Mr. Ejio. Mr. President, all power to make law is despotic, because it is the power to impress the will of the law maker upon who ever may happen to be the subject of it, and a republican power, unless it be wisely exercised for the equal protection of law, without respect to race or color, is just as despotic as if it were exercised by a single sovereign. The phan tom, therefore, of despotic power which we to exercise has no terrors for me at all. Tahree reason why we do not exercise all legislative power for the Territories is because, consist ently with our notions of appropriate democratic government, it is fit to leave to the people of the Territories the regulation of their ordinary internal affairs in their own way; but we have thought it fit for many years, in the regulation of the Territories, to declare that their internal regulations should be equal with respect to each other. We have thought it fit to declare that there shall no more be involuntary servitude except for crime. We have not chosen to leave it to the people of the Territories to declare that half of them, because they differ from them in the color of their skin, should be the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the white men; and the reason why we have exercised that power which the gentleman calls despotic is because, as representing the public will of the nation, whose citizens the people of the Territories are as well as the people of the States, we have thought that it was a fundamental wrong; while no mere majority of a section.impose upon the minority of that section. Now the question returns, whether this right to vote among men of equal conditions in every respect except color, among citizens equally citizens of i. U.S. in this Territory, is one of those fundamental regulations in which there ought to be equality. That is the question. We may safely leave to the people of a new State which we create, or to the people of a Territory, the right to regulate the descent and distribution f real estate so long as the people of that State or Territory regulate it, so that it operates equally upon the black man and the white man, upon the woman and the child.