Mr. WADE. No; there are some here. There are some in Colorado, but there are a few in Nebraska. when it comes up, that seems to be in gentlemen's minds more than Nebraska a good deal. The population at all events, on the best evidence we have, is certainly much larger than that of several Territories which have been admitted as States; I think I may say more than most of them when they were admitted into the Union. I believe the population of Nebraska today is as large as that of the State of Florida. This people as I have said once before are a loyal people and will be the foundation of perhaps one of the best States in this Union. And I will say too that I traveled up through there myself this fall. I saw every thing active and in motion there. Omaha is one of the most flourishing towns I have seen in a great while. The evidence of enterprise there is as great as it is in any city I have ever been in. It is all flourishing. Their railroad establishment for the construction of cars and engines and everything else they require is one of the best. It is not completed yet, but they have progressed with it to a great extent and laid out a great amount of money there, and I know of no part of the country that appears to be more enterprising, more flourishing, and filling up faster with inhabitants than the territory FN. Now, can anybody tell me why we should single her out and keep her out of the Union? The Senfrom Massachusetts undertakes to tell us why we should go against it and keep it out. Why? Because he has interposed a new principle. Was a State ever before excluded on this ground? Not at all. The Senator will not pretend that this ever was made an objection to any other State or Territory. What position should I be in here arguing against the admission of this State on the ground that they had the word “white” in their constitution? Sir, the State of Ohio has the word “white” in her Constitution. I intend to do all I can to induce the people of Ohio to eradicate it and to give every man the same equal rights; but I will not stand here as a Senfrom Ohio objecting to the admission of a new State with a constitution like that of Ohio in this respect. " It is unjust to establish now for the 1st time a rule of this kind to operate against a Territory which has complied with all the requirements which have ever been imposed on any other Territory seeking admission into the Union as a State. It is unjust to exclude her upon a new idea, got up after the enabling act was passed. When you passed the enabling act, why did you not direct that she should make a constitution excluding the word “white?”