The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-04
THE UNION.

interfering with the primary disposal Of the SOIL nor ~
properly q The jailed STATES nor shall ,he lands Or Other
property Of residents be taxed higher than the lands
xsaye assembly and governor shall be submitted the
Congress q the United saes and. II disapProved shall be
Now. we ask our readers to compare this provision
with that we have quoted from the Clayton compromise
OF is4s, and tell the difference between them, far
as the question OF slavery is concerned We have
pared them carefully for the purpose OF detecting any dis
crepancy and after mature deliSention we can see
nothing except that the Clayton compromise forbds the
passage Of any law "respseang slavery" while the
proposed adjustment fobids the passage Of any law
respect Afiean slavery" We confess il requires
better eyesor worse-than ours to see any real differ
ence between the two provisions.
But this isnot all. The Clayton compromise was sent
to the House OF Representatives and the 2sh Of July
lsis, Mr. Stephens, wing member from Georgia. moved
to lay il on the table, without debate, for the
purpose OF defeating it. Among those who
tanned this motion recognise the names Of Amos
Tuck, Horace Mann. PaIfrey. Coamer. Duer. Gott.
Andrew Stewart Wilmot, Giddings, Schenck, and Went
worth
Among those who voted against Mr. Stephens's motion
TO kill the Clayton compromise, find the following
Names to wit Messrs Evans and McLane OF Maryland;
Messrs Bayly, Bocock, Mcdowell, and Meade, OF vir
gnia; Messrs Cngmaa, Daniel Outlaw, Shepherd, and
yenabe. OF North Carolina Messrs Burt Holiness Wal.
lace, and Woodward, of South Carolina; Messrs Howell
Cobb, Haralson and Toombs OF Georgia. Mr. Cabell,
Of Florida Messrs Gentry. Johnson jones' P. Stan
ton, and Thomas, Of Tennessee; Messrs. F. w Bowden
w. r. w. Cobb, Harris, billiard, and Inge Of Alabama
Messrs Harmanson and LaSere, OF louisiana Messrs
Brown, Featherston, and Thompson, Of Mississippi
Messrs Bown, Green, and Hall, of Missouri Mr. John
son. of Arkansas; Messrs Boyd and Morehead. Of Ken
lucky; and Mr. Kaufman of Texas-all members Of the
present House Of Representatives. But these not all
who voted against the destruction Of the Clayton compro
mise TOR epsry member present from TIE Southern States
except John s. Pendeton of Virginia, Nathaniel Boydon
and Richard S. Donnell, OF North Carolina, Alexander
Stephens, Of Georgia. John H. Crozier. Of Tennessee,
and Green Adams, Aylet Buckner, and John B. Thomp-
son, Of Kentucky, voted on the same side. And Of
these latter though selected from the strongest ,ohg dis.
riets in the South. only tao hGvs been sustained,
This history for it is derived from the public records
and yet strange say, Of the gentlemen who less
than years ago. sustained the Clayton compromise and
denounced before their southern constituencies those who
defeated that compromise, now moving heaven and
earth to defeat adjustment, giving. as their principal
reason clause identical with the similar clause OF the
Clayton compromise. Taking all these things into con-
sideration, what to think The friends OF the
proposed adjustment have expressly told its enemies
from the South that they were willing to strike the
feature touching slavery, which some gentlemen from
the South (who had voted for the feature in the
Clayton compromse) objected TO, and that they were
willing to remove their newfound objections by admit
ting Mr.. Pratrs amendment But that has not
proved satisfactory II is all mystery-all mystic
ry-whlch arrays southern Saterghts in the Senate
side by side with Messrs. Hale, Chase, and Seward,
under the lead of Colonel Benton. and arrays southern
Statenghts in the House Of Representatives by the
side Of Root. Wentworth, Wilmot. and Horace Mann,
under the lead OF Joshua r. Giddngs.