Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-08-22

posuA o"C W cSs " the tueIbuldu Oh lUO uc
grees West from Greenwich; thence he
, boundary shall run due South to the 81
} degree Of North latitude; thence on th'
parallel of 81 degrees of North latitude Il
the Rio Bravo del Norte; and thence will
the channel of said river to tine Gulf o.
. Mexico" -nm go
While the bill was under consideration
MIR. Ewing Of Ohio moved to amend this
clause as follows: ,-...
BY striking out after Greenwich" where
II first occurs, and insert crosses Red Ri
yer, being the Southwest angle in the line
designated between the United States and
Mexico, and the same angle in the line ol
the Territory set apart for the Indians by
the United States. thence enthusiastically
to the most northerly point of the dam a.
cross the Rio Bravo del Nore which sup
plies with water the irrigaiing canal which
supplies the town of EIpaso with water,
thence with the channel Of said river to the
Gulf of Mexico"
This is in effect and almost in precise
terms the boundary proposed BY the Conn
promise bill. After debate, MIR. Ewing's
amendment was rejected, by the following
vote:
YRAs-Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury,
Clarke. Cooper, Davis, of Mass. Dayton,
Dodge of Wis, Ewing, Greene. Hale, Ham
lin, Phelps, Seward, Shields, Smith, Spru-
ance, Underwood, Upham, Wales, Walker,
and Winthrop-2l
NAYs-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barn
well, Bell, Berrien, Bright, Butler, Cass,
Davis of Miss, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge
of Iowa, Douglas, Foote, Houston. Hunter,
King, Mangum, Mason, Morton, Pearce,
Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Sturgeon, Turney,
Whitcomb, and Yulee-2S.
Here we see that Messrs. Spruance, I'm
derwood and Wales, Wing Senators from
Slave States, voted with all the Free State
Wings to run straight boundary line be-
tween Texas and New Mexico, on the line
of boundary with scarcely hairs varia-
tion) proposed by the Compromise bill, but
they were voted down by twenty-one South
ern Senators, naturally anxious to get all
they could for Slavery, and Messrs Bright,
and Whllcomb of Indiana, Cass of Michi-
gan, Dickinson of New York, A. G. Dodge
Of Iowa, Douglas of Illinois, and Sturgeon
of Pennsylvania. BY the votes Of these
seven Northern Senators, several Of them
pledged to and protesting to support the
Wn".ot Proviso, region stretching north
from the old boundary of the United States
where the Tooth meridian Of longitude
from Greenwich) crosses the Red River
lin about lat. 33 . 40') to sc 30', and
from the Tooth meridian west of Greenwich
to the I03d degree-in other words, dis
trict at least $50 miles square, which LIE
Grand, who traversed it 1888, represents as
a grassy, fertile prairie (though other ac-
counts are less fayorabiel has been torn
90 e,ornal SisyArsi Had these Noslhefn
SehStois voted on the side Of Free Soil,
Texas would at no point have stretched a.
bove the old angle formed by the intersec-
ton of the Tooth meridian Of longitude by
the Red River as aforesaid; for there would
have been twenty-eight votes for Freedom
to twenty-one for Slavery. By their votes,
(unless counteracted in the House, there
has been absolutely stolen from Freedom
and given over to Slavery, Territory larg-
er than two New England States which the
South had agreed. in the framing Of the
leo and thus to Freedom. Here was d.
reel Extension Of Slavery over large ter
ritcry which no Slave ever yet trod, and by
the votes Of seven Senators from Northern
States, every one of whom but Mr.. Dodge
had been expressly instructed to resist any
such extension, although Gen. Cass has re-
Gently procured from new Legislature a
repea! of his instructions.
MIR. Ewings proposition being defeated,
Mr.. Winthrop of Mass. submitted the fol-
lowing substitute for Mr.. Pearce's section
1.-The State of Texas will agree that her
boundary on the North shall commence at
the point in the middle of the deepest chan
mel in the Rio Grande del Noste, where the
same is crossed by the one hundred and
second degree Of longitude west from the
meridian Of Greenwich, thence north along
that longitude to the thirty-fourth degree Of
north latitude; thence eastwardly to the
point at which The one hundredth degree of
westlongitude crosses the Red river"
This was originally Col. Benton's prop
osition, and very good one--better than
the Compromise if it could have been OBJ
tained-but Mr.. w. saw that it must fail,
aud did not see fit to press it TO VOTE
Wr visible had not Withdrawn it.
Mr.. Underwood Of Ky. then proposed the
precise Boundary reported by the Compro-
mise Committee, as follows: eHf
Son the Rio del Norte, commonly CALI
ed Ell Paso, and running up that river 20
miles, measured by straight line thereon,
and thence eastwardIy to point where the
Tooth degree Of west Longitude crossed Red
River, being the Southwest angle in the
line designated between the United States
and Mexico, and the same angle in the line
of the territory set apart for the Indians by
the United Stales." ID
This was rejected as follows: n i-f
YEAs-Messrs.B Baldwin, Bradbury Bright,
Chase, Clarke, Cooper. Dodge Of Wis,
Ewing, Felch, Greene, Hale, HamIin Nor
ris, Phelps. Seward. Shields, Smith, Spru-
ance, Underwood. Upham, Wales, Walker,
Wh.tconb, and Winthrop-24.
NAxs-Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barn
well, Bell, Benton. Bsrrien, Butler. Cas-,
L.