I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.

Men may differ about the power or the expediency of giving the right of suffrage to the negro; but how any humane, just and Christian man can for a moment permit the laws that are on the statute-books of the Southern States and the laws now pending before their Legislatures, to be executed upon men whom we have declared to be free, I cannot comprehend." Mr.Reverdy Johnson replied to Mr.Wilson in a tone of apology for the laws complained of, but took occasion to give his views of the status of the States lately in rebellion.

"I have now," said Mr.Johnson, "and I have had from the first, a very decided opinion that they are States in the Union and that they never could have been placed out of the Union without the consent of their sister States.

The insurrection terminated, the authority of the Government was thereby re-instituted; _eo instanti_ they were invested with all the rights belonging to them originally--I mean as States.

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