Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-10-11

10, nays 60; Fllpore and company III The
negotise. The vote was next taken on the
preambleyess 10, nays 66; Fillmore oad
company aqatn az tie negatire. Il Cong.
Globe, eo1, II, page 3f5-6.)
Bat the case against Mr.. Fillmore does
not step here On the Sd day Of January,
1913, Mr.. Slalle, Of Vermont. moved the
following preamble and resolutions
"W Whereas, by law of the United States
framed GA the 18th of May, 1856, the for
oign slave trade is declared to be piracy,
and is made punishable by death; and
whereas there is and has long been, carried
on in the District of Colulobia, within sight
OF the halls of the two houses of Congress,
and the residence of the Chief Executive
Magistfats Of The nation, a trade in men,
involving all the principles of outrage on
human rights which characterize the foreign
slave trade, and which have drawn upon it
the maledictions Of the a,viiized world, and
sti@lnatizcd those engaged in it as the enc
mics Of the race; and whereas the trade thus
existing in this District is aggravated in
enormity by reason of its being carried on
IN the heart ola nation whose institutions
are based upon the principle that all men
are created equal, and whose laws have in
effect proclaimed It's great and superlatiye
ini1aty; aggravated, moreover, by its out
rage en- the scnsiblities of Christian com
munlty, by sundering the ties of Christian
brotherhood, and by the anguish of its re-
moIseless violation of all the domestic rela-
tens, rendered the more deep and eaaering
by the hallowing Influence Of Che Christian
religion upon those relations, and by the in
crease of strength which it gives to the do
nestle afFections and whereas this trade in
human beings il carried on under the arl-
thofity of laws enacted by the Congress of
the United States, thereby involving the
people of all the States in its guilt and dis
grace-a guilt and disgrace enhanced by the
consideration that these laws are virtual
usurpation of power, the constitution of the
United States having conferred upon Con-
eress no right to establish the relation of
slavery, or to sanction and protect the slave
trade, in any portion of the confederacy
therefore, resolved" &C., &c.
Oh motion to suspend the rules so as to
receive the preamble and resolution, the vote
stood yeas 73, nays 100 Messrs. Adams,
Fillmore, Giddings, Slade, &c., voting in
the affrmative.-(Coag. Gfo6e, rol, Il,
ipGge 1863
Again: on the Sd January. 1S43. Mr.. Nor
gan presented a resolution mstructing tho
Committee on thg Territories toinquire into
the expediency of repeating an act passed
by the Territorial Legislature of Florada,
entitled "Au act to prevent the future mi
grafton or emigration of free negroes and
nulattoes into said Territory or to Sc
much thereof as imposed eapigation tax on
Isuch 81 them rs may enter said Territory
aud authorizes their sale for ninety wears,
Tor the non-payment Of said tax.
Mr. Black moved to lay the resolution on
the table, yeas i13, nays 50. Fillmore 20
ted in the negative.
On tho 23d Of February, Mr.. BRIGGS. of
Massachusetts, asked EcaYe to submit the
following resolution:
Whereas aii laws passed bY the Governor
and Legislative Council Of Florida are in
full force. until Disappeared by Congress;
therefore,
Resolved, ThGt the Committee on the
judiciary be instructed forthwith 10 report
the following iii:
Be i enacted y the Senate and House
Of representatives. Of the U1ited States IN
Congress assembled, That an act passed IS
! the Governor aud Legislative Council Of the
Territory Of Florida, approved by the said
Governor on 9TH March, 1912, entitled
can act to prevent the future migration of
free negroes or mplattocs to this Territory
and for other purposes, be, and the same is
hereby disapproged, and shall henceforth be
Of no force
Nv Briggs asked suspension of the rules:
yeas 66, nay loi. Fillmore yea, in favor
of Briggs Congressional Glo5e, pol. -,
page 337
This isnot Mr.. fillmorc's complete re-
cord. If FIVE were to give all his votes on
slavery, as well as IL esplanations with
which he often acconplaiyt hem, this arti-
Gle would be expanded : nj all reasona-
bio limits We supply 4 single chapter, as
specimen Of the entire volume. %hese
votes show the spirit which anipstod Dir.
Fillmore, and attest the fidelity with which
he vindicated his pledges to his abolition
constituency. MOI vote or word can be
discovered in his Congressional record.
which conflicts IN the least with the princi-
pies of his Erie letter platform The COM
mentary rather exaggerates theenormitv of
the text. Thus, his Congressional record
proves him the advocate of these measures:
lst, The exclusion of the South from HE
common domain; in other words, the ayp!f
cation of lie Wlmot proviso to the terrific
RES, -, The exclusion of any other slave
State from thu HMM RI 'fpbo rnoo,d;