Mr. MORRILL. In the brief period of 3 minutes I do not expect to argue the question, and can only state some of. reasons why I shall vote against the bill. The privilege, sir, of being admitted as a State into the Union is one of inestimable value, and those who ask to be so admitted should come in white robes, pure and unspotted. We have a right to inquire whether the parties come up to the standard we now proclaim to the o or not. This constitution of Nebraska excludes all but white citizens from the elective franchise, and that, in my opinion, is an insuperable obstacle to immediate admission. Then, in the next place, I find the 3rd section conflicts with. 1st. The 1st section admits the State, without any conditions at all, “upon an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever;” while the last proposes fundamental and perpetual conditions, that the act shall take effect with no.ment or denial of the exercise of the elective franchise, or any other right, to any person by reason of race or color, (excepting Indians not taxed.”) This is correct doctrine; but they have already made their fundamental law and denied these rights to some of their own citizens. It will raise a question for the courts, and I prefer not to go into the courts at all on such questions. Being now within our control it is far better to keep them there. We ought to make our laws on this subject Symmetrical, making such rules that we shall be willing to admit a dozen States out of the Territories in the Northwest upon the same terms as would be satisfactory in the case of the southern States; for I cannot myself see why there is any necessity to have one rule in one case and a different one in another. Let the rule be just, but uniform in: all cases; otherwise we shall precedents that hereafter may be very embarrassing. If we may trust the people of Nebraska to perform “a condition subsequent, " why not the people of Georgia or Louisiana? Mr. Speaker, there is no sort of hurry about the matter. And we are not sure there is population enough in the Territory to warrant her admission as a State. The new railroad, it is said, will soon add largely to her population. Railroads are all very well, but they are not exactly the equivalent of population. Let us welcome Nebraska, but not until she is ready, as I have no doubt she soon will be. In my judgment, a Territory to be admitted as a should have a population sufficient at least for one member of this House. It should have at least 50,000, while I do not believe, from the information we have, that in the F.case there is over 40,000. I now of no census which has been taken by which anyone can speak of the number of her with any authority, and before Ne raska is admitted there ought to be an authen tic census, if for no other purpose than to see whether she has a sufficient number to support a State government. A State government is a very coonsiderable burden for a small number in a new country.