Mr. JOHNSON. I have no doubt they imitate us in many things that we do, and it is very well for them. The men who were educated in the U.S and transferred there have not forgotten their alma mater. I reeat that there never was yet upon the face of the earth a popular Government organized by the African race orinated by them. You have your King o Da omey and our Geffrard, the one an original African, an the other borrowin a form of government from Europe. If anyting be necessary to prove that such is the case, let us go to the Governments that they have undertaken to run, to use a opular phrase. Go to Central America, where they rave succeeded in obtaining possession of the Governments, and what kin of Governments have they? Can they be called republics? Can they be called opular Governments? GO to South America. Igave they popular Governments there? What is it that has torn Mex ico all to ieces? The negro blood that runs through the race. The right of suffrage, the elective franchise, is the foundation of all popular Government. Who votes for others should be eligible to be voted for. The governed are themselves the Government. The governed are themselves the governors, for the control and direct their own Government, an the moment a man becomes a voter he becomes one of the Government and here, upon this point, let me say that we hear a cat deal a out the right. to vote being exten edto negroes as necessary to secure to them the protection that they are entitled to under this Government. Now, sir, the fact that negroes are governed in this country without the right of voting is no roof or evidence against our Government that it is not selfgovernment. The negro is protected in this country in all his rights. It secures to him the fruits of his labor, the protection of his life, his liberty, and his property. The right of suffrage belongs to those and those only to whom the Government belongs; and if we reco has the right to the one, so we must concede tie other. The regulation and control of the elective franchise within the several States belongs to them exclusively, but their action mustbe limited to a regulation. They cannot prohibit its exercise without iuterfaring with the uarautee of the federal constitution tothspeople of each State. Not if an absolute democracy, in which the masses as sembleand asstheirlaws by townmeetin as the ancients di, nor even a representative emoc racy, accordin to the American system, but a Government which stands upon the broadba sis of being republican in form. Some gentlemen contend that under this clause of the constitution the Federal Government is bound to decide that the people of the late southern confederacy shall not be represented here until they extend the elective franchise in the several States to the negro race, in order that those State governments may be republican in form. Nothing can be more absurd and unreasonable. Did not thoee who made the constitution know what the clause meant; and if they did, why is it that 3/4ths of a century have gone round without this guarantee bein enforced or even attempted to be enforced But whatever arguments may be adduced upon that reposition, they do not relate to the present bi 1, unless by analogy we are bound to grant to the inhabitants of this District a government republican in form; and it cannot even be maintained that a Government is not republican in form unless all men have a right to vote. I think that a Government can be republican in form without conceding to all men the privilege of the elective franchise.