Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-08
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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All the relics of the dead.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MONDAY, April S.
| After the reading of the journal
THE COMPROMISE.
| The SPEAKER announced the first business in
| order to be the question seconding the previ-
GUS question, called by Mr. JACKSON, on agreeing
to his resolution, offered some time since which
was as follows:
Resolved, That we recognise the binding eff.
cacy of the compromises of the constitution, and
believe it to be the intention of the people general
y, as we hereby declare it to be onrs individually,
to abide such compromises, and to sustain the
laws necessary to carry them out-the provisions
for the delivery of fugitive slaves and the act of the
last Congress for that purpose, included; and that
we deprecate all further agitation of questions
growing out of that provision of the questions en-
braced in the acts of the last Congress known as
the Compromise, and of questions generally con-
nected with the institution Of clavery unneces-
sary, useless, and dangerous.
Mr.. HILLyER asked his colleague to with
| draw his call for the previous question, to en-
| able him to propose an amendment to his resolu-
| ton.
| But Mr.. STANLY rose to point of order, and
contended that Mr.. JAcKsoN's resolution was not
now rightfully before the House, the State of
Georgia not being called for resolutions before the
| gentleman offered his.
Mr.. S. caused the Globes report of the pro-
| ceedings of that day to be read at the Clerks
desk to substantiate his view of the subject.
The SPEAKER corrected the recollection of the
gentleman from North Carolina, and stated that,
there being resolutions offered on that occasion
in response to the call for resolutions from South
| Carolina, he had called for resolutions from the
State of Georgia, and that in to that call,
the gentleman from Georgia had presented his
| resolution.
Mr.. STAsLY then withdrew his point of or
| de
Mr.. S. said that he would not consent to the
reading of the proposition Of Mr.. H1LLYER unless
resolutions he wished to offer permitted to
be read for the information of the House.
| The amendment of Mr.. HILLYER was next
read by common consent for the information of the
House.
| Mr.. MEADE expressed desire to have resolu-
| tions, which he desired to offer an amendment
to the resolution of Mr. JACKSON, read for the in
| formation of the House.
| Mr.. GoRMAN demanded call # the House.
| Mr.. PRESTON KING rose to protest against the
reading of any such amendments.
| After delay and confusion, the amendment or
substitute proposed by Mr. STANLY was read for
the information of the House, as follows:
! Resolved, That the series of acts passed du-
ring the first session of the 3lst Congress- known
as the Compromise, regarded final adj
justment, and apernanent settlement of the ques-
lions therein embraced, and should be maintained
| and executed as SUCH
Resolved, That we regard the series of acts
| known as the adjustment measures, as forming in
| their mutual dependence and connection system
| of compromise the most conciiatory, and the
best for the entire country that could be obtained
from conflicting sectional interests and opinions;
and that, therefore, they ought to be adhered to
and carried into faithful execution a final set
Element in principle and substance of the danger
GUS and exciting subjects which they embrace.
Resolved, Thatwe regard the series of mea-
| sures passed at the 31st Congress, commonly
called the Compromise measures, as settlement
of the questions involved therein, and will abide
by them permanent ad ustment OF the Sec
tonal controversy and do hereby declare that good
faith and patriotic regard for the interests of the
country demand that the provisions contained in
| said measures should be strictly maintained and
honestly executed.
Resolved, That any act Of Congress abolishing
slavery in the District of Columbia, without the
petitions and consent of the owners thereof or
any act abolishing slavery in places within the
savehoding States, purchased by the u. States
for the erection of FORTS magazines arsenals, dock
yards, navyyards, and other like purposes, or any
act suppressing the slave trade between the slave
holding States; or any refusal to admit as State
any Territory hereafter applying, because of the
existence of slavery therein, or because Of ats pro-
| M6ihon therein, or any act prohibiting the intro
ducton of slaves into New Mexico or Utah, or
aay act alloa0ing the introduction Of slavery into
New Merieo or Utah, any act repeating or
materially modifying the laws now in force for
the recovery of fugitive slaves, any act repeal
ing the law to suppress the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia: and all agitation which has fer
its purpose any of the above named objects, will
be in violation of the provisions of the said mea-
sures of djustment, and must be regarded as OPP
posed to the best interests of the country, dero-
gatory of the peace of the Union, and at
tempt to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link
''together the various parts"
| Note.-The Reporter, at the request Of Mr..
STANLY, states that the first resolution of thisse
ries is the resolution proposed by Mr. Polk in the
| democratic caucus; the second, that adopted in
the wing caucus; and the balance, the resolutions
offered by Mr. JOHNSON, of Arkansas, in the DEM
ocratc caucus, except the parts thereof in italics,
which are his own additions to the resolutions of
| Mr.. j. offered on that occasion.
| Mr.. STANLY remarked that he was ready to
vote for either the first, the second, the third
ard fourth of his series, either of which he be-
lieved covered the proper ground.
| Mr.. JACKSON remarked that it was plain, from
| the number of resolutions which gentlemen de-
sired to present. that the House could not ba