Mr. DAWES. I know I am. Now, to go on with my argument, if I could understand that we had got over this difficulty, if I could understand that the State constitution which the people of Nebraska have adopted and sent here, and which confines all political rights to white men, would be so modified by the last section of this bill if passed into a law, as to secure to all men equally those rights, then I would vote for this bill with great cheerfulness. If anyone can convince me that by passing this bill we would secure the verything which the people of Nebraska in forming their constitution undertook to deprive the colored people of, I would go earnestly with every man in this House for the admission of that Territory as a State into this Union. Now, under what circumstances is it that a constitution is brought here from the State of Nebraska, which by its very terms attempts to prevent anybody but white men from participating in the government of that State here after? At a time in the history of this government, when the whole nation has been educated up to the belief and conviction that not only the true interpretation of the fundamental principles of government, but the absolute safety of our Government itself, requires the giving full and free scope to the DeclarIndep, “that all men are born free.equal;” and that law, in whatever shape and form administered, “derives its authority only from the consent of the governed;" when we are struggling to reform the social institutions of the 11 rebel States and to bring them up to this standard, we are called upon in the same breath to take from these poor citizens of Nebraska the very political rights we sought only last week by a solemn act of Congress to clothe them with. I am told that there are not more than 100 of these colored persons in Nebraska. The more the pity then; it shows the infernal hate of the negro which prompted it. It was from no well grounded apprehension that the negro Will the gentleman yield would ever influence the polities of the State. It was from pure desire