The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-01
DRAWING 1T MILD.

! The National Era, which never misses chance
to assail with deadliest energy Wing from the
Free States who iinches from the support of Free
Soil, thus meekly announces the disastrous vote
| by which the House refused seat and hearing
| to the Delegate from New Mexico:
"The House last week was chiefly occupied
with the consideration Of the report of the Com
mittee on Elections against the admission Of Mr.
Smith as Delegate from New Mexico and Mr..
Rabbit as a Delegate from Utah. The report
was sustained and admission refused to both gen.
temen. The vote was chiefly sectional one,
Mr. Gentry being the only member from slave
holding section voting for their admission. The
South carried the day by the aid Of its usual
suxiliaries from the North, and of two or three
Northern men, who, notwithstanding their gener
al fidelity 70 the interests Of Freedom, could not
see their way clear to act with their associates
this particular question: ....r.
$ 1Yc asp. 40 rer,uy 6edtgate from New
Mexico will be able in time to take his place as a
Representative of the State Of New Mexico
That is all-r-no list Of the members from free
States who voted to reject Mr.. Smith-no ultima
ton that they were all Of one party and ,hieh par
ty, land hshitual reader of the Era who relied
that paper for his political information would never
suspect the right one)-n call upon the friends of
Free Soil to keep those enemies of Freedom out Of
the next House-hut false statement that but one
member from a slave State voted in favor of New
Mexico, when two did so, (both Whigs,) and
whtewashng apology for the two or three North
ern men who, Notwithstanding thar general fdelay
TO FREEDOM ~ voted to stihe the voice of New Mex
ico and turn her over bound and gagged to the ten
der mercies of her enemies And yet some would
like to have it believed that the Era is fair candid
paper, earnestly devoted to the cause Of Human
Freedom, and entirely impartial between the two
| ritz of q fact il far
from this. The Era dislikes Slavery, but the
Wing party monopolzes its hatred. 1t has fair
shafts for Slavery, but poisoned arrows for the
friends of the National Administration Had
twenty-five Wings from the free States voted as
those twenty-five Locofocos did, their names
would have been paraded and the consequences
of their recreancy to Freedom fully portrayed
in the Era. But Locofocos may vote So and
have their inquity skillfuly cloaked and par
TALLY apologized for in that paper. The People
shall know this-New York Tribune.
As we are anxious that the People shall have
light, we quote the article from the Tribune The
more the People know of the Era, the less they
will agree with that paper.
Now we beg the dear People to remember that
we publish only a weekly, and that sometimes
we cannot say all we want to say, in one number,
and so must postpone our remarks till another
more, especially when it saw our columns crowd
ed with the Letter and Notes of that good and
stauch Whig,- Horace Mann.-It would have
been charitable, to say the least.
For the benefit of the dear People whom our
impulsive contemporary is going to tell on u.s." we
had marked for publication in our columns, be-
fore we saw the terrible threat Of the Tribune, the
following extract from the valuable Washington
correspondence of the New York Eueag Post !,
"This mode of rejecting the petition Of New
! Mexico, and denying her ipcontestable rights, by
laying the subject on the table seems on its face
mean and sordid evasion Of just responsibility.
| But | will say nothing more upon that point.
| Mr.. Smith was rejected by eleven majority But
in order that proper accountability may attach
to all who thus basely betrayed the cause Of free
dom and of the great popular right of represent
alton, | have made the following analysis of this
| vote
Members from free States who voted to deny
representation to New Mexico:
| MAINE-Elbridge Gerry Nathaniel s Little
| field, Cullen Sawtelle--3.
New HAMrsHRE-H Harry Hubbard, Charles
| III. Peasee--2.
CoNNFcrIcuT-Loren P. Waldo.
NEw YoRK-fIiram Walden.
New JERsEY-Isaac Wildrick-l.
PENNsYLLANIA--Milo M. Dimmick, Job Mann,
John Robbins, jr, Thomas Ross, VIM. Strong,
James Thompson-6
OHo.-JOhn X Miller, William A. Whittle-
sey-2.
INDIANA-Wm. ]. Brown, Cyrus L. Durham,
Willis A. Gorman--3
ILLINors-Thomas L. Harris, John A. McCler-
nand, William. A. Richardson, Timothy r.
Young.
Observation-Disclosures w. Buell..
IowA-Shepherd Lefler--l.
This leaves eighty votes from slave States
against New Mexico. Among the negative votes,
those in favor of the right of representation Of
New Mexico nnety-four in number, find just
two members from slave States-Houston OF
Delaware, and Gentry of Tennessee. The two
together make eighty-two from slave States, out
of an entire delegation Of ninety-one, showing
only nine absentees from those States, or one in
ten. The statement above given, of TWEEN.
ty-fve ayes and ninety.two noes from free
States, shows that twenty-three votes out Of one
hundred and forty were abseut, or one in six. OF
course only nine of these men could have paired
off with the supporters of the pretensions of sa-
very and the remainder are equally guilty with
those who actively co-operated with them. The
names OF those twenty three sbsentees are
Thomas J. ID. Fuller, Me; Daniel p. King,
Massachusetts, Julius Rockwell, ditto Jas Will
son, New Hampshire; Harvey Putnam, N. York
Gideon Reynolds, ditto; William A. Sackett, dit
to; Peter II. Sylvester, ditto; Andrew X. Hay, N.
Jersey John Van Dyke, ditto; Joseph w. Ca
sey, Pennsylvania; Moses Hampton, ditto; Lewis
c. Levin, ditto; James X. MoLanahan, ditto
Henry Mes, ditto; David T Disney, Ohio Moses
Hoagland ditto; Samuel II. Vinton, ditto Ma
thaniel Albertson, Indiana; Jos. L. Mcdonald
ditto; Edward ID. Baker, Illinois.
For them and for the twenty five before named,
invoke the reprobation and prescription Of their
constituents. 90 into no despicable inquiry rs
TO the party politics of these men-they are all
traitors and delinquents TO the sacred cause of
freedom and the rights of the people, enemies to
the just and true doctrine that "taxation with
out representation is tyranny recreants alike
to principle and to policyn
We stand corrected There were two Wings
from slave States Houston and Geutry-but
Delaware is sometimes cassed with the free States
sometimes with the slave and that is why the
name of its representative did not catch our eye
No Wing from the Free States voted against
the admission, but twenty-five 80 called Democrats
did We said two or three Northern men, not
withstandng their general fidelity to the interests
Of Freedom, could not see their way clear to act
with their associates on this occasion. We allu-
ded to Mr. Strong Of Pennsylvania and Mr.. Wal
do Of Connecticut, whom we believed to be sound
on the issues involved in the Slavery Question,
though on this particular vote, they were wrong,
In our opinion. As to the rest Of the Democratic
voters In the negative, we have not word to say
for them. They are generally men whom we
have held up to pnblic reprobation.
The editor Of the Tribune cannot understand |
us He Ia q partisan We are not. He belongs
to the Wing organization; We belong to none |