Mr. HENDERSON. I do not ask that it should; but this is a very important declaration for us to be making. Then there is another declaration here, which is also in the House resolution, thatTennessee “has also shown to the satisfaction of Congress, by a proper spirit of obedience in the body of her people, her return to her due allegiance to the Government, laws, and authority of the U.S." The Senfrom Ohio, SMr. WADE, ] a little more than n year ago, in discussion on this floor, and the able Senfrom Michigan [Mr. HOWARD] also stated, as I distinctly remember, that they would not vote for the return of any State iiito the Union until it was clearly manifest that a majority of the people of that State showed themselves willing I to return and obedient to the laws and Constitution of the U.S.; in other words, loyal. Now, I am very well satisfied that a majority of the people of Tennessee today. that is, the original white voters are not.loyal,; and have not been since 1861. A large may 'ority of them were disloyal then and are disioyal today.‘ And yet the Senfrom OhlOl desires to assert all these propositions to dny, and insists upon havinv avote immediately. He must. have them nlI asserted. I am not prepared to assert them. He says that the people of Tonnessee have shown a right spirit by disfranchising the rebels. Haw they disfrnnchised a majority of their people in so doing? Yes; and they have disfranchised all the black people. If they have disfrauchiset'lm the rebels, they have disfrsnchised the majority of their white voters, and they have also disfruuchised 400,000 negroes; and a small minority present themselves here, and we must declare that the body of the people have shown themselves loyall Mr. President, I am not resisting this government of Tennessee. I am in favor of admit ting ‘Tennessee, and I shall vote for it most willingly; but I will notussert the views stated in this preamble. I have taken the ground, in discussion here, that a minority of the people how: a right to representation when they show at they are able to control the polities of the State; and I now insist that sue i is the fact, at when a majority of the people rebel, the minority have a right to govern according to the laws of the U.S. That is m pesitiou, I have always entertained it, and do not see any reason to change it now. But when you ask me to assert that the body of the people of Tennessee are loyal and have shown obedience to the Constitution and laws of the U.S., when in order to govern according to their rules they have exeluded 400,000 negroes and a majority of their whites, I will do no such thing. I hope, sir, that we shall not insist upon this preamble, but that we shall go back to the preamble adopted bYy the House, and take only this part of it: Whereasthe State of Tennesseehas ratified. Leavin out the words “in good faith, ” for I do not now whether the have ratified it in good faith or not. I leave that to themselvesWhereas the State of Tennesseehas ratified the article of amendmentto the Constitution of the U.S., proposed by‘ the 39th Congress to theLegislaturesof t oseveral States: Therefore, Be it resolved. 6‘0. I am willing to sto right there. I am unwilling to say that ennessee has “shown to the satisfaction of Congress, by a proper spirit of obedience in, the body of her people, her return to her due allegiance to the Government, laws, and anthg itgvof the U.S."