The State guard., 1848-07-04
Willard Fillmore.

Prored from his uotes in Congress 10 hare
 acted and sympdthized with Abolition
 ists, and 10 hace maintained position
 hostsle to he compromises of uhe Consti- 1 fulton, the peace of the Country and he
 perma"emcy of the Union.
 Let the following facts, taken from the record, speak trumpet-tongued to every quarter of the Republic.
 On Tuesday, the Ilth of December, 1888, Mir. Atherton of New Hampshire introduced series of resolutions into the House ot Representatives, in regard to the "rights of the South" Among these were the following;
 2d. Resolved, That petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Col umbia and the territories of the United States and against the removal of slaves from one State to another, arc part of a plan of operations set on foot to affect the institution of slavery in the several States, and thus indirectly destroy that institution within their limits. t Sd. Resolved, That Congress has no right to do that indirectly which it cannot do directly, and that the agitation of the subject of slavery in the District of Co. lumbia, or the territories, as means and with the view ofdis urbing and overthrow l ing that institution in the several States, is against the true spirit and meaning of the Constitution, an infringement of the rights of the States affected and breach of the public faith upon which they entered into the confederation.
 4th. Resolved, That the Constitution rests on the broad principles of equality among the members of this confederacy, and that Congress in the exercise of it's acknowledged powers has no right to dis criminate between the institutions of one portion of the States and another, with a. view of abolishing the one and promoting the other.
 9th. Resolved, therefore, That all at-. tempts on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia or the territories, or to prohibit the removal of slaves from State to State or to discrimi- nate between the institutions of one DOT. ton of the confederacy and another with, the views aforesaid, are in violation of the Constitution, destructive of the fundamen- tai principles on which the union of these. States rests, and beyond the jurisdiction of Congress; and that every petition, memo rial, resolution, proposition or paper, touching or relating in any way or to any extent whatever to slavery aforesaid or the abolition thereof, shall, on the presenta- tion thereof without any further action thereon, be laid upon the table without be- ing debated, printed or referred.
 MT. Atherton moved suspension of the rules, for the purpose of considering the resolutions. The motion was carried 1-yeas l37, nays 66. The following are the nays: 6y. . @ NAYs-Messrs ADAMS, Alexander He- man Allen, John w. Allen, Aycrigg Bouldin, Briggs, Wm. B. Calhoun, Casey, Childs, Clark, Coffin, CoRwIN. Cranston, Curtis, Cushing, Darlington, Davee, Da. vie, Dunn, Edwards, Evans, Everett. Ewing, Richard Fletcher, Isaac Fletcher, 1 FILLMORE, GIDD1Nes, Goode, William Graham, Grinnell, Haley. Hall, Harper, Hastings, Herod, Mason, Mitchell, Cal I vary Morris, Naylor. Moves, Parmenter, Peck, Potts, Putnam, Rariden, Randolph Reed, Ridgway, Robinson, Russelll, Sal- , tonstall, Sergeant Sinley, SHADE, Smith, ,l Stratton, Tillinghast Poland, Albert S. ,I White and Yorcke-66. < slai' e,.g. ,. l Here is Mir. Fillmore voting with JOHN rIQ. ADAMS, GIDDINes and SLADE.l as's,o ! On the l2th of December the resolu. ltions came up for consideration. The