Mr. CRESWELL next addressed the sento go remarks will be found in the appendix. REMARKS OF HON. J. A. J. CRESWELL, OF MARYLAND, IN THE U.S. SENATE, January 8, 1867, On the bill (S.No. 456)for the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union, Mr. CRESWELL said: Mr. PresIDENT: I expect to vote for the admission of Nebraska whether the pending amendment be adopted or not. I expect further to vote for the pending amendment, although I am satisfied that it will effect nothing. I am of opinion that the Congress of the U.S. has no authority to impose a condition in this manner upon the people of a State about to be admitted into the Union. I believe, however, that Congress has a constitutional right to inter. pose by conditions to be submitted for acceptance to the people of a Territory or inchoate State, wherever Congress may consider that ose conditions are necessary to secure to the People of such Territory or State a RFG. I believe that the 1st clause of the 4th section of the 4th article of the Constitution is a controlling one, and that the U.S. is bound by the highest obligation to guaranty, under all circumstances, to every State in this Union a RFG; and further, that the powers reserved to the States and the people thereof must yield to the paramount operations of this guarantee. Admitting, therefore, that the rightis reserved to the people of the States to regulate the matter of suffrage, I think it equally clear that the people of the State have no right so to regulate the suffrage as to exclude absolutely and per petually from the governing power of the State any portion of its citizens by reason of their race or color, or by any other arbitrary and unequal rule of exclusion. But as to the pending amendment, let us put the case in this way: suppose this act shall pass with the amendment offered by my honorable friendfrom Vermont, and notwithstanding its passage, and the admission of the Sens&Reps from the State of Nebraska, the people of Nebraska in their Legislature, should refuse to recognize the principle, and should insist that their constitution stands as they sent it to Congress, and that none but white persons can vote under its provisions, I apprehend that when the constitution should come into the courts, the question being raised by a person of African descent whose vote had been refused, the courts would decide that the amendment of the Senfrom Vermont did not control the language of the State constitution inasmuch as the people of the State had never in any manner accepted that amendment or acquiesced therein. The argument, brief, though pointed, of Maine, the honorable Senfrom is conclusive to my mind on that subject. Nevertheless, the amendment is valuable as a declaration of principle; and I confidently expect and believe that the people of Nebraska will voluntarily amend their constitution so as to conform to it. But, sir, there are other considerations in connection with the position of this State in its application for admission that I desire to present to the Senate. I am anxious to see the whole of the western territory filled up with States. I have none of that feeling of jealousy toward the West which the Senfrom Wisconsin [Mr. Howe] saidyesterday exists among eastern men. On the contrary, my heartfelt sympathy is with the adventure us people of that section. I. believe that the active element of this nation is working there in the cause of civilization. The brave men of the West who spend their strength and their blood in subduing the wilderness and fighting the savage are the true champions of progress; and so far from feeling jealous of them Ibid them God speed. If my friendfrom Wisconsin will but look over the record that I have made in the 38h and 30 9th Congress, he will not, I feel assured, charge me with any desire to : impede the trimarch of the pioneer. On the contrary, no measures that I have sustained have given me more pleasure, either at the time or upon subsequent reflection, than those to encourage the formation and to recognize the existence of the new States of the great West; and I care not how soon that section may so far increase in population and strength as to be able to outnumber with her representatives all the States upon the Atlantic. I would appeal to them for justice to Maryland with the same confidence that I now appeal to the Senators from the East, and I am sure that I should not appeal in vain. but the distinguished Senfrom Massachusetts says that we cannot without stultifying ourselves vote for the admission of Nebraska. He asserts that all men of whatever color are entitled to the exercise of the right of suffrage under the operation of equal laws. Well, sir, though I may be charged, perhaps, with being a somewhat recent convert to o: doctrine, I accept it in its length and its breadth. I am willing to pledge myself to vote for the measure now pending, to apply that principle to all the remaining Territories, and to require that all of them shall make it a cardinal provision in their fundamental law before being admitted as States of the Union. But, sir, I believe that it would not be wise to compel the people of Nebraska, at this late day, to hold new elections, to call new conventions, and to form a new constitution before admitting her into the Union. She has already complied, in the terms of her constitution, with every stipulation of our enabling act, as she i it. The Senfrom Massachusetts has said that in the enablin act Congress declared that Nebraska should conform to the principles of the DeclarIndep. I admit it; but I ask him in all candor whether at the time those words were inserted in the enabling act he contended, or even intimated, that they imposed as a condition precedent to the admission of the State that black men should be allowed to vote. Did the Senator give any such intimation?