Mr. COWAN. Mr. President, I am in favor of the amendment, which Iis, believe, to submit this question to the people of Nebraska hereafter. I do not know that there is any necessity for such haste in the admission of Nebraska as a State that we should not take this precaution in order to be certain that we are right, especially when we find such a difference of opinion among those who have a i. claim to orthodoxy upon a subject of this KlnC1. I trust, too, that my brethren will take advantage of the peculiar contingency which the Senfrom.says Providence now furnishes, and that they will respond to it in the proper spirit. if I caught the drift of his. at that particular point, it was this: that for a long period of years Providence, for some reason or other, had not given to us an opportunity to be just to black people; had not given an opportunity to recognize the equality of black people; not given an opportunity to admit black people to cooperate with our own race in the government of sublunary things here, but that contingency has at last happened. If that be so, Mr. President, I must confess that I have had very confused views of Providence heretofore. I supposed that the world was governed by Providence, and I supposed that the word came from the fact that He did provide for the government of the affairs of men. I was perfectly willing that His ways were mysterious, very mysterious indeed. I could not understand why He allowed certain things to prevail in the world which to my mind were wrong and improper. But from the best lights that I could get, and from the closest observation I could make of things, in the end they generally came out right. Now, if, as the Senator says and I use his own words, in quoting the DeclarIndep “all men are equal, ” it does seem to me that Providence could have fixed that fact, if He had desired it, with such certainty as to prevent any very great mistake about it. My honorable friend, the Senfrom Massachusetts, is 6 feet 3 inches in height, and weighs 220 pounds. I am 6 feet 3 inches in height and weigh 190 oil. if you please. That is not equality. My honorable friendfrom Maine here is 5 feet 9 inches