Mr. COWAN. The other Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. SUMNER] is for it, and he has said so. 9 svows it. I have the highest respect for him and his principles, and no difficulty whatever about them. But put it into your platform. The President says thatquestion belongs to the States. Does it? s it solely within the province of a free State to determine who shall be the depositaries of political power within that State? If it is, the Tresident is right. If however, the other States under this Confederacy and the powers which they enjoy under the Constitution have a right to amend it so as to take away from free States that power, then avow that, and put it down and may c it your platform and stand upon it. I have a right then, if I choose, to get upon it, I suppose, but you have no right if I do not get upon it, to say that I have abandoned any previous platform. Nobody has a right to say that I have not been faithful to my party obligations because I do not happen to vote with the honorable Senfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Wrasox] and his friends. Now, I will say further to that Senator that I was a member of the Republican party, the party that adopted the Chicgo platform of1860, the party that denounced John Brown for his raid into Virginia. The honorable Senator and his set as I call them because Ireally think they never had a party, they never amounted tomore than an abolition society the peOple who entertained the views and insisted upon the doctrines which he says now ought to be the doctrines of the American people, and perhaps it may be so, had no part or lot, with their extraordinary schemes and measures, in the Chicago platform of 1860. Iask in all candor suppose somebody at that time hadmentioned in at platform, or could have got a plank inserted in it, that the Republican party were in fhvor of negro suffrage, where would the I honorable Senator have been with his tremendous majority today that he talks about? Put it in your platform in the coming election, and I can show where he will be after the next election in Pennsylvania. I do not profess to know anything about Massachusetts, and indeed I do not profess to care a great deal. She is of great importance when newspa rsare to be printed an speeches are to be m e; but when the votes come to be counted she is not of so much in: rtance, and almost anybody can tell a long while before hand what she is going to do upon any question. Her people have a very large mark in within which to display themselves there is a 100,000majority in favorof the Republican platform as announced by her representatives, there is lenty of room for a diminution without much anger.