New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-12
for there would have been twenty-eighs
votes for Freedom to twenty-one for Slavery.

votes for Freedom TO twenty-one tor Slavery
By their votes, (unless cour teracted in the
House. there has been absolutely stolen
from Freedom and given over to Slavery,
Territory larger than two New-England
States which the South had agreed, in the
framing of the Compromise bill, to concede
to New-Mexico and thus to Freedom. Here
was a direc. Extension of Slavery over a
large territory which no Slave ever yettrod,
and by the votes of seven Senator'S from
Northern States, every one Of whom but Mr..
Dodge had been expressly instructed to re-
sist any such extension, although Gen. Cass
has recently procured from a new Leg'Sia-
ture repeal of his instructions.
Mr. Ewing's proposition being defeated
Mr.. WINTHROP of Mass. submitted the fol-
lowing substitute for Mr.. Pearce's section;
."The State Of Texas will agree that herooanaa'
ny on the north shall commence at the Poiht III 'o
middle Of the deepest channel in the Rio Grahde
del Norte where the same ia crotsed oy tne one
hundred and second degree Of longitude west ifo a
the merdisn Of Greenwich, thence nofth along tne'
longitude to the thirty fourth degree o. run ia''
tude; thence eestwsrdly to the point az whlcn the
one hundredth degree Of west Longitude crosses tne
Redriver."
This was originally Col. BENToN'S prOpo'
sition, and very good one-better than the
Compromise if it could have. been obtained
but Mr.. w. saw that it must fail, and did
not see fit to press it to vote. We wish ne
had not withdrawn it.
Mr.. UNDERWOOD Of Ky. then proposed the
precise Boundary reported by the ComprO-
mise Committee, as follows:
"On the Bio Del Norte, commonly called III fAso,
and running up that river twenty miles, measursu
by q straight line thereon and thence eas'"auy
n point where the Tooth degree OF west lonBnuoo
cyo,ses Red River being the south vest angle va
tbe line desiepated between the United States and
Nexico and the same angle in the line OF the ter
rtorv act apart for the Indians by the United
States"
This was rejected as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Bright
Chase. Clarke, Cooper, Dodge of Wis. Ewing
Fetch, Greene Hale, Hamlin, Norris, Phelps, Sc
ward, Shields Smith, Spruance, Under wood, OP
han, Wales, Walker, Whitcomo, and Winthrop
"A
NAYs-Messrs Atchison, Badger, Barnwel, Bell
Benton, Benien, Butler, Csss, Clemens, Davis Of
Miss, Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge OF Iowa, Foote,
Houston, Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Pea'ce,
Rusk, Sebastian, Soul6, Sturgeon, and Turney-S9'
Here again Messrs. CasS, Dickinson,
Dodge of Iowa and &urgeon-all Of them
originally Compromise men and two of them
members of the Committee which framed
and adopted this very Compromise line,
voted against and by their votes defeated
its adoption! Bright and Whitc0mb voted
this time on the right side; Dooglas came
up missing; but Slavery and Texas had
exactly enough left.
The vote of COL Benton must be most
amazing to all to those who can be amazed
by any unprincipled act on his part, He is
the very man who pretended that the Com
promise bill robbed New-Mexico of seventy
thousand square miles Of her Territory,
wherefore he could not stand it. Yet here
we see him voting so as to deprive her of
over Thirty Thousand square miles more,
which were secured to her by the COmpro-
mise bill. So much for his friendship for
New Mexico.
1t is worthy of remark that when the
Senate came out of Committee, Mr.. Under
wood renewed his amendment, and it was
again voted down-Benton still against it
but this time Messrs Whitcomb and Bright,
the Indiana Senator'S, voted directly in the
teeth of their former votes, and in favor of
pushing the North line of Texas up to S6'
3O>. Having voted once for their constitu-
ents and their consciences, they seem to
have thought themselves entitled to vote
next for Texas and Slavery.
We trust this Boundary is to be i'm
proved in the House.
Missouri.