Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-11

aanagers who had tried to defeat the resolution, t
nd direct it against those whose "mprudent," s
fanatcal," >" demagogical," zeal, had injured
.aod cause. 90, the resolution would have met
With. no oprostlon-but that preamble !--itspo
Everything perhaps the whole subject will be
:econsdercd, and that unfortunate thing got rid
b."
This is all Gust thrown into the eyes of the
great public.
= Next, some Southern men, set on by John {.
Calhoun, call causus of the South, to organize
resistance against the terrible aggressons OF the
North. Southern Wings attend, prevent lume- |
date action, have everything postponed TIL the
10Th January, when, unless some concessions be
made 9y the Northern members, unless this most
unchrluan, unconstitutional movement against
the SLICE trade, be dropped, the Union shall be
dissolved, sure enough" -
the fne States, we are informed, was admitted
into Ks solemn caucus. Mystery hung about
if. and inst enough was permitted to leak out, to
throw iystercal gentlemen from the North into
n state of tremor and make them fit subjects for
the operations of the willy managers. Of course,
the Wing gentlemen who are expecting places
in the Cabinet of General Taylor, and those
who are looking to be translated into the bless
edness of the diplomatic corps, worked most as
siduously. They had plenty Of time-..Saturday
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday Wednesday came,
he House met the question Of reconsideration
cqme up Then the results Of secret caucussing
and friendly wire-working were all made mani
fest Some good Wing perhaps carried away
by hi anxiety to save the Union, moved that the
liouse resolve itself into Committee of the
Whole on the state of the Union. This, of
cours,, would have ended the reconsideration
question for that day-but the Speaker was so
unkild as TO decide the motion out Of ORDER
Thencamc the tug of war. Mr.. Stuart, fMich.
igan, made all sorts of speech, ministcrlnT
crumbs of comfort as he passed along, to Slave
holders and Abolitonists, Wimot Proviso men,
and Nicholson Letter men. The Legislature OF
Michigan is understood to be something like
ibis speech ring strcaked, speckIed and spotted.
NEiI NJ ren't of Ohio always III favor Of CIV
: EIecial A2So such questions, then got the
gled the House that this day had
y set apart for the consideration Of
hing appropriations TO supply deti-
the support tf Government and the
appropriations to carry into ehecl
Nh article of the treaty between the
ties als1SMexico. He therefore moved
-, motion to reconsider to tins day
Mr.. Vint0n could not suppose inc
pY,ld engage seriously in the coDsldcra
ssuch a bill, until after the hoydays. He
nd something about putting off the ques
recon 'ideration till there was fuller ut
zee. Now, it happennd mat the attendance
lite full-and, if it were not we shoult
z, know what excuse any member from thu
States could offer, after enjoying rest anc
q reation for three successive days, Tor absent
himself on Wednesday, when he knew thu
stion of reconsideration, being privilege,
3, would undoubtedly be taken up
1.-THE movement Of Mr.. Vinton was rather to-
paipable. 1t would not do to oppose the resou
ton directly, or to refuse to lay the motion to re
consider on the table, without putting iortl
\ some plausible reason for such conduct. w
saw at once the plan of the campaign, and pre-
| dicted the result
1t is customary, when a resolution of impor
lance is passed, to move Immediately a reconsid
Grafton, and then to move to lay the motion /
reconsider on the table. IF this prevail it is
final disposition Of the subiect-the resolutio
cannot thereafter be reconsdered. OF course
the real friends of a resolution once passed. ar
foEnd voting to lay the motion to reconsider o
the table.
Mr.. Vinton had no sooner made his demonstra
/ ton, than Mr.. Wentworth, of Illinois, moved {
lay the motion to reconsider on the table. H
wns besieged by interested parties on all sides t
withdraw his motion, and Caleb Smith, of Ind
ana, pressed him repeatedly, for permission t
read an amendment he would like to offer. IN
Smith, who lives in the most anti slavery distrit
of Indiana and on the strength of his anti-sl;
very pledges, who left with an undisturbed clail
,m the anti slavery voters Of his district by tn
withdrawal of the Liberty candidate, who gay
way expressly because Mr.. Smith was pledge
to all that Liberty men asked had sat in h
seat during the whole of this struggle about III
slave trade, refusing to vote.l Wentworth woul
listen TO no request, and the yeas and nays wer
ordered on his motion. Let the reader turn
our record, and he will see the astounding resul
Just five days before, the resolution was pas
ed bv 90 to IS votes-ouly two Wings from I'll
free States venturing to vote against it. Nov
| the motion to lay the motion to reconsider on IL
table, and thus confirm beyond revocation Il
! passage of the resolution, is lost-only So votin
to sustain it! We call it an astounding result
| but, those who have attentively considered VIII
| we have submitted to them in this article, wi
! not be astonished
--ip4stlsbalyze the nays and absences from I'll
! free States. Massachusetts will wonder to sc
the names Of Grnnel, Hale, and Abbott anon
the ndqs. Perhaps they thought the Union
Imminent danger 1t will be seen that 81 Den
ocrats and q Wings from the free States vote
against confirming the passage of the resoll
ton, while II Democrats and 81 Wings fro
the free States did not vote These are marke
! absentees, but the most of them were either pre-
ent or knew what was going on, and ought
have been present
Had the q Wings, voting a0y, voted as the
qCk on the Thursday before, the result won
| III been, IS yeas, 81 nays. Add the 81 al
AtE or refusing to vote, and there would ha,
getN l06 yeas. Add the q Democratic nay
d. he IL Democratic non-voters, and the affirr
az e vote would have been 139
q The failure to confirm the passage of the re
ion is therefore chorgeable, generally, upt
members of Congress from the free State
specially upon the Whig members.
IL ow, that the country, that the world may 81
Il NJ is that these representatives of freem(
fearful Of passing, we quote again the re
I . ION Of Mr.. Colt;
! Whereas the-tratie now prosecuted in ii
N opos of the Republic in human beings,
cha is contrary to natural justice and t
fun 9mental principles of our political syste
and is VIGOROUSLY a reproach to our count
thr aghout Chrstendom, and serious hindC
AM to the progress of republican liberty amo
the nations Of the earth: Therefore,
lRssolped, That the Committee for the d
trio of Columbia be instructed to report a bi
as ion as practicable, prohibiting the slave ira
| IN id districtn