Mr. BOUTWE LL. Very likely the gentleman is right. I am addressing myself to the expediency of puttin a qualification to the exercise of the right of suffrage in this District, and but one thought further remains, on the discussion of which I was just entering when interruted by the Gentfrom Ohio. Mr. Speaker, we are to answer for our treatment of the colored people of this country, and it will prove in the end impracticable to secure to men of color civil rights unless the persons who claim those rights are fortified by the political right of voting. With the right of voting everything that a man ought to have or enjoy of civil rights comes to him. Without the right to vote he is secure in nothing. I cannot consent, after all the guards and safeguards which may be prepared for the defense of the colored men in the enjoyment of their rightsI cannot consent thatt ey shall be deprived of the right to protect themselves. 186,000of them have been in the Arm of the U.S. They have stood in the place of our sons and brothers and friends. They have fallen in defense of the country. They have earned the right to share in the Government and if you deny them the elective franchisel know not how they are tobe protected. otherwise you furnish the protection which is the lamb when he is commended to the wo. There is an ancient history that a s arrow pursued by a hawk took refuge in the c ief as sembl of Athens in the bosom of a member of that iilustrious body, and that the senator in anger hurled it violently from him. the ground dead, and such was the horror and indignation of that ancient but not Christianized bodymen living in the light of nature, of reasonthat they immediately expelled the brutal Areopa ite from his seat, and from the association of umane legislators. What will be said of us, not by Christian, but by heathen nations even, if, after accepting the by good and sacrifices of these men, we hurl them from us and allow them to be the victims of those who have t nnized over them for cen turies? I know o no crime that exceeds this; I knowof none that is its arallel; and if this country is true to itself it Wlli rise in the majesty of its strength and maintain a policy, here and everywhere. by which the rights of the colored people shall be secured t rough their own poIwterin peace the ballot, in war the bayonet is a maxim of another language, which we may well apply to ourselves, that where the voting register ends the military roster of rebellion begins; and if you leave these 4 million people to the care and custody of the men who have inaugurated and carried on this rebellion, then you treasure u for untold ears the elements of social an civilWar which mustnot only desolate and paralyze the South, but shake this Government to its very foundation.