He thinks the measure innocent; I think it dangerous, and, thinking it dangerous, I am justified in opposing it, and in employing all the means to be found in our arsenal.

Parliamentary Law is against him; and the importance of the question justifies a resort to every instrument that Parliamentary Law supplies.

That is the trouble here to-night.… The Senator from Massachusetts is determined that none of these States shall ever be heard in the Halls of Congress, until the men who speak from those States speak the voice of the negroes as well as of…

Every moment gives new glimpses of the violence and fraud with which it is associated.

Perhaps the expression I have quoted is hardly grave enough in speaking of such a matter, where, in forming the Constitution of a State, military power and injustice to a whole race have been enlisted in defiance of the self-evident truths…

The United States are bound by the Constitution to “guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” Being called to perform this guaranty, you are asked to recognize an oligarchy of the skin, and on this very…

The pretended State Government in Louisiana is utterly indefensible, whether you look at its origin or its character.

It is a mere seven-month’ abortion, begotten by the bayonet in criminal conjunction with the spirit of caste, and born before its time, rickety, unformed, unfinished,--whose continued existence will be a burden, a reproach, and a wrong.

I don’t trouble you much with letters, but I must thank and congratulate you most warmly on your splendid fight and great victory in the Bogus Louisiana struggle.

Some weak-kneed Republicans who rejoice at the result did not know at first whether to rejoice or not, when they saw what tools you had to work with; but your true friends, who have their eyes open, are full of joy, and all the rest will…

God bless you a thousand times for your indomitable resistance to the admission of Louisiana with her caste system!

The idea of negro suffrage in the disloyal States grows daily in favor and advocacy among business men.

I look upon you as the real destroyer of that fine web of intrigue and absurdity so carefully spun.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your heroic and successful opposition to the Louisiana fraud.

Nothing you have ever done better deserves the gratitude of the country and of mankind.

I would give the United States Treasury half I am worth to have Congress, the next thing it does on the subject, decide black suffrage as the ‘inexorable condition’ of readmission.

I know it must be hard to withstand so many of the supporters of the Administration, but the battle must be fought on the very question involved in this measure.

It will not only be wicked and infamous, but suicidal, for us to let the greater part of the rank and file of the Rebels come back and be voters, while we exclude our colored countrymen.

God grant you success in preventing here a precedent that may lead to irretrievable mischief!

Permit me the pleasure of congratulating you on the firm and noble stand you are maintaining in the Senate for the rights of loyal men in Louisiana, irrespective of color, and for the prerogative of Congress, as well as its obligation, to…

The heart of the country goes with you, not with your opponents.

It would be a terrible disaster to have the precedent set of a State readmitted to the Union with the sacrifice of the rights of the blacks.

I cannot let this opportunity pass of thanking you for the manner in which you have stood by the colored people of Louisiana,--almost the only out-and-out Loyalists of that State.

I agree with you that any settlement of the question that will not put the ballot into their hands will create mischief that will take a long time to remedy.

When I read in this morning’s Tribune of the vote to postpone the Louisiana matter until December, I felt as if a great moral as well as political battle had been won by our side.