Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-16
SAVE TRADE IN THE D. OF COLUMBIA.

SLAVE TRADE IN THE D. OF COLUMBIA
The Senate resumed the consideration OF the
hin to suppress the slave trade in the District of
Columbia.
Mr. MASON moved to strike out the first two
soctons. which were part of the bill as it was
renorted from the Committee of Thirteen. The
first of these sections prohibits the introduction of
anv slave into the District of Columbia for the
purpose of being sold placed in depot to be sub
seuuently transported to any other market. The
second section provides for the abolition of the de-
pots themselves in which the slaves are confined
in the District of Columbia. If, therefore, the
motion to strike out should prevail, all that por-
ton of the bill relating to the abolition Of the sta0e
trade IN the District of Columbia aciU be stricken
ont, and its character changed as it will only pro-
vide for the punishment of persons entlclng slaves
from the District, and invest power IN the cor
poraton to prohibit free persons OF color from COM
ing into the District,
The question recurred on the motion to strike
out the first two sections the bill.
Mr.. UNDERW asked for division ofth
question: and the vote was taken on striking out
the first section, and resulted thus
YEAS-Messrs. Atchison, Berrlen, Butler,
Davis of Mississippi Dawson, Downs, Houston
Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Rusk, Sc
bastian, Soule Turney, Underwood, and 1ulee
I-18
! NAY5Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell, Ben
ton, Bright Chase, Clay, Davis of Massachusetts
Dayton, Dickinson, Dodge of Wisconsin, Dodge
of Iowa, Ewing, Felch, Foote, Greene, HamIn'
Jones, Mangum, Norris, Phelps, Seward, Shields
Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Wales, Walker, W MT
comb and Winthrop-3O.
/ So the Motion to strike out was not agreed to-
The third and last charge that Foote voted against
motion to abolish the Mexican laws prohibiting slav
erv in the territories The Courier says eve have
diligently searched the records for the vote referred to
but it cannot find it-what pity Let it look or
page 1920 Appendix to the Congressional Globe, ant
if will find the vote recorded Foote votes with Hale
Chase and Seward this proposition, and he gives
one his reasons for voting against it, that if adopted
he believed it would cause Northern gentlemen to uot
AGAINST the achole measure. That is, if the Mexican
; laws which Col Davis motion proposed to repeal wer
repealed and slavery not prevented from entering tn
territories that then the Northern gentlemen woul
vote against the whole measure. This is clear ad
: mission by Foote that the Northern gentlemen hel
that Mexican law excluded slavery from the terrltore
and this furnishes the key to Hae's proposition en-
braced in the compromise bills for the territory of
e Mexico and Utah.
ST We give the Courier another instance of its Cand
dates capacity of defending the interests OF the Sou
not that we have the least idea that it will apprecla
our courtesy but it will require apology for Foote
voting with the aboltionsts and the Courier Is ham
u er at apologies than of its neghbors, because
III generally supprsses one half of the truth, and the re
% it perverts as is seen above
On mage 1928 of the Congressional Globe,
appears that, on the 9th of August, 1850, Mr. "
of lee, "a Senator from Florda) offered suosttu
to for the California Bill The substitute contalne
about forty sections, and provided for creating al
is continuing in force TERRITORIAL Governmen
for California On page 1559-60, we find the &c
k lowing proceedings ''Mr. Douglass moved, al
the Senate proceeded to the consideration OF e
e, Bill for the admission of California as state IN
e. the Union The question pending was On the pr
he posed substitute for the Bill submitted by Mr.
lee, being to change the [then existing Cover
ut ment of California into provisional 1erftor'
Ire Government" The question was then taken
the substantive and it was rejected, yeas II, ma
35. And Mr. Foote voted against 1t, IN comp
mt nv with all the a6olitionists in the Senate, as
he pears from the record.
Yeas-Messrs Atchison, Berrien, Clemel
nd Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Hunter, King,
son. Morton, Sebastian, Turney, and 4ulee-l
II a Amongst the nays, are Messrs. FOOTE, CAG
7 1t Doyis of Massachusetts,, EaCing, Hale, Ha'nl
the Seacard, Winthrop, Greene, Clark, Smath, dc.