Mr. SUMNER. I think. sir, they ought to go out, and if they do go out, it will make his preamble in that respect superior to the preamble of the House. That carries me now to another part of the preamble of the Senator. He has another allegation there which I must say is as errone ous as the one on which I have iicw remarked. He there declares, and calls upon us to declare, that the constitution adopte by Tennessee is republican in form. A constitution which disfranchises more than one quarter of its population. republican in form! What, sir, is a RFG? It is a government founded on the people and the consent of the governed. Sir, that constitution ofTennessee is not founded on the consent of the governed. It cannotinvoke forit that principle of the DeclarIndep; it is notagovernment republican in form; and when you undertake to allege that it is republican in form, permit me to say you make an allegation which is false in fact. I do not intend to raise any question of theory, butI submitto the senate that a constitution which on its face disfrau ichises more than one 4th of the citizens lcannot be republican in form. You, sir, will make a great mistake if at this moment of your history you undertake to recognize it as such. You will inflict a blow upon republican institutions. [hope that the Senfrom Illinois as he has consented to one amendment of the preamble will now consent to another, that he will strike out those words declaring that this constitution is republican in form and in harmony with the Constitution of the U.S. Do not comel us to aver what hereafter history will loo at with scorn. Who can doubt when the history of all this war comes to be written gravely and calmly in the tranquillity of the future that the historian must bring all these events to the rigid test of principle? Bringing them to this test, it will e impossible to recognize any government, like that of Tennessee now, either as republican in form or in harmony with the Constitution of the U.S. ‘