Mr. CLARK. Mayor elDeuner, and Clubber of the fsut National Bank. Hon. Jams W. Nvn. Senfrom Nevada, Washinplon, D. (7. Now. Mr. President, I present the authority of Mr. Clark, the mayor of Denver, and the cashier of the 1st national bank there, against the supposed authority of my friendfrom Mussachnsetts. Sir, I claim that it is the sound and wise policy of this nation to have the strong power of State governments across this continent. There is something in State ties. I never believed in this late dissolution of States; but there is notion that binds us so closel to ether in mutual interest as State ties. I believe that as a principle it is true; and the time so much longed for by the distinguished Senfrom Kentucky who last addressed you will soon come when reason takes the place of frenzy iu the rebellious States, when their judgments shall surmout their prejudices, when they shall have ceased to do evil and learned to do well, when it will be an acknowledged fact that State ties are stronger and more pow erful than national pressure from outside. I want to see a row O States across this conti nent that will vibrate with one thrill from the quiet wetersof the Pacific to the restless waters of the Atlantic. I want a State bond of symplathy from ocean to ocean that will hold the 3st and the West in bonds which the world manor. sever. I want the people inhabiting this vast expanse to be protects by State governments because they will make that which l is now a wilderness “bloom and blossom as the roae.” They will bring to the earths surface a wealth that will astonish the world. Give these pen is the fostering care of State governments, an they will convince foreign creditors that whatever obligations may rest u n the shoulders of the Government they are a ways on aspecie basis. Sir, higher than that, they stand on bullion. Give them State governments that will protect the miners in t ieir distant mountain homes, let them feel that they are not in danger from the wrath of the wild savage nor from the neglect of their Government, and the population will be so thick as to drive away the last phantom that haunts m friends mind th grasshoppers from Coorndo. Sir, give Colorado at State government, let her have a voice in the national councils with which she will be in unison of sentiment, and her growth will be more magical than an thing reduced by the lamp of Aladdin. ll y frieu has always turned, I suppose, eastward for light. Go West; go out there, and what will he see? The tales upon which he has feasted, that he has read as fe bles, are excelled by the realities. You find in Colorado a peoplo that beat the mountains fine. You flu in these new border Territories and States a population that level the mount ains and fill up the valleys. The stop at nothing. Give them protection, an I repeat that the owth of colorado will astonish the world. have seen the difference between a State and Territory; and although the mantle of a State government has rested a little more than 12 months upon my State, there is a feeling of security and advancement that never could have existed under a territorial government. My friend is alarmed for the dignity and honor of the older States. Well, they will take care of themselves. I have heard much said against NewEngland, and I love her so well that I am not going to repeat it; but she only occupies a small portion of this continent and she has had 12 most estimable (and it is happ for the country she has had them) Senators are that have stood like a.breakwater between the lashings and fury of rebellion and the stability of the Government. Sir, would you have hesi toted during the rebellion to have 2 from Colorado I Would you have uibbled upon the little point of the honor of the older States? Sir, a great State never is so noble and never appears so grand us when it reaches out its hand to 0. young, tender State and says, “I will uphold and sustain you; I bid you God speed on this journey.” Massachusetts was once young. True, that was a great many years ago; but she was young; she is old now and should not forget that time. My friend and I have both been younger than we are; but there is nothing I recur to in my past life with half the pleasure I do when I recollect an instance when I have stretched out my hand to a young man to aid him over the thorny pathway of professional life. Sir, the States were not born at once; but the Constitution clothes them with the garments of age; from the moment they are born they are the equals of the older States. It is well it is so. Why should they not be the equals of the old States? They are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, offspring, shootsingrufted upon the main stock of the arental Government. Sir, I do not think NewYork would be se ared. frightened out of her propriety, if Colorado should have a couple of votes here. NewYork stands upon her own base as firm as the everlastin hills, and so will Colorado. Sir, I care not Iiow many votes there are here; I anticipate the