Mr. RANDALL, of Pennsylvania. I used the terms so familiar to the gentleman and the party to which he belongs, who constantly call that a fabulous and madeupease. I am not. going to be. led into a discussion of the Dred Scott decision at this time. I desired to refer the gentleman to the decision of the supreme court of Pennsylvania; and he cannot escape from it. Now, as to the gentlemans alletion that it was the Democratic party who too away from and deny to the colored people the right to vote. Sir that party have always d the cooperation an the aid of vast numbers of the other party. The convention which met in 1838 elected, as its presiding Officer, Hon. John Scrgeaifl. It was a Whig convention; its organization was Whig; yet 2/3rds of that convention voted to insert in the constitution of Pennsylvania the word “white, ” and I can give the gentleman additional authority, such autheffity as he has heretofore usually regarded as wise. I allude to the gentleman who is now the AttyGen of Pennsylvania, Hon. William L. Mere dith. He spoke in that convention; and for the purpose of edifying my colleague [Mr. KELLEY 1will read one or 2 extracts from his speech there. remarks: "Ho was willin to extend political rights as taru he could. with r erence to the happiness wellbeing, and securityof socicty. But he had dou its as to the propricty of mrnittlng the colored people into our political family on the footing of others. Now, is not that sound authority for the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. KELLEY] my colleague? Mr. Meredith is the leviathan, so to speak, of the Pennsylvania bar. Again, he says: There is somcthing peculiar in therclntion in which the colored rnce stand to the whites. which renders distinction inevitable. It has been said that it enough to show aman is acitizon to show that he has the right of suffrage. This is not the case. The white man who his not paid a tax or whoisamine r or who hasnot been msessedjs not the lessa citizen. not the lessentitled to rotcctiou. yet he is not permitted to exercise the right of sutIragc.” Furthermore, let me say to the gentleman that he is seeking to do that here, upon the people of this District, which he faile to makcan issue at home. He claims the power to force upon the people of this District. negro suffrage. But why does he claim the power to do this here when he fails to make the same issue in his own district?