Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-10-03

sachusetts, by a VaTtudt denial nf tie right
of petition to them, asked for the appoint
ment Of committee to consider the ques-
ton of peaceable dissolution of the Union
Mr.. Adams moved that it be referred to
committee with instructions to report rea-
sons why the thing petitioned for should
NOT be granted. Mr.. Bolts asked leave
to offer resolutions censuring Mr.. Adams
for Offering tie petition. Leave was not
granted, as it was not then in order for
Virginia members to offer resolutions.
When Ohio was called on for resolutions,
Mr.. Weller offered the resolutions of Mr..
Bolts, which underwent violent and ex-
citing discussion for two weeks or more.
January 26th, Mr.. Fillmore moved to lay
the resolutions of censure on the table.
Lost, ayes 80, noes MEDILL voting
with the South in the negative-( Globe,
page l77.)
January 9Th, Medill voted with the
South in favor of an immediate considera-
ton of the resolutions, against a PROPOSE
ton to allow Mr.. Adams time to prepare
his defence.-( Globe, page 1907
January 28th, Mr.. Thompson, of Ia,
again moved to lay the resolutions of cen
sure upon the table. Lost, ayes 96, noes
no. MEDILL again voting with the
South in the negative,-(P Page 1919
Feb. Cd, Mr.. Medill voted three times
with the South, on motions to allow Mr..
Adams to call for certain documents to be
used in his defence. The last of the three
votes stood, ayes l07, noes 96-MEDILL
with the minority, against allowing Mr.
Adams any facilities for making his de-
fence, when number of high-minded
shareholders themselves voted in favor Of
so reasonable propositionl
February 7th, Mr.. Bolts, the originator
of the resolutions of censure, tired of the
controversy, and the consumption of time
and convinced that the South would make
nothing by prolonging the contest, by con.
sent of Mr.. Adams, moved that the wholt
subject be laid upon the table. The mo
ton prevailed, ayes LOG, noes 93-Medil
still voting, with the extreme South, anc
standing almost alone among the northern
men who were favor of further persecution
and the consumption of further time upor
the subject. .
HE CENsUREs MR.. ,GIDDINGs. >
At the same session, ed session of thu
9th Congress- Mr. Giddings Offered
series of resolutions, to the effect tina
Slavery, being the creature of law, coulC
not exist beyond the jurisdiction of law
and that therefore it could not be enforced
in vessels upon the high seas, beyond tn
jurisdiction of the states. The resolution
had reference to the then recent occurrence
of an insurrection on board the Creole
when certain slaves, being transported b,
sea from Charleston to New Orleans, re
sisted their custodiers, and run the vesse
into British port in the West Indies
They were intended to counteract the pre-
tense then being urged, that our govern
ment was bound to require their being de
livered up by the British government, 0
J indemnity therefor, or payment for tn
slaves out of the treasury of the Unite
States. The doctrine of the resolutions
no one, at this day, presumes to question
1t is precisely the principle that the slav
laws of Virginia or Kentucky have no AT
thority in Ohio, and nothing more. b
the slave-holding members of the Soutl
and the Northern dough-faces, smartin
r under their recent discontinue in the cas-
t of Mr.. Adams, flared up with new bite
ness toward Mr.. Giddings, and passed
vote of censure upon him, for presumin
to offer his unexceptionable resolution
: Mr.. MEDILL sustained the South, in r,
: fusing to hear word from Mr.. Giddine
: in explanation or defense, and in the fin
vote of censure. The latter was passe
March 29d, 1842, by vote of ayes l2I
: noes 69--MEDILL and others of Obi
d in the afirmative.-(Globe page 346
Mr.. Giddings' immediate resignation, an
r his triumphant reelection, resulted.
Y 1t is unnecessary to pursue the recor
g any farther. We challenge Mr.. Medill, {
any frlend OF MS, 70 produce San9te n
e stance, in which ne did not go with IL
, most servile, tawning, cringing sycophan
: in sustaining every measury of the Slave
holders No such instance is on the re-
!. ord. Yet he comes down here among Il
: freemcn of Meigs county and claims to /
/, better Anti-Slavely man than Mr., Ho
= ton, who never gave vote in favor of Sl
very in his life. Out upon such scoul
d drelism. We verify believe that if Il
It question of enslaving every POOR Ii
BORER, white or black, depended upc
e Medill's vote, that vote would be given
: enslave them; and we believe the recor
: fully justifes such belief
= KANSAS MATTERs,-The long letter {
: Kansas affairs copied from the Pittsbure
: Gazette, is from the pen Of S. A. Marsha
= who has relatives living in Pomeroy, al
who is himself known to many Of our su
scribers' having frequently visited tn
e point, while residing in Pittsburgh. H