Mr. WILLIAMS. I understood the honor able Senfrom Wisconsin to say that they would never sanction a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. extending the right of suffrage to black persons. He may be rightin that opinion;I may he in error but I have misjudged the signs of the times i the day is not approaching when all distinctions as to classes will be abolished, so far as the elective franchise and civil rights are concerned, in this country. The States are moving in this matter as States; and it is not to be supposed that the public opinion which will prouce such a change in any of the eastern or northern or middle States will not reach across the mountains and the plains to Colorado and there produce the same effect. If this constitution shall be accepted and this State admitted, it may be, as predicted by the honorable Senfrom Nevada, [Mr. NYE] that within a year, or perhaps some longer but not remote period of time, this constitution may be so gmended as to allow all men the right of suffrage. The honorable Senfrom Massachusetts said in effect, ifI did not misunderstand him, that no man could consistently favor the admission of Colorado as a State under this constitution and at the same time insist that negro suffrage should be required of the States lately in rebellion. I think there is a vast difference between the 2 cases. If negro suffrage be required of the States lately in rebellion, it must be upon 2 grounds: 1st, because the black people of those States constitute a large proportion of the pOpulation; the are largely interested in all State matters an State questions, and there is such a deerooted prejudice against them that suffrage becomes necessary for them as a protection for their lives, liberty and property and again upon the roun that these black men have everywhere Seen unchangeably loyal to the Government during the late struggle, and by extending to them the right of an rage we enable the loyal sentiment of that country to predominate over the rebel and disorganizing sentiment, and in that way secure the perpetuity, the peace, and the inteity of the nation. These are 200 good and valid reasons, if it be necessary to ise uss that question at this time, that might exist for requiring ne prosuffrage in the lately rebellious States which do not exist so far as the Territory of Colomdo is concerned; for there there is but a handful of negroes, a few dozen; and there is no feeling or prejudice, I imagine, in that Territory that won d greatly endanger the substantial rights and privileges of the colored people. Now, sir, I lave this to say on the question of population: admitting that the population at this time is not sufficient in the estimation of honorable Senators, I claim that upon all principles of good faith Congress is estopped at this time from controverting that question. Whatever level or technical questions may be made upon the enablin act, I say that congress then deliberately ecided that the population of that Territory Was suihcieut to justify it in becoming a} 82m. So far as that question of fact is conceruc, it was then decided.