Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-02-10

ment. a conference was then agreed upon
between the two bodies.
During all this time n bill for allowing
Missouri to form a State constitution had
been in progress in the House, with its cor.
responding debates and proposed amendments
Of various kinds. After disagreeing with
the Senate, as above stated, thev-passed their
own bill. 1t contained n restriction as to the
existence of Slavery in the proposed State. 1t
went to the Senate March ID. Its proviso to
require the new State to intcrdict Slavery
within it's limits was struck out without de-
bate, p ayes to Is noes-thc decisive votes
being from the Free States as before. Mr..
Thomas proviso (the compromise amendmcnt)
was then added TO ii, and it was sent to the
House for their concurrence. The House
concurred-90 ayes, 81 noes. The ayes
were fifteen from Free States and every vote
from the Stare States. In the House. as well
us IN the Senate, the power to save Missouri
as well all the rest of the Territory from the
canker, the banc, the curse Of Slavery, was at
every step, in the possession of those who re.
presented the Free States. Freedom found
its betrayers IN the house GIFTS (ricnds.
There was Of course no farther delay in the
admission of Maine,-and Missouri had leov.
to frame her constitution without any check
on the existence of Slavery. This the man.
ayers OF her affairs took care to do. More
than that,-her constitution contained a
clause, making it the duiv of the General
Assembly "to pass laws to prevent free ne
groes and mulattoes from coming to and set
ting IN the State under any prctcxt what.
ever. This was looked upon by many rs a di-
rect interference with the Constitution Of fine
Cnited States, which says "the citizens of
each State shall be entitled to al the privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several
tates,' and when the resolution for ollow-
ing Missouri to take her place as a Stote.
came up. the next year, the 'sNEscrVdebates"
(as from their length and number they were
sometimes callcd) were renewed as earnestly
as ever. We can not follow all the sbiftinrs
and turnings on the question under thi. of4n-
sive shape. The resolution under which the
State was finally admitted, provided, in sub
stance, that the clause quoted above should
never be construed to allow the passage o.
any law by which any citizen of either of the
States should be excluded from the privileges
and lmmunities to which he was entitled un-
der the United States Constitntion-and that
her legislature should declare hv a solemn
public act the assent of the State to said fun
damental condition. The vote was nassed.
- ayes to 81 noes. The concurrence of tho
Senate Followed two days after.
We believe it was just after this vote in the
House, that John Randolph of Virginia. when
alluding to the victory which had been OBJ
tanned, uttered the singing taunt that the
votes from the free States which had been
given to the side of Slavery, had been found
in The market, and that more could have been
got there, if they had been wanted. 4 mem
Der from one of the Eastern States, in a frenzy
ofrage, rose TO interrupt him. MIR Speaker
said Randolph, lin the piping voice so char
actnristic of him, with it's allrill not" more
intense than usual, and with the lines Of cool
sarcasm decpened in his faoc) Mr.. Speaker,
the CALLED jade w!nces.' and went on - the
other subject on which he rose to sneak.