The State guard., 1848-08-15
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 From the Southern Banner.
MT. EiilmOre's Slavery Votes

I plained of a suppression of par.of tn proceedings on the Atherion Resolutions as originally published in the Richmoa' Inquirer, and re-published by us in ou last paper, it is due to Q thorough under standing of the subject, that each question upon the resolutions should be distinctl stated and the vote of MT. Fillmore upor it. And here we will remark, that as tn whigs complain of the suppression of thu vote upon the first of the Atherton Resolu tions, for which Ar. Fillmore voted, ye they will derive no benefit from that vote in as much as he destroyed its efficacy b, afterwards voting against this plain prop osition, to wit: "That Congress has n' right to do that indirectly which it canno do directly" and therebgassertedt the pow CT of Congress imdirectlyto interfere wiil slavery in the District of Columbia ant in the Territories by prohibiting the re mouaI of slares from State to State This objectionable vote was not stated plainly by the Enquirer, and as it stand: upon the Journal, convicts MT. Fillmore of asserting the power ol Congress indi rectly to strike at the institution of slavery in the States though the federal district and the territories, and by fixing the slave to the soil. The reader will also discover that the vote on the first resolution annihi. lates the assertion, very common among the whigs, that the jurisdiction of Con. gross over slavery in tho States is moi maintained by any, even the Abolitionists, and the interference arising from it, that the Democratic resolution at Baltimore against such interference by Congress, was unnecessary. It must Joe borne in mind that the SIX votes against the first resolution are ALL WflIGS, and that they represented each a constituency of seventy thousand poole, or an aggregate of FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS l The intelli- gent reader will also discover that by the verbage of the first part of the .GfM reso- lution, Mr. Fillmore was not called upon to vote that Congress had no power over the subject of slavery in the District of Columbiaior the Territories, or the remo- val of slaves from State to State, but that he was required simply to vote that Con- gress could not exercise this power with l the '.VIEWS AFORESAID" which by reference to the third and fourth resolu- tions, he will find to be for the purpose of diminishing or ouerthrowing that institu- tion (slavery) in the SEVERAL STATES-or of discriminating between the institutions of one portion of, the States and another, WITH A VIEW of abolishing the one and promoting the oth- CT p He first admits that Congress has no power on this subject over the States then asserts that it can reach the subject INDIRECTLY-and lastly, maintains the monstrous proposition that Congress can abolish slavery in the fede ral district and in the Tcrritorics--and prevent the removal of slaves from State 10 State, with uiew of OVERTHROWING that institution in the sererai Stdtes i! We have the Journal before us, and are re- sponsible for the truth of this publication. l We challenge the Wings to deny it. HOUSE OF nr,, k f.pn ,.:.:s s:a.sH''TiAI1VES. TUESDAY, Dec. II, 1898.
 The question: was then put. That the House do agree to the first of the said'resolutions; inthe words 6llowing viz: l Resolred, That this Government is a Government of limited powers; and that, by the constitution of the United States, Congress has no jurisdiction whatever over the institution of slavery in the sever- al States of the confederacy.- And passed, in the aflirmativc-yeas 19S, nays 6.
 Upon the above question, Afr. FILL. MORE voted YEA.
 NAYS--Messrs. J. c. Adams, George Evans, Horace Everett, David Potts, Jr., David Russell, William Slade.
 The question was then put, that the House do agree to the said second resolu. tion which is in the words following, viz:
 Rcsolved, That petition for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States, and against the removal of slaves from one State to another are part of plan of op- eyations set on foot to affect the institution of slavery in the several States, and thus indirectly to destroy that within their linn its.-
 And passed in the affirmative-yeas 136, nays 65.
 Upon the above question, Mr. FILL MORE voted NAY.
 The question recurred, that the Houses do agree to the third of the said resolu- ton.
 The question on the said third resolution was, on motion of MT. Bond divided; i And on the question that the House do agree to the first member, of the said res- olution, being so much thereof as is con tained in the words following:
 "Resolpcd, That Congress has no right to do that indirectly which it cannot do di- rectly."
 It passed in the affirmative--yeas ITO nays 30.
 Upon the above question Afr. FILL MORE voted NAY.
 The question was then put, that the House do agree to the second member of the said third resolution, being so much thereof as is contained in the words fol- 1 lowing:
 "And that the aggtation of the subject