The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-29

North Carolina. ...............Ch ngman,
Dockery,
Outlaw.
Louisiana. Moore,
Landry.
Florida. ...... Morton. ...Cabell.
Mississippi. 49,. . Brooks.
Total, 81.
When this result was announced several of
the undersigned formally withdrew from the
meeting Mr.. Gentry, of Tennessee, then sub
mitted the following, to be added as an amend
kment to the resolution offered by Mr.. Stanly:
"Resolred, That the Wing members Of Con
gress, in thus recommending time and place
for the national Wing convention to assemble,
are not to be understood as pledging themselves
to support the nominees of said convention, ex-
cept upon the condition that the persons then
and there nominated as candidates for President
and Vice President shall be publicly and une-
quivocally pledged to regard the series OF meas
ures known as the compromises measures, as q
final settlement Of the dangerous question which
they embraced, and to maintain that settlement
inviolate."
Objection was made to the introduction of
this amendment, because Il ro0s ont of order.
The chair sustained the objection. An appeal
was taken from the decision of the chair and,
after some debate, tile meeting sustained the
ruling of the chair. Thereupon, the remainder
| of the undersigned formally withdrew from the
meeting.
| 1t is officially announced that, after our with
drawal, the resolution Of Mr.. Stanly was passed
and then the mae4ing adjourned.
The foregoing statemsq$ exhibits the char.
sctsr and ofd6r 81 che proceedings, which com.
PEELED the undersigned to leave the meeting Of
the 20th instant.
Bya reference to the list Of persons who par.
| tcipated in these proceedings, it will be per.
ceived there was great disparity in the repre-
sentation from the free States AID the slave
holding States. We are authorized to state
that several gentlemen from the slaveholdng
States, belonging to, the Wing party, declined
to participate at all in a meeting of which the
result was palpable, under the limitations Of
purpose advanced by the chairman at the first
meeting.
The meeting was composed of forty six gen
tlemen from the free States, and twenty. one
from the slavehodng States. The vote iR d.
| vided, forty six to twenty -one-seven from eact
class of States voting with the opposing sec
ton
The entire meeting was meagre minority OF
the representation classed as Wing in the Con
gress of the United States. The quota from
the slaveholding States remaining in the meet
ing after our withdrawal was just one-fourth Of
the Wing representation from the slavehodne
States. The determination of the time anc
place for the Wing national convention may
therefore justly be considered as made by the
Congressional representatives from the free
States.
! Of the members of Congress from the free
States present and acting in this meeting, 9
large ajority were committed, by Legislative
| pti ha NJ
their passage, or have refused to express an in.
tqntion to maintain and execute them since
their passage. Among those who took these
proceedings were some of the most conspcu-
Gus opponents Of the adjustment and most ac-
tive agitators Of the North Oftla thirty one
representatives from the free States, who voted
affirmativey on the proposition that the appeal
do lie on the table, only three had recorded their
votes in favor of the passage Of lIilyer's resolu-
ton Mt this session, expressing as the sense Of
the country that the compromise measures
| should be maintained as final settlement OF
the questions they embraced, and should be
fairly and honestly executed. Nineteen had
voted against that resolution. Nine were NIB
sent These, united to the vote of the sena.
tors, would have been sufficient to overpowel
the whole representation present from the slave
holding States. had that representation beer
united. We will not dwell upon the consider
atoms these facts suggest, or express the re
Elections which they naturally awaken. 1t il
apparent, however, that the time and place have
been determined, not only by minority Tho
Wing representation, but by preponderance o.
that element of the representation which either
opposed the adjustment or disavows the "fnai
ty" Of the settlement
The undersigned now invite review of thei
own course as connected with this Congressional
consultation. We shall pass over without com
ment the evident predeterminaton of the chair
man to guide the meeting to fixed result, by
fconfning it to the consideration of such subjects
as suited his own incinations and purposes
We presume this will be manifest to every one
from the determination he announced in advance
to rule Mr.. Marshall's resolution out Of order
even as an original substantive proposition. BY
what parliamentary law or common usage does
the chairman of a meeting limit the business
thereof to single question, when no limitation
is expressed in the notice under which it as
sembled Does the objection lie in the fact
that the members present were to be called
upon to express their sentiments as TO the pro-
priety of maintaining and enforcing the CON-
promise measures? We leave you to Judge
| What reason can be rendered for the decision