Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-06-24
Green's Vote against the Admission Of
the State of California into the Union.

We find the following communication in
the last Boonuille Observer, and call the par
ticular attention of our readers in this Dis
trict, TO it. Had Mr.. Green's opinions pre-
vailed, California would not have been q
member of our confederacy, and the brave
and industrious citizens who were, and are
there, would have been left without the pro-
lection of our laws
1t was Saturday, September 18th, 1850,
before the final vote upon the admission Of
this State was taken in the House of Rep
resentatives. The question involved two of
the most important issues ever presented to
the Congress of the United States, one in
volving the right of State to exclude sla-
very from her borders, the other involving
ssolution of the Union.
California had, by her Constitution, exclu-
ded slavery from her limits: the nullitiers
had resisted the admission for nine months
on that account-from December 40 until
September 80 for they commenced the re-
sistance before the State Constitution was
presented, and continued il as long as they
could make Congress sit, and that was until
the Both of September--the longest session
ever Congress had. This was violation of
State rights; and if it had been successful
would have been dissolution of the Union:
for the rejection of State was the virtual
expulsion of State: and must have led to
dissolution il the nullifers had been success
full.
Green voted with the nullifers and Sc
cessionists on every collateral question du-
ring this long and agonzing struggle, and
on the final vote for the admission of the
State, he still voted with them on the direct
question of admission.
That question was taken in two different
forms on the 9TH of September, and he voted
with them against admission in each form of
the question. The first was, shall the bill
be ordered to third reading? and yeas on
this question were l5l-the nays 81. This
was nearly two to one in favor of the bill,
and enough certainly TO show the sense of
the House, and put an end to opposition
1t was certainly enough for any except nulli-
tiers. Then came on the second form ofthe
vote, to wit: shall this bill pass? and on that
question the vote stood 1876 to 56--there be-
ing one less in the negative, but that one
was not MIR. Green. Some one of 81 re-
Tented at this perseverance in a vote so
wicked, and so useless: but that relentng
spirit was not Green's. Alone amidst the
Missouri members in the House, backed
from home only by his fellow nullifer and
seceder, Atchison, who had said in Senate,
that he aro,ld push California backwards
ouer The rock, like the Je,rS did their scape
goat and kill her; and who signed the pro-
test of the Southern nullifers against the
passage of the same bill in the Senate: he,
Green, disappearing his constituents,
disgracing his State, endangering the Union,
violating the rights Of sovereign State, and
as far as his vote could go, making Califor-
MIA foreign territory and depriving the cit
liens of the U. S. who should go there of
the protection of the American Government,
was the only one of the members from Mis-
souri, to give that traitorous vote. He is
now put upon the District again by packed,
black-leg, fraudulent, cheating Convention,
and has nothing but that fraud to plead in IA
vor of his election, which, in the opinion Of
all honest men is no argument, as fraud Vi
tiates every transaction into which it enters
But the State cannot be disgraced by his
election. This district is not notification
and cannot elect him. He was defeated in
August 1850, before he gave the anti-Cali.
forna vote! and he will be again defeated in
August 1852 after giving it.