“Mr. President, this was not the only vote. A vote was
taken, after this amendment was adopted, upon the passage
of the bill thus amended; and the vote on the passage of
the bill was Yeas 29, Nays 10, and among those Yeas is not
found the name of the Senator from Massachusetts.
“But, Sir, it sometimes happens that malice and hatred
will produce results which reason and good-will can never
accomplish; and when we passed this bill giving the right
of suffrage to the colored men in the South without the
aid of the Senator from Massachusetts and sent it to the
President [Mr. JOHNSON] he vetoed it, and on the question
of passing it over his veto the Senator from Massachusetts
voted with us. His affection for the President was not such
as to allow him to coincide with him in anything. So we got
his vote at last, but we had two-thirds without him.
“This is the record, Mr. President.”