Mr. GUTHRIE. When this matter was under discussion before I made up my mind that Colorado ought not to be admitted as a State; that she had not the population nor the ability to sustain a State gowrnmeut; that she could not demand, from the amount of her population, to be placed on an equal footing with the other States. She has not population enough to entitle her to a Representative in the other House. If she should be admitted, she would be entitled to 2 Senators here, which would be greatly in dispro portion, and overbalancing with another small State the popular majority of the large States in this body. I thought it was not best for Colorado that she should come in and under take the burdens of a State government at this time. I still think so after listening to all that I have heard. I have no doubt that she has less poulation now than she had even at the time that the enabling act was passed. There was then a great outery about gold there, and miners rushed there from all parts of the country because they desired to search new fields. They leave those places as soon as they find they are disappointed and rush to some other point. I have no doubt there is less population there now than there was in the beginning; and I feel very sure that she will not come as California did when she was admitted, and when she had such a great population. I do not believe that the people are able, from the production of these il and the mines, to retain a population there that can support a State government. have no feelings of prejudice against 001, orado or an of the northwestern States. They are people principally by the frontiers and from the frontiers with some adventure us spirits from the original States. They are a hardy, adventuresome people, butthey are not attached to the soil, and they never will be until the country has become old and those born and residingthere have learned to like the count. I am opposed to the admission of Colors O for these reasons, and not for the reasons given by the Gentfrom Massachusetts. I should not object to her Constitution because it had the word “ white” in it in relation to voters. I do not believe that black people are citizens of the U.S. even though they are born here. That may come from my western resi dence and western prejudice and having been raised in a slave State. I am willing to admit that there is something that grows up in the feelings and habits and thinking of people who are raised in slave States and have acquired all their ideas from there, and that there is something strange in the fury gentlemen get into about equal suffrage and equality and all that. I hope the veryiest will come from the emancipation of the negroes the best for them and for the whites but I have not the absolute faith of those who have been missionaries in the cause, and started and originated it, and have brought themselves into conspicuOns places in this Government and before the world as the advocates of that policy. I do not enter into any sympathy with them on that point, and 1 am not moved to act upon this subject by their reasons. I think we could increase the number of votes in the Senate very legitimately by admitting those southern Senators who have been here for almost 4 months knocking at our doors and seeking admittance. I do not believe a tithe of what has been said about the discontent of the South. I believe if we had admitted them in the 1st month of the session they would have been more contented, more harmonious, and more in union with us than they are now; and I believe the longer we delay it the greater will be the difficulty to be overcome. I am not surprised that gentl0 men of the North who have been preachingin favor of the freedom of the negroes, and have formed characters and habits upon it, feel rather hostile to us who have been in slave States; but I think they will have to abate somewhat of their opinion, and their estimate of the southern people, before we can get together again. I hope they will take occasion to revise their opinions, and search their own hearts, and their own bosoms, to know how much of it is prejudice, and how much has been partisanship. In fighting this great bat tle they think they have been fighting for humanity and the freedom of the negro and the great name they are to make in history. If we were to sit down and take an account of the benefits and advantages they have brought upon the negro population, I think the balance would be greatly against them at this time, and they would have to draw upon the future for the great advantages that are to result from their measures. I hope that profits will accrue from them. I think it is better for the African that he should be governed by the people where he lives, who know his habits, and understand all about him. It in better for him, and I think it is better for the whites, that we should set“knew; and yet it soon came out. He was going tle this matter, settle this question of government, and let them be governed at home. It is not at all surprising that the iicgroes were misled by this sound of freedom and liberty, and supposed they were to live idly without labor and without work, and somebody was to support them. We know that to a rest extent they did obtain those ideas. hey are now abandonin them to some extent, and oing to work. hey are likely, in many places in the South, to prove a useful and industrious poulation, and add to the productions of the soi.Ihope the very best from it. I think slavery bein abolished, all sides should act in harmon, so due their prejudices, if they have any, an come together united as far as we can for the interests of the country. I think it is far more to the advantage of this country that we should admit the southern States and admit their representatives than that we should take in this new State thatis not able to supportaState government, in my judgment, and which will find it exceedingly onerous, as many of these States have already found it to be. I shall vote against this reconsideration as I voted against the admission of this State before, but not for the reasons given by the Senfrom Massachusetts. The Senator in timates that perhaps some have changed their minds because they want a few more votes in this body. I wish the Senator had changed his mind before he led the onslaught upon the NewJersey Senator when they wanted but one. [Laughter