Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1855-1861, 1856-08-30
Rnchannn,s Dark RECORD.

seen that on the 9th Of January, 1929
Mr.. MlNoR moved the following insulting
outrageous ABOLITION PROPOSE.
TlON, in the shape Of an INTERNAL
/ PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS,
cmbodying the RANKEST ABCLI.
TI0NlSM ever presented to Congress
Whereas, the constitution has given to
Congress within the District Of Columbia,
the power Of exclusive legislation in all
cases whatsoever and whereas, the laws
in respect to slavery in the District Of
columbia have been wholly neglected;
From which neglect, for nearly thirty
years, have grown numerous and gross
oorruptions;
Slave dealers, gaining confidence from
impunity, have made the seat of the ledcr-
nj government their headquarters for car,
rying on the domestic slave trade;
The public prisons have been oxtcn-
sively used perverted from the purposes
for which they were erected) 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;
Instances Of death, from anguish and
despair, exhibited in the District, mark
the cruelty of this traffic.
Instances of manning aud suicide, ex.
ecuted or attempted, have been exhibited
growing out of this tra6c within the Dis
trict
Advertisements beginning, "We will
give cash for one hundred likely young
negroes, of both sexes from eight to TWEEN
ty-ive years DID," contained in the pub.
lie prints of the city, under the notice of
Congress, indicate the openness and ex-
tent of the trafc;
Scores of human beings exposed at
public yeuduc are exhibited here, permit.
Ted by the laws 9f the general govern
ment, a woman having been advertised to
be sold at Lloyds tavern, near the Cen.
tral Market house, during the month of
December.
The House of Representatives Of Penn
sylvania, at their last session, by an al
most unanimous vote, expressed the opin-
ion that slavery within the District Of
Columbia ought to be abolished;
And, whereas, the ten miles square,
con6ded to the exclusive legislation of
Congress, ought for the honor of this re-
publican government, and the interest of
the District, to exhibit specimen of
pure and just laws;
BE it resolved, That the Committee for
the District of Columbia be instructed to
take into consideration the laws within
the District, in respect to slavery; that
they inquire into the slave trade as it ex-
lists n, and is carried on through the
District, and that they report to the House
such amendments to the existing laws as
shall seem to them to be just,
Resolved, That the Committee be fur
tber instructed to inquire into the expe-
diency of providing, by law, for the grad
ual ABOLITlOL OF SLAVERY within
the District in such manner that the in
terest Of no individual shall be injured
thereby,
Against this INFAMOUS AB0LI-
TION DOCUMENT, the South voted in
body, only one man North of Mason d
Dixon's Line voting with them. Those
marked in italics, are the Tennessee men,
bers:
NAYs.--Alexander, Aston, Archer, j.
S. Barbour, 7. p. Barbour, Barringer,
Bel, Bryan, Buckner, Carson, Carter,
Chambers, Chase, Claiborne, Conner,
Crockett, Daniel, Davenport of Va. Davis
of $. C., DeAa, Drayton, Floyd of Va,
Floyd of G., Fort, Gilmer, Gurley, Hall,
Hamilton, Harvey, Haynes, Kinds,
Holmes, Isdcks, Kremer Lecompte, Lea,
Lutchcr, Lumpkins, Lyon, hrdJtc,
Martin, Mccoy, McDuiie, Mediation,
Mckee, Miller, Mitchell of Tenn, Mitch.
ell Of $. G., Moore of Ala, Newton,
Nuckolls, Owen, PoH, Riply, Roane,
Sawyer, Smy,h of Va, Sprigg, Stranbcr-
ry, TalliaGerro, Thompson, Trezvant,
Tucker Of S. c., Turner, Washington,
Wecms, Wickliile, Wilde, Yancy,-70.
But this RANK ABOLITION PROP.
IsITION, was carried by the l04 ABOL.
ITIONISTS, from the North and North.
West. From the known intimacy Of
BUCHANAN with MINOR, and the fact
that the entire Pennsylvania, with one ex-
cepiiou, followed BUCHANAN, whose
name was first on the roll, it is fair to
presume that he had much to do in pre-
pairing the document See the vote:
YEAs.-Messrs. Allen of Mass, An
derson Of Maine, Anderson Of Penn,
Armstrong, Bailey, Baldwin, Barker, Bar.
low, Barney, Bartlett, Barley, Bates, of
Mass, Bates Of Mo, Beecher, Blair,
Blake, Brown, BUCHANAN, Buck,
Cambreling, Chiffon, Clark of n. Y,
Condict. Coulters Crowninshield, Culpcp-
per. Davenport, of Ohio, Davis Of Mass.
DeGraa, Dickinson, Earll, Everett, Find.
lay. Fry. Gurnsey, Garrcn, Gorbam,
Green, fIalleck, IIanly, Hobbie, Hodges,
Hoffman, Hunt, lngersoll, Jennings,
Johns, Kecse, King, Lawrence, LETTER,
Little, Locke, Long, Magec, Mallory Mar
kell, NIartendale, Marvin, Maynard, Mi
ner, McIntirc, Mexican, Mclean, Mer-
Ger, Muhlenberg, Orr, Pierce, Person,
Plant, Ramsey, Randolph Of n. j., Reed,
Richardson, Russell, Sargent, Sinnickson,
Sloan, Smith Of Ind, sprsgue, Stevenson
Of Penn, Stewart, Storrs, Strong, Swami,
swim, Sutherland, Taber, Taylor, Tracy,
Tucker Of ~ J., Vance, Vcrplank, Vim.
ton, Wales, whittlesey, Wilson Of Penn.