The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-02-09
CONGRESS

d.. .- CONGRESS g..,s~--..
Has been for some time psst enga ged
on the Missouri Question" to the cx-
clusion of almost all other matters OF a
public nature. The debate on this sub.
ject, which grew out OF the amendment
offered by MIR. Roberts, III the following
words" ProVidcd-also, that the fur.
yher Introduction inio fhe said STATE, o.
persons TO be held in slavs,y or involnn-
tary se,Situde within fhe same, shat be
absolutely and irrevoeab'y prohibited"
has terminated ia the Senate, aud decid-
I'd in the negative, b. yeas and nays,
YEAS.-l6, NAYS-27.
Mr. HUNTER Of II. l. in the negative.
1t may be well to call the stention of
cur readers to the fact, which they. may
have overlooked in the daily notice of
Congressional proceedings, that the Re
solution proposing an amendment of the
Constitution so as TO establish all UNI
formity IN the mode Of electing 10y Dis
tricts) Representatives to Congress, and
Presidential Electors, has passed. The
Senate, by the requisite vote of two
thirds of the members present, and is
now before the. House Of Representa-
tives. We hope it will also pass tnat
body, and be submitted to the States.
Several Of the States have already ex.
pressed their opinions decisively IN favor
Of the measure; and, we are sanguine in
the belief, that, if it passes the House Of
Representatives, it will receive the sane,
lion os at least two. thirds Of the Senate
-. .Nas. lnselliseneer. :,
THE MISSOURI QUESTION, .
As it is Familiarity called; is at length
determined in the Senate. After de-
bate, as full, as deliberate, and as able,
perhaps, IS ever took place in t'at vene.
rable body, the. Senate have decided, by
vote OF nearly two to one, that the
Congress of the U, 5. does not possess
the right to impose upon the people Of
Missouri the proposed Restriction, as a
condition of their admission into the Un.
ION. ,I'hc majority is greater, we be.
ieyc, than was anticipated, and the vote
i. the largest which we remember to
have been taken in the Scnatc--every
,nemer being in his seat, except one,
who, it is understood, would have vo.
ted with the majority, had he been pres.
ent.-Na.. MteNgerecr.
HARTFORD. CONVENTION. .
In tina well written pieses that have ap.
peared in the National Intelligencer, sign.
cl MASSACHUSETTS, there IS an anec-
t,ote o. Mr.. OrIs, well known to be a
fact here IL Boston. Tie party would
no: venture to hold thlt gentleman mp IS
a candidate for Governor, well knowing
che popular adherence OF the Hartford
Convention. There is no ope. Mr..
L-v-l, or any other nrao, who dares,
at hi, time, vindicate the HayE0rd on
r.ntion he might as well vindicate Zen
c!ict Hrnoid Even the city of hartford
n,rrakss, in some measure, Of the odium;
and however unreasonable that may be,
chi: generation and the next will main-
,,i, the association OF ideas.-lt is., be-
sure a most solemn warning to all bead
foremost political partizans. We have
ben sorry for some Of the country mem
~,rs and their families, bnt as to the lead
crs in the business they richly dserve tn
oliun they are su.:cring under.
Can any one wonder at this odium
when n. recoiects tia, the Infamous John
Rsr,y and his British associates, wer'.
o. irst who suggested the plan Of tn
E.vtford Conventim.-We well re
usasssT soIS much the British expec'eo
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