The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-07-31
HON. SAMUEL y. yfsTas.

This gentleman having been nominated by the
Wing State Convention Of Ohio as their candi-
date for Governor, the presses Of that State are
referring with much interest to his votes while in
Congress, as indicating his position on the great
questions which have agitated the country He
voted for Colts resolution at the last session Of
the thirtieth Congress, which was in these words
Resolved That the Committee on the District
OF Columbia be invited to report bill as soon as
practicable, prohibiting the slave trade in the
District OF Columbia
This resolution was offered on the q st of ecem.
der A. d. ls4s, and Its passage by majority Of
10 votes was received with universal joy by every
friend Of humanity Bot subsequently, under the
whip and spur Of party drill, Mr. Vinton faced
about, changed his position, and voted 10 recon-
slider the vote adopting the resolution, thereby
lending his influence TO continue the traffic in
slaves at the seat Of Government. This was the
effect of adopting the motion to reconsider. As
soon as the motion TO reconsider was carried, Mr.
VintOn moved to postpone the further consd-
GRAFTON Of the subject for two weeks, which mo.
tiOn prevailed. At the end Of two weeks, the
consideration ofthe resolution was again resumed
and considered for an hour or two, when the
House adjourned, and the resolution was placed
on the calendar under the rules, where it to this
day remainn. Mr. Vinton," says the Ashta5ula
SeRi"el had long served in that body, was fimil-
lar with the rules and must have seen clearly the
result Of the reconsideration and pOstponement
which be moved BY his vote and efforts the
resolution was defeated, and the slave trade con-
tinsed and maintained.
"Agsin our readers will recOllect, that the bill
giving seventy thousand square miles Of free ter.
rtory and ten millions of dollars to Texas, was
defeated on the question of ordering it to a third
reading A motion was made to reconsider, and
it succeeded. On the next bsllOtiDg the bill was
again defeated on the same question, and the
friends Of freedom felt their victory was secured
But Texan stakeholder, (Mr. Howard) moved
another reconsideration. This was palpably re-
pugnant to all parliamentary rules, and to the
entire course Of decision and the practice of Con-
gress from its first session to that day So consci.
Gus was the Speaker of these facts that although
stakeholder, and exceedingly anxious for the pas
sage of the BILL he felt constrained to declare that
a second motion TO. reconsider could NOT be enter
tanned By HE Car From mis- dectstoti an appear
vAs'-r-n to "a" E""S7s y ~onld anOAay. e 'A'
unbiased mind impossible to find Northern men
sufficiently servile to descend low as to commit
en- outrage in favor of slavery which a slavehold-
ing Speaker dared not to perpetrste But the
facts teach us differently. The House overruled
the Speakers solemn decision, reconsidered the
vote second tims drilled the doughfaces to the
work, and passed the bill. This vote in favor Of
second reconsideration Of that bill has been re-
garded ss the most infamous that was ever given
by that slsve-ridden party. Among those who
dsgrsced our State and the whole North By such
a vote was Samuel f. pmtonO