Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-08-29

/ 1900 NNttoHttt AUtt0 al Tie nd-
gatlve.-Ib.; p 43.
coLoRED CITIZENS OF MAssAcHusErrs
On the 18th Of December, 1916.
Mr.. Adams presented the reso-
luhons Of the Legislature Of Mas
sachusetts in relation TO the
wrongs alledged to have been suffered
by the cOlOred citizens of Massaebu.
sets in the States of South Carolina.
and Louisiana.
Mr.. Burt Of South Carolina moved
10 lay the resolutions on the liable.
On motion the yeas and NAYS were
ordered, and Truman Smith and ia.
coo CoLtamcr voted in the negative.
ID p 50.
On the Sd day of March, 1917. we
find the following record of the pro-
ceedings ofthe House of Representa-.
tives in Blair & Rives's COMPRESSION.
al Globe for that session, page 573:
THE THREE MILLION BILL.
The House resolved itself into com.
Imittee Of the Whole. on the State Of
the Union. (Mr. Cobb in the chair
and took up the three million bill as
! 1t passed the Senate.
MIR. Wilmot moved to add TO fine
bill the clause generally known as
the Wilmot Proyiso, in the following
words;
Provided, that there shall be neith-
er slavery nor involuntary seritude
in any territory on the continent Of
America which shall hereafter be &C.
qulred by or annexed TO the United
States by virtue Ofthis appropriation,
or IN any other manner whatever.
except for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted: Pro-
vlded, always, that every pelson esca.
ping into such territory from whom
labor or service is lawfully claimed in
any one Of the Unitod States, such
fugitive may be lawfully claimed and
conveyed out of said territory to the
person claiming his or her service.
Mr.. Graham moved to amend Mr..
.Wilmots prOviSO by striking out az
ter provided, and insert:
II any territory be acquired bv the
United States from Mexico, the Mis-.
souri, Compromise line of36 deg. 20
min. shall be extended direct TO the
Pacific Ocean; that is, slavery shall
be prohibited north Of that line. and
allowed south oft.
disagreed to-ayes Ga, noes 90.
"The question required on the pro
viso moved by Dir. Wilmot, and it
was agreed to-ayes 90, noes
so.
The committee then rose and re-
ported the bill.
( k"Mr. Rathburn moved the previ-
Gus question, which was seconded,
and the main question was ordered
and put, viz; Will the House agree to
the amendment reported by the com.
mittee of the whole?(the WiimobPro
visO. 1t was decided in the mega |
tive by yeas and nays
Truman Smith and Jacob Cola
meT voted in the affirmative, and IN
fGUOr of the WitmOt PrOriSO,
TO ABOLISH THE SLAVE TRADE IN rHB
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
On the 9th day of Dec, lS47, 2Oth) |
LIST session. Mr.. Giddings
Of Ohio presented a memorial from
certain citizens ofthe District Of Col
Iumbia, representing.
THAT the slave trade is now car.
RED on in the District Of Columbia
to large extent. Your petitioners
therefore ask that all laws anthor.
sing or sanctioning such trade with
in said district may be repealed.
William Flaberty, William Blanch-
hard, George Savage, ]. G. Grier,
B. Milburn, G. S. Fowlers, T. NJ. |
Milbum, Charles c. Moon, Joseph
SchOlfeld, Columbus Mcleod, Will
lam Green, John T. Whitaker, jam
es Handley, Martin Buell., ]. F. Cal
lon, II. Taylor, Thomas p. Vial,
Thomas Fitnam."
A motion was made to lay the
on the table, on which the
yeas and nays were taken-TrH.
nan Smith and Jacob Collamer vo-
ling in the negative.-BIair g. Rives
Cong Globe, p. go.
On the 18th day Of December,
1913, (3Oth Congress, ID session, |
we find the following record of the
proceedings which took place in the
Iouea of Renroeontati,as m tha