time, and that not for distant, when State line after State line will join, and there will not be an inch of the mountains and plains from the now dreary glaciers of Montana or Nevada to the eastern most boundary of the States beyond the mississippi that will not boast of a State government standing as an equal with NewYork and Massachusetts upon this floor, and neither of them will be degraded by the association. Sir, this business of making States is a lar 9 business; it has frightened the men down Sont. While they were engaged in hurling States out, some of us were engaged in bringing States in. This Government ln its form and plan will never be perfect till there is not a territorial dependency in it, till State line touches State line over our broad and expansive continent and furthermore if I may be pardoned, I see symptoms of States from another quarter. When this Fenian speck shall have blown away, the Canadians like wise men may seek shelter under the protecting aegisof the tree of liberty that was pliant edhere by our fathers. Sir, the StLawrence is not wide enough to divide the continent between monarchical and republican institutions. NewBrunswick and the other British Provinces are certain to come in and to tend toward an eastern preponderance by and by, as time rolls itself around. I hope, Mr. President, that this vote will be reconsidered. Colorado deserves better than to be rejected now. My friend says the enabling act is dead. Well, suppose it is dead, does Colorado die with it? Because a.statute has lapsed, are you to kill everybody that went where the statute existed 3 I pay but little attention in the discussion of this question to the mere fact of the existence of that enabling act. States have been broughtinto this iiimily of States without any enabing not and with less population than Colorado has got. The State of Arkansas, when it was admitted, had but 11,000 white population in it; and why do we stand here now, at this late day, debating such a point, when it is not the number of inhabitants that make a State, but the quality and character of the inhabitants? Why do we stand here quib bling about numbers, when our fathers did not stop to cavil? Sir, it is time to dro this iron standard of having so many or no State. When a body of men come here with the power to uphold and maintain a State government clothed with the garments of loyalt, let them come in. In that way you put, if may use the expression braces into this great tem ple of freedom. hou bring these elements of strength from State organizations, and m friendfrom Kentucky will nrdon me whenI say that the citizens of colorado know their resources, know the expenses of a State government, know its burdens, and knowing them are willing to take them upon themselves; and who shall be the judge for them but themselves? Mr. President, I have detained the Senate longer than I intended. I hope this vote will be reconsidered. Upon every principle of right. the enabling act was at least an invitation for them to come. My friendfrom Massachusetts says it would have been all well if they had come a ear sooner. Does he not remember the para le? The laborer who came at the 11thhour got the penny, too. Ikuow the embarrassment of the question of time. Our election was fixed on the same day with the Colorado election under the enabling act; and nothing but using the telegraph and unusual exertion enabled us to distribute intelligence to our distant minin posts; and some of them did not know it. but then? The convention met. We supposed that we must be admitted before the election in the fall, or our work would be void; and I telegraphed my self 16,800 words, the constitution of the State of Nevada; and Ne vada was born by telegru h. [Laughter] I received across the trembing wires, from the pen of the immortal Lincoln, that Nevada was born; and a shout went up that made the mountain tops and valleys rin. Do you not so pose he knew what he was a out? Clearly. Wliy did he not kick us out because the word “white” was in our constitution? It will not do. If Colorado had had as many telegruphs as we happened to have, and had used {from as much, she would have been born in time. But, sir, this (nestion of time, I take it, is a matter of small consideration. Here was an invitation to this feast of States; and she has come up to the feast as soon as time would allow. She has come up as soon as she could attire herself in State garments for the feast. My friend meets her by talking of pers.” Laughton] Vhen sheasks“propersbsrheoa., the brea of national life, he gives her a stone. Sir, that will not do. I insist upon it, that my friendfrom Massachusetts must be beaten now; nndI trust that the lesson will teach him to take it gracefully, and I assure him in the utmost kindness that this word “white” will not hurt anybody. Mr. President, I trust that this vote will be reconsidered und reconsidered now and that Colorado which sojustly deserves to stand within the circle of States will not be kept out any longer.