Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-16
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resentativcs had laid on the table (ll5 to 79) Mr. |
Roots resolution instructing the Committee |
on the Territories TO bring in n bill to cstab- |
lish governments in the ewaTeuitorics and to
exclude slavery thcrefrom and also that
similar disposition had been made of an anti |
slavery resolution offered by Mr. Giddings. |
Subsequent reports give us clearer view of
the circumstances attending this extraordinary
action. There was an effort on the part of GER
tain Northern members to avoid the YEAS and
NArs. They meant to bctray the interests of
Freedom and shrunk from the responsibility of
an open vote but they were defeated Among
those who voted to lay on the table-in other
words, against the Ordinance Of S7-worc Is
Northern Democrats and IA Northern Wings.
OF these, were from Ohio, viz Taylor and
Vinton, (Whigs,) and Miller, (Dcm.) No less
than 10 Northern Wings, (among them Win
throp of Mass. and Crowcll Of Ohio,) and
Democrats, Gncluding I1oogland and Wood of
Ohio) were either absent or doGging. Julian
and Wilmot, Frecsoilcrs, came into tho Hall too
late to vote. Tuck was out Of TIC city.
Tho National Era after giving careful anal
ysis of the vote, says
The vote We have analysed will astonish the
whole country. 1t has humblod the free States.
it has embodoncd the Slavery Extonsionists, It
has inflicted deadly blow on the cause of Free
dom. Tho members from the free States who
betrayed their constituents on this occasion
were with few exceptions solcmnly pledged to
maintain the Wilmot Proviso They could not
have been elected but for their proicssed hos
tilty to the extension of slavery, and their
protested devotion 20 the policy of the Ordi-
nance of 1887. Once in their seats, they dis
regard their pledges and turn their backs on
their constituents. OF the eighteen Democrats
who voted against tho Ordinance of 1887, nine
are from Indiana and Illinois, and may be pre-
sumed to reflect the opinion of Gen. Cass and
six are from Pennsylvania voting doubtless in
accordance with the wishes of MIR. Buchanan,
who has been spending some time here, and
who is full of apprehension for the stability of
the Union. These two gentlemen arc Presidcn-
tal candidates in cxpectancy-thoy look, as
ever, to the South, for support, abhor the Pro-
viso, and would have their supporters sympa-
thizo with them. OF the fourteen Wings who
voted against the Ordinance, eight are from
Now Yorl-and of the nineteen abscntecs,
eight arc New York Whigs--in all, sixteen
Wings from that State who doubtless have
felt themselves encouraged by the trucking
course of Messrs. Waters, Monroe, and Dox,
in the New York Assembly to reverse their
position.
OF the potent cause of this change of posi-
| ton of the Wing Party in Congress, there can
be no doubt. Their constituents sent then
here as Wilmot Proviso men. They boastcd
that they were the true Liberty Party-that in
their hands alone the interests of the Cause Of
| Free Soil would be secure. They hold their
seats in virtue of such pledges, but nearly two
fifths of them, at the word Of command from
General Taylor, wheel about, and go dead
against the policy to carry out which they were
elected. We say two -fifths, for while fourteen
voted to lay upon the table the resolution, OF
the nineteen absent, nearly all we have reason
to believe, approved Of this policy. And what
is this policys To suppress all agitation of
Anti-Slavcry questions in Congress, and to post
ponc the subject of organizing Governments
for New Mexico and Dcserct, so that they may
form State Governments, decide tho question
of Slavery as they please, and then enter the
Union, whether they come rs free or slave
States. That is the policy of the Presidents
Message-that is the policy of his organ in this
city-that is the policy sanctioned by the Wing
press Of tho country, with few exceptions
that is the policy OF the leading Wing Mem
bcrs of Congrcss-and the first fruit of that
policy was the vote of last Monday, by which,
for the first time since the Wilmot Proviso was
introduced into the House, it was voted down
Now rccollcct, the Committee on the Tcrrito-
rics is organized so that majority of its mem
bcrs are hostile to the Wilmot Proviso. The
delegates from Dcscrct and New Mexico arc
here, with the Territorial Constitutions of their
respective Territories, and applications to be ad-
mittcd on the floor of the House as Territorial
delegates. These Constitutions contain no re-
strction as to Slavery, and will go to Com
mittce opposed to the incorporation of any such
restriction. The Committee will of course re-
port them without the Proviso, as the House
has refused to instruct it otherwise. Such in
struction the resolution of Mr. Root proposed;
thus expressing the will of nineteen twcntioths
of the People OF the free States of all partes--a
will hitherto declared by the Legislatures of all
those States excepting Iowa. But the Taylor
Wings and Cass and Buchanan Democrats join
cd hands with the Slavery -Extcnsionists, and
put their veto upon az
What egrcgious folly, what base betrayal of
the interests of Freedom Had tho Northern
members stood by their oft-doclared determine
ton, they would have passed Roots resolution
they would have put through all their stages
the bills reported under such instruction. True,
the bills would have beon killed in the Senate,
but New Mexico and Dcseret would have been
no worse off than If Gen. Taylor's policy had
been followed from the beginning Free
dom would have been saved. The moral pow
or of the voting in the House would have cna-
blcd the friends of Freedom to bring in Califor-
mia without reduced boundaries, and would
have admonishcd New Mexico and Dcscret, that
when they came as States, they must present
themselves with Anti Slavery Constitutions
To expose more clearly the corrupt policy OF
the Northern mon to whom we have alluded,
Mr.. Giddings offered the following resolutions,
containing as will be seen, merely an affirmation
that the rights asserted by our Declaration OF
Independence to be inalienablc, ought to be Sc
cured in constituting Governments for the Ter
ritorics. This was a proDosition. containing n
simple declaration Of a great Truth, in such
form that it could not possibly cmbarrass any
party interests.
Hero arc the resolutions: