The Arkansas banner., 1848-08-01
ME.NAAKISH.

[ The whig journals ags striving to clear Fillmore Zine ebsfRes of having sustained the Ines adiary Giddirgs in bis aoeicus resslutions respecting he mprteF on board of the Creole. Ia order thai he people of Loasiana may better understand this mat ter, we Iay the case before them saceioctlv but accurately. from the proceedings of the House of Representatives, Cengressicaai Globe, 1d session 37th Con aress. I'D. 345 to SIS.
 Giddings offered a set of resolutions Of which the following are part:
 ! Resolved. That when the brig Creole, on Der late voyage 10 New Ofleans left the territorial arisdlc. ton of Virginia the slave laws oi that State ceassd to have any jurisdiction the persons on board said brig, and such persons became asnensbe only to the laws of the Uhlaed States.
 Resolved, That the persons on board the said ship in resuming their natural rights violated no law of the U States, incurred 10 legal penalty, and are justly liable to no punishment.
 l Resolved. that all attempts 10 regain possession of, to .ensiave said persons, unauthorized by the constitution and laws of the Unted States, and incompatible with our national honor. i Oar readers will bear in mind that ia this House of Representatives the whigs claimed majority of | 60 votes. ! motion was made to lay the resolution on the table, an>. Mr. Fillmore voted in the negative. ! There was great excitement among the members, and Mr. Fillmore inquired if Mr Giddiags was at liberty 10 withdraw his resolutions. lCries ot no;
 no T But the speaker, who was whig, decided that Giddihgs was at liberty to do so, and he did i withdraw the resolutions. ! Mir Bots, e whg member from vrEsnia observed. the withdrawal shs resolutions did not atfrct the motive or object with which they were presented He taen asked leave to offef . resolution. ] This resolution, with the preamble, were accord
 ingiy drawn up by Mir. Bots, and presented by Mfr. Weller, dansocsat from Ohio ss follows: I Whereas the Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, the mem- Der from the Sixteenth District of the State of OhIo | has 1.t.. Nr Al resolutions touching the most important interests connected with large portion of the Union. now subject of nego' iation between the United States and Great Britain. of the most delicate nature, the result of which nay perhaps, iavolve those nations, and perhaps the whole civilized world, in war; and whereas it is the duty of every good citizen, and particularly the dsty Of every selected agent and representative of the people. 10 discouaenance all efforts 10 create exciieme at dissatisfaction and divi- sion among the people of the United States. at such time and under such circumstances, which ia the ! only effect 10 be accomplish d by the introduction of sentiments before the legislative body of the country hostile to the grounds assumed by the high functionary having chaged of this important trust; and whereas mutny and murder are therein iustid- cd and approved in terms shocking to all sense of ! law, orier and humanity therefore, ! Resolved, That this House hold the conduct of the said member altogether unwarranted and uu- warrantabIe and deserving the severe eondemna- lion of the pePs of this country, and ot this body par'ic uiar.
 NIT Adams moved to lay the whole subject on tho table. Motion Iost-yeas 70, nays i25; MT. tiii- more voting ln the affirmative.
 I The question was taken on the resolution, aud t
 was adopted yeas l2j, nays So.
 ] Mir. Fillmore voted against the resolution. l The queslson was 'hen taken on the adoption of the preamble, and it was cafried--yeas li9, nays 66.
 1 Mir. Fillmore voted agains, the preamble. { The fv ;F hnfh FaS naa txrD fH l The reader is already aware that considerably the i larger portion of the members wds composed of whiys; aad yet the resolution and preamble passed [ wilh such decided appro5ation. FILLMORE was found in company with Adams and the other abo- licnists, sGsaining the incendtary and ,reasonabe doctrines of GidAn.S. We were at Washington a, the lime and witnessed the proceedings in this 1 The terrible excitement and tnmultuoas upfoar in ! the House are freshly remembered. Many persons in and out Of Congress were Of opinion tha lhe solutions of Mi. Weller were too mild for the occa- l sion. But vote of two-thirhs was necessary 10 ! expel the guilty member, those who had fenned proper opinion of hiS conduct. obliged to rest satisfied. Had justice been done him. and had the opinion of the whole south prevailed, expulsion woud have been inevitable.
 We are told by the wfig journals. with their char. acteristic disregard of truth and propTeiv that Fill
 did sustain Giadngs in his attempt o save those mutiasers and murde os. besr the Creole from punishment. They tell us that Fillmore voted against laying the resolutions the table, because he desired that they should be hurled out of the
 House with gnomiaty, This is absurd and false excuse for Fimoss's vote. Members might have different motives for their votes, Wise the ultra souherner, and Fillmore the aboIitions', voted Lsgainst the Atheron resolu'ioHs-but for reasons | oi an opposite nature.
 The turning peint in this question. is the resolu- ! lion and preamble o6ered by MI Weller-boih pressed in very iera,e terms-no expulsion,
 punishment of any kind contempla'ed-merely de- eiaring the rrnpcsiions of Giddings tn be unwar-
 antable injurious to the interests ofthe Union, par
 tcularly of the sppthein States, and consequently
 deserving the condemnation of the country and of 1 the House in particular. We see nothing 10 these
 declarations from which any one, particularly whose lot is cast in the South, dissent. Had . motion 0 exnu sion been offered we are convinced ] every southern member and most Of the democratic members from the North would have voted favor oft The resolution of Mir. Weller was in reslIty
 merely question addressed to every member: ! Do you believe the negro marderers of the Cap
 tain, and psssengets of ths Creole justih-
 able in the commission of their crime and deserve | no punishment
 | Do you heiive that al attempts t6recsL tre those ! murderers are unlawful aud dishonots sble' ] Thess questions embrace the propositions of Cid dngs; and Fillmore. by his vote, which was all he
 had to give sustained him before The House and the
 country. Fillmore is now the whIg candidate for the Vice Presidency Let as See whether Bolts of
 Virginia Milton Brown of Tenns ssee, Garrett Davis
 oi Kentucky, Joseph R. IbgersoiI of Pennsylvania,
 Graham of North Carolina. and host of other erni nent whigs, who voted agaus, Giddiegs on this oc
 casicny wIil give their s9frsges to Fillmore. Let ! us see whether Gen. Taylor or single planter in Louisiana will give his vote to Fillmore.
 flaming Dypr fa caSS.