Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-05

any extent whatever, TO 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.. Anterior thereupon moved suspension
of the rules.
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Cushman simultaneously
demanded the yeas and nays; which, being
ordered, were 1877 meas, &C 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,
Crazy, Crockett, Cushman, Dawson, Deberry,
DeGratf, Dromgoole, Elmore Harrington, Fair
field, Foster, Fry, Gallup, James Garland,
Rice Garland, Glascock, JAS. Graham, Grant
land, Grant, Gray, Griffin, Hammond, Hamer,
Hardin, Harrison, Halves, Hawkins Haynes,
Holt, Hopkins, Howard, Hubley, j. Ell. Hunter,
r. M. I. Hunter, Thomas B. jackson, Jabez
jackson, Henry johnson, Joseph johnson,
Vim. Cost johnson, Nathaniel Jones, John w.
Jones, Klein, Kemble, Klingensmfh, Lewis,
Logan, LOOMS, 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, Penny hacker, Petrikin, Phelps.
Pickens, Plumer, Pope, Pratt, Riley, Rencher.
Rhett, Rives Robertson, Rumsey, A. III. 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 w. Allen, Aycrigg, Bouldin, Briggs,
William B. Calhoun, Casey, Childs, Clark, CoE
fin, Corwin, Cranston, Curtis, Gushing, Darling,
ton, Dawes, Davies, Dunn, Edwards, Evans,
Everett, Ewing, Richard Fletcher, Isaac Fetch
er, FILLMORE, Giddings, Goode, William
Graham, Grennell, Haley, Hall, Harper, Has
tings, Herod, Ingham, Lincoln. Marvin, S.
Mason, Mitchell, Calvary Morris, Naylor, Moves,
Parmenter, Peck, Potts, Putnam, Rariden,
Randolph, Reed, Ridgway, Robinson, Russell,
Saltopstall, Sergeant, Sibley, Slade, Smith,
Stratton, 1illinghast, Toand, Albert S. White,
Yorke-66
30 the rules were suspended.
The question was taken on the first reso-
luton, and it was adopted--yeas 1913, nays s..
The question on the second resolution was
then taken, and it was adopted-yeas 1876, nays
65-Fillmore voting in the negative.
The third resolution was then read; when
Mr.. Bond called for a division of the ques-
tion, so as to take the vote FIRST on the follow.
ing branch only:
Resolped, 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 3O-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 affirmative-yeas l64, nays 10
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 on this resolution, so as to take it first on
the following branch:
Resotred, Thatthe Constitution rests on the
broad principle of equality among the members
of this Confederacy.
Such division being accordingly ordered
the vote thereon resulted afirmatively--yea
$50, nays 36-Fillmore in the affirmative.
The second branch Of this resolution was
also agreed to-yeas ia, nays baltimore
in the negative.
Mr.. Randolph called for a division at the
word Congress-" in the fifth line of the fifth
resolution, which was ordered
The first branch of the proposition was
LAT, nays 52-Fillmore 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 78-Fill.
more in the negative. See the Congressional
Globe, page q, %; House Journal, page 81
to Cd inclusive.
Mr.. Bynum, the champion of Democracy
from North Carolina, in defending the above
resolution, said, II pray every Southern man
to examine these resolutions; read them over
and over again, one by one, and to say if they
we're 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 slavery IN The District Of Columbia and the
Territories, or the prohibition of the removal
OF slaves from State to State, and the dscrimi-
nation between the institutions of the two por-
tons 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> he 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 it not a fact then, which the Mail so con-
cisely announced, that "he will never stand on
our platform of slavery" And if he will not,
what shall be said of those who sustain and
vote for him; on what platform are they plac-
ing themselves2 1t was to this agitation and
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