The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-01-09
BACKING OUT.

of Colts resolution, by voting against the motion
to lay the reconsideration on the table. The Ma
tiona Era gives full account of the who 9 pro-
ceeding which is most dIsgraceful. We copy
portion of the Era's account:
1t is customary, when a resolution OF import
aRce is passed, to move Immediately reconsider
alton, and then to move to lay the motion to re-
consider on the table. II this prevail it is final
disposition OF the SUBJECTIVE resolution cannot
thereafter be reconsidered. OF course, the real
friends OF resolution once passed are found vot-
ing to lay the motion TO reconsider on the table
Mr. Vinton had no sooner made his demonstra-
ton, than Mr.. Wentworth, of iii. moved TO lay
the motion TO reconsider on the table. He was
besieged by interested parties all sides to It'll
draw his motion.
Wentworth would listen to no request and the
yeas and nays were ordered on his motion Let
the reader turn to our record, and he will see the
astounding result
just FIVE days before, the resolution was passed
by SO to So votes--oniy two Wings from the free
states venturing to vote againstit Now, the mo-
ton to lay the motion to reconsider on the table,
and thus confirm beyond revocation the passage
of the resolution, is lost-only So voting to sus-
tain it We call it astounding result-but,
those who have attendvely considered what we
have submitted to them in this article, will not be
astonished
We analyZe the nays and absentees from the free
states. Massachusetts, will wonder to see the
names of Grinnel, III ale, and Abbott, among the
nays. Perhaps they thoughtthe Union in immi-
nent danger 1t will be seen that 81 democrats
and 81 Wings from the free states voted against
confirming the passage of the resolution, while
IL Democrats annd 81 Wings from the free states
did not vote These are marked absentees, but
fho f0f ham Aas4k
what was going on, and ought to have been
present.
Had the 81 Wings, voting nag, voted as they
did on the Thursday before the result would have
been, 85 yeas, 50 nays. Add the 81 absent, or
refusing to vote, and there would have been LOG
yeas Add the 81 Democratic nays, or the IL
Democratic non-voters, and the affirmative vote
would have been 1879!
The failure to confirm the passage Of the reso.
luton is therefore chargeabe, generally, upon
the members of Congress from the free States,
and specially upon the Wing members.
Now, that the country, that the world may see
what it is that these representatives of freemen
are so fearful OF passing, we quote again the res
olution of Mr. Colt,
"Whereas the traffic prosecuted in this meropo,
lis Of the Republic in human b, hgs, cattes is con
traTy to atura justice and the fundamental principles OF
political system aud is VIGOROUSLY repIoacb 10 our
10 the progress of republican liberty among the nations
Of the earth; Therefore,
% RESOLVED, That the Committee for the District of
Columbia he instructed to report BILL as soon as pac-
ticable, prohibiting the slave trade in said District"
Well, we have always been under the impress.
ion that even in the South public sentiment
brands the trade in human beings as all wrong
and disreputable but, the representatives of the
tree West and North are afraid to say so, because
Calhoun caucus has been held in the Capitol,
and some halt dozen gentlemen from the free
states must be accommodated with places in the
cabinet or diplomatic corps under Gen. Taylor's
administration!
The motion to lay the motion to reconsider on
the table, being lost, the subject was then post
poned two weeks--till Jan. 10th. Whether it
can be taken up that day without suspension Of
the rules, which requires two.t thirds vote, we
know not; but we must express our settled opin.
ion, that some device will then be hit upon to
stave the question off until after the 18th OF JAM
and then, from time to time, till the close OF the
session. We place the opinion on record-none
will rejoice more than we, should ii prove ground.
less. Pray God that it may
1t gives US no pleasure to record and expose
these doings. We are sick at heart in witnessing
the rottenness OF our politics.
The following analysis is presented, that the
constituency may demand explanations from their
iCPICSCHtduFcss VIC ucuOuHCe no one PERSONAL.
ly. The whole transaction to us seems most
Illuminating one. Some of the actors may be in
fuenced by motives which they can justify to
their constituents. All we can say is, for our
right hand, we would not stand in their places
Observation-Disclosures Pa, Bridges, Pa, Capp
Clark, Me, Darling, Wis, Flckin, Ill., Hammols, Me,
lngersoll, Pa Kcnnon, o. Lord, Y LETTER, Iowa,
Mann, Pa, Miller, McCenand, Richardson. Iii,
chy, o, Smart, Me, Stewart, Mich. Srong Pa, Saw.
yer o, Williams Me --2l.
ABsENr-Brdsall, N Y, Brodhead, Pa, Collins, Eds.
sail, Jenkins, Y, Lynde, Wis, Murphy, Maclay, Nj
coll, Y, Thompson, Iowa. Wick, Ia Wiley, Me-l2
Who's Nays-ABBO1"r, Mass, Butler Brad, Pa,
Candy, y, Dunn, la Edwards, ., Embree, la FarelIy
Pa, GRlNNELL, HALE, Mass, Holmes, N Y, Hamp,
ton, N J, Irving. ngersoI Pa Lincoln, Iii, Marsh VT,
Pollock, Pa Smitn, CT, Sylvester, N Y, Sehenck o,
Smith, Thompson la, Taylor, o. Talhnadge, N X. Van
Dyke, N j, Vlnion, o. White N Y-27.
ABsErT--BeIcher. Me- Blanchard, Pa Collamer, vi,
Dixon, CT, Duer Y, Duncan, o, Ecker., Freddy,
Pa, Gregory J., Hampton. Levin, Pa Lawrence, N
Y, McIlvalne, Pa Nelson, N Y, Mes. Pa, Rockwell CT
Reynolds, Sheriff., Slingerand N " srohm Stewart,
Pa-2l
Savonndh, Mo, December 4fh. Some DAYS
since Psrty of Mormons returnedirom Salt Lake,
bringing with them some quantities OF gold, dug