Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-30

When this result was announced several of the
undersigned formally withdrew from the meeting
Mr.. Gentry, of Tennessee, then submitted tn,
following, to be added as an amendment to the re-
solution offered by Mr.. Stanly:
Resolved, That the Wing members of Congress- IN tbn
| recommending a time and place for the National Viii.
Convention to assemble be understood as ped
ing themselves to support the nominees of said
except the condition that the persons then and there
nominated candidates for President and Vice President
shall be publicly and unequvocay pledged to regard the
series of measures known the Compromise
final settlement of the dangerous questions which tbev
embraced and to maintain that Observation-Disclosures
Objection was made to the introduction OF
this amendment, because t,0as out 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 UNI
dersigned 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 character
and order of the proceedings, which compelled
the undersigned to leave the meeting of the goth
inst.
BY a reference to the list of persons who parti-
cipated in these proceedings, it will be perceived
there was great disparity in the representation
from the free States and the slaveholding States
We are authorized to state that several gentlemen
from the slaveholding 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 fortv-six gentle
mon from the free States, and twenty-one from
the slaveholding States. The vote is divided,
forty-sIx to twenty One-seven from each class of
States voting with the opposing section.
The entire meeting was a meagre majority of
the representation classed Wing in the Congress
of the United States. The quota from the slave
holding States remaining in the meeting after our
withdrawal was ust ne-fourth of the Wing re-
presentation from the sayehoding States. The
determination ofthe time and place for the Wing
National Convention may therefore be Justly con-
sidered as made by the Congressional Represen-
tatives from the free States.
Of the members of Congress from the free
States present and acting in this meeting, large
majority were committed, by Legislative ncton,
against the Compromise measures at their pas
sage or have refused to express an intention to
maintain and execute them since their PASSAGE.
Among those who took part in these proceedings
were some OF the most conspicuous opponents of
the Adjustment and most active agitators of the
North. OF the thrty-one Representatives from
the free States, who voted affirmatyely ON the
proposition that the appeal do lie OIL the table, on
ly three had recorded their votes in favor of the
passage of Hiyer's resolution ut this session, ex-
pressing the sense of the country that the
Compromise measures should be maintained as n
final settlement of the questions they embraced,
and should be fairly and honestly executed
Nineteen had voted against that resolution. Nine
were absent. These, united to the vote of the
Senator's would have been sufficient to overpow-
er the whole representation present from the
slaVehoding States, had that representation been
united. We will not dwell upon the cousidera-
lions these facts suggest, or express the reflec-
tons which they naturally awaken. 1t is appa-
rent however, that the time and place have been