The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-01-27
General 5utcllineute.
OUTRAGE AT WASHINTON-MR GlDDNo's
RESOLUTIONS--YEAS AND NAYS,


RESOLUTIONS--YEAS AND NAYS,
The following arc the Resolutions oAo9ed
in the House of Representatives en- Monday
By Mr.. GlDD1SGs:
Whereas, it is represented that1 on Fri
day last, three armed persons engaged in tie
internal slave trade, entered Il dwelling ia
this city, and violently seized colored man,
employed as a waiter in the toarding house
Of several members Of this body, and in tho
presence of his wife, gagged him, placed him
in irons, and with loaded pistols, forced him
into one OF the slavc-prisons Of this city, from
which, it is reported, he has since been dis
patched for the slave-market of Now Or
leans.
And whereas said colored man had been
employed in said boarding house for several
years, had become we'll and fayolsbly known
to members Of this House, lad married
wife in This city, and, Under 4 contract 10
purchase his freedom for the sum Of $500:
had by great industry raid that sum within
about S60I
And whereas outragc- like The foregoing
have been Of common occurrence in his Dis
trict. and are sanctioned by the laws Of Con-
qrcss, and are extremely painful to many of
the members of this IIouse, as well Is in them
selves inhum&n Therefore.
Reso'rea That Select Committee of Eve
members be appointed to inquire into and ro-
port upon the facts aforesaid also, as to the
proprety Of repeating such acts of Congress
| as sustain or authorize the slave trade in this
District, or 10 remove the seat OF Govern
ment to some Free State.
The resolutions were modified BY Mr. Gid
dings by adding to the preamble the words
included in brackets and striking oH tfotc
included in brackets in the last resolution
The following are the Yeas and Nays upon
the question Of laying the resolutions On tho
table:
YEAs--MessYs, Green Adams, Atkinson.
Barr!npcr, Barrow, Bcyly, Beal, Bedinger,
Birdsall, Black, Bolts, Bowdon, Boyd, Boy
den, Brodhead, VIM. G. Brown, Buckncr,
Burt, Cabell, Chapman, Chase, Franklin
| Clark, Beverly l.. Clark, ClingmAn, Howell
Cobb, Williamson r. W. Cobb, Cooke, Cris-
| field, Cummins, Usniel, Donnell, Garnet
Duncan, Eckert, Featherston, Ficklin, French,
Fulton, Gaines, Gayle, Gentry, Goegiu,
Green, Willard P. Hall, Hammons, Haralscn.
Harmanson, Harris, Hill, Geo S ucu$ton.
inge, Charles j, Ingersol, Jameson, Andrew
Johnson, Robert w. johnson, George ".
Jones, John w, Jones, kaufman, Kennoa.
Thomas Butler King, la Sere, Levin. Lyon,
Lumpkin, Mac]ay, Mckay, McLane, Meade.
| Miller, Morehead, Nicoll, Outlaw, Peyton,
Phelps, Pilsbury, Preston, Rbctt Rchardstn.
Richey, Roman, Sheppard Simpson, S;nss.
Stanton, Stephens, Thibodeaux. Thcm-s,
Tompkins, Jacob Thompson, John 3. Thonr-
son, Robt A. Thompson, Tocmbs, Turner.
Vensble, Wiliams--94.
NAYs-Messrs. Abbott, John Quincy Al.
ans, Bingham, Blanchard, Butler, Candy.
Cathcart, ColIamer Collins, Conger, Gran
ston, Crowcl, Dickcy, Dickinson, Dixon.
Ducr, Dunn, Edsall, Edwards, Embrec, Ma,
than Evans Farau, Farrelly, Fisher, FrecdIry.
Fries, Giddines, Colt, Gregory, GrinrelI,
Hale, Nathan X. Hall, James G. Hampton,
Moses Hampton, Henley, Henry, Elias 3,
Holmes, John w. Houston, Hubbard, Hud,
son, Hunt, Joseph r, Ingersoll, Irwin. Jen-
| kins, JAS. II. johnson, Kellogg, Daniel p.
King, Lahm, W. r. Lawrence, Sidney Law
renee, Lincoln, Nice lelnnd, Mcllvainc, Mann,
Marsh, Marvin, Morris, Mullin, Newell, Pal.
frey, Pcaslcc, Peck, Petrie, Pollock, Putnam,
Julius Rockwell, John A. Rockwell, Rose,
Root, ST. John, Sawyer, Shenck, Sheriff..
| Caleb b. Smith, Truman Smith, Starkweath
CT, Charles Z. Stuart, Strohm, Sylvester.
Tallmadgc, james Thompson, William Tbomp-
son, Thurston, Tuck, Warren, Wentworth.
White, Wilson-s8.