Mr. WADE. Yes, sir. It was sought to be applied again, not in exactly the words in which the Senator has embodied his amendment, but the principle was precisely the same, as an amendment to the JtResolution for the admission of the State of Tennessee. I wish Senators to attend to the action that was had then, because they will not suppose that I am the advocate here now of any new doctrine. I wonder that when this question was so emphatically settled as it was then it should be made a question here now. When that resolution admitting Tennessee if you please to call it admitting or restoring her relations with this Government, as the resolution asserted, was before the Senate, the Senfrom Massachusetts sought to attach this amendment to it: "Provided, That this shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition that within the State there shall be no denial of the electoral franchise or of any other rights on account of color or race, but all persons shall be equal before the law, and the Legislature of the State by a solemn public act shall declare the assent of the State to this funda–mental condition and shall transmit to the POTUS an authentic copy of such assent pwrhoemnpetverrecethipet swahmeereosfh, all be adopted, upon the he shall, by proclamation, announce the fact, whereupon, without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, this JtResolution shall take effect.” Now, sir, there was an endeavor to give the right to the colored people to vote in the State of Tennessee and to make that a condition on which she should be restored to her relations to the Union. I desire the attention of Senators who may not recollect how this important resolution was voted upon, to the names of those who voted for and againstit. I trust that gentlemen are not about to change their front now. There is nothing in my judgment which ought to lead to any such change, for this is a much stronger case in the direction I argue it than the one that was up here last year. The yeas&nays were taken on this proposition, and resulted yeas 4, nays 34; as follows: “Those who voted in the affirmative are Messrs. Brown, Pomeroy, Sumner, and Wade–4.” I voted for it myself last year. I voted for just such an amendment as you have got here.