The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-26


ks.oped That the laws Of Congress alone govern IN
prescribing and regulating the mode and manner IN which
Az ~ ~ sna ~ ana saer e
and Territories and the mode and in which they
shall De restored delivered TO their in the slave
s. Resolved That Congress has no power impose upon
State the abolition Of slavery in its limits condition
g. Rssovsd That the citizens OF the slavehoding States Of
the Union have the constitutional right voluntarily % TAKE
sooarn remain temporarily with such slaves In the same
apd the slaves not thereby pse ac9 emAncPaed and
the rights slayehodDg States and that laws Of slave
holding States conflict with the laws Of Congress providing
for such protection, null and void.
On the day Mr.. Shade asked leave TO submit the
following resolution:
Whereas there exists and carried between the ports
in the District Of Columbia and other ports Of the United
States and under the sanction of the laws thereof trade
human beings whereby thousands of them annually sold
and transported from said District to distant parts OF the
country in vessels belonging citizens the United States
and whereas such trade involves violation Of
human rights disgrace to the country BY whose laws u
Is sanctioned and calls for the immediate neposton OF
legislative authority for its suppression therefore, to the
end that all obstacles to the consideration Of this subject may
% rna Of ss @ Il the
subject Of slavery passed by this House on the th and
ns nd IL the action Of this
House every petition memorial resolution PROPOSE
ton paper touching the came, be, and hereby i re-
Mr. Fillmore voted with the abolitioniss suspend the
rules, that they might be submitted.
On the 3lst December 1885, first session 26th Congress-
Mr. Coles moved suspension of the rules for the purpose
of offering the following resolution:
Resouea That every petition memorial resolution prop
ostion papers touching relating in way or 70
extent whatever to the abolition OF slavery in the states Of
this Union either of them the District OF Columbia
in the Territories of the United States eithe- OF them
the removal OF slaves from State to another, shall on
thereof without any further action thereon,
be laid the table without being debated printed or re-
ferred. ..n.E=a s# .- ....... .
Mr. Fillmore voted against suspending the rules
On the 7th of january 1872 Mr.. Giddngs, OF Ohio, pre-
ted memorial from Ashabula county, in his district
praying Congress to repeal the laws sanctioning the trans
of persons as slaves in vessels Of the United
States sailing coastwise from State to another and to
pass laws establishing their freedom Therecepton of the
memorial was resisted by Mr. Wise Mr. William Cost John
son, of Maryland and Mr. Campbell OF South Carolina,
who moved to lay the question of receiving the petition
which carried the petition with it the table; Mr. Fill
| more voting in the negative
At that time Mr.. Fillmore could have welded inhu
ence which might have been potent for good. Admitting
all his friends claim for him. panderng then to sec
tional,sm and abotionlsm, he aided in raising storm
which he could not afterwards control. When he was
nominated for the vice presidency it not pretended
even that he sound the slavery question: and he
supported by his party in the South merely because
he the nominee for the second Office the ticket with
| General Taylor. . ...
Mr. Fillmore succeeded the presidency extraor-
binary period in our history The country was then rent
with civil commoon and sectional strife and if he had
intended TO conduct the government upon high national
principles and "cam the troubled waters he wonld he
selected as his constitutional advisers of o.
trotism and tested devotion to tn" ,.;,.; ~ p
of doing all his appo' ents in tie North ana ava
member OF hi oaonet taken from northern State had
advocated the exclusion Of slavery from foot of our
national domain. At the head Of Mr. Webster who
In speech in the Senate Mr. Cays resolutions ayowed
himself in favor of the Wmot provso and declared that
he was ready at any for it whenever il
was necessary to exclude the South from
rtory. call your attention to extract which | will
| read from his speech;
For myself will say that we hear much of the snnex
auon Of oanada and there be any man of the northern
supposed i necessary 70 insert wmot he
ritoriai government for New Mexico, That will, OF
course pc OF opinion that will be necessary protect the
everlasting SHOWS 81 Canada from the Of slavery by
wing Of an act Of Congress Sir, whenever
Of land to be stad from becoming slave terrory am
to assert the principle of the exclusion Of slavery
again and again. and viii perform that pledges but viii not
do thing unnecessarily that wounds the feelings of Others
that does disgrace my own understanding"
Mr. Corwn, of Ohio another member of his cabinet at
the very time that General Taylor and General Scott
trumphantly and gloriously bearing flag agains,
foreign fee and upon foreign SOIL where the bones
many of gallant soldiers bleaching uttered in
the Senate the following infamous sentiment that If he
were Mexican, he would meet them with bloody hands
and welcome them to hospitable graves"
But gentlemen tell that by signing the compromise
Mr. Fillmore entitled himself TO the confidence
and support Of the South Sir the South lost splendid
empire the Pacific, and gained nothing by these CON-
promise measures but the ugtvesave law to which is
well known Mr.. Fillmore was opposed, and only in
duoed TO sign 1t after il had been pronounced consu-
tional by the Attorney General, Mr. Crtenden have
before copy of the Republic which was the organ
of his administration vndicatng him from the assaults OF
Massachusetts abotonist for approving it, for the
have stated TO which call the attention Of the COM
mittee;
| 'fTrGrrIvE LAW.
"Whs this bill before the President for bis signature
the question In his mind which presented by
outon othe Boston meeting TO which have referred Did
the bill take away the benefit OF the hdbods oorpusP If II
did the President would have been bound return It to
Congress with his objections The President
the bill to the Attorney General for his opinion upon
this point and elaborate and able opinion given BY
that officer the effect that there Is nothing In the bill in
question which conflicts with the constitution, suspends
intended to suspend the privilege Of the writ Of ha
beas corpus.'
do not know the views Of the President in regard to
the propriey expediency Of thlaw The political school
TO which he belongs has always adhered to the doctrine
questions Of legislative propety and oxpedency belong
Of the States and the of
the people IL has been for years the staple OF wing
plant that the will Of the people has been too often
ted by veto Of the Executives and the only question
could be entertained by the President In view Of his we'll
settled and we'll known convictions executive duty this
gard repect the consutionaty OF the provisions
Of the bin He entertained doubt upon the point which he
submitted TO the Attorney General and that doubt
moved by the very conclusive opinion Of Mr. Cttenden
\ which az ain refer readers"
The paramount issuo in this IL the Kansas and
Nebraska BILL and the principles upon which Il s based
II has been made hy both the know-nohing and black
republican platforms and the democracy have boldly &C
cepted Il. Here is the know-nothing platform:
a16th Opposition tho reckless and unwse policy Of the
present administration in the general management Of our ma
Americsn by desgnaon) and conservatives In principle
from office, and placing foreigners and uraists In their
places shown In trucking ubserviency the stronger
and nsosnt and cowsrdy braYado towards the weaker
powers shown in eopennP sectional agitation BY tho re-
peal Of the Missouri ms shown In granting 10
unnaturaized foreigners the right Of suffrage in Kansas and