Mr. HILL obtained the floor, and yielded 5 minutes of his time to Mr. ALLISON, who said: Mr. Speaker, it is not my purpose to make any direct argument bearing upon the particular question now before the House, but only to state briefly why I am for the amendment. The State in which I live lies adjacent to the Territory which is now asking for admission as a State into the Union, separated from it only by the Missouri river, and I shall be glad to cast my vote in favor of its admission here if that Territory or State stands ready to incorporate within its organic law a principle which I believe to be the duty of every State to incorporate, whether now in the Union or hereafter to be admitted, which principle is clearly set forth in the amendment now under consideration. The State of Iowa, which I in part represent, by the vote of her people and by a majority of more than 20,000 has declared that the word “white” should be stricken from her constitution; and that question is again to be submitted to the people of my own State next year. And I intend if I am present the day of the election to cast my vote in favor of striking out that word from the constitution of the State, depriving, as it does, a portion of her people of the right to participate in the enactment of laws for their government. I intend further, sir, to cast my vote only in favor of the admission of such of the ten States which have been declared in rebellion as will adopt an impartial rule of suffrage, without distinction of race or color. I shall not cast my vote for their admission until they are willing to accord to the black man the rights which white men enjoy under similar circumstances. Therefore it is, sir, that unless this proposition now made by the Gentfrom Massachusetts is incorporated into this bill as a fundamental condition precedent to the admission of this State into the Union, much as I desire its admission, I shall be compelled to against vote it. I believe it is within the power of Congress to impose a condition precedent upon a territory, and that condition, when assented to by the Legislature of the State as is here proposed, which Legislature represents for the time being the sovereignty of the people, is binding upon the people of the State; and I join hands with the distinguished member from Pennsylvania [Mr. KELLEY) and say I will not put by my vote gyves upon the wrists of 900 free men in Nebraska, especially when probably more than 1/2 of them imperiled their lives in defense of the liberties which we now enjoy, and which they as citizens have a right to enjoy in common with us. More especially should we insist upon this amendment when by the votes of both Houses we have recently declared by a large majority that in all the Territories, including Nebraska in the future, there shall be no distinction o rights on account of race or color or previons condition of servitude; and when we insist that similar provisions shall apply to the States recently in rebellion, to consent now to a surrender of these rights virtually acquired, either directly or indirectly, would in my judgment be a disgraceful abandonment of a principle which I believe just, and which meets the approval of a vast majority of the people of this nation. For myself. I cannot by my voice or vote consent to such abandonment. I shall therefore vote for the amendment, and for the admission of the State with the limitations prescribed. I thank the Gentfrom Indiana for his courtesy in yielding to me.