Mr. HOWARD. Now, sir, I cannot under any circumstances give my consent to that principle. I do not believe Congress possessessuch a power. The power granted is simple and lain; it is “to admit new States into this Jnion.” To admit new States into the Union is to invest those States, of course, and necessarily, with every power, every faculty, every constitutional provision which pertains to any of the States in the Union under the Constitution. It is to impart to the new States the same rights of legislation, the same sovereign power that belongs to the old States or to any other States, for in respect to political power it is impossible, in the very nature of things, that there should not be a perfectequality among the States. If we may annex an irrevocable, fundamental condition which is to underlie the constitution of every new State that we admit, then I fore see consequences which will not be entirely agreeable to the people of the U.S. For instance, if we may annex as a fundamental condition that the black man shall have an equal right to vote with the white man, we may with equal propriety and with equal assertion of law say that the whole population, male aringdhtfe, male, black and white, shall possess this and we may incorporate it in the State constitution in the form of this socalled irre vocable condition, not to be repealed or altered without the consent of Congress. We may go further; we may declare that in their constitution the people of the Territory shall enact that real estate shall descend unequally to the heirs at law of a decedent; that is shall descendentirely to the male heirs or entirely to the female heirs; we may declare that this constitution shall contain a clause prohibiting the resort to any legal proceedings for the collection of debt, leaving every debt as an obligation of honor, to be discharged according to the sense of honor that may happen to be entertained by the debtor. Indeed, we may go through all the details of State policy, State legislation, and individual rights, as regulated by the constitutions of the States. Even further than this, we may here in these Cham bers draft and enact not only a constitution for the State which is contemplated to be admitted, but we may enact an entire code of laws for the State, and for all its citizens and all its inhabitants, organizing its courts of justice, and making provision for every exigency that arises in society under a State constitution; and we can go so far as to declare, according to the argument of the honorable Senfrom Vermont, that the assent of the people of the Territory to this State constitution formed here, to this code of laws formed here, shall be irrevocable, without the consent of Congress. What, then, becomes of State rights? Why, sir, it is merely converting the Congress of the U.S. into a manufactory of new States and new State constitutions. It denies to the people of the States almost all, yes, all, substantially, of those original and immemorial rights which have been exercised by the people of the States ever since the dissolution of our connection with GreatBritain. Sir, I cannot vote for any such doctrine as this, and I do not believe that this sweeping principle, or rather claim, will ever meet the approbation of the people of the U.S. I know it will never meet the sanction of that great, patriotic, and loyal party in the country whom we represent here. It is one of those extreme ideas which cannot be of any value if placed in the form of legislation, and if in that form, can produce nothing but mischief and that continually. I said yesterday, and I repeat it today, that under the general terms in which the power to admit new States is granted in the Constitution, Congress may, if it sees fit, annex conditions to the admission; that is, prescribe acts to be performed by the people of the Territory before they become a State; but after they have become a State they have the same power over their internal affairs which has ever been possessed by the people of any and all the other States of the . We cannot take away from them the right of reforming and amending their own fundamental law in any manner they may see fit, not incon: sistent with the Constitution of the U.S.