Mr. JOHNson’s course, so far as he had gone. He admitted that he had carried out Mr. Lincoln‘s policy; that he had improved upon that policy; in short, that it was what he had not. done, rather than what he had done, that be condemned. It was all summed it in a wordhe had not imposed negro suffrage men the southern States as one of the bases 0 reconstruction. I repeat, sir that was the head and front and the whole of iis offending in the beginning. Both Senators from Massachusetts, and all the men whom they represent, responded warmly and enrnestly to the Senfrom Nevada [Mr. STEWART] when he proposed as the basis of reconstruction “universal suffrage and universal amnesty.” The Senators from Missouri acce ted the same. And, Mr. President, what ha I done to merit this condemnation? I will tell you, sir; it is a short tale and easily told. In Wisconsin last fall the Union party held a convention at Madison. I had the honor of being a member and chairman of the committee on resolutions, and made the report of the majority, which was unanimously adopted. A half crazy old gentleman, by the name of Paine, reported 2 minorit resolutions, one in favor of negro suffrage in Visconsin, and the other in favor of imposing negro suffrage upon the southern States as a condition precedent to the admission of the ir representatives. I opposed the adoptionof these 2 resolutions into the creed o the Union party, and they were laid on the table by a large majority. For that opposition, and for that alone, unrelenting war was declared against me. This man Paine told the convention that my colleague declared himself in favor of these resolutions. The editor of the Janesville Gazette says that my colleague called upon him and denounced the action of the convention under my lead as cowardl in laying these resolutions upon the table. ‘here was immediately called at. ] anes‘ ville, Wisconsin, 8.bolting convention, for the purpose of denouncing the action of the Union convention in refusing to ado t those resolutions, and my colleague attended and made a speech. At this convention I was denounced in most unmeasured terms. For my course in resisting the interpolation of this new dogma into the Union partyl have been most bitterly and persistently denounced by a partisan and unscrupulous press, from Boston to StPaul, from that day to this. I have borne all this denunciation without once retorting upon my assailants. My colleague has more than once during this session gone out of his way to assail my course in that connection. I have never assailed him; I shall not now. I have waited in patience, knowing that truth in time would. vindienta herself. with, now