Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-08-11
Tennessee Resolutions.

"Be n turther resolyed That in our opin- ion the voice of Mir. Bells countrymen of Tennessee, in the recent election, has declar- d against his course on the Kansas bill, a question of vital importance to the south.
 Be aturther resolyed, That our Senators in the Congress of the United States are hereby instructed, and our Representatives requested to vote for the admission of Kan sas as an independent State, under what Is called the Lecompton constitution, trans mitted to the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in Congress. assembled by Pre- sident Buchanan in his message to them dated 2d Feb. 1858"
 Mr. Bell presented these resolutions and discussed them in the Senate of the United State on the 23d of Feb, 1850, and was re- piled to by Andrew Johnson, of Tenn, on the same day. In that debate Mir. John son said:
 "I want the world to know what a good candidate they would have had, if they had been disposed to select my honorable col league. On all questions connected with slavery, his leaning has always been to the north and in 1850 when the compromise measures were before the country, 1 asked my friend from Alabama to read few of the paragraphs of what he then said
 Mr. Clay then read the following extracts from speech made by MT. Bell, on the l4th of Sept, 1850:
 With regard to the constitutional pow CT of Congress over this subject, 1 say, the only doubt 1 have to the existence of the power, either to suppress the slave trade or to abolish slavery in the District of Colum- bia, is inspired by the respect l have for the opinions of some very distnguised and eminent men, both in and out of Con- gress who hold that Congress has no such power"
 Reading the constitution for myself, l believe that Congress has all power, over these subjects in this district, which the States have in their respective urisdic tionS."
 Mir. Johnson then said:
 Connecting that speech which was made on the bill, before the Senate, to abolish the slave trade in this district, with his uniform course on the reception of peti- ;ions on the subject of slavery. we find that my colleague makes greater concessions than 1 know of any other southern man having made"
 On the next day, (24th Feb. 1858, Mir. Bell said in reply to Mir. Johnson, of Ten nessee:
 "I do not care to refer to the paragraphs, which my colleague read from a speech made by me in 1850, on the compromise measures of that period, because do not at all repent them. l hold the same sentiments now, l do not find the least occasion to change them." On the 23d of March, 1858, the Senate voted on the passage of the bill for the ad- mission of Kansas with the Lecompton constitution, which resulted as follows yeas B, nays B:
 Yeas-Allen, Bayard, Benjamin, Briggs, Bigler, Bright, Brown, Clay, Evans, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Greene, Gwin, Hammond, Henderson, Houston, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson, of Ark, Johnson, of Tenn, Jones, Kennedy, Mallory. Mason, Pesrce, Polk, Sebastian, Slidell, Thompson. of Kv., Thompson, of R. l., Toombs, Wright and Yulee-33.
 Nays-BELL, Frederick, Chandler, Clark, Collamar, Crittenden, Dixon, Doo- little, Douglas. Dnrkee, Fessehden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamin, Harlan. King, Pugh, Seward, Simmons, Stuart, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson -25.-C Congressional Globe, page 1264, 4. D. 1858.
 All abolitionst except Bell, Crittenden, Douglas and Pugh.
 Mr. Bellthus admitted, that he had voted for the reception of abolition petitions. and was in favor of the abolition of slavery, and the slave trade in the district of Columbia. as late as the 24th of February, 1858; and on the 23d of March, 1858, he violated the instructions of the legislature of Tennessee and voted against the admission of Kansas.