The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-30
COUNTY, OHIO, WEDNESDAY MORNING. july 80, 1856.


people which was thus dcvolved upor
them by tho action of the government
ought to be repaid them. It was Ger
tainly an expense incurred by the socie
ty, through the action of the govern
mont in throwing those young negroe:
upon them for maintainance, Instead Of
taking them, as the government was
bound to do by law, and provide fol
them. That is the nature OF the claim
They simply ask that SO much shall bc
paid them az the society, from it's OWL
experience, pays, in reference to its OWL
enigrants. The claim was reported OIL
favorably two years ago. a similar re-
port has again been made, and as the
necessities of the society require tha.
they should have the money, 1 hope,
said Mr.. Underwood, the Senate will con
sent to take up the bill, and proceed to
consider it as in committee of the whole.
Mr.. Turney asked for the reading of
the report Of the committee.
Tho secretary read the report pcoor-
dinghy. It sets forth that liberal con
struction of the act of Congress. Of
March 3, 1919, would require that the
government should provide for the sup
port of these recaptured Africans for q
reasonable time after they had been
landed in Liberia, and that it is beneath
the dignity of the governmont to de-
volve this duty upon tho society. The
petition of the executive committee of
the society, which the committee ineor-
porated in their report, states that on
the 10th of December, l849, the United
States ship Yorktown, Commodore Bell,
landed at Monrovia, in Liberia, from the
SLAYER Pons, ssUen hundred and JftIy
recaptured Africans in naked, starving,
and dying condition, all of them except
ing twenty-one, being under the age of
twenty-one. The United States made
no provision for their support after they
were landed. The services OF
providing for the destitute negroes were
not required to be performed by the So
sioty under their constitution, bat the
alternative was to leave these poor ne
groes to starve and die, and the society
therefore chccrfully took charge of them,
relying upon the governments of. the U.
States to refund the cost to them.
TIE question was discussed at length
as to whether the United States would
pay these just and legal demands; and
on the evote being taken for the engross-
meut of the bill to third reading, Mr.
Fremont's name is found recorded in tie
,segatiUe, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell
Chase, Clayton, Davis of Massachusetts
DAYTON, Dodge of Wisconsin, Dodge
of Iowa, Douglas, Ewing, Feloh, Greene
Hale, Hamlin, Jones, Mangun, Pearce
Pratt, Seward, Shields, Smith, ,spruance
Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales, Walker
Whitcomb and Wlnthrop-29.
NAYs-Messrs. Atchison. Barnwell
Benton, Butler, Dawson, Dickinson
Downs, FREMONT, Hunter, King
Mason, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, TurneJ
| and Yulee-l6.
It will be seen that Fremont voted
| with Atchison, Butler, Hunter, Mason
and Soule, and against Seward, Hale anc
Dayton.
Again in the United States Senate OF
the 18th day of September, 1850, th'
bill to prevent persons from enticin!
away slaves from the District of Colum
bia was under consideration, and JOIN
p. Hale "moved that it be committee
to the Committee of the District of Co
lumbia, with instructions to SO amend 4
as to ABOLISH SLAVERY IN TIL
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" On
the vote being taken, FREMONT'S
name was recorded in the NEGATIVE
[Sce Cong. Globe, Thirty first Congress
part 2, P. 1871