It will not be five years from to-day before this body will vote for it.

You cannot get along without it.

You may adopt the other proposition, but the States will not accept it.

The Northern States in my judgement will not accept it, because they will misapprehend the meaning of it." When the vote was reached ten senators, including Mr.Henderson, sustained his proposition in favor of negro suffrage.

The resolution of the Reconstruction Committee, after several attempts to modify it, came to a vote,--_yeas_ 25, _nays_ 22.