Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-21
From the Washington Union.
Effect Of the Compromise Votes IN the
House.

House.
The resolutions of Messrs. jackson ana
Hillyer presented two distinct forms OF a
declared purpose to maintain the Com
promise as a bar to further sectional agt-
tation in Congress.
Most of the northern democrats VINO
voted for either of these resolutions voted
for them both. But, by an inspection OF
the tables of votes given by us on wed
inesday, it will be seen that OF the elghty-
four northern democrats OF the House.
only tyenty-less than one IN fOWr-Were
found recording their names against the
maintenance of the Compromise in either
of the forms in which that proposition was
presented. On Mr.. Jackson's resolution,
twenty-five northern democrats were alb
sent or failed to vote. Distribute the
votes of these northern democratic abb
sentees in the proportion of the recorded
northern democratic vote, and we shall
have about two-thirds Of the entire north
ern democratic delegation in favor OF
declaration by Congress to maintain the
Compromise.
The southern democratic delegation IN
the House is stifty-seven members. vi
these, thirty nine voted for one of the two
resolutions, while only ten-that IS, one
j to four-voted against both the resolu-
ttions, leaving ten southern democrats
that is, one sixth of the southern demo-
cratic delegation-who were absent or
failed to vote on either OF the resolutions.
Distribute the votes Of these ten absen-
tees in the proportion of the recorded
southern democratic vote, and we have
lust about one sixth of the southern dem
ocratic delegation opposed to congress
sional declaration for the maintenance OF
the Compromise.
According to this calculation, it appears
that the entire democratic party in the
House, consisting of one hundred and
forty -one members, sustains the Compro-
mise by vote of more than two to one.
: The northern wings of the House are
sixty members. Ofthese only seven Vo-
ted for both the resolutions, and only ten
voted for either of them. But of these
ten, four had previously voted to lay both
the resolutions on the table. 1t would
appear, therefore, that out of the sixty
wings of the north only six were really
in favor of declaration to sustain the
Compromise in any form. This is very
little better than the northern wing vote
of three in the last Congress in favor of
the fugitive law. The southern whig
members are thirty-twO. Suppose them
all Except MIR. Clingman) to be in favor
of maintaining the Compromise, and add
to them the votes Of those six northern
wings WHO alone voted for one or the other
of the two resolutions without previously
voting to lay both on the table, and we
shall have thirty-seven for the total Com
promise wing force in the House, out of
wing delegation of ninety-two. From
this calculation it would appear that the
compromise policy of President Fillmore
is openly and steadily sustained by about
one wing in three, the country through,
as the whiS party is now organized and
represented in the House of Representa-
tives We have already laid before our
readers the similar sense of the wing par
ty on this subject as shown in their north
ern State organizations. With the posi-
bic exception of the case of Mr.. Tyler,
which had its own particularities, there
has certainly never before in our country
appeared anything like population of the
policy of a party President by the bulk
of the party which placed him in power.
From these developments, the following
important conclusions as to the position
OF the two parties in the coming presi-
dental canvass seem necessarily to fol-
low:
First That the national democracy and
its candidates will enter upon the political
campaign fully committed against the dis
turbance Of tho Compromise, and the re-
newal of the sectional agitation in Con-
gress-the representatives of the demo-
cratic party having, by a vast ma ority,
taken that position on the record.
Second. That the wing party and its
candidates will enter upon the political
campaign with distinct indication that
their success is to result in renewal in
Congress of the sectional agitation, in the
form of an attempt by the wings of the
North to disturb the Comprehensive
wing party of the country, through the
votes of its representatives, having, by an
overwhelming majority, assumed that po-
Sition on the record.
In this view of the matter, it would
seem now that the people. both of the
North and south, will be in little danger
of being deceived or misled as to the po-
Sition OF parties on ,his great question :;
AMI i, will be for them 20 decide whether
they prefer democratic administration
and policy, with sectional tranquility, or
a wing administration and policy, wish
sectional strite-all the more hcrcc aud
perilous than that through which the
country has passed, because renewed by
the attempt to break up an Adjustment
designed by the highest wisdom and pat
riotism Of the land to compose and end it.
The following are the resolutions allu-
ded to: