New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-10

man is permitted to read speech in the Parliament or
In the Deputies.
Mr. CowAS remarked that It was permitted In France
but not in England. Mcintosh said that they were
written orations which exhibited nothing but power OF
argument and imagination.
Mr.. FEssENDEN thought that as to personality tho
mere words spoken extemporaneOusly. however bitter
they might seem. were venial ofenses compared with
the gall distilled In studious hours and so worded In q
written Grafton that none would directly recognize
them He would wish to notice the argument made
under the heading of argument In the late GRAFTON Of
Mr.. Sumner. He dwelt on the opinions therein eI-
ment Judas Iscariot with Pontius PLATE on his
back" He would quote no more. The good taste OF
applying the flowers Of rhetoric to his own political
associates in cool preparation not In the heat Of de-
bate might well be questioned. Mr.. Fessenden then
said he woud return TO the consideration OF the amend
ment to the rights Of States to fix the rights Of SUI
frage within their own limits. There Is no power IN
Congress to intefere.
Mr.. YATES would call the attention Of the Senator to
the clause to which ne had referred, requiring that
Representatives shall be elected by the people OF the
States. Now the amendment may admit that q class
be dsenfranchised.
Mr.. FEssESDEN said that he only claimed that the
States had power to fix the qualification OF voters
The proposed amendment denied the right OF States TO
disenfranchise class but it would not deny their
power ii stands in the Constitution; but the
amendment says If in the exercise OF that power you
deny the franchise 10 a race part OF race In
Mr.. YATES said that this new amendment had an or
ganc acknowledgment Of the power In State to deny
the right Of citizens to vote ii they SO choose, because
OF race.
Mr. FRssgSDEy again claimed that the amendment
simply said IT, in the exercise of your constitutional
power, you deny that the right to vote you shall
punished for by not being allowed TO enjoy an H.
creased representation, because Of them.
Mr. FEssESDEN referred to the quotations OF Mr..
Sumner from Coke. Locke and Otis, asking whether
when they uttered wrote the sentences he quoted
alone from them 20 indicate universal suffrage;
whether in Cokes, or Lockes time either under the
British Constitution, Englishmen all yoted and
whether In spite OF his remark there Ia not class ex
cusion 10 operating against those who
may not be able to read though they be 81 years OF
in conformity with the sole condition that had been
specified in the quotation from Otis Now though by
limitation attendant upon their own excusveness Of
art the Southern States through this amendment would
be shorn Of a part OF their representation they
would represented Just as they might choose
to be. The choice was with them. and they
would being represented be taxed to bear the bur-
dens Of the Governments debts and expenditure The
charge OF immortality and traffic had been made by the
Senator from Massachusetts against the Committee,
against the majority Of the House and Senate but no
man stood upon the opinion OF heated controveron-
aist. Mr.. Fessenden Was satisfied 10 stand with the
press the people and the majority OF both Houses
der the nciation OF the Senator ron Massachu'
setts.
Mr. SUMNER said there Is familiar story which the
Senator cannot have forgotten of shield suspended in
tho highway and two travellers coming TO 1t from oppo
sto quarters undertook to read the nscr ons upon It,
Each read ii differently and each looking at the other
face insisted that he right and straightway there
was contest. which ended in battle. but at last it
was discovered that the shield had different in
scriptions on its two sides. That is the precise
a shield with two different expressions on It's tive
different sides The Senator from Maine sees
on II only the limitation OF the political
power OF the South opposed IT, and see. Sir. the
Of race and the recognition Of caste
In the Constitution Of the country The Senator de-
tends what be sees. oppose what see Now. Sir 1t
is the misfortune of the present proposition that It has
two sides with opposite inscriptions. At this moment
Of our eountry history at this tanscendant period OF
solemn political Obligations we are summoned above all
things 20 be sincere frank truthful loyal 10 do nothing
act the introduction In the Constitution Of country
Of any words that I've interpreted IN double sense
is not for to say that the Senator from
Maine Is wrong though think he IL wrong In bis In.
OF the Constitution and Of the amendment
II Is enough that saw that the proposition which he
defends i oven TO this; that 1t is the shield with two
papers on my table from which might illustrate
hs idea but have no right TO take the time. II Is
now o'clock. But the question Is as 10 the double
sense. shall not respass long The senator from
aine sees the proposition one way to-day; see II
another way. But, Sir have already In this discus
sion on former occasion. referred to memorial OF
lcrei by the editor Of The Boston Recorder IN which he
IL l do. He regarded IT as the olsen
Of race and inconsistent with the de
clared principles Of the Declaration OF Independence
have Ia my hand another document from very dif
crent
.pect one Of the original abotonists OF the land one
II tn. old guard which has done so much to mature
opposition to Slavery which has at last trumphed
one who from the firing on Fort Sumter has seen all
things with clearness OF vision unsurpassed-Mr. Gar
rit Smith OF New York. Nr. Summer then read az
great length om the late publication OF Gerit Smith
fegarding the amendment under consideration, ana
closed his remarks by rete alton OF the objections ne
had already stated in this discussion.
Mr. WILSON, at the close Of Mr.. Summers speech,
ad that there was no man for whose motives be had
han far 10 ID
orgct that that gentleman holding to the theory that
he Constitution Of the United States did not permit
he existence OF Slavery within the United States
was proposed TO amend the Constitution and make 1t
forever impossible that there should be slave in
A merca that gentleman, influenced by that theory
hat be himself and few other gentlemen
nsn. hS, TO the sa Congress however,
rot holding to that theory. proposed an amend,
nent TO the Constitution forbidding Slavery. aud
he American people sanctioned that amensmenl.
Il is In the Constitution Of country, and Slavery
has forever ceased to exist In America. Now, when
the authority Of Gert Smith Is brought into the Sen
tie to guide our action, remind the senate and the
country OF his action the Constitutional Amendment
md ask the Senate and the country where IN Gods
would the slaves OF the country be II the counses
II Gerrtt Smith had been folowedi Mr. Wilson COM
jared the party which with Mr.. Sumner opposed the
bending amendment to the party which with Geriitt
smith opposed the Constitutional Amendment two
Iears ago.
The question being called for the CHAIR stated the
question was upon the adoption OF Mr.. Henderson's
amendment which was to substitute for the pending
amendment the following:
No State In prescribing the qualifications requisite for cleo
ions therein shall discriminate against person account
4 color i
Mr. HENDERSON made few remarks. In the course Of
which he said the Legislature OF Missouri would ratfy
he above within "a hours after Its passage.
Mr.. SUMSEa-So will Massachusetts. and so will
very loyal State. LLaughterl.
Mr. Hendersons amendment was rejected by vote
Il 10 Yeas against 81 Nays. as follows
YEAs-Messrs Brown, Clsrt. Chandler, Henderson, Howe
'oneroy Sumner, Wade. Wilson, Yates
NAYsEMessrs Anthony, Buckasw, CONFESS Cowsn, Ora
In Cresswe Davis Dixon. Dooittle Fessenden Foster,
jrimes Guthrie, Harris Hendricks, johnson, krkwood