Mr. HENDERSON. You want nothing else in the southern States. Away with all this nonsense! It is said thaton one occasion, when a people undertook to leave bondage and the shackles of oppression, those who held them in slavery and in bondage objected totheir going; plagues were sent upon thoee who held them; nally the waters of Egypt were made bloody. In order to get pure water, instead of going to the streams that had been made to run with bloodand the streams of the southern States have for the last 4 years been made to run with blood the effort on the part of Pharaoh was to dig wells in order to get pure water, not supposin for an instant that that which came to the we is would be from the rivers and would be bloody also. This is an attempt on the part of my friendfrom Illinoisand have sai so to him privately, though I have taken no part in the chuteto dig a wellin order to get pure water; but he will never get it. It is a vain attempt to protect men that you cannot protect exceptby e ballot. My excellent, goodfricnd from Maine, [Mr. Fasssunss] a gentleman of distinguished abilities, a gentleman whose name will go down to posterity, a gentleman who will be known in the annals offame when my name is entirely forgotten, and the names, perhaps, of many around me todayhc, too, thinkst at he can dig a well, and the ComReconstruction has dug Another well for are water; but the blood will flow in it, and c will find that after all he has accomplished nothing; he has done that which our hers never would have done. separated representation and tornltion; and in after years, when allthisdilliculty shall have been healed, when northern men shall have gone and settled in the South and, southern men in the North, you by this amendment give in Congress to the northern States political power over these people in order to; impose unjust and burdensome tavetion on them; at least that will be said. Mr. president, awny with this delusion! It is but another effort to do that which you cannot do except in one way.” I know that my Democratic friends will say that this is radicalism. Sir, if I were RobtELee, it I were JeffersonDavis, if I were Forrest, or any other leader of the rebellion in the southern States, I would rather today take unadulterated negro suffrage than to take the badge this resolution imposes upon them. I would rather take it than the ho ge offered by the reconstruction committee. Why? Because it is equal all over the land. Introduce and pass inthis body and the HoRep, by the requisite majority, a constitutional amendment declaring that all men throughout this broad land shall be entitled to the right of suffrage. Do not let Connecticut vote by every county in the State against negro sullrage, and i then come and impose it on SCarolina, Georgia, Alabama, or anyother State. Donut let NewYork come and say “ We, with the few free negroes we have, will deny negro suffrage, and yet force it upon SCarolina with a maiority of negroes.” FellowSenators, bejust am fear not. Do that which is right in your own consciences and fear not the consequences. Consequences will take care of themselves. Do you intend to impose Federal taxes upon the negroes of the South? If you do, give them representation in Congress and give them Representation at home. Do the States intend t impose taxation on the negroes? Of course they will do so. Then give them representation in the State Legislatures. When that is i done, peace will reign throughout this land; and from this day until the day that it is done there will be no peace. I do not pretend to say what ought or ought not be done in each particular State. I know that in the great State of Missouriwe have 150,000 free neuroes, while there is not a former non-slaveliolding State in the Union that has perhaps one hal o!“that number, and I say for my constituents that I will agree to take negrOI suffrage. Let other Senators from the northern and southern States come up to the same thing, and then we can have peace. Then on may repealyour Freedmens Bureau bill. why?; The freedmen will have the best protection in the world; he will have entire protection, because those canvassers for public favor who go before the people will be bound to go before the negro, l. nd they will find in the negro 10,000 merits that they never found before. I know perfectly well that that is the only protection. You give it at home, you ive it at the fireside, you give it in the terms ip you ive it in the county, you give it. everywhere. ou may send alegion of Federal onionholders to the southern States, and instead of concil iating the people, instead of protecting the negro, you Will mags the negro and irritate the southern people. Sir, are we doin any good here? Here is the Senfrom Kentncky, [Mr. GUTHilllZ] a gentleman whom I met in the early days of this rebellion. I stood side by side with him in a convention in the Suite of Kentucky met for the purpose of putting down the iniquity then started a inst the authorities of this land, and I know his histor during the whole war. He has, however, an fortunatel used an expression today which, unless he es an early opportunity to correct it. will influence the minds and hearts of the people of Kentucky, and in view of his immense influence and his standing as a statesman and as a man of morality and integrity , I cannot tell what the consequences may be. It will inflame in all probability the people of that State, and perhaps produce in other States commas that ought not to be produced. He may say that the people of Kentucky, if my plan be forced upon them, will feel more like rebelling against the national authority. But is it not just? Is it not applied POTUS, under whose. control thisbureau is, will never send an officer to Kentucky. The Senfrom Kentucky says that he will advise and is in favor of givmg to to Illinoisas well as Kentucky? Is it not applied Fthe colored population equal civil rights. Do it, to Missouri, and to every southern and nortern State? I do not say give the negro the suffrage imme diate!. I say just declare simply that no State shall discriminate against him, and then, if on wish to require as a qualification of a white man that he shall read and write, let it be required of a black man. If you wish to require of the black man that he shall own $250 worth of property, let it be required of the white man. M50“. it equal; let the State laws be equal and let your own laws be equal, and not apply different and distinctive systems to the various States of this Confederacy. Now, Mr. President, I have said all I desire; on this occasion. It is too late to talk about arguing this proposition. I shall take occasion during the pendency of the resolution to amend the constitution, to give my views more at length, to show the injustice of the pending amendment, and to show that we cannot have peace otherwise than by admitting that which is righteous in our own consciences; and that will commend us to the God of heaven by its justice to all men.