Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-08-04
a TOXIC SESSION AND AN IMPORTANT VOTE

LONG SESSION AND AN IMPORTANT VOTE
The session of the Senate, which commenced
on Friday last at II O'Clock. A. NJ, and ended
on the next morning at 8 O'Clock, An, (2l
hours,) is the longest, we believe, on record.
The Territorial Bill, settling, al least fer the
present. the question OF slavery in the terrific
RES, was under consideration. and it's friends
were determined TO press ii to vote. -Thro'-
out the long night. grave Senator'S kept their
seats, whilst speech after speech, for the most
part against the bill, was. made. Al -last. as
we have elsewhere noticed, the bill was put
to a final vote little before o'clock on
Saturday morning 1t may not be entirely
uninsiructive to analyze this vote. The vote
stood SO yeas TO % nays. Of the 80 Senators
who voted for the bill, 25 are from slavehold-
ing States, and from the free States. Of
those who voted for the bill from the slave
States, 19 are democrats. and wings: OF
the Senators from the free States who voted
for the bill, are democrats and only is
whig. OF the % Senators who voted against
TIC U1IIS "SIS HUH
.uhigs-viz: Mr.. BADGER, of North Carolina,
Mr. John Bell, of Tennessee, and Nessrs. I'm
derwood, and Metcalf. of Kentucky. Ofthose
who voted against the bill. 1s were from the
free States, 9 of them wings, and of them
democrats. Two wings and democrat were
absent. All the Southern democrats voted for
,L.h;u O,,+ of tbo O Nor4berp xyotos for N a
bill, only one was wing vote. There was
only whig votes altogether cast for the bill.
We cannot imagine what reason George f..
Badger, of N. C has to offer to his constitu-
ents Why he voted with the North on this
great sectional question. We have not seen
his reasons, We do not know what can ex-
cuse him. Il will be seen from an examina-
ton of the vote as stated above, that the dem
ocratic Senators, both North and South, sup
ported the bill,-we mean as body,-whilst
the whg Senators, as body, voted against the
bill Why. this was the case, we are not, at
the moment of writing this article, prepared to
say. So soon as we get the facts fully before
US, we shall recur to the subject again. We
present below the vote on this important bill.
1t will be seen from our Congressional Synop-
sis, that the bill was laid on the table in the
House on Friday. OF this, too, we will have
something to say beyond this notice:
Vote ON the Territorial Bill.
YEAS.
Observation-Disclosures. David R. Atchison,
Missouri; Charles G. Anterior, N. Hampshire;
Thomas H. Benton, Mo-; Scion Borland, Ark
Sidney Breese. ILL.,; Jesse D. Bright, Ia; A P.
Butler, S. c.; J. C.. Calhoun,S c.: Jeff Davis,
Mi; Daniel S. Dickson, N Y; Stephen A.
Douglass, ILL.,; S. U. Downs, La; Henry S.
Foote, Mi; Edward A. Hannegan, la; Sam'l
Houston, Tex r. M. T. Hunter, Va Hershed
J. Johnson. Ga; VIM. R. King, Ala; Dixon
H. Lewis, Ala; James M. Mason, Va; Thos.
!. Rusk, Tex; VIM K. Sebastin, Ark; Daniel
Sturgeon. Penn; H. L, Turney, Tenn; J. D
Westcott, jr Fla; David YuIee, Fla 30.
| Wings --John M Berrien. Ga; J. Nj Clay
ton, Del; Henry Johnson. La, Reverdy John.
son. Md w. p. Mangum, N c.; Samuel S
Phelps, VT; Presley Spruance. Dell.
Total Yeas SO.
NAYS.
Democrats -Messrs. VIM Allen, O.; w
Bradbury, Me-; A, Dix,N. Y Henry Dodge
Wis; A Ipheus Fetch. Mich; Thos Fitzgerald
Mich; Hannibal Hamin, Me; Jno Nj. Niles
c.; J, P. Walker, WIS., .-
Whigs-George f. Badger, N c.; Roger s
Baldwin, CT ; John Bell. Tenn u. H. Clarke
R: Thomas Coswin. o John Davis; Mass.
VIM. L. Dayton, N j.; Albert c Green, R |.
John P. Hale, N H.; Thos. Metcalfe, KY;
w. Miller, N. J; Joseph R. Underwood, Ky.
VIM. Upham, Via
Total Nays % H..
Daniel Webster, Wing. Massachusetts
Simon Cameron, Democrat, Pennsylvania
James A Pierce, Wing, Mary and.
Total, 3.
Annexed is political and sectional view o
the vote:
| Wings. Dcmocrsts From Slave From Ere
States States.
Yeas 26 25 &