Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-09-06

The Chair ruledit out of order.
The decision was sustained; yeas
81, nays not counted. .
Mr.. Orr moved to strike out the
$4,000 for the payment of the taxes
due on the mint at Philadelphia, for
which ajudgment had been obtained.
This amendment was voted down.
MIR. Fitch moved en- amendment
providing that unless the $4,000
should be refunded 10 the United
States, that then and in that case
the mint shall be removed to New
York. Rejected.
The amendment to reduce the ap-
preparation was also voted down.
The committee, at a o'clock rose,
and the House Adjourned.
TIE MISSOURI REsTRIcTIoN-Pde
Of lS20.-n the late great debate in
the us. Senate, repeated reference
was made to the sectional character
OF the vote in Congress on the adop-
ton of the Missouri Compromise in
lS2Ol Senators on both sides quoted
from memory ard made great mis-
takes; none ofthem appear to have
looked with ony attention into that
part of the history of the transaction.
We have had the curiosity to hunt
up the list of yeas and nays on the
critical divisions, and think our read
ers may be interested III an ANALYSIS
of the vote.
The controversy, it will be remem-
bered, did not arise on the question
of admitting the State of Missouri in
to the Union, but on the preliminary
bill authorizing the inhabitants of
the territory to form constitution
and State Government. To that bill
an amendment was moved in the
House of Representatives, in the Ma
ture, ola mandate of the now State,
thatit should in its constitution cor
daln and establish that there should
be neither slavery nor involuntary
segvitude in the new State, otherwise
than in the puni shment of crime,
whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted;" which are the terms
of the Northwestern ordinance of
1857. The chief champions Of the
restriction were Mr.. John w. Tay-
lor of New York, and Mr.. John Ser
geant Of Pennsylvania, in the House
of Representatives, and Mr.. Rufus
King Of New.York, in the Senate.
After stormy debate, which convul-
sed the whole country, and multi
tude of amendments and propositions
which failed, the House of Represen-
tarives passed the proposed restric-
ton, and sent the bill containing it
to the Senate. The Senate had dis
cussed the same question contcmpo-
raneously, and there, too, numerous
attempts at compromise had been
tried unayailingly. Among them
was one to settle the question Y re-
moving all restriction from the Mis-
souri bill-.relinquishing all attemps
10 restrict States. and dividing the
territories of the United States at 36
deg, 30 min, prohibiting the exist
ence of slavery North of the line.
All the territories South of that
line were then de tdcto slaveholding,
and declining tolegislate was equiva-
lent to an agreement that slavery
should not be disturbed there.
This, thought it failed several times
is what afterwards passed, and is
now known as Tie Missouri comro-
mise. The author of the proposition
was Jesse B. Thomas, a Senator
from,the State of Illinois, Mr.. Clay
is generallyreputed TO be the author,
and is difficult to alter that impress
sion in the popular mind. But Mr..
Clay has repeatedly disclaimed it,
andiassigned it to the true source.
Mr., Clay supported it most strongly
by his influence and oratory in the
Lower House, but it failed there, and
first succesded inthe Senate. Mr..
Clayls powers of leadership in the
work of pacifcation were most con-
spicucus in the next Congress, or
another controversy, arising out of
the Missouri. case, which at that
time threatened very dangerous con
sequences. Missouri presented her
self to Congress with a constitution
which directed the, State Legislature
to pass laws excluding free negroes
and niulaftoes fFom1the State, There
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