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Unionist in the south who can be relied on to protect and defend the Government of the United States and therefore they ought to have the right to vote.  No doubt the honorable member believed what he said to be true, but I question his statesmanship. He is a politician, seeking the means of increasing his individual popularity or trying to build up or strengthen a party, he has never properly considered the effect of this measure he advocates upon the negro, in fact I conclude he cares very little about the negro or any body else except as a mere party tool. Another honorable member said no form of government for a state can be republican when a large part of the people are excluded from voting. If this honorable member make good his proposition if he prove it to be true, he will prove that this never has been yet a republican form of government upon this continent. It may be assured with entire confidence that in no state of the American Union have one third of the people been entitled to vote by their Constitution.  I do not remember the number of votes cast in the last Presidential election but my impression is that the number cast was not equal to one eighth or one tenth of the whole population.  With the statistics of the country before us all, it seems strange how such an assertion could have been made