Mr. WADE. I will answer the Senator; I never dodge anything. I do not think it right politically. was I am an advocate for universal suffrage, and always have been; but when you ask me to stand by that principle where it will have no effect, and where, as Isaid least using arguments that I had oin w before, to insist on it will defeat a great meed of good that is within our reach in order to assert the ghost of that principle, I do not think is to act wisely. Therefore the Senator was wrong when he said I had argued this right of suffrage as a glittering generality, as a certain gentleman said of the DeclarIndep. I never have treated the DeclarIndep as a glittering generality, but as a reality, yea, sir, more important to man kind than any declaration that has been made since that which was made to Moses on Mount Sinai. Its effect on the world has been greater; and it has had no sterner advocate for its principles than myself, so far as I have been able to assert them always. I have said nothing about this right in the abstract. It is a right, and I am the advocate for it; but I am not willing to sacrifice every thing to it where it has no application. I was endeavoring to show the improbability of an abandonment of their principles by 2/3rds of this Republican Senate, yea, more than 2/3rds of the Republican Senate, more than 4 5th s of them, who are as tender upon the subject of human rights, and even upon this political right of voting, as the Senfrom Vermont. And he must not attempt, nor must the Senfrom Massachusetts attempt to brand the Senate withstanding here ready, prompt, eager to do a shameful and disgraceful thing. A little modesty should assure a man that such a proposition as that would hardly go down in this Senate. I have resisted the application of these amendments because I doubt now the constitutionality of them; but I am willing to tell the Senfrom Vermont, and all other Senators, that if his proposition is constitutional I have no objection to it. I am in favor of it now if it can be done properly and within the verge of the Constitution of the U.S. if I am wrong in the supposition that we cannotingraft upon the constitution of a State seeking to come into the Union a condition that shall be binding upon her when she is in and a continual provision that she never can violate, convince me of it and I shall be willing to enforce in the present case this principle of absolute right, if you please to consider it so, so that it never shall be changed. I do not see, however, that we have that power; and I argued as well as I could, and I believe in accordance with all the great jurists of the U.S. heretofore, that we had no such right; that it would be in the power of this State the next day after you admitted her to turn around and change her constitution, and thrust out the provision that you had forced upon her.