Mr. POMEROY. I am not certain. I know there was no general sentimentamong the people in favor of it until the last year or so; but since the adoption of the constitution the friends whom I have in Nebraska in greatnumbers have written and urged the acceptance of this constitution by the Government. Indeed, I do not know that there is a party there opposed to it. All that I have learned is that there were some men holding office, as there were in Colorado, who expected that their occupation would be gone if Nebraska could not be continued as a erritory, and they have kept up a little party, and there is a charge of fraud raised. Whether there is any truth in it or not I do not know, but it is traceable to those who were Opposing the constitution, and I have not seen an in sinuation of that sort against those who advo cated the adoption of the constitution. I have been a citizen of a Territory long enough to know that men who get offices under the general Government that expire when the Territory becomes a State 0 ose a State government, and they will hold on to a territorial government as long as they possibly can, and they will get up a party and1they will try to control. the elections. They are the very men who control the elections, because they are in public oliiee; they have some patronage and they have some money; and the very men who oppose the organization of n State government are generally the appointees of the Adminis tration, those who would be likely to lose their offices if the Territo became a State. Now, I say that i any Territory has been well)repared and is worthy of admission into this nion as a State it is Nebraska. She did not go through all the discipline that in State went through; but she has had enoug of it. She is ready to throw it off; she is ready to pass out from under this GenerafGovernment of the U.S. into a national American government of her own. If there is anything the American people like, it is their own government. The General Government may be ever so good, the territorial government may be ever so kind, yet if it is not a government of the people it never satisfies t cm. This American idea runs through the hearts of our citizens everywhere in all the States. Put a dozen men down in a Territory and they will go to work and form a State government so as to have a government of their own. They will always want to get a government of their own. It is always a most offensive thing to have Governors appointed, judges apointed, officers to rule over them a pointe from some distant State, generally tom the East, who know as little about the West as if they had never been there, and yet they have gone down there and tried to administer government. The most unpopular and most unfortunate class of people that go into a new Territory are eastern men when they suddenly get an appointment and go West. The people want to throw off that kind of government and have a government of their own. The people of Nebraska have proceeded, I say, in thespirit of the act; they have a reason able amount of population; they are wealthy; they are willing to an port a State government. I say it is time they did do it.