allowed to resume their political relations in the Union, because one reasonbefore we grant the right to vote to any new elements we require a certain probationof natives 21 years age of adult foreigners 5 years residencean we ought to require some similar probation of the ignorant mass of the late slaves.” Very good, sir. But of rebelswhat probation would these same gentlemen require of them? None; not a day. hey should at once be restored to their former relationsallowed to vote and to be voted for, to hold othee, receive salaries, sit with loyal legislators to neutralize and par alyze the necessary legislation and to accomplish with the ballot what they failed to do with the ba onet. Would you like, sir, to run our ship o state on a rebel torpedo? Then ecp clear of southern waters ntil you have fished them out, or are made cetain none are there. Sir, I would rather have the vote of the loyal black man, who periled his life to save the country, Without probation, than of the rebel white man who periled his to destroy it, even with probation. One may be i noraut, the other certainly has been wicked; the one might vote wrong by mistake, the other by design has aimed the most deadly blows at the existence of the Government. Tell me, sir, if called upon to put arms into hands of men in the disloyal States, into whose hands would you put them? Would you do as they have done, or attempted to do, in Mississippiarm the rebel militia, and disarm the loya black soldier?