The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-28


Haven,
chcrmerhorn,
Martin
Pennsy lvania.. Cooper.
Virginia. acknowledgements. STROLLER.
Kentucky. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Ewing,
Marshall,
White
Tennessee ...........,. ...... Gentry,
Williams.
North Carolina. .ClDgman,
Dockery,
Outlaw.
louisiana. ......................J Moore,
Landry.
Florida. Morton. ...... .Cabc!l.
Mississippi. Brooke.
Total 81.
When this result was announced several of the
| undersigned formally withdrew from the meet
ing. Mr.. GENTRY, of Tennessee, then submitted
the following, to be added an amendment to the
| resolution offered by Mr.. STANLY:
"Reso!red, That the Wing members Of Con gress
| in thus recommending time and place for the Ma
tional Wing Convention to assemble, not to be
understood as pedging themselves to support the
| nominees OF said convention, except upon the
dtion that the persons then nd there nominated as
candidates for President and Vice President shall
| be publicly and unequivocally pledged to regard
| the series Of measures known as the Compromise
measures as final settlement of the dangerous
| questions which they embraced, and to maintain
| that settlement inviolatc."
| Objection made to the introduction of this
amendment because ii tcas 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 Thercupon. the remainder Of tho I'M
dersigned formally Withdrew from the meeting.
| Ii Is officially announced that after our with
drawal the resolution of Mr.. SrAsLY was passed;
and then the meeting adjourned
The foregoing statement exhibits the character
n the eedi urhtr I~A tha
undersigned to leave the meeting of the goth in
slant.
By reference TO the list of persons W ho partci-
patcd in these proceedings, it will be perceived
there was great disparity in the representation
| from the free States and the slaveholdipg 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 papable, under
the intimations of purpose advanced by the Chair
man at the first meeting
The meeting composed of forty six gentle
men from the free States and twenty one from the
slavehoding States. The vote is divided forty six
to twenty one-scven from each class Of States vot.
ing with the opposing section.
The entire meeting a mesgre majority Of
the representation CHASED as Wing in the Congress
Of the United States. The quota from the slave
holding States remaining in the meeting after our
withdrawal was just one fourth Of the hig repre-
,entaton from the slaveholding statcs. The dotsr.
mination of the time and place for the Wing Ma.
tionnl Convention may therefore justly be consid-
cred made by the Congressional Rcprcsent tives
| from the free States
oftbe members Of Congress from the free States
present and acting in this meeting, large major
iy were committed, by legislative action, against
/ the tnc,snrcs tb,,r "a. -.
refused to express an intention to maintain and CT.
ocute them since their passage. Among those who
took these proceedings were some Of the most con-
! spcuous opponents Of the Adjustment and moe,
active agiiators of the North or the thirty-one
Representatives, from the free States who voted
afiirmaivcly on the proposition that the appeal do
lie on the table, only three had recorded their votes
In favor Of the passage Of Hillyers resolution at
this session, expressing as the OF tho country
that the Compromise measure. should be main.
tanned as finnl settlement Of the questions they
embraced, and should be fairly and honestly
executed. Nineteen bad voted against that 70
solution. Nine were sbscnt These united TO
the vote Of the Senators, would have been ,ufii
cient to overpOwor tho whole representation pres
ent from the savebolding satos had that repre.,n-
/ tntion been united. We will not dwell upon the
considerations ibcss facts suggest, or express tho
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apparent, however, that the time end place have
been determined, not only by minority Of the
Wing representation, bot by preponderance Of
that element ofthe representation which either op-
posed the Adjustment or disavovs the "fnaIityp
/ Of the settlement.
! The undersigned now invite review of their
own courscas connected with this Congressional
consultation. We thall pass over without com
mont the evident predeierminstion Of The Chair
man to guide the meeting TO fixed result, by on.
hnng II TO the consideration OF such subjects q.
suited his own inclinations and purpose. We
/ presume this will be manifest to every one from
/ the determination be announced in advance "a
/ rule Mr.. MhpsHALL's resolution out Of order even
as an original substantive proposition By Whist
I parliamentary law or common usage docs the
chairman Of q meeting limit the business thereof
I to single question, when limitation il OK
pressed in the notice under which il assembled /?
Does the objection lie in the fact that the members
/ prescnt TO be called upon TO expires, their
sentiments as to The proprioy Of maintaining and
enforcing the Compromise meafures2 We leave
you TO Judge
What reason can be rendered for tho decision
that the resolution toas ont of o der7 II differed
from Mr.. SrASLr, in one particular only. In ad.
dtion To the determination Of the time and place
for holding the Nstot al Convention, MAssHALL's
resolution suggested the Congressional caucus re-.
solution Of December, $751; ne a condition precc.
dent TO the union Of the Wing members Of Con.
gree In the approaching canvass IL did not at
tempt prescribe platform for the National Con-
vention, to dictate to the delegates from the pri
mary assemblies Of the people II avowcd the do.
termination Of its friends TO remain uncommittcd
and TO abstain altogether from taking steps initia-
tory to a National Wing Convention, unloss the con.
diton was satffictorily met 1t was not iuconsist-
cnt with STAsLy's resolution, but cumulative there.
10 by the imposition of condition affecting only the
actors in this Congressional meeting, aud implied
~, relieving them from a committal 10 sustain
tho nominees Of convention which might fail 10
require the same condition Of its candidates IL did
not dictate or sock to dictate the programme Of the
National Convention; but merely asserted an ef