Mr. WADE. Mr. President, the 1st part of the Senator's question is a very simple one; and I hardly supposed that he would put it. The very fact that we stand here, deliberating upon the question whether we shall admit a State or not, presupposes that we have the power either to admit or reject her, as shall appear best to the majority on this floor. There is no question about that. Our power to reject a State making application here is as full and perfect as our power to admit her if we think she ought to be admitted. As to the expediency of Iit, endeavored on a former occasion to give the Senate at some length the reasons that induced me to believe that it was highly proper, expedient, and necessary that these erritories should be admitted now. I may be compelled to allude to some of those reasons again; but I am not in the habit of repeating myself on this floor. When I have stated the reasons once, Ialways think it is a little impertinent to go over them again, and I do not know that I could make the case appear any stronger on a 2nd running them over than Ijbefore. But I have no embarrassment upon that subject, and I shall answer the question before I get through. When we admitted the State of Tennessee at the last session no such question was raised on this floor that I remember. It was not then suggested that we should refuse to admit her until she agreed to let us fix the status of her voters. Of course we looked to the effect upon her in that respect of the constitutional amendment when it should be adopted; and as it was, as the constitutional amendment had not then become a part and parcel of the Constitution of the U.S., we indeed admitted that State without putting any condition at all upon the qualification of electors. Now, I will ask the Senator, is it not well for us to deal as leni ently with a most patriotic State who sends Representatives here the best qualified that you can find, gentlemen some of whom have parti cipated in the war, who have run all the hard ships and the hazard of that great controversy for the maintenance of this Union ought we not to deal as leniently with such a Territory knocking at our doors to come in as a State, as though she had been in rebellion and 2/3rds of her people had been endeavoring night and day to overturn your Government and to erect an accursed slave government upon its ruins? I will not submit, if I can help it, to any such discrimination as that. ow, sir, I want to remind gentlemen how some of us voted on that question, because this amendment offered by the Senfrom Missouri is not one of 1st impressions, it is not a new principle upon this floor, it is under stood by us all.