Mr. WADE. Well, sir, that would be giving great weight to my judgment to overrule 34 Senators by it. but let us now see what the weight of authority was against me on that occasion. “Those who voted in the negative are Messrs. An thony, Buckalew, Chandler, Clark, Cowan, Cres well. Davis. Doolittie, Edmunds, Fessenden. Foster, Grimes. Harris. Henderson. Hendricks. Howard, NHeowsme, itJho, hnNsoonrt.onK, irkPwoloaondd,, LRaanme, seMy, orRgiadnd.le, MoSrrhilel, r lmiaamns., SapnrdaWgi.l"sofrna m34j.i”. Van Winkle, Wiley, Wii There you had almost the whole Senate against such a qualification to the admission of the State of Tennessee, a rebel State that came here, not complying even with the requisitions of your constitutional amendment. This territory has not adopted, but I pledge my word and my honor that she stands ready, just as soon as you shall admit her into this Union, the very next day, if her Legislature is in ses.sion, to adopt your constitutional amendment. There is no doubt about it. Everybody from that quarter says so. The respectable, truthful gentlemen who have been sent here to represent that Territory as Senators on this floor, their Delegate in the other House, the letters I have received from all the officers of the State everywhere, announce the fact that this Territory is up to high water mark on the subject of human rights. I want them here because I want this body strengthened immensely by the reenforcement that.gentlemen will bring to bear upon every question you can get up; and you stand here cavilling over a mere. nicality. There is nothing else about it. They also inform me that all their influence as men, strengthened and enforced by the elevation into the magistracy, if you will give them a chance, si.exerted to see that this ghost of an objection shall be removed. And do you doubt that it will be? Not at all. It was not so with the State of Tennessee. You had no such assurances from that quarter. Nobody stood up on this floor giving you assurance that they would adopt your constitutional amendment and then give enfranchisement to all the colored population in the State. No such announcement as that was made; and yet 34 of you voted against requiring such an assurance. I failed to do oat that time I had not so fully investigated the principle upon which the Government moves, as I have since the equality of the States, the forcing these conditions upon State which had noting forfeited her rights, act.. the action of this goverum. the earliest time. I went against wana gave that vote, prompted to do o by my zeal for fixing that qualification everywhere that we can.