Democratic banner., 1849-07-30
.DEMOCRATIC BANN ER.'
LOUISIANA, MO:
MONDAY. MORNING, JULY 80, ls4s.

AMENDMENr.-The following is the vote up
on Walkers (Of Michigan amendment to
the civil and diplomatic bill, which would,
in effect, have settled the Slavery question
in Congress, and given to New Mexico and
California territorial governments without
any reference to the "Proviso," by leaving
the people Of the Territories to settle the
question among themselves. This PROPOSE
ton came from a Northern man and met
the appreciation of the whole South, and
was voted. on in the Senate on the LIST day
March last. We stated in the Banner of
the 9th inst, that Benton voted against it.
The St. Louis Union of the 18th inst, pro-
noupced it false, as also our statement that
he voted for the Proviso in the Oregon bill,
and slso to allow negroes & mulattoes to vote
hold Office in Oregon. We published the two
latter votes in our paper of the 10th, and
sealed the Abolition falsehood upon the
mouth that uttered it. We now proceed to
seal his mouth with the third. The follow
ing is the vote upon Walkers amendment,
and was so published in the Banner of the
18th of March last:
Affirmative uote.-Messrs. Atchison, Bell,
Berrien, Butler, Calhoun. Davis of Missis-
sippi, Dickson, Dodge of Iowa, Downs,
Fitzpatrick, Foote, Hunter, johnson of
Maryland, Johnson of Georgia, King, Man.
gum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sturgeon, Tur-
ney, Underwood, Walker, Westcott, and
Yulee.
Negative rote.-Messrs. Allen, Atherton,
Baldwin, BENTON, Corwin, Davis of
Massachusetts,, Dix, Felch, Greene, Ham
lin, Miller, Niles, Phelps, Spruance, UPham,
and Wales.
The Grand River Chronicle, in speaking
Of.hs St. Louis " Union," characterizes it
as "the leading Democratic paper in Mis-
souri," This may have been SO once, but
it is not so now. The Union does not pos
sess the qualifications essential to such a
character. Its course for some time back,
as well as the very mediocre intellectual
strength it wields, has deprived it of the lit
tie character of leader it had left. A"lead-
ing paper" in Missouri, must be endowed
with superior ability, an extensive acquain-
tsace with the wants and interests and po-
.%litical history ofthe State, and have an af-
unity Of feeling with, and possess the entire
confidence ofthe Democracy. In all these
qualities the Union is most wofully deficient,
and it has ceased to be regarded as the
'leading Democratic paper in Missouri"
Unfortunately, our party is now without
such a paper to lead it, and as st. Louis is
the only point at which one could be prop
erly sustained, we should hail with pleasure
the establishment of a paper there, with an
editor of Insufficient talent and eminence to be
bOked up to. Unless there is a change in
the Union, We hope the experiment will be
tried.--IHannibal Courier.
Well said, friend Courier. You but re-
ierate the sentiments of the true Democ-
ncy throughout the State. The Union
under its former proprietors was sound up
on every Democratic principle, but is now
as hollow as the Trojan horse, and, like it.,
serves to let the F'ree-Soilers, alias Adolf
tiOnists, into the citadel of Missouri. The
Democracy are repudiating it every where,
and none more decidedly than the Grand
River Chronicle.
The Democratic State Convention of Maine
assembled at Portland OF the 18th of June, and
dominated DR.. John Hubbard for Governor.
THE VOICE OF TANNEY COUNTY.