Washington sentinel., 1856-07-31

any extent whatever, 10 slavery as Aforesaid,
or the abolition thereof, shall, on the presenta-
tion thereof, without any further action thereon,
be laid upon the table, without being debated,
printed or referred
The introduction of the resolutions being OBJ
jected to at this time
Mr.. Atherton thereupon moved . suspension
of the rules.
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Cushman simultaneously
demanded the yeas and nays; which, being
ordered, were l37 meas, sc nays, as follows:
YEAs.-Messrs. Anderson, Andrews, Ather-
ton, Banks Beatty, Beers, Beirne, Bell Bick-
nell, Birdsall, Broadhead, Buchanan, Bynum,
John Calhoun, Cambreleng, William B. Camp
bell. John Campbell, Carter, Chambers, Cheat
ham, Clowney, Coles, Conner, Crabb, Craig,
Crary, Crockett, Cushman, Dawson, Deberry
DeGraf, Dromgoole, Elmore, Harrington, Fair
field, Foster, Fry Gallup, James Garland,
Rice Garland, Glascock, Jas. Graham, Grant
land, Grant Gray, Griffin, Hammond, Hamer,
Hardin, Harrison, Hawes, Hawkins, Haynes,
Holt, Hopkins, Howard, Hubley, j. H. Hunter
R. N. I Hunter, Thomas B. Jackson, Jabez
jackson, Henry Johnson, Joseph johnson,
VIM. Cost Johnson Nathaniel Jones, John W.
Jones, Klein, Kemble, Kingensmith, Lewis,
Logan, Loomis, Lyon, Mallory, Martin, May,
Mickey, Robert Mcclellan, Abraham, McClel.
Ian, Mcclure, McKennan, Monfee, Mercer,
Miller, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, SAMUEL
W. Morris, Murray, Noble, Palmer Parker,
Paynter, Pearce, Pennybacker, Petrkin, Phelps,
Pickens, Plumer, Pope, Pratt, Riley, Rencher,
Rhett Rives, Robertson Rumsey, A. H. Shep-
perd, Chas. Sheppard, Shields, Sheplor, Snyder,
Southgate, Spencer, Stanly, Stuart, Stone,
Swearington, Taliaferro, Taylor Thomas, Ii
tus, Toney, Towns, Turney, Underwood, VEIL
Wagner, Webster, Weeks, John White, Whit
tlesey, Sherrod Williams, Jared'W. Williams,
Jos. L. Williams, Wise, Wood, Yell-l37.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams, Alexander, Heman
Allen, John ". Allen, Aycrigg, Bouldin, Briggs
William B. Calhoun, Casey, Childs, Clark, Cof
fin, Corwin, Cranston, Curtis Gushing, Darling
Everett, Ewing, Richard Fletcher, Isaac FIetch-
er, FILLMORE, Giddings, Goode, William
Graham, Grennell, Haley, Hall, Harper, Has
tings, Herod, Ingham, Lincoln, Marvin, S.
Mason, Mitchell, Calvary Morris, Naylor, Noyes,
Parmenter, Peck, Potts, Putnam, Rariden,
Randolph, Reed, Ridgway, Robinson, Russell,
Saltonstall, Sergeant, Sibley, Slade, Smith,
Stratton, 1illnghast, Toland, Albert s. White,
Yorke-66.
So the rules were suspended.
The question was taken on the first reso-
luton, and it was adopted-yeas 1913, nays 6.
The question on the second resolution was
then taken, and it was adopted-yeas 1876, nays
65-Filmore voting in the negative
The third resolution was then read when
Mr.. Bond called for division of the ques-
Sion, so as to take the vote first on the follow
ing branch only:
ResolDed, That Congress has no right to do
that indirectly which it cannot do directly.
The vote being so taken resulted in the affir.
mative-yeas l73, nays 30-Fillmore in the
negative.
So the first branch of the third resolution
was adopted.
The second branch being read,
The question was then taken, and resulted
also in the afirmative-yeas l64, nays 40
Fillmore again in the negative.
So the third resolution was adopted, and the
fourth taken up.
Mr.. Lincoln called for division Of the ques-
ton this resolution, so as to take it FIRST on
the following branch:
Resol5ed, That the Constitution rests on the
broad principle of equality among the members
of this Confederacy.
Such division being accordingly ordered,
the vote thereon resulted affirmatively-yeas
l80, nays Baltimore in the affirmative.
The second branch of this resolution was
also agreed to-yeas l74, nays 24-Fillmore
in the negative.
Mr.. Randolph called for division at the
word Congress" in the fifth line of the fifth
resolution, which was ordered
The first branch of the proposition was
adopted-yeas lat, nays 52-Filmore in the
negative.
Mr.. Potts moved to lay the second branch
on the table; on which motion
Mr.. Craig demanded the yeas and nays;
which, being ordered, were-yeas IS, nays
l26-Fillmore in the affirmative.
So the motion to lay on the table was de-
cided in the negative.
The second branch of the last proposition
was then agreed to-yeas l26, nays 7S-Fill-
more in the negative See the Congressional
Globe, page u, 2S; House journal, page 81
to Ga inclusive.
Mr.. Bynum, the champion of Democracy
from North Carolina, in defending the above
resolution, said, /" / pray every Southern man
TO examine these resolutions; read them over
and over again, one by one, and to say if they
were not sufficiently strong to secure every
Southern interest; while they particularly
forebore to encroach on the rights of any other
portion of the Union"
In none Of these resolutions but the last
is the right Of petition involved Yet Mr.. Fill.
more voted against every one of them, except
the first and the first branch of the fourth.
He thus distinctly declared that the abolition
of slaDery IN the District Of Columbia and the
Territories or the prohibition of the removal
Of slaves from State TO State, and the discrimi-
nation between the institutions Of the two por-
tions of the confederacy are not violation Of
the Constitution, or destructive OF the funda.
mental principle on which this Union rests, or
beyond the jurisdiction Of Congress. His
votes accord entirely with the views of his
Erie letter, and be stood side by side with
Adams, Corwin, Everett, Peck and Slade.
Was he any better, sounder, or truer to the
South and the Constitution than they?
Is 1t not a fact then, which the Mail so con-
cisely announced, that "he will never stand on
our platform of slaveryT And If he will not,
what shall be said OF those who sustain and
vote for him; on what platform are they plac-
ing themselves? 1t was to this agitation and
these anti-slavery views that Mr.. Fillmore is
indebted for his prominence. Had it not been
for his well known abolitionism at that time,
he would have remained in Buffalo practising