The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-08-23
on Sunday when this report was sent to the
SUNDAY, August 1916, A. N

motion by Mr.. Lewis 10 ADJOURN. Lost D 10
81.
Mr.. Westcott therefore continued his re.
marks. II this bill were passed today Wild
the restriction of slavery in it, he said II wou'o
not be met with the executive veto.
Mr.. Foote moved an adjournment, ~ min
utes past g. but the motion was decided IN Inc
negative, 10 10 20.
MIR. Yulee suggested that they might now as
well proceed to vote on the subject.
Mr. Underwood concurred in the suggestion.
They had done all 10 their power. He had sat
up some eight or ten nights during the time he
was member of the House, but never had he
seen such scene as he had witnessed here du'
ring the past night. He hoped the practice
would be abandoned, as no good had ever come
from it, and that they would amend their rules
so as 10 put it out oflhe power of any member
to defeat or delay the wishes of the majority.
The debate was further continued by Messrs
Atchison, Dickinson, Fitzgerald, Calhoun Man.
gum, Douglass, Downs, Butler, Jefferson. Da.
Wis, Niles, Footc, Westcott and Walker.
The question was then taken on receding
from The several amendments, and it was dec.
ded in The affirmative. So the bill has passed
both Houses. without the missouri COmprom
isc." and with the "Wmot Proviso."
The ihst vote was on receding from the
amendment by which the Missouri Compromise
had been inserted, and was as follows:
Aycs-Messrs. Allen, Baldwin, Benton, Brad.
bury, Breese, Bright, Cameron, Cleark, Cor.
win, Davis, of Massachusetts,, Daytan. Dick
inson, Dix, Douglass, Dodge, Felch Fitzgerald,
Green, Hale, Hamin, Hannegan, Houston,
Miller. Niles, Phelps, Spruance, UPham, WAL
ker, Webslcr-29.
NaYs-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell. Ber.
rien, Borland, Butler Calhoun, Davis, of Miss.
Downs, Foole, Hunter, Johnson, OF Md. John
son. of La, johnson, of Ga, Lewis, Mangum,
Mason, Metcalfe, Pearcc, Rusk, Sebastian,
Turney, Underwood, Wescou, Yuee-25.
On motion ofMr. Dickinson, bill granting
pensios to Richard Reynolds, poor blind man
who had lost his eyes in the service Of his coun'
try, was taken up, as Mr.. y. said, 10 give Sem
ators an opportunity 20 do some good on the
Sabbath day, and passed unanimously.
Then, at 20 minutes to 10, the Senate ad.
iourned to o'clock TO morrow Morning.
From the Correspondence Of the Charleston Courier
WASHINGTON, August l2.
We have reached the last hours OF the ses.
sion. 4, ten o'clock on the last night Of the
session, the Oregon bill is still under consdera-
ton in the Senate. The speeches on that bill
have been more interesting and exciilng than
at any former stage of the session. The de-
bate has ragged during the whole day. The
: motion of Mr.. Benton, iha! the Senate reccde
from their Notwithstanding the Nilsson.
ri compromise amendment, and which the
House had so unceremoniously rejected, Produ'
ced much feeling on the part OF some OF the
Southern Senator'S General Houston alone
took decided stand in support of Mr.. Benton's
motion, though it is said that several Southern
members are to vote V sE for IL JPn hnFe
ion, that if the Senate was to take 4 vote, even
now, the motion would he agreed to, and Ore.
, gon would thus be admitted as free territory,
without reference to any settlement of the sla
very question in California and New Mexico.
But, it appears, that as earl y as eleven
: o'clock this morning, an understanding took
place between the opponents Of the bill, to the
effect that the question should be talked down.
; MIR. Johnson, of Ga, is now on the floor, and |
know Of five or six Senators who are prepared 10
speak as long as any one will sit TO listen.
General Houston and Mr.. Benton made set
against Mr.. Calhoun's course on this question
den uncng and ridculing the project of a
Southern Convention, and all projects tending
to disulnion.
Mr.. Calhoun took occasion, interrupiing
General Houston, to disclaim any attempt at
, "meuacc" which General Houston had imputed
to him. Mr.. Calhoun also explained that,
though he would counsel the South TO unite in
resistance to The assumptions Of the North, yet
he had declared that they could effect nothing
unless they would unite, and he saw that union
among them did not exist.
= have no doubt, that in conformity with the
understanding among the opponents of the bill,
and in consequence of the perlinaci,y of Mr..
,, Benton, and the other friends OF the bill, the
Senate will sit till day dawn.
> The galleries and lobbies are crowded by
eager auditors, but the Senators are evidently
worn with fatigue.
Both Houses are to meet on Monday morning
merely to adjourn. The House had shut up
shop, and agreed to meet monday, at 10 o'clock,
A. NJ, 10 adjourn.
But they have set an example of Legislative
notification tina, is unheard of and potentous.
They have, so far as they are concerned, an.
nulled the Mexican treaty, with all its stipula.
lions. All the bills passed by the Senate for
carrying out the s,ipuations ofthe treaty, were,
by avowcd arrangement, smothered.
The KENTUCKY RUNAWAY SLAvEs.-The
Maysvlle and Lexington papers received last
night, contain additional particulars Of the slave
case, indeed the whole State has been thrown
into an excitement Unprecedented, and the Lex.
ington Atlas adverlises the hanging Of the
whites leading them. without Judge or jury
, The Maysvil!e Herald of Wednesday has the
following: