New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-12

II will be remembered that the Boundary
between Texas and New-Mexico proposed
by Mr.. PEARcE of Md. and adopted by the
Senate is as follows:
1.-THE State of Texas will agree that her boun-
Diary on the North shall commence at the point at
which the meridian OF 100 degrees West from
Greenwich is intersected by the parallel OF 80 de-
erees and 80 minutes North latitude, and shall run
from that point due West to the meridian OF lO3
degrees West from Greenwich; thence her boun-
daTy ,ba run due South to the 32d degree Of North
latitude thence on the parallel OF 80 degrees OF
North latitude to the Rio Bravo del NOrte; and
thence with the channel Of said river TO the Gull OF
Mexico"
While the bill was under consideration,
Mr.. EWING Of Ohio moved to amend this
clause as follows
by striking out all after Greenwich" where it
Fret occurs, and insert "crosses Red River being
Abe south. west angle in the line designated be-
tween the United States and Mexico, and the same
anele in the line Of the Territory set apart for the
Indians By the United States, thence southwest
waIdly to the most Iortherly point OF the dam
acrots the Rio Bravo del Norte which supplies
with wafer the irrigating canal which supplies
the town Of FL Paso with water, thence with the
channel of said river 20 the Gulf of Mexico"
This is in effect and almost in precise
terms the boundary proposed by the Com
promise bill. After debate, Mr.. Ewing's
amendment was rejected, by the following
vote;
YEAs-Mestp Baldwin, Bradbury, Clarke, Coop.
er, Davis Of Mass. Dayton, Dodge Of Wis. K wing,
Greene, Hale, Hsmin, Phelps, Seward, Shields,
Smith. spruance, Underwood, Upham, Wales,
Walker, aud Winthrop-2l.
NAYE-Messrs Atchison, Badger, Barnwell,
Bel, Berren. Bright, Butler, Cass Davis of Miss.
Dawson Dickinson, Dodge OF Iowa, Douglas,
Foo,e. Houston, Hunter. King, Msngum, Mason,
Morton, Pearce, RGsk, Sebastian, Soole, Sturgeon,
Turrey WhitcomD, and fulee-2s.
Here we see that Messrs. SprVance, In
dewOod and Wales, Wing Senators from
Slave States, voted with all the Free State
Wings to run a straight boundary line be-
tween Texas and New-Mexico, on the line
of boundary with scarcely hairs varia-
Eon) 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 Wkitcomb of Indiana, Cass Of Michi.
pan. Dickinson Of New-York, A. C. 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
Wilmot Proviso, region stretching NORTH
from the old boundary of the United State
where the Tooth meridian of longitude (fron
Greenwich crosses the Red River in aoou
lat $50 4O) to 360 S0>, and from the lOOtl
meridian westof Greenwich to the lO9d de
pree-in other words, district at least l5O
miles square, which LIE Grand, who trav
ersed it 1888, represents as grassy, ferhi
prairie Though other accounts are less Ia
yorable) has been torn from the area o
Freedom and consigned to eternal Slavery
Had these Northern Senator'S voted on tn
side of Free Soil, Texas would at no poin
have stretched above the old angle forme'
by the intersection of the Tooth meridian
longitude by the Red River as Aforesaid