likely
that any will exist in all time to come; but if there is any such
government to be found on the face of the earth, let him leave
Massachusetts, let him hug that angelic delusion which he hopes will
encircle the whole world, and go somewhere, where he can indulge it
without seeing before him every day conclusive evidence that no such
illusion exists at home. Leave Massachusetts, I beg the honorable
member, just as soon as you can, or you will never be supremely
happy."

In conclusion, Mr. Johnson remarked, referring to the recent rebels:
"Let us take them to our bosom, trust them, and as I believe in my
existence, you will never have occasion to regret it. You will, if the
event occurs, look back to your participation in it in future time
with unmingled delight, because you will be able to date from it a
prosperity and a national fame of which the world furnishes no
example; and you will be able to date from, it the absence of all
cause of differences which can hereafter exist, which will keep us
together as one people, looking to one destiny, and anxious to achieve
one renown."

On Tuesday, February 13th, the Senate resumed the consideration of the
Basis of Representation. Mr. Summer proposed to amend the proviso
recommended by the committee--"all persons therein of such race or
color shall be excluded from the basis of representation"--by adding
the words "and they shall be exempt from taxation of all kinds."

Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, occupied the attention of the Senate,
during a considerable part of this and the following day, in a speech
against the proposition of the Committee of Fifteen, which he
considered a compromise, surrendering the rights of the negro out of
the hands of the General Government into the hands of States not fit
to be intrusted with them. In favor of his own amendment prohibiting
the States from disfranchising citizens on the ground of color, Mr.
Henderson said: "I propose to make the State governments republican in
fact, as they are in theory. The States now have the power and do
exclude the negroes for no other reason than that of color. If the
negro is equally competent and equally devoted to the Government as
the Celt, the Saxon, or the Englishman; why should he not vote? If he
pays his taxes, works the roads, repels foreign invasion with his
musket, assists in suppressing insurrections, fells the forest, tills
the soil, builds cities, and erects churches, what more shall he d