The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-29
New Jersey. Miller.

Wells
New Jersey Miller.
pen,,a,,h,a99i. All;son
Chandler
II Nj Have
I w Have
Kubns.
Moore
Delaware Spruapce.
Ohio Made Bsrrere
Id. Camnbell
Hunter.
r S,an,on
Taylor.
Indiana. Parker,
Brenton,
Illinois ............... .........Y Yates.
Michigan. ;...penniman.
kentucky. ......' underwood '1rey,
sat-, paa,u
1r,'ssoui.. 1850 cnlIo,,
Nor,b Csroi;ns Morebead
Stanlv.
Total 46.
NOES.
Massachusetts. Appleton.
New York. ..................,Br Brooks,
I II'
Sn nasen,
49, o"'
pann,,Ivon;o coonar
Viron;a .Strother
Kentucky. Ewing,
Marshall
White.
Tennessee. ..................G entry, 4.
w illlams.
worm oaroliha' E Sa
0oIa''
or;s;,ro Moore
Landry.
Florida. Morton. .Cabell.
AZ.
Total 81.
When this result was announced several OF
the undersigned formally withdrew from the
meeting. Mr.. Gentry, of Tennessee, then sub
mtted the following, to be added as an amend
mem 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
nres known as the compromise measures, as
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 l6as OIL Of order.
The chair sustained the objection. An appeal
was taken from the decision of the chair and,
after some debate, the 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 meeting adjourned
! The foregoing statement exhibits the char
acter aud order of the proceedings, which com.
PEELED the undersigned to leave the meeting Of
the Goth instant
| BY reference TO the list OF persons who par
! ticipated in these proceedings, it will be per.
ceived there was great disparity in the repre-
! sentaiion from the free States AID the slave
holding States. We are authorized TO state
that several gentlemen from the slaveholding
States, belonging TO the Wing party, declined
to participate at all in meeting Of which the
result was palpable, under the intimations of
/ purpose advanced by the chairman at the hrst
meeting
The meeting was composed oi forty SIX gem
tlemen from the free States, and twenty-one
/ from the slaveholding States. The vote is d.
! yided, forty six to twenty one-seven from each
class OF States voting with the opposing sec
ton
The entire meeting was meagre majority OF
the representation cassed as Wing in the Con-
gross Of the United States. The quota from
the slavehodng States remaining in the meet
ing after our withdrawal was just onc-fourth OF
the Wing representation from the slaveholding
States. The determination OF the time and
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, a
large miJor'y We're committed oy legislative
aclon' against the compromise measures al
ther passage or nave refused 70 express an IN
tenuon 70 MAINTAIN ana execute mem since
ther passage. among NOSE VINO TOOK THESE
Proceeolngs were some OF .ne most cohspleu'
Gus opponents OF the aoJ nstment ana most ac'
1--WE agHators OF he Notth. vi uhe tnirty one
representatives. Itoin 'he lree states, VINO Voteo
ahrmauVeiy on the proposition that the appeal
90 I'VE on tne 'aple only ul,ee nae recorded Inel'
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