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SAMUEL Db CLARK, &Ce. Hamburg Marchs 25,13P40. R 2um The Greenville Mountaineer and Pendleton Messenger will psublish the above one month anch~and forward their accounts to this office, HisceIHaneous. Eztructslfrom th Circular of te iRon. W1. T. oLqul r'T to the people Of Georgia. I canumn give ien. iarrison my support, be. cause he ii a Federalist; that he supported tho black coca-a.e admniistaatioa of the e.der Ad. aus; that be &supported he administration of t..e younger Adams; that he lass never changed his t'ederai notions; that lie is still a Federalisu aind nusttderive his main support from that party. ,No matter how little the establishment of these ciarges may operate upon the ninds of others, I trust tbey will be sufivient to screen we frow their sneers. It is a thing so easy for any.iuan to be branded as a deserter frmin his party)-or isis name to he subjected to iufamy -that very many choose rather to f0--t witn the tide of public oepinion, than investi gate tinet position atnd rerist its curreist; but if amu enabled to prove that General Har rison is a Fedeialist, has; always ac:ed with that pany, and is now their canoidate, we nave al ways pro eased vainly in Georgia, if we give him our su.sport. Tntis I will now proceed to do, in a plat and intelligible manner, nor will I leave roon fr adotbt an the wind of any naprejudiced man. My fellow citizens will remember. that while Johnt Adams Use elder was President of the U. Sates, during his admini-tration. the Fed eral party p.,aased the Alien tend oedition laws wanicb gine rise to ine Kenne'ky aned Virg.naa resolutionb of 179d, '99. Durng these years there were tno neutruls in public life; it was a tiue ofsevere pa. ty conflict, aid larty lines were very distincly drawn. I ha' e betore me the 1st voiume ot-"Executive Jouiral," where, at page 2de, it is recorded, that on the 20th of Jane i thatever memorable year 1798, John A-lats, tooe then President of the U. States, coiferred upon tUen. Harrisoon the office oif -Secretary tit' the territory northwest of the river Olio" Would not this appuaotnmentit selfibfrd presu uptive proof that General Har rison was a member of the Federal party ? Take into consideration the Year. the time. and the circumstanaces, the proufrniuld be sufficient to ishill the ones at lf-s-. But the proof. shall proceed; General Harrisoin was at delega.e froin the North Western Territoiry, to the House of Repre sentatives of the United States, during the sesiiotn of 1799 and 1r00; du ing the session at'that Cnagress, and he ore ns clasie, ie was appoiinted by John Adams, the President, Governor of tie Territory of Indi as. (See Executive Journal, vol. 1. p. ow, when we remember that the election for Prefident took ilacse thatisame year(1800.) and when we recollect the ireat excitemn t that prevailed betw seen the partins. and how bitter y Jeffersmn was denone'd by the Federa imts of that day, and the in-' ounpromising sairit that prievailed.where is the man that would dare believe that * John Adnmst, who had be atows d on Ilarrison a prior appointment. and wIo now was enabled to juage ari'se friet.dship' by his nets whi e at Coigress. sntil a lie tite os Wit api oiin:meton the 12th day of May ol that sessiotn, would have imsade hin Governosr of In diana, if he had beens Iis friend. and a member of his liarty, opposed. to Mr. Jefferson and his party I It would not seem _necessary to. produce other evidence; but. an it is convenient, I nt ill ca.l yonrattention to his own admission as late as 1826 In the Senate of the Uiied States, in year (18ti) as may be seen in "Congressional Oebates," by Gates & Seaton. in tie fist part of the ud Vol aind at page359, Jonn Randolph, of Virginia, said tat the difterence betwe. himsselfand General Harrison was vita:; that they difered -- findamentanly and totally. as.d ,lid wneu they fis a: took their seats is Coangress. Speaking of' Harrisloa. he said: He was an oIen, zealos, and frank supporter of the sedi tion law and black cockade administration:and I was as zealonus. fink, and ope'n oppom.ent of tine black cockade and sed tioan admitaittration We difier fuid'imentally and totaly; we never can agree abont measures or abont men, I do not neans to dsctat.- tit the gentleman: let its agree to differ as gentlemetin ought tot do, es pecislly natives oil' te same State, who are an .ipodes to each other in polities" Now :. speciflic charge was m:ule by Jolsn Randolth. osn the i.9thn of nsaarch 1816. The reply of Gen. Harