Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-15

EVER ENACTED" and in which he uttered
truth for it is an equally sure mode of des-
troying the rights of the South in the ter
ritories, and was pronounced by John @.
Calhoun to be WORSE THAN WnNor Pro
vIsoIsM.p r He
This is the substance of the evidence
which has hitherto been rendered against
him, one tenth of which is sufficient to con-
vict him. We, however, produce this
morning record which cannot but finally
and utterly destroy him, and should drive
every Southern man from his support,
whose soul is not stepped and soaked in
party bitterness. By referring to Niles
Register, IAN unimpeachable authority
for the years 1928 and '29, it will be found
that on the 9th January, 1929, Mr.. Miner
moved the following preamble and resolu-
tions, embodying the most outrageous abO-
lition proposition ever voted on in Con-
greSs:
Whereas, the constitution has given to Congress
within the District of Columbia, the power of eX
elusive legislation in all cases whatsoever; and
whereas the laws in respect to slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia have been wholly neglected
From which neglect, for nearly thirty years, have
grown numerous aud gross cOrruptions;
Slave Dealers gaining confidence from impunity,
have made the of the federal government their
headquarters for carrying on the domestic slave
trade;
The public prisons have been extensively used
perverted from the purposes for which they were
eIected) for carrying on the domestic slave trade;
Officers of the federal government have been
employed and derived emOlument from carrying
on the domestic slave trade;
Private and secret prisons exist in the District
for carrying on this traffic in human beings;
The trade is not confined to those who are slaves
for life, but persons having limited time are
bought by the slave dealers and sent where re-
dress is hopeless;
Others are kidnapped and carried away before
they can be rescued;
distances of death, from anguish and despair, ex-
hibited in the District, mark the cruelty of this
traffic
Instances of manning and suicide, executed or
attempted, have been exhibited growing Of this
traffic within the District;
Free persons Of color coming into the District
are liable to arrest, Imprisonment, and sold into
slavery for life, fo- Jail fees, il unable from igno
rance, misfortune fraud, prove their freedom;
Advertisements beginning, ave will give cash
for hundred likely young negroes, OF both sexes
from eight to twenty-five years old" contained in
the public prints of the city, under the notice of
Congress, indicate the openness and extent OF the
traffic;
Scenes of human beings exposed at public ven
due are exhibited here, permitted by the laws Of
the general government, a woman having been adj
vertised to be sold Lloyd's tavern, the Cen
trail Market house, during the month of December.
grand jury of the District has presented the
slave trade a grievance;
writer in public print in the District has set
forth that to those who have never seen specta-
Gle OF the kind exhibited by the slave trade no
description can give an adequate idea ofits horrors
To such extent had this been carried in 1916,
that member of Congress from Virginia, introduc.
ed resolution into the House, that a committee
appointed to examine into the existence of an in
human and illegal traffic in slaves, carried in ana
through the District Of Columbia and report
whether any, and what measures are necessary for
the putting a stop to the same"
The House of Representatives Of Pennsylvania
at their last session, by almost unanimous vote,
expressed the opinion that slavery within the Dis
trict If Columbia ought to be abolished;
Numerous petitions from various parts Of the
UNION, nave Oeeu pTtbeHISu W SOuSTtSS, pIb1iuB
for the revision of the laws in respect to slavery,
and the gradual abolition Of slavery Dithin The Dis
trict of Columbia.
A petition was presented at the last session of
Congress, signed by more than one thousand in
habtants OF the District, praying for the gradual
abolition Of slavery therein;
And, whereas the ten miles square, confded to
the exclusive legislation of Congress, ought for the
honor OF this republican government, ard the in-
terest Of the District to exhibit specimen OF pure
and just laws
Be il resolved, That the Committee for the Dis
trct Of Columbia be- instructed TO take int con-
sideration the laws within the District, in respect
to slavery that they inquire into the slave trade
it exists in and is carried on through the District
and that they report to the House such amend
ments to the existing laws shall seem to them to
be just.
RESOLVED. THAT THE COMMITTEE BE
FURTHER INSTRUCTED TO INQUIRE INTO
THE EXPEDIENCI OF PROVIDING, BY LAW,
FOR THE GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVE
RY WITHIN THE DISTRICT IN SUCH MAN
NER THAT THE INTEREST OF NO INDIVID.
UAL SHALL BE INJURED THEREBY.
We bespeak an attentive perusal of this
preamble, and of the last resolve. The
first reads as if it were framed from the
abolition memorials of Quaker and Friend
Societies, and is embeliShed with the Sc
lectest language in the vocabulary of fanat
icism. 1t paints in horrible phrase, gross
ly exaggerated picture of slavery and the
slave trade, and refers to those abolition
petitions which Mr.. Buchanan so liked to
present, as the cutlery of the popular heart
against it, and as justification of the meas
ure proposed in the last resolution, which is
the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, the first love and darling oil
Giddings and his Internal crew.
When the above preamble and resolu.
tons were read, Mr.. WEEMs of Maryland,
a southern man, and representative from
one of the States which had coded this dis
trict to the general government moved
the question Of consideration, by which he
desired to test the sense of the House on
the proposition, and which motion is by
parliamentary law, regarded as test CUES
ton. Mr.. Miner demanded the yeas and
nays on the question whether the House
would consider, and the House ordered the
call of the roll. The question was decided
in the affirmative, and JAMES BUCHANAN
stands recorded AYE That there may be
no doubt or misrepresentation, we quote and
give the vote.
$50 the question being, WI the Houa
consider the question? it was decided as fol
lows: 1E
YEAs.-Messrs. Allen of Mass, Ander