for I fear, with the gentleman from
Illinois, [Mr. Farnsworth,] that under the latter phrase the most
vicious evasions might be practiced. As that gentleman has well said,
they might make suffrage depend on ownership of fifty acres of land,
and then prohibit any negro holding real estate; but no such mockery
as this could be perpetrated under the provisions of the amendment as
I originally submitted it."

In relation to taxation, Mr. Blaine remarked: "Now, I contend that
ordinary fair play--and certainly we can afford fair play where it
does not cost any thing--calls for this, namely, that if we exclude
them from the basis of representation they should be excluded from the
basis of taxation. Ever since this Government was founded, taxation
and representation have always gone hand in hand. If we shall exclude
the principle in this amendment, we will be accused of a narrow,
illiberal, mean-spirited, and money-grasping policy. More than that,
we do not gain any thing by it. What kind of taxation, is distributed
according to representation? Direct taxation. Now, we do not have any
direct taxation. There has been but twenty millions of direct taxation
levied for the last fifty years. That tax was levied in 1861, and was
not collected, but distributed among the States and held in the
Treasury Department as an offset to the war claims of the States; so
that, as a matter of fact, we are putting an offensive discrimination
in this proposition and gaining nothing by it except obloquy."

Mr. Donnelly, of Minnesota, said: "It follows, as a logical
conclusion, that if men have no voice in the National Government,
other men should not sit in this hall pretending to represent them.
And it is equally clear that an oppressed race should not lend power
to their oppressors, to be used in their name and for their
destruction. It is a mockery to say that a man's agent shall be his
enemy, and shall be appointed without his consent and against his
desire, and by other enemies.

"In fact, I can not see how any Northern man can vote against this
measure, unless he wishes to perpetuate an injustice to his section,
because the effect of it will clearly be to increase the
representation of the North and decrease that of the South; and this,
too, upon a basis of undoubted justice. It means simply that those who
do not take part in the Government shall not be represented in the
Government."

Mr. Donnelly did not, however, regard the proposed a