la MI mall is actinainted lberild be but wasting they ti.. e of !hit biely did I fill my remarks from t..se.-our td4 boOks of politi cal knowledge. I will . h'iarely add, in order to strengt i teb t.e argument that I- have 150. deavoreti to m ke, if, the argument shobld ro ink* etrengt , that If it be a natural right to vote It is a etriral right to be voted for; sad yet the let er as limited by the Constitu tion of the U. t..d. States, because certain qualifications re required before a men can become President. of the United States. lie must ho native born ; ho must have resided within the Unit .d States fourteen 3 ears ; ho must be ttiirty ye years of age. So, the Vice President of tb United ; States must- be of a certain age :miters Must be of a certain age ; members .t Congress must be of a Cer tain age. So ith youreewn State; your Gov ernor must be .f a certain age, and for a tier, fain time mue to a resident of your 'State ; the Members o your Senate must be of a cer tain age ; the members of your Roma of Representatives must be of a certain age Therefore,: 1 say , the right to vote and the right to he,vOted for hea ever been treated as apolitical and not a natural right. THE •OBJECT OT THE lIESOLVTIONS. Mr. Speaker, I now pre pose to-briefly allude to what I believe to be the object ; what, in deed,l4 the Senator from Bra ford (Mr. Landon) with a candor peculiar t him, has admitted to be the object of this re o ution.. Efe admits that it is fo be an " entering wedge " to the establishment of negro suffrage in the eleven States which, he says, are Still in rebellion, and which certainly-'are treated as if they ware, and which we know are debarred - from representation in Congress. Ile says it is to be an - enterinv wedge for the doctrine that Congress may, by mere legislative enactment, force upon them this requirement of negi'o suffrage, and may,"agaitist the wishes. the rights and the interests of the people Inhabit in,r. those States, pia the power of control ever them in the hands of the black popula lio'n.. I thanieMkitn -.ter the admission. Ile does not blink it ; he does not deny it: he looks it eqtarely in the face. Now, sir,. I iropose to ask him by whom, by what power, that thing is Ittabo l done 't lie says that it is to be done by the Congress of the United Stat as I understand him. I may be in error, but I upderet Ind him to say that the Congress of tithe United States has the right to-day 'to 'say wiat shaft be the qualifications,of electors in thie different States. Tome, sir, this do trine would be startling. had it not been Snip lilted elsewhere as plainly and boldly. But tell the Senator that I thank my ;God that t is is still a Government of law ; that the Constitu tion isyet the embodied will of the American people f and that is higher, stranger and theirs powerful than the will of the leaders of the I t leptiblican party here a d elsewhere- [Re tie-wed applause.l - Aye, ir, we have a Gov. ernment of law ; and as - ong as the Constitu. tion of the United States stands as the em bodied will of the Auierican peopled-`and, sir. until the hour comes when it shall be torn in pieces; dragged in the .dust and destroyed by the men who are now hackitig nt itL-;tintil that hour, na.matter what. ' the Senator from Bradford, the Senator frOm Indiana, or say other Senator, may say here, neither he, nor the party at their back, can give the Congress of the United . Stt4ess the, power to say what shall be the qualiScalions of the electors in the, several States. That question is defined by the Constitution of the United States; but I knowit is not popular to quote frona,that instrumentlere. , Mr. Stevens said--. 1" lire do not know anything about the Constitaticin -in Congress," and I fear there is very little known about it here. • WI POSITION OP MN 'PRESIDIUM But Pay that-the power, by the /Constitn. tion of the United State& has been dommitted. to the several States. Read it yourselves for yoniselves, and say . whether it be riot so.= And, sir, in this- hour of darkness sad of gloom, : when there are men in high plaons who deride the provisions of that, inatrumeot, who wlll,pokbOound by its obligations—in such an hormiti.ank God that He has raised up to take the helm of State a man who does believe that this is a Government of law, (and who does not concOve that he is vested with ": -, ,any higher or greater authority than that given him by that instrument which he is sworn to support. That man.hit's said that the ques dim of suffrage is one which - cannot and dual not be taken from the States by any act of Congress or any mere decree of the Rum , - five, that the organic( law has left dui question tej the States and it , may not be—aye,. and with his consent, shall - not be tampered with. Bid, the Senator may reply to me—" What we cannot do by an act of Congress weMay Ido by an dmendmen't to the Constitution' of the United States." , And, I 'believe, that this was 'What the Senator from Indiana (Mr. • White) was driving at in his epees% almoit lwo• hours long, for I. confess to you; sir, I could -gather no clear idea of whit were his opinions or conclusions.. I thought that this question - of negro suffrage in the Distriot of Colu4bia was to be the subject of his speeph, l but it was only the tail end of it. But this' Congress, in which but twenty five States are reprettented ; this, for I may call it by no more appropriate name, Rump Congress—this Con gress, in defiance of justice, in defiance of right, in defiance of Constitutional, oblige lions, aye, sir, standing in an attitude most revolutionary; denies admitaince to eleven Southern States. This Rump Congress, with but 182 members- iii it; is going to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States! Under peculiar circumstances, by -fraud and misrepresentation,.upon issues that do not exist to-day, and which coutralsed the country - when those men wore elected.to that Congress, the Republicans happened td.get a two-thirds majority of that body ; therefore they are going to change the organio law and' , •to shingle over the Constitution with Yankee ideas. Is that possible ? Will it'be endured t WHAT SHOULD BE THE SILATITS STRENGTH IN CONGRESS.; , Let t ‘ te hiciaire what should be the relative . strength of the two great parties in Congress, 1 and den show yottwhat it is. In the twenty -, six Sttes that voted for President in 1864, Mr. L.nooltrreceived 2,268 831 votes;. George B. M'Clellan received 1,797,019 votes • Wog Mr. Lincoln, under e extraonary cir cumstances of the e, with hi war power rre -gl with all the power nd. patrostlg t l) ola Vita ;k GOvernment to aid him with tho e' of honest men, voting for him because the • b" - Bored that not to do so might imperi the country ; mistaken they were, it is true, but they did so on that -account; yet,,sir, in that contest he had but ?our hundred and eix thou - sand majority., flow many Congressmen should the Republican party be entitled to? How many would you have I hod if you had not gerrymandered all i the States as - you did them ? Out of the one bandied and eighty two members, according to the votes for Pres. hient, there ought to be eighty one Democrats and one hundred and one Republicans. That • would be your fair proportion in this Congress, if the people were fairly represented, if the intention of the Constitution was carried out. Yon ought to have but one hundred "and one members, and the Dethooratio vote for McClel lan 'ought to be represented by eighty one members. But you have one hundred and forty two, andhere are but forty Democratic - votes in that H nee. Harlot then,. by these means, more t an two-thirds in your RuMp Congress", arid denying 'admission to eleven States, which, the President of the United i Statee says, h ve a wish to be represented there to-day, on wish, do yon, under these circumstances, with power thus acquired, and power which on are determined to hold, although you re in a state of rebellion, to subinit an amendment to the Constitution of the United States? , I Was there ever Each I effrontery?. •Nyas the common sense 'and the -sense of common - justice in the minds of the people ever eolontraged since the Government was founded i?; Aye, sir, I trait to God you dill maintain [that - , attitude of rebellion.. . / trust that from now until the dog days you will stand there, 'and when the frost comes that it with- orer yotty political, graves.- - [Applause:] ' • . REMINISCENCE. Now, Mr. Speaker, I propoie to inquire a little'further as : to the object of .this proposed amendment to the Constitution 9f the United States. We are told 4.3-day, is language glowingly eloquent, of - the natural rights of men and of elevating them to a coildition vhicb., is to be ( happiness and prosperity to all of them. Is there nothing selfish; nothing of a personal 9r partisan - .character in' all this? Sir, if this right to vote is a natural right, if every man should have ,it, and if. that doctrine was over truly and honestly heltf by, those who are asking us ttomday to Tote far it, is it not a uipst astounding reflection that but twelve sh9rt years ago a great political party iwas organized in this State, and else where throughout the Union, who.denied this "great natural right," not negroaa, not • _ y . then Of a 16tier MIL to mete who hap paned teeefte God lb a mattier,different from themselves ; to men who happened to be tern tinder another sun and in other climes? Did you not rear a party—Know Nothi4 byname —that went into power in this CoMmonwealth on that issue, which would, could it have re tained its wer;have excluded milky race ex cept the_ at ive lopre, and would have Included . those from the elective franchise from whose loins you yourselves had sprung! What wls your'ohject then ? Answer me. you Senators, Was it, not that you feared if they voted they would put you out of power ? Now, with like hypocrisy, do you. not. wish to get the neera's vote to keep you in after you haTe got there ? Is not that the reason Is it any high or. generous motive to do good for the country's, good by which you are actuated? Is it any other than to save your Republican party from going to destruction, where it, should have gone long ago. Mr. Lowry—We would have gone there long ago if the rebels had got us. Mr. Olymer—There are some boys not far from here now. (referring to soldiers. in the galleries.) who saved you and alto( as from going there—and they are'not-black either.— [Applause.] . WHERE WILL HE REPUBLICAN LEADERS ETAND WHEN RE WAB OP RACES BEGINS. ?dr. Speak • ; t have already occupied 'more of the time a . d attention of the Senate than I designed. I will close my remarks by merely adve ting to what will be the condi tion of the ra o for which you per foga so much. admiration. And again t thank the Senator from Bradfo '1 for what he has admitted. He has Said that, these men are becoming edUca. ted 7 -that : they are going to - demand their rights; aye, sir, he mentioned it as the great est evidence of their enlightenment and their progress th4t they read the New York Tribune —sir, the first paper North of Mason and Dizon's line that talked secession—and said that that was the test, the standard, by which their elevation was to be eon.idered. And he tells ye* that unless you give them the politi cal rights there will be slaughter : that there wille a war of races. And, sir, .I ask ,fie e i Senator now , lt side will he-be when t hat hour comes, w joe on?, Will be be with his wn brethren? Or will he be with*those whotri be and those who are with him have taught to do that very thing? Witt you he fopad fight ing against blood ofyour own blood—against your own little ones? or will yottirightfully stand where you and others who teach your doctrinett ought to stand—behind those whom you and your damnable doctrinestave driven on to their own destruction I' There is where you ought to stand and whore you belong,— dut I tell you that against you will bethe great heart, white though it may be, of this nation. And when that. war of races comes. woe be to those who brought it about. I shall ,regret "it; but'before God and before Lhe country, you and all others who preach those doctrines will be held responsible for it. History -will point von out, and blistery will be but repeating Welt when those deeds are done; . , A PARALLEL. Now, eir, in my reading I have dome a the reMarks of a historian , which.' int .d to reproduie here to ,show Republican Se store and those who, sympathize with them, hat is likely to occur. Speaking of the libetion of the slaves in the islands by the.aot o the French Convention, in 1792. he stye : 44 Decrees had i been passed for granting liberty to slaves, 'and they bad not only been brought fern the iniquitoue bondage, but theirjunieformed minds had'imbibed, within about two years, as -many crude notions about liberty and eqUality as wobldlvy& yequired a whole century to digest. l'he Poor creatures were not sitnply informed that their masters were tyrants and oppressors, .but they were left without any guide as to the moral oblige.l tions imposed on them by their new condition, and it never occurred tp 'them that in the re covery of their rights they were still bpund to the performance of duties. They conceived freedom from service to mean freedom from labor; and by a literal construction of the doctrines they were \ tanght, they'expected 4o share land as well *Ribetty with their 'mas ters. Idleness and want soon spread them. selves through all the black tribes is the West Indies ; and then they proceeded to 'pillage the whites; while being„resisted many,dread ful ravages and slaughters took place; the repetition of which the constituted authorities were in'capable' l of preeenting. Various ap plications were made to the mother country by the planters, but the commissioners ap pointed,by Government 'were equally as fan atic in their notions of liberty as the legisla. tors themselves, so the planters saw no pro bability of an equitable system being estab— lished, .and at last the Convention learned that the ccilonies had invited the-English lake to poszession of ihrm." I stay, sir,' that, if any cue was to write the facts concerning affairs to-day in our South ern country, he could not in moire graphic terms, with leas circumlocution, describe ex-- actly the condition of affairs wbioh there ex ists ; and he would attribute to the teachings of men in Congress and men here who wive oate your doctrines, theoxistence of the re• sultsi ll which occurred Ta the West Indies seventy years ago. Mr. Speaker, I do not know what is to be the fate of this re.olution in this Senate. I feel that I have ende iyored to discharge my duty not, I confess, as fully, not as con nectedly, not as ably es I Would have wished. I say-that I. do not know what is to be the fate the resolution, but I assert that, even • if it s ould pass here and pass' in the other House, it' will not .be an expression of the sentiments and ve of a majority of people of Pennsyl van ia , bat that it wii. flat defiance of those views and sent f., . ..; and will be passed by the votes of men who got their seats .here by denying that !boy were in favor of any such doctrines. You may pass it; yet, ,Senators, I do not.; know what our Executive will do. I trust that he will rise to the .height of the acts- Bien.' and that he will be true to the histories and the memories ref this grand old Common wealth over which, h'o rules. I trust that he may refuse to sanction the Madness of your • ly. I trust thitt ho may do so. I ilo net 'ow that he will; I could 'pray that - he ollid ; 'and if he does, it will be a fitting act, Ittyrowning i glory of his administration. It woul place him high hots the records of fanr-si a statesman who knew hie duty, and knowing it, dared to fulfill it in defiance of a usur iji. expression of opinion. He may not do • " You way send it to your Senators at Washington.' Ido not know what, Ythey will do ; but I will tell you now that 'did I °mry a seat in that body, you might send it a thou. sand times and I would. say, Gentlemen; it bears ,s fraud Upon its face; the - people of Pennisylvania are ever just, and they do not ask me to de to this people whXt they would, not allow to be done to themselves. But, sir, it may pass the Senate'of the Uni ted States. It has, under the leadership of the member from L ancaster (Mr. Stevens,) been driven through the House of Represen-, tatives. Ido not know wliether hie co.driver Mr. Sumner; will noclashit through the'Uni ,ted States Senate. He may do it;' but, sir, I believe as I live, that that will be the cud of r i it. I believe that thepr esident of tbelrnited States, in. his corive Lio n with Mr. Dixon, a Senator front Conic t, has intimated what he will do with IL s conceives himself, I doubt not., CO, be e. representative of the whole people of the whole Union; and I say that, despite the fact that a revolutionary Congress refuses to restore the Union, after the soldiers have crushed out all Southern opposition to it, he. considera himself Presi dentif, the whole Union; and I believe that his 'Mid will be palsied before he signs - it,.: [Applause:} . I trust in God, sir; ImaY_be' right, rk will be like . a bugle blast, that wits waken up the Northern heart, and make all, men feel that this war era! Italic' vain, and that there ire snob things as the , rights of 'white men left, or that, at least, they are not forgotten - by the,ExeeoGio, , ~ • , , Tbat,4 think, .will be the yeault. I. trust, it will. And if 11t is done,,when 'tit done, the, hour of redemption far this State, for ~this Northern land, and for this whole country, from ocean to ocean;-: from gulf to rive,r,ltill have come. and - thMople, whit' have been so 'long oppressed by ,-'6oinsofence.of party, will• fly-to their arms and rally to the support of that Executive who Will not do.the biddingpf. mere party, but act ifor the whole country -who labors to preser ve the Constitution ot our fathers, and to res tore the 'Union once ce mented by their blood. rApplause..l . , Noricw.—ldr:P. L. Kimberly, of Sharen, Pa:, has been admitted as a partner in the firm of floskinson &r.l Williams. _The business of the firm will hereafter be conducted under the name - of ,IloskinWn, Williams it GO. 1/42./Uto licuninna 81. WILL ens. Erie rD hserbe THt/ISDAY. =RCA 29,1868. I . pQR, Go:VERNOR, . - • MESTER CLYHNIE OF Bi3,RKS.OOI7pITY. - . MIL CLYMERS MPEReIi. 1 Our readers will thank us „fui pre:genii log them this week 'with the admiieble speech of Idi. Clymer, our candidate for Oovernor, delivered in the' Stale Senate during the present session of the Legisla ture. It is one of the best productlobs of the eminent statesman whom our Marty has presented for the suffrages of thefpeo• pie, and will be read with interest by all classes of the people: , 1 The announcement cornea to :us direct from Washington, and in such a shape that we have no hesitation in giiing it our belief, that the administration hits at Ipogth decided, to exact an active support f itsspolicy from .the Office holders in its mploy. The inconsistency of retaining men in comfortable ppsitions underthe lovernment who use It'll their -influence against the administration and its friends ill not be tolerated any longer; and the t'adical Officials will soon be called Upen tio deo* whether they will give up their lsces or rally around the policy of Mr ,Tobuson.