Mr. GRIMES. I know that; and who was the man that commanded them? A man from my own town, Colonel Backus. How came be there? Was he a citizen of Colorado? No he was a citizen of Burlington, Iowa. I could go on and enumerate 30 or 40 more from my own villa e not citizens of Colorado. I dissent entirely from the idea of their being claimed as citizens of Colorado. They were citizens of Iowa, although they were known as officers and men of the rst Colorado cavalry, I believe it was, or one of the Colorado regiments. In 1864, the vote of Colorado was 5, 760. On the adoptionof the constitution on the 12th of Septem er, 1864, the total votp was 6, 192. They had at that time a very exciting election. I was in correspondence with some of the gentlemen who were interested in that election. Every effort was made to bring out every possible voter that could be found within the limits of the Territory, and I suppose they were all brought out; and the tota vote polled was 6, 192. Now, just examine and see, if you please, what relation 6, 192 voters bears to the total population of the State if the same ratio still exrsts between males and females as existed in 1861. Why, sir, you have got a population of somewhere in the neighborhoo of from 12 to 15,000, not more. Then, again, on the 6th of September, 1865, there was another exciting election on the question of the adoption ofaState constitution, and what was the result then? The total vote was 6, 895, less than in 1864, and the majority in favor of the adoptionof the State constitution was only 155. ow it is seriously proposed here that we shall admita Stateinto this nion which, in an exciting election over the question whether she shall come in at all or not, when all the office seekers who expectt o be Sens&Reps and judges and Governors are arrayed on one side and are using all their influence to bring men to the polls, and when the taxpayers who were conscious that they are to be oppressed with the burdens of taxation if they come into the Union are arrayed on the other side, can only poll 5, 895 votes, and that a mining State where there is a vast preponderance of males over females. I confess that it strikes me as the sublimity of impudence for the State to come here and ask to be admitted into the Union and be entitled to the same power and influence in this body as the StaIte of Ohio or NewYork or Pennsylvania. I only rose to briefly state the reasons why shall vote against this proposition. If I vote to admit Coloradoptoday, 18 there any reason whyl shall not vote to admit Nebraska tomorrow with 26,000 people? She has formed a State constitution. Her real estate has been conveyed to the citizens. so that there is some as they have in Massachusetts. thing of that kind to tax. She has got more population than Colorado. An enabling act as also been passed with regard to her. If I agree to admit those 2 Territories, is there any reason why I shall not the do after tomorrow admit another Territory, which I understand General Mengher is now organizing, the Territory of Montana? Let me ask senators if they are prepared to let all the political power and influence oflhis country be carried up to these mountains to be wielded by a few miners and men who are of the most transitory description of population? I am not prepared to do it. I do not believe that it is the part of wisdom and statesmanship to do it, notwithstanding the local interests of my own State, which might possibly be advanced by admitting this Territory into the Union and by admitting the adjacent Territory of Nebraska also into the Union with 26,000 eo lo. I should like and would vote or t leamendment of the Senfrom Massachusetts with great pleasure ifI thought it would accomplish any good, but I do not understand that itwould. The 2nd sentence of it is in these words: “And the people of the Territory shall by a majority of the voters, at public meetings to be convened by the Governor of t oTerritory, declare their assent to this fundamental condition." I confess I do not exactly understand what the Senator means by “public meetings.” We do not have township meetings in that country This would be construed, as I understand it, to be a mere promiscuous assemblage of the people ntwhich there might be possibly resolutions introduced to and con, and a vote taken by a show of and s. But even if this amendment should be adopted, and if they should agree to strike out the werd “white” from their constitution, still I am opposed to the admission, of Colorado. She has not got the people suiiicient for the support of a State government. She ought not to come in. We ought to go back to the old rule established and adhered to from the foundation of the Government until a few years ago, requiring each one of these Territories before they become a sister in the Union to have the population requisite to send one member of ongress to the HoRep.