Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I mean to stand by the bill as it came from the Senate for the reasons which I assigned yesterday, and I mean to vote against the amendment of the Gentfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. BouT well] I shall do so for the reason that the proposition is without P. in the history of the Government. I am not to be alarmed by gentlemen assuming on this floor to be the sole champions and defenders of liberty, and I scout o pretension of gentlemen who profess to be such champions and come into this House to trample. charter of liberty and the oath which they have taken under their feet. What is proposed by this amendment?. It is this: that the Legislature of a State shall change its organic law in direct contravention of the express authority of the people of that State, and only by authority of Congress. Who ever before heard such a proposition? It has no parallel in the Missouri case; and to test the vitality of this, I will agree to vote for the proposition in the case of Missouri word for word, letter for letter, as a substitute for this clause. It does not approach the Missouri proposition, which was that the State of missouri should be admitted into the Union upon the fundamental condition that her constitution should never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and no law should ever be passed by the State of Missouri in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States of the Union should be excluded from the enjoyment of any privileges or immunities to which such citizen was entitled under the Constitution of the U.S. But what is this proposition? Why, that the Legislature of the State of Nebraska shall change its organic law so that that clause shall be what it was not made by that people but the very contrary thereof. What right has Congress to make a constitution for a State? The people make the constitutions of States, and the people made the Constitution of the U.S. The 1st line of that great instrument is, “We, the people of the U.S. Tohoerdain and establish this Constitu1st article in that Constitution is, that the people of a State shall control its organic power and define the qualifications of its electors. What is this proposition? That Congress by the legislative enactment of the State shall change its organic law so as to fix for all time to come the qualifications of electors. Sir, I will gladly hail the day when every State in this Union shall strike the word “white” from its constitution, but I will not stultify myself by pretending that we can guaranty to Nebraska a republican government in violation of the very letter of the constitution which that people have ordained, and at the same time refuse to guaranty a like reblican government to Pennsylvania or Ohio in defiance of the will of the people of those States. Our power to do the one is equal to our power to do the other.