Mr. WADE. I hope that this motion will not prevail. It is a very extraordinary motion for any gentleman to make. This matter has been before one committee that Iam bound to believe was competent to decide all there was involved; at all events cometent enough to decide that there is no evidence to the contrary of their finding. It is very easy for any gentleman to op ose the admission of a State, and to get up an say there is something unfair about it. I never have heard ofit. The gentleman says he has heard somewhere that there is some dispute about the votes here. There is nothing in the papers that indicates that. The Governor of the Territory says that the election was held, thatthe people voted upon this question, and he tells the number of votes they gave and the majority that was found in favor of the constitution, and he does not intimate anywhere what the gentleman has alluded to, that there was anything unfair about it, anything wrong, about it, and I never heard it until now; at upon his more statement that he'has heard somewhere some vague rumor, he proposes that this State may be postponed and kept out of the Union ad libitum. He says it is not very important that they be admitted now because the session is near the close. Can the Senator tell me how soon an extra session will be called on some great occasion that may arise? Is it not well to have Senators all the year round, whether you are in session or not, ready to be called upon whenever the exigency may arise to call for their counsel? Who ever heard of such a motion as this, to postpone such a measure because a Senator has some where heard he does not tell us where or how that there was somethingI unfair in the voting in this Territory, when ere, under the seal of the officers of the government, we have the constitution, we have the votes, we have everything that enables us at any time to bring a State into the Union 7Ido not think it well to debate this any more, for I do not suppose on the bare motion of a Senator, without showing any reason, the bill will be referred to any committee. In the next place, as for the Senfrom Massachusetts, he challenges me to show that this constitution is republican in form. Well, sir, it is republican in form, but is not that kind of republicanism that I approve of. If I had my way about it nobody would be excluded from the franchise that was a male citizen of proper a e, let his color be what it would. [but would be the color of republicanism that I should like the best; but to deny that under the Constitution of the U.S. this constitntion is republican in form is to deny that we have a republic at all, for when the government was formed I believe there was not more than one State at all events that was republican in form unless this is republican in use can make it safe form. It is republican in form and also in substance, for l do not suppose (and lam in formed that there are not) that there are 50 colored persons in the whole Territory; but they ought to vote if there was but one. I grant you that. So it. has been in the State from which I come, and in the States from which most of us come. They all have the right of suffrage, but their not having that right now ought not to be an iimpediment in the way of this whole people having anything to do with conducting their own affairs, nor does it conduce to bring near the time when everybody will consent that every person of proper age and proper mind shall be entitled to vote. It does not conduce to that end to postpone these measures in this way. I know all well that the Senate has voted for a constitutional amendment fixing forever the status of the southern States and all States not permitting colored people to vote except by the consent of their State, just as this is. It does not look to making that compulsory on them by the Government of the U.S., but leaves it to the States to say who shall be their voters, giving them some inducement to do justice to all men. I know that inducement is having its effect and will very soon work out that problem which the Senfrom Massachusetts is so desirous to solve now; and he is not more desirous nor eager for that time to come than I am. But, sir, it is all futile to say that when every new State has been admit, ted with a constitution in this particular like the one before us, we shall now declare that this State shall be kept at arm’s ends because it has done just as every other State has done heretofore; for no new State has ct knocked at our doors with a constitution a mitting colored people to the franchise not one. Why make an exception of this? I want universal, impartial suffrage; I want a great many other things in this constitution that I do not see here, and I hope the time will come when they will be fixed according to my standard of what they ought to be; but then I am not their judge. They must judge of these matters for themselves. The State constitution is republican in form, but it is not as perfectly so, as far as suffrage is concerned, as I wish it was; but it is just as good as its neighbors are now. The State of Massachusetts is a little forward on this subject. Iam glad of it. NewEngland, I believe, has generally got over this color phobia, which is fast vanishing away everywhere. No; Connecticut has not; she stands as firmly as any State in the Union upon that discrimination. I am sorry for it, butI think she will outgrow it very soon. But, however, I will not argue these old, dry questions over again. We all understand them, and it is in vain now at this time of day to make a discrimination against this State because she 'has done like every other State that has come into the Union, with a constitution precisely the same as every other had, and not at allditl ferent in this respect. Therefore I hope without further delay that it will be the judgment of the Senate that she should be admitted. Here are her Senators, gentlemen of the great est reputation, able to represent her on this floor with ability and to the advantage of the people of the State, knocking at your doors, rea y to take apart in the Governmentand all that interests them; and why should we keep them out? I know some gentlemen who are very eager apparently to keep this State out would be very willing to take in other States, more doubtful in character than this. with any constitution they might get u.Ido not go on that principle. Ifeel a litt e impartial; but if there is any partiality on in mind it is for the State that has never erre, never made a misstep, which is ullerect, up to the very high water mark of modern imrovements in governrneut; Let her in; an if you have other States that arelning behind, the moment you 8for us that they shall be represented Iam with you. But this State has ‘never in her progress from a Territory to a 1l State been hostile to the glorious old flag of the country; she never raised an impious arm against the General Government; she COmt'S here as a legitimate daughter of the Republic, now arrived at age and claiming her articipation in the management of affairs, an I say let her in without further parlcy.