The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-01-19
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Letters from Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan'Y

WASHINGTON, Jan'y 9TH, 1889.
Ere long, Congress will have to make an APP
preparation for the construction of huge table,
whereon to lay the enormous loads OF abolition
papers arriving daily. They reach us, not by
hundreds, but by thousands, and still
'They come, they come"
This morning the hall of the House presented
the appearance of an immense paper warehouse;
nearly every member having pile of petitions up
on his desk, The House may refuse to hear them
read, but the time alone occupied in their presen-
tation, will give no mean idea of the amount of
that public feeling which has been invoked by the
Demon of Gag Law Our political tyrants may
as we'll pass resolutions to prevent the rising of
the sun, as to attempt to check the expression of
public sentiment on their disgraoeful proceedings.
Even the proposition to recede this district to
the old States, and thus compromise the present
difficulties was voted down. They are determin-
ed to bind the whole inject Of abolition, hand and
foot until, like Sampson of old, it shall burst a
sunder its letters and Stay them chip and thigh. y
Mr.. Dromgoole has appointed himself to the Of
flee of Gag Law General" whose duty it is to
make all the motions for laying Objectionable me-
MORALS on the table. Posterity will pay him his
fees of office.
The whole day being occupied by the presen-
taton of petitions, Mr. Wise had no opportunity
of renewing his resolution relative to the impeach-
ment of the Secretary. But an opportunity will
arrive when, Notwithstanding all the feverish anx-
ety of the party in power to sfe debate, the light
which is beginning to be shed on dark transac-
tons, long hidden from the public eye, will blaze
forth as the MONDAY sun. The country is be-
ginning to understand the tricks of the admins
tration; but, in the words of Mr.. Menifee, it may
as we'll at once, with arms crossed and heart re-
signed, come up 10 that bar where the American
people will pass on its deeds, and award due rec
ompense. That people would embedy the mi
quities of ten long years, and placing them on the
heads of the victims would stretch the sacrihcial
knife, and calling on Heaven, would make one
eqpiatory offering to the God of Liberty
JAM 9th, 1888.
An important and exciting debate sprung up
upon motion to print certain resolutions adopted by
the Legislature of Vermont touching the subject
of Slavery and the abolition of Slavery. Mr..
Prentiss of Vermont presented the resolutions
They embodied sentiments strongly hostile to the
system of Slavery, and favorable to the Abolition
of Slavery in the District of Columbia.
Mr., Prentiss, in presenting Them made the GUS
tomary motion to print.
Mr.. Foster of Tenn. objected
Mr.. Calhoun spoke in very excited manner in
regard to the resolutions from Vermont. He was
not only opposed to printing, but considered the
resolutions as dangerous and destructive to the
Union of the States, The course of the Adolf
tioniss he considered destructive of the best in
terestS of the States, and, if persisted in, would
forthwith lead to the dissolution of the Union.
Mr.. King of Ala. spoke in manner still more
excited, and said if the matter embodied in the
resolutions were discussed and considered, he and
his friends would leave the hall, aud the Union
would be dissolved.
MIR. Lumpkin of Geo. was surprised that the
motion to print should be persisted in, and moved
that the motion to print be laid on the table.
Mr. Prentiss said he asked for the printing as
an act of courtesy to the State that he represent
ed and he was surprised that the motion should be
objected to.
The Yeas and Nays were demanded and the
motion to print was rejected-Yeas 81, Nays9.
From the Pennsylvania Freeman
Movements in Congress.
"No peace TO the wicked"
In the House of Representatives, on the 9TH
inst a vast number of anti-slavery memorials were
presented from the states of Ohio, Indiana Mas
sachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and
Newly ork, together with the following from SLAVE
STATES:
The memorial Of Joseph l.. Smith and Others
citizens of Frederick and Carroll counties, of Ma
ryland praying for the recognition of the indepen
dence of Hayt and the establishment of the Gus
tomary political and commercial relations between
the United States and Hayti referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. The memorial of
John Chambers and others, citizens Of Virginia
and Maryland, praying for the recognition Of the
republic of Hayti as an independent nation, and
i
relations with that republic referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations.
When the state Of Virginia was called upon for
petitions, Mr. Wise said he was about to present
petition of rather unique character. 1t had
been forwarded to him, and was addressed to the
House of Representatives. 1t came from one wo-
man and one man. He could not say whether or
not they were joined together. Their names
were J. S. White and Louisa Grosvenor Of Calais,
in the state of Maine. There was a seal upon
the paper also of a singular character. Stamped