Mr. DOOLITTLE. My honorable friendfrom Massachusetts took some little time to make an answer to the question whether he agreed with his colleague or whether he agreed with the Senfrom Ohio; but, sir, from what he says and the purport of what he says, I understand him not to consider himself or Congress bound in any respect, whether the States of the South do or do not vote for the amendment; that no act on our part in any respect has bound the faith of the Government to.States in case the constitutional amendment should be adopted and they should vote for it, that it will give to them any right to have their representatives admitted without imposing the further condition, upon which he now seems to insist, that they should also give universal suffrage to all the colored men in those States. That is the substance of his statement. But I do not understand the honorable Senator to deny that Congress did submit a constitutional amendment to the States, upon which the States of the South among others were invited to vote. I believe the Senator does not take such und as that. The Senfrom Ohio very distinctly stated in his speech, and he has said nothing to da to qualify it, that this constitutional amendment was submitted to those States, to be voted upon by those States, accepted or rejected. at is enough for all the purpose which I have in hand at this present moment. What I desire to say is this: submitting a constitutional amendment to the States of the South is conceding them to exist as States, with Legislatures capable of ratifying or rejecting the amendment. No man, it seems to me, can logically say that they have the power to accept or to reject an amendment to the Constitution of the U.S and at the same time say that they are neither States nor have any Legislatures at all. I know the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. SUMNER] has been consistent, always maintaining that they were not States to which a constitutional amendment could be submitted. He has insisted that the constitutional amendment could not be submitted to the States of the South, because he has always consistently maintained that there were no States there to submit it to.