The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-08-07

adopted fixing the line of 81 do. as the
Southern boundary of this Territory. and
the bill, in this form, ordered TO be engross-
ed ~ e y Ks 81 KS ~ 50
Yeas-Messrs. Atchfson, Badger, Ben
ton, Berrien. bradbury, Bright, Butler. Cass.
Davis, of Miss, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge
OF Iowa, Douglas, Downs, Felch, Houston,
Hunter, Jones, King, Ninson, Morris, Pratt,
Sebastian, Shields, Soule, Spruance, Stur-
geon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, and Yu-
lee-32.
Nays-Messrs. Baldwin. Boil, Chase,
Clark, Davissd Mass, Dayton, Dodge of
Wis, Ewing, Greene, Hale, Hamlin, Mil.
ler, Pearce, Seward, Smith, Uphaln, Walk
er, and Winthrop-lS.
Thus ended, and thus perished most de-
servedly,, the greatest instance of legisIa-
tive jugglery the world ever witnessed,
perhaps-the most delusve and deceptiye
conglomeration of measures that we're ever
urged on free people by persuasion and
sweet names. 1t died simply because it
was not fit to live, and not for want of any
care and nursing; on the contrary, never
was bantliDg more tenderly or more scdul.
ously handled, and never, since the days of
Macbeth's witches, has cauldrom been
mixed full OF moro dissimiar ingredients, or
been stirred with more hearty good will.
1t has gone though and let those weep
who have occason--the Compromisers
who have only compromised themselves,
and the traitors who have lost the reward
of their treason. Thus perish all mea.
sures that would deceive and bepuile a
free people-that come witt, the ..hands of
Esau and the voice of Jacob" Thus per.
lsh all attempts 10 mngle to mingle toreth-
er oil and water by Legislative hoc1s zoc,is.
instead Of sound Constitutional cbemis,ryi
On Thursday the Senate took up tho Bill
reported by the Territorial Committee (Afr.
Dougas Ciiarman0 for the admission of
California rs State.
Mr.. Foote moved that 55dg. 3omn. be
the Southern boundary of the State, and af-
Ter some discussion by Messrs. Dawson,
Mason Butler, Hale, Clay, Dickinson, and
Foote, the subject was postponed
The bill 10 provide n territorial govern
ment for Utah (bclng all TIN, was left or
the Compromise after the severe elimination
Of Wednesday, was then taken I'D, received
| Its third reading, and sent to the House.
| In the House several reports wore nre-
scented, and among them bill from the
Committee on Naval affairs, to provide n
line OF steamers for the coast of Africa for
the purpose ofsuppressing the African slave
trade, and protecting American commerce.
| which received two readinrs, and was re.
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Fortifca,ion bill was then taken nm
when Mr.. King, (of New-Y York; moved to
strike ont clause approprintng $4,000 to
preserve the site oi Fort Moal,rie which
motion was lost by vote of IL to lo4.
UTAn-Wben Mr.. Clay, at an early nc.
riod of the debate, drew the affecting pic.
ture OF the unjust slight offered by :.Aliss
California" to her elder sister, Utah
cooking up her nose and refusing to asso.
! cIate with that girl"--he little thought how
potent would be the influence of his affec-
ting appeal The Cinderella OF the concern
ls the only passenger in the Omnibus that
passed over the fatal bridge of yesterday.
She, SO long kept in the background, and
treated withcoldrontelnElt. asa Nero make.
weight-the ballast tfit to keen ihe
Omnibus steady, hes alenc ned tlse zen.
Graz crash OF malt att q ettiI a
OF that slow coach and It's yentnrous pha.s.
ons Refusing 10 incorporate The Wilmot
proV'so INTO her Constitution, and acting
upon sound American principles, she did moi
excite the sympathes Of those SO warmly
soicItous for the immediate entrance OF
California and New Mexico. which had en-.
grated that principle--and 10. the last has
been made iirst-Miss Utah trims in, willie
the others, like
The Peri, at the gu,s
VI Eden, stand disconsoIate.' -
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