The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-12
CITY OF WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING MAY l2, 1854


The amendment being defeated by the free State vote
The residue OF the amendments being disagreed TO- ex-
cept tho NINTH being the eighth as ii stands in the
| statute.
"The question then taken Win the House disagree to
the sad inh sectoni (being the last Of said amendments
contained IN the words following, to wit
"SEc r. And be further enacted That in all that terri
tory ceded BY France to the United States under the
OF Louisiana which lies north of thirty degrees and thirty
minutes porh latitude excepting only part thereof
included within the limits of the State contemplated BY this
slavery and involuntary servtude otherwise than the
punishment Of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted shall be- and is hereby, prohibited Pro-
whom labor service is lawfully claimed in any State
Territory q the United States, such fugitive may be law
fully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his
| her labor or service aforesaid
And also determined in the aiirmatveyeas 1885, nays
So the House. by almost unanimous vote refused to
| concur with the Senate in this amendment
i was then ordered by the House that the Clerk
quaint the Senates herewith This the esd Of
February On tho 2sth the House informed that the
Senate insist on their amendments to the bill DC Imme-
datey the House proceeded to consider their disagree
ments 10 the said amendments Various efforts made
BY southern members postpone the subject but in vain
An inexorabe ree-State majority crushed every effort
And on the question: the House their div
ton thcreof?-
at was determined j. the anirmatveyeas 97, nays 7e"
And so determined by the northern vote
"The question then taken-Wll the House insist
ments p
"And passed in the ailrmatye-yeas lGo nays a."
Again defeated by still stronger vote
AT the instance of the Senate conference between the
two houses was agreed TO.
On the 10th of February the House proceeded to
slider their own bill with the amendments reported from the
Committee of the Whole and the said amendments being
read concurred in by the House. with the exception
Of the following;
And shall ordan and establish that shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servtudc in the said State otherwise
than in the punishment of crimes whereof party shall
been duly convicted Proridcd apoy That any person
Gaping within the same from whom labor service
fully claimed in any other State such fugitive may be law
fully reclaimed and conveyed the person claiming his
her labor service aforesaid Propidcd nerertheles
That the said division shall not be construed to alter the
Or civil rights Of person now held to service or
AFTER certain proceedings the question then
concur with the Committee othe Whole House in the amend
ment above stated.
"And passed in the afirmative-ycas "a, nays &c."
| Again by the free-State vote
The bill was then engrosscd and read third time by
vote OF 80 to 81 and so again carried by the freeSate
vote On the next day the question was put Shall the bill
and it passed in the affirmative by vote of 81 to
s2again by the freeStae voteand the SEN
| ate for its concurrence.
Sir presume ii is known 10 this House that the Senate
foresecng the coming Storm had the tact to unite Maine
then also asking for admission into the Union with Mis-
souri, well recollect the incidents Of that day in
ion with this question Many Of them dwell now freshly
in my memory. Had not these States been thus happily
united, they perhaps would have entered into
unon and the Union itself might have been dissolved.
proposition was made in the Senate dissolve the Union
formed by the BILL but it defeated and thus associated
The bill was sent by the Senate into tins House
mitsee OF conference between the proposed
and finally agreed to-
The committee Of conference having agreed and the
question coming upon agreeing to their report and the
previous question having ben ordered,
80 The said mnin question then put-to wit: win the
House concur with the Senate in much of said amendments
proposes strike from the fourth section of the bill
the provisions prohibiting slavery or inyounary ervude
in the contemplated State otherwise than in
crimes recitcd in the report Of the COMMITTEES Of confer
ence-and passed III the ahrmativeyeas 30, nays ST.,
And passed under all the solemn and imposing circum-
stances attending the vote with the aid OF only fourteen
votes from the free States
The question then up the eighth section before
given and passed In the affirmative by vote of 1874
OF the negative vote Ness Register says 6ve SO voted
because they in favor Of entire restriction all
the country west of the Mississippi except the State Of
louisiana and the thirseyen others united with the
preceding because opposed any restriction whatever OF
the thriyseyen, one was from Maryland, eighteen from
VTginaIGod bless her six from North Carolina four
South Carolina four from Georgia from Kentucky
and two from Tennessee Thus, under all the remarkable
circumstances of this exciting subject and the risk of los
ing the State, majority Of the southern in the
House against the restriction Of the line 35 30 yr
gnia had then but twenythrec representatives upon this
foor Eighteen of those votes from Virginia and
whether the other members from that State voted or
do not know hut here eighteen who voted against IL
ask, then, the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr BrSros
and ask other gentlemen, how they say that the
South imposed this restrictive feature upon the North
Sir all the facts show the contrary.
But IL is insisted that this is contract Yes sir
il Is coneuded that il s solemn contract aud upon
that subject have again to call The attention of the COM
mittee TO the subsequent journals Of the House In 1920
or 1921, when Missouri came here with constitution al
ready framed and presented II for the consideration of the
House. and demanded admission what the facts Of
the case Was she admitted No sir The proposition
reported by Mr. Lowndes for admitting her wassvoted
down. By whom BY the North, and not by the South
for every southern voted for the resolution II il
was contract il was faithless put the question: who
was iaithess
II s alleged that this Compromise Of 1920 was sacred
and binding obligation. ask the question again, when
Missouri knocked for admission who voted against II
Who voted il DOWN. II the ree-Stae vote which did
IT, No, all, admit but nevertheless II the free
State Are they incapable OF recognising the oblgn-
tions of contractY All the subsequent propositions for
the admission of Missouri treated in the
until finally joint committee Of the houses Of Con-
gess was formed for The adjustment Of this question
shall not stop TO introduce the resolution which they re
ported but know that in It's terms 1t was n contract
But IT was not contract upon the line Of 90 deg 30 min
II wns compromise that Missouri should pass any
law prohibiting citizena person entitled 10 the rights
Of citizen in the different Statcsfrom admission within
her limits That and that alone the Compromise of
1871 But all the efforts made exclude her from admis
sion because of her pro-sayery institutions failed Mr.
Caytben not the Speaker Of this House but s presiding
genins no doubtinerposed and threw his influence in the
scale TO effect this adjustment II remarkable fact that
Mr.. Clays name s invoked here by gentlemen, and
by the gentleman from Tennessee Mr. CuLLoa the
thor OF the act called the Compromise Of 1920 Why sir
hdoes not that gentleman know that Mr. Clay himself de-
clared that he not tho author OF the Compromise Of
1920 In 1850 in his place in the Senate he said dis
ncty that nothing remarkable than the facility
with which the public forget the incidents Of history
nothing more remarkable than that he held RESPONSE
bic for the Compromise Of 1920
Mr. CULL0M VIII the gentleman allow me single
word
Mr.. SMITH. have but few minutes and hope the
gentleman win be short
RutM NJ }ne,of In, ,nne