Mr. WADE. Yes, turn Copperheads. They will not do it; but you jby such action tempt them to do it. You will be doing them a wrong that you ought not to do. It would be the most impolitic, the most suicidal act that the leaders of any great party were ever guilty of if you now thrust them out and the Representatives and Senators whom they have sent here some of the best men in the country, approved of everybody. No better men ever knocked at your doors for admission than these gentlemen. A Senator on the other side of the House has intimated that if they were Copperheads or Democrats or something of that sort we should not be so anxious for their coming in. I do not conceal that. Even then, if they had committed no treason I might feel myself bound to let them in; but I should regret that we were to have such company. I am glad they are not of that class. I am glad they are loyal men, patriotic men, men who have been in the wars and hazarded their lives to maintain this Union. I do not think it is right now to exclude them; and I know that you will not be commended by your constituents for so suicidal an act. If there is anything that the loyal people of Ohio are in favor of today, it is the admission of these flourishing Territories into the Union as States to strengthen their own arm, to forward the great principles which we advocate, to help us in the great controversies that are before us, to do right and justice to a patriotic people. Sir, I am opposed to the amendment now pending, not because I am not in favor of the principle of it, but because we have not under taken heretofore to fix for a State I mean a loyal State the regulation of the elective franchise; the Constitution does not permit us to do it. It is true, as the Senfrom Missouri says, Nebraska is not yet a State, but he seeks to do indirectly before she comes in that which no one here would think of doing the moment after her admission. In my judgment you ought to leave this matter to this people on the same terms that you have left it to the people of all other States. Place them under your constitutional amendment. If they exclude the colored man from the polls, those men will not be counted in the basis of representation. But I tell you the 1st thing they will do will be so to change their constitution as to avail themselves of all those votes. Here they are, ready, eager, anxious to adopt your constitutional amendment, and they will adopt it on the 1st day of the assembling of their Legislature if you give them a chance. Why should you thrust them out when every other State that has come here in exactly the same position has been admitted without any remonstrance or protest? I ask for their admission, sir. I do not wish to prolong the argument.