more numerous,--at least until entitled to one Representative in the other House. At the proper time we shall gladly welcome them; but the time has not come. * * * * * There is another objection, which stands forth on the face of their constitution. It is not republican in form, or in harmony with the Declaration of Independence. The requirement of the Enabling Act, under which they pretend to proceed, but which, as I have shown, was already exhausted before they entered upon these proceedings, has these words:-- “That the Constitution, when formed, shall be republican, and not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence.”[272] Look now at this Constitution. Article III., entitled “Suffrage and Elections,” begins as follows:-- “SECTION 1. Every _white male citizen_ of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who is by birth, or has become by naturalization or by treaty, or shall have declared his intention to become, a citizen of the United States according to the laws thereof, and who shall have resided in the State of Colorado for six months preceding any election, and shall have been a resident for ten days of the precinct or election district where he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector, and entitled to vote at the same.” Note well the text, “every white male citizen”: in other words, nobody who is not “white,” under this constitution, is recognized as entitled to the elective franchise. Now, Sir, I insist--and I here challenge reply from any Senator on this floor--that such a constitution does not comply with the requirement of the Enabling Act, that it is not republican, and that it is repugnant to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. I say that it is not republican; for the first principle of republican government is equality. Let that be denied, and you fail in republican government. MR. MCDOUGALL [of California]. In what age of the world was there a republic where there was equality? Please answer me that.… I would like to have the single instance where it existed in ancient times, in the middle ages, or in the modern ages.