The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-12
THE SOUTHERN PRESS
WASHINGTON CITY

WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1850.
Circular OF tho Hon. T. a Bayly to Ills
Constituents.
The Union of yesterday is almost filled with
speech and circular of Mr.. BAYLy's The
speech was delivered on the 18th July last, and
was published and emphatically commended by
us. The circular now appears for the first
time. and two-thirds of it is devoted to defence
Of Mr.. BAyLY's vote for the Texas bill. As the
vote on this question in the House was in that
BODY decisive of the fate Of the Compromise
mcasures--as it was of the highest importance
in itself, as it was the vote on which the South
was most divided-and az it was one on which
we differed from more Of our Southern friends
than or~any other, we shall take this occasion
to examine it thoroughly and to consider the
views presented in defence Of it by MIR. BA1LY,
whose ability and ingenuity authorize US to pre-
sumo that i1defenca is the best of which it is
susceptible. Let it be understood that the bill
for which Mr.. BAYLY voted, is the one for fixing
the boundary Of Texas and providing terri
torial government for New Mexico. 1t was
composed Of two bills that had passed the
Senate, one for Texas the other for New Mex
leo. the latter having little or no opposition from
the South. Mr.. BAYLy's circular relates chiefly
to the Texas portion of the bill as it passed the
House
Mr,BAYLY makes the following statement
The vote on the passage of the bill was, one
hundred and eight for il, and ninety-seven against
it. Of the Southern Representatives, fifty-two
were for the bill, and thirty against it /; Of the
Virginia delegation, eight for the bill, and five
against it. Every Free-soiler in Congress de-
nounced and voted against it.
This is an error. The bill passed in the
Senate August 2, to a third reading. BY a vote
of 81 to "a, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Badger, Bell, Bsrrien, Brad
bury, Cass, Clarke, Clemens, Cooper, Davis Of
Massachusetts,, Darson. Dickinson, Dodge Of
Iowa, Douglas, Felch, Foote, Greene, Houston,
King, Norris Pearce, Phelps, Rusk, Shields,
Smith, Sturgeon, Wales, and Winthrop-27.
NAys-Messrs Aichison, Baldwin, Bal7l,ceH,
Benton, Bright, Butler, Chase, Davis Of Missis-
sippi Dodge of Wisconsin, Ewing, Hale, Ham
lin, Hunter, Mason, Morton, Seward Soule,
Whitcomb, and Yulee-24.
It will thus be seen that in the Senate the
bill received the vote of only ten Southern
Senators, Messrs Badger, Bell, Berrien, Gle
mems, Dawson, Foote, Houston, Pearcc, Rusk,
and Wales, and was opposed by thirteen, or a
majority of the Southern Senators present, in
GLIDING both of the Virginia Senators. AS a
party question it had the vote Of only four
Southern Democrats, and was opposed by nine.
This was the decisive vote. On the passage of
the bill the opposition to it lost Messrs. Bright,
Hamlin, Spruance, and Whitcomb. This bill
thus passed, and by this vote went to the
House. and after being discussed was rejected,
Mr.. BAYLY himself voting against it, as appears
from the record, thus: @
The question then REQUIRED upon the bill itself,
as it came from the Senate, and 1t was rejected
ayes 80-nays l26.
YEAs-Messrs. Albertson, anderson, Andrews,
Bau. Bokee. Bo,cie, Breck, Briggs, Brooks, Brown
of Indiana, Bue, Butler of Pennsylvania, Cald-
peu, Casey, Chandler, Cobb Of Alabama, Deberry,
Dimmick, Disney, Duer, Durham, Elliott, Escing,
Hall, Harris Of Illinois, Raymond, Hubbard, Hill
Hard, Hoagand, Houston, Johnson of Tennessee,
johnson Of Kentucky, Jones, Kaufman, Kerr james
g. King, Letter, Levin, LttlefeId, Mann of Penn
sylvana, McClernand, McKissock, .McLane, Nc
Mullen, Moore, Morehead, Morton, Ogle, OUTLINE,
Parker, Peaslee, Phoenix, Pitman, Robbins, Rob-
inson, Rose, Schenck, shepherd, Stanly, Strong;
Taylor, Thompson of Pennsylvania, Thompson of
Kentucky, Thurman, Underhill, Van Dyke, Vim
ton, w alden, Watkins, White, Wildrick, Williams,
Wilson, and Young-8O.
NAYs-Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Aston, Ashe,
Averett, Baker, Bayly, Beae, Bennett Bingham,
Booth, Bowdon, Bown, Boyd, Brown Of Missis-
sippi, Burrows, Burt, Butler Of Connecticut, Ca
bell, Cable, Caldwell ofKentucky, Calvin, Camp
bell, Cartier, Clark CIingman, Colcock Cole, Con
ger, Corwin, Crowell, Daniel, Dickey, Dixon, Do
ty, Duncan, Dnrkee, Edmundson, Evans Of Ohio,
Gilmore, Colt, Green, Holloway, Hammond
HARRISON, Harlan, Harmanson, Harris of Ten
nessee, Harris of Alabama, Hebard, Henry, Hol-
laday, Holmea, Howard, Howe, Hubbard, Hun
ter, lnge, Jackson Of Georgia, Jackson Of New
York, Johnson Of Arkansas, Julian, George G.
Mann of Massachusetts, Marshall Of Kentucky.
Mason, Ma,teson, Mcdonald, McGaughey, Me-
Lean, Mcqueen, Melville, Meacham, Meade,
Millson, Morris, Morse, Nelson, Newell, Odds,
Orr, OTIS, Owen, Peck, Phelps, Potter, Powell,
Putnam, Reed, Reynolds, Richardson, Rockwell,
Root, Ross, Rumsey, jr, Sackett, Savage, Saw
telle. Schermerhorn, Schoolcraft, Seldom, Sylves-
ter, sprague, Stanton Of Tennessee, Stanton OF
Kentucky, Stevens, Stetson, sweetzer, Thomas,
Thomson of Mississippi, Toombs, Tuck, Vena-
bic. Waldo, Wallace, Wellborn, Wentworth,
Whittlesey, Woodward-l26
The bill received the support of only abont
one-fourth Of the Southern delegation of the
House, four only from Virginia. Thus it ap-
pears that Of nincty-one members from the
South in the House and thirty in the Senate,
this bill received the vote Of only twenty-eight
in the House md ten in the Senate-but little
more than one-third.
Having thus the authority Of Dir. BAyLY him
SELF and of nearly two-thirds Of the Southern
delegates who voted against the Texas boun.
Diary bill ten millions and all, we come now to
his reasons in-support of the Texas and New
Mexico bills. One would suppose Tat having