Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-24

| the House of Representatives and the Senate
| has prepared and given to these questions. Inc
| resolution originating in the House, passed that
body by a large ma orlty, and coming before
| the Senate passed by the following vote, found
in the Senate journal Of l645. page H.:
Yeas: Messrs. Bernard, Carter Declouet,
Downs, Dupre, Edwards, kenner, Ledoux, Ii
vaudais, Morancv Marshall and Slidell, II.
Nays: THARMANSON 70
Now, fellow citizens. you see whom MT: II.
| CHARGES with having voted for the Wllmot Fro
| viso. Can he think or hope for Il moment to
| impeach. in your minds, the devotion to South
| ern interests, of these Louisiana patriots, and
statesmen, BY inducing you to adopt his subter-
fuge, and believe that they would vote tor a
measure containing a provision mllnlcal TO
their State and homes! Or does he think that
| YOU will $50 ii blind,' as be says | do, and dis
regard the plain language and palpabIe spirit
and intent of this resolution, together with the
voice and judgement Gi the whole SENATE, and
coniiding in III, uu"Hrrlutcd ASSERTION, believe
that the WtnOt lrOyiso is there. and il no ore
Else can discover aud detect if. JOHN Il. HAR-
MANSON CAN! But after learning that theGe
was no such thing as the Wilnot proviso knOrn
or IT, ~cEiSte3tc" Ut that tlH2e, he says that he voted
against the resolution. because he WAS opposed
to the Missouri Compromise. TIN, subtertuge,
fellow citizens, Is as uIttgabie and VIII avail
the gentleman is little as that Of the Wilmot
Proviso. For in the first place, the Missouri
Compromise is 10 way Incorporated IN that bill.
The resolution Saysthat "Wot@d-d, it be stlpula-
ted in the act of annexation that Texas shall
enjoy all the rights anI WiriIc4es n0w secured to
thai j0rtiou Of territory coded by France to the
: ..-I u -,t 90. A.. ..,- . - -, t,,I
Igiyg Souh 1876 80 North Latitude 1t does
not say that Texas shall enjoy these privileges
up to this line onN-but that Texas, the whole
OF Texas, whether north or south OF this line,
shall enjoy all the rights and privileges now
secured 10 that portion Of Territory South Of
this line Of So 80. Here then it is plain enough,
that this resolution so far from approving the
Missouri Compromise IS applicable to Texas,
is plainly and directly opposed to it, and is in
tended to preclude and discountenance its ad-
mission into the act OF annexation-and would
Mr.. II. give YOU the true history of the object
of this resolution, he would tel you that it was
intended to decide Our representatives in Con-
/ Cress, about whose views and predictions as
TO the expelicncy and manner Of a~nnexing Tex
as, there was. to say the least some doubt, But,
in the second place, Mr.. Harnanson has shown
the leculiar extent to which he is opposed to
the Missouri Compromise, by voting for the
following amendment, on the question to ex-
tend the ordinance ofl7S7 over Oregon :"!nas-
much as the whole of the said territory lies
north of SO 80, north latitude, known as the
line of the Missouri Compromise" On page
1871 of the Congressional Globe of 1919, Mr..
IIarmanson is found voting for this amendment.
Does this appear to you, fellow citizens, like
being so scrupulously opposed to the Missouri
Compromise !! Does it not strike you as a novel
way Of m aniteSting opposition to q measure, to
vote t6r il? Here we find Mr.. Harmanson not
only, nat opposed to the Missouri Compromise
rs it then stood, but actually voting to extend
it and with it anti-slavery institutions over the
whole territory Of Oregon. But did Mr.. H. vote
te admit Texas as a State after her being ALL
nexed, Notwithstanding his vote to the contra
ry? No!why not! He says he was sick He
was sick, too, and did not vote, when the reso-
luton and report came up to emancipato siaTcs
in the District of Columbia. His absence is
reported on the 2l1-2i2 pages Of the Congress
sional Globe Of l649; the cause, he reports him.
sell. He was opposed to the Missouri Compro-
mise but votes in the State Legislature against
a resolution, the object of which was to instruct
our Representatives. in Congress to oppose its
admission in the act Of annexation, as we'll as to
advise them that Louisiana was in favor OF i'm
mediate annexation! He was opposed to the
Missouri Compromise but voted in Congress to
extend it over Oregon! Harmanso1ic consis-
tency this
Concluded nert Week.