Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-12
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1850.
IN SENATE.

IN SENATE. "A...
Mr.. UNDERWOOD presented petition from certain
citizens of Kentucky, which, being Short he said he would
read to the Senate. He read it as follows
PETITION FOR PEACE.
Ib the honorable Senate of the United Stctes.
The undersigned citizens of Allen county, in the State
Kentucky deporng the manifold evils OF and believing
possible to supersede in its alleged necessity
by the timely adoption of wise and feasible substitutes
specially request your honorable body take such action
you may deem best favor of stipulated arbitration,
Congress- of nations for the accomplishment OF this most des-
rable end
The petition was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations. .......
ROUTE FROM ARKANSAS TO SANTA FEE.
The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate report
from the Secretary of War; made in compliance with
luton of the Senate accompanied by report and map Of the
route from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe in New Mex
co, made by Lieut. j. H. Simpson, of the Corps of Topo
graphical Engineers, in ls49 which read and ordered
TO be printed.
'" FEES OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS. ...
Mr.. BUTLER gave notice Of his intention Tomorrow
subsequent day. to ask leave to introduce bill tc
regulate the fees and be allowed clerks, marshas
and attorneys of the District and Circuit Courts of the United
States, and for other purposes.
RESOLUTIONS FROM STATE LEGISLATURES.
Mr.. UPHAM. Mr.. President, have received from the
Executive Of Vermont sundry resolutions adopted by the
General Assembly of Vermont, which propose present
The Senate The first resolutions, which accompanied by
a report, recommend the establishment of bureau Of ag
culture in the Department of the Interior Washington.
that these resolutions be printed and referred 10 the
Committee on Agriculture.
The motion was agreed to. ....
SLAVERY. 49,.
Mr.. UPHAM. have another series of resolutions adopt
ed by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont the
subject of slavery move that they be read and printed
Mr.. MANGuM move that the motion 10 receive these
resolutions lie on the table. .~- 4.
Mr.. HALE. On that motion ask for the yeas and nays
Mr.. UPHAM. The gentleman will remember that these
are o a
Mr.. DAWSON i desire to state to the Senator from
Vermont that the resolutions of his State the subject
slavery have been already printed, and my table,
at all events .t'. ~. e.. ."' b.. .,.. =
Mr.. UPHAM They printed by the House, accord
ing to the usual practice there, but by the Senate
Mr.. MANGUM. will be obliged to the Chair to turn to
the rule and what has been the practice of the Sen
ate applied to resolutions coming from sovereign State
Mr. KING. The practice has been, whenever resolutions
memorials have been presented for the Chair ask they
shabe received It the parliamentary usage and law that
paper be received without the Of the body
whom is presented and becomes the duty of the presd
ing officer in such whenever he is of any obc
on to ask the question whether the paper shall be received
and the practice has been when there objections its
ccon, to move to lay the motion to receive upon the table
When resolutions from sovereign State pay the
respect sister State of the Confederacy to lay them
the table, and at to order them to be printed Beg ond
that We do not go. w.. "...., r..
Mr.. PHELPS. think the Senator from Alabama (Mr
kISG clearly right in his understanding and recollection
of what has been the practice of the Senate has always
been usual 10 print resolutions of this character.
Mr.. MANGUM. The statement made by the Senator
from Alabama is fully in accordance with my recollection Of
what has been the settled practice of the Senate for the last
fourteen fifteen years. and therefore withdraw my motion.
think the resolutions should be received and printed
Mr. YULEE. / desire to ask if these resolutions have
been received. e& ...s
The VICE PRESIDENT replied that they had been.
Mr.. YULEE. understand, then, that the motion now
pending to print desire to say that, whatever may have
been the practice the Senate and the disposition Of gentle
men to conform to that practice feel it incumbent
to adhere to the precedent far my is
cerned in the of the resolutions from New York during
the last session. then took the ground that although it
proper to receive and place the journals Of this body
all resolutions eanatng from the Legislatures of the
reign States Of this Union, it not incumbent U.S. and
certainly would not by my vote consent, to give dignity
these proceedings by agreeing the printing of resolutions
couched language oppobous and offensive the citi
Of the State which have the honor to represent part
and of large portion Of the States represented in this body
The language in which these resolutions open violent
offensive oppobous and repehensible the part of the
sister State Vermont than any before presented this
body. will read from them
Resolved That slavery is a crime against humanity and
evil in the body polite that the trainers
of the federal constitution crime enaled upon the country
their and tolerated solely as thing OF mex
orabe necessity"
Now sir slavery is an institution which the people re-
present choose to maintain within their limits and while
sanctioned by the constitution and Government in which
they have engaged, with the State of Vermont who sends
here this resolution, consider that if permit offensive
each other and be received by this body, give
ton and appreciation, far silent acquiescence may
go, to its USE and encourage system of elimination and
elimination leading to continual irritation between the States
which must be eventually fatal the permanence and
continuance of this Union
These resolutions not communicated to the Senate OF
the United States by the Legislature of Vermont they are
instructions to the Senators and Representatives that
State and will be found that only at the last session
of Congress that the precedent of the printing by
this body Of resolutions Of such character Now although
the Senators who receive these instructions may be allowed
TO present them and to lay them the table evidence
of the sentiment direction which controls their votes they
have right to call the Senate this body bound to
give dignity to such resolutions by order to print them
Az all events the only by which individual
representing constituency in the enjoyment Of the nstita
tons denounced by the Legislature of Vermont mark my
apprehension of language such used in these resolutions
shall withhold, if vote alone, my for the printing Of
The resolutions #.-
Mr. UPHAM called for the reading of the resolutions and
they read by the Secretary follows
Resolved BY The Senate and House Representatives. That
slavery is crime against humanity aud a evil the
body polite, that excused by the trainers federal
constitution crime enaled upon the country their
decessors, and tolerated thing of nexorabe
Resoued That the so-called compromise of the cons
with slavery only in the States which then existed and
from interference with the slave trade only limited time
which has long since expired and that the powers conferred
upon Congress the constitution suppress the slave trade
regulate between the Stes govern the Terri
tories and to admit Saespowers conferred an ex
press intention o form perfect unon establish Justice