Mr. NYE. I have done the Senator no wrong, but I accept his amendment. I say to him in reply that a majority of 100 is no more evidence of fraud than a majority of 10,000. The presumption is the other way. Now, sir, I noticed on the admission of the State of Colorado, or the attempt to admit her, that these same arguments were used. We were told that the population was small and that they were not entitled even to a Representative. Sir, one thing should be borne in mind of Nebraska. To day one of the most important works of this nation, which is progressing with wonderful rapidity, is peopling that State as Pennsylvania was never ieopled; I mean in point of numbers and rapiity; and the great interest surrounding that great work, the Pacific railroad, requires at the hands of every one of us that protection which can only be given by State laws. I have had some expericuce both in a Territory and in a State and as I said upon the question of admitting colorado the laws of a Territory are insufficient to give protection in deiail to the vast interests surroundin such a work. Mr. President, the Democrats have learned to speak of Lincoln now with kindly words and express sentiments of dec sympathy at his taking OH. The State which I have the honor in part to represent came into this Union under the very same law that Nebraska seeks to come in under now; she had in her constitution the same provision in regard to white voting that there is in this; and yet, air, that great and good man hastened to admit her, and boiled her admission as an accession of some account in the then condition of the country. He not only admitted her but hastened to admit her by telegraph, and that State was in that way, and under the same law that this State secks admission under, born into this Union and in augurated. I should be recrcant to the interests of others that had the same permission if I did not advocate the admission of Nebraska. Now, sir, it is a well known fact that the State of Nebraska, agricultural as she is stated to be by the Senfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. BUCHLEW] is filling u i with wonderful rapidity; ugreatiiationul wor (goes through herciitire borders from one end of the State to the other; and while we are legislaiing and before the next session of Congress convenes, that work will have reached the borders of Nebraska and penetrated into Colorado. Mr. President, I must.confess my astonishment that gentlemen on the other side who are struggling by every means to bring into this Chamber States of questionableloyalty no, sir. not States ofquestionuble loyalty, but States whose disloyalty is as undoubted now as it was the day they were in arms that men moved by the great democratic principles that they profess to be moved by, should attempt to keep out the new States that are knocking at our doors for admission. I said on the adiniSsion of Colorado that the necessities of this day de manded that there should be a row of States across this continent in order to protect the great works that are now being constructed. I repeat it now. It is the necessity of the hour; it is the necessity of the time; and he who studies closely the logic of the times will see that I am correct. My friendfrom Massachusetts said that he regretted his friendfrom Ohio could not rise to the magnitude of this question. My friendfrom Massachusetts will excuse me for saying that I regret that he cannot rise to the magni tude and importance of this event. I regret that in his argument and in his action‘he cannot let go of that old anchorage of his, upon which he has rode out so many storms, and ride upon safer anchorage in a State regularly admitted into the Union, instead of an irregu lur, inefficient territorial or nization. He says the word “white” is in this constitution. So it is. So it was in the constitution of the State of Nevada, and yet the lamented Lincoln hesi Stated not a moment to admit her. The senator says that it is not republican. Upon that question I take issue with him. It may not be, in the fullest sense, republican; but it is republican in the sense in which ever State since the original 13 has been a mitted into this Union.