Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-08-21

every thing calculated 10 render this dcspOIic and
irrational Veto Power loathed and deuesled, but
here the price is quite too high.
Not all the mischief meditaied by the leaders
Of this Congress has been achieved. The ball 10
facilitate and stimulate gigantic land monopoly
under the title Of graduation was finally laid We
~ hard upon the table Of the House, on the mo-
ton Of Mr.. BrOdhead, Pennsylvania LOcoioco.
The bareiaced attempt 10 repeal that salutary iea-
ture Of the Postage Reform bill Of last session
whereby Postmaslers are required 10 advertise
the Lists Of Letters uncalled for in journals hay.
| ing the largest circulation, was defeated by the
| fmness of the Senate, which insisted on having
/ il struck out Of the new Post Routes bill. So
with the clause restoring the frankng privilege to
the POstmaslcrs. The bullying gasconade about
Oregon '5I 40-the whole or none" "Our title
clear and unquestonable," &C., finally tapered
off into the meekest Of all possible dispositions,
and the dispute is finally setIed, not very credit
ably nor adyanageOusly for US, but still far better
than TO have il remain unsettled. We believe
this is the only good thing Of moment accom-
Iplshed al Washington since last December, and
this with every possible drawback on the mOriii-
cation with which it would naturally have been
regarded.
No, there has been one other good thing efTec-
ted at this session-not designed nor thorougly,
but yet result of great and beneficial import
We allude to the arousng Of u northern sonli-
ment-a free State feeling, among those who
have capered submissivey to the slave drivers
lash for years, until it seemed that no degradation
could be too much for them. But it is always
darkest just before day, and soul was at last cre-
ated under the ribs of death. The Tariff break
down touched the raw of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and part of the LocOfocos from our own
State; the MeXcanwar, two vetoes, etc. perform
led the like wholesome operation upon Others
On the last night of the session, Mr.. Wilmot Of
Pennsylvania "a free trader as well as LocOiocO)
moved the following rider TO Mr.. Folks two mil.
lion Mexican bribery bill:
"ProUided, That, as an express and fundamen-
tai condition to the acquisition of any territory
from the Republicof Mexico blythe United States,
by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated
between them, and to the use by the Executive
of the money herein appropriated, neither Stare
ry nor Involuntary SerUitWde shall eUer erst IN a.
ny part of said territory except for crime where
of The party shall first be duly convicted"
This proposition would have been kicked un-
der the table few years ago, if any man could
have evinced the hardhood implied in offering ii;
I and ii created an intense excitement even now.
Mr.. Dobbin of North Carolina insisted that il was
out of order, but the chair decided against him.
He appealed, and the committee of the whole
$ sustained the chair-93 to 81. Here Mr.. Wick
, of Indiana, themeanest of dough-iaces, (who has
r declared in Congress that the Mexicans must be
Y eRSlared if their country is annexed to ours
f moved to qualify by inserting sail north Of 81
e 80" Uhe line of the Missouri Compromise,) SC
r as to leave all south of that line to slavery. Bu
: this, whichwoud have been carried enlast win
S ter, was voted down now-89 to So. And Mr.
i WiImot's amendment was then carried: eighty.
v three to sixty -four. This being in committee
f yeas and nays were not taken, but the character
f of the vote is sufficiently indicated below.
: Every vote from this State (and nearly every
one from the free States) 1CdS recorded against TN
6 tolerance of Slavery ia any territory achich maj
+ hereafter be added to the Union, by any sort 0
: ACQUISITION. few craven recreants dogded tht
l. vote, but that is nothing. For once, the nortl
united and looked the spirit of eternal Slavery
L which pretends to speak for the south fully anC
fearessly nthe face. The old spirit whichthrill
t. ed every freeman's heart in the days of the Mis-
a souri, controversy was displayed. The resul
f was triumph, as it always would be if northern
s. Representatives would assert and maintain thC
: right of freedom to be at least as frank and zeal
d Gus in our National councils as slavery.
lr The bill thus amended became nuisance ant
= a horror to its authors. Mr.. Tibbats of Kentuc
e ky moved to lay ii on the table. This was defea
ted by fair vote of the north against the south
IS only Chapman of Michigan, Cranston of Rhode
o Island, (from hostility to the bill any how,) Dou
l. glass, Fckln, Hoge, and McClernard of Illinois
Petit of Indiana, and Schenck Of Ohio, Qik
l. Cranston, voting with the south, which went sol
ID id, of course. Even Mckay of North Carolina
l. who had reported the BILL voted to kill it. Blu
" the motion to lay on the table was defeated, nine
rs ty-fve to seventy-eight- the bill engrosseC
le and passed-97 to 85. Many Wings voted for
e. who would have gone strongly against it but TO
al the addition of Mr.. Wilmot's rider aforesaid.
s. The bill went to the Senate on Monday morn
L. ing, and there died natural death; Mr.. Lewi
g, of Alabama moving to strike out the anti-Saver!
IS provision, which Mr.. Davisof Massachusetts rosC
a. to oppose, and spoke against till the session wa
10 on the point of closing. lie supposed the pro
- viso would be stricken out if it came to vote
it but we understand that he was mistaken-that i
ut would have been retained. Nomatter-the NOR
e, al force of the vote Of the House remains. It'll
70 a solemn declaration Of the united north dgainS
a the farther extension Of Slavery under the prOtec
a. ton of our Flag. 1t will stand too! Let us SCI
" what candidate for Congress from free Stat
IS will venture to avow himself in favor of recedn
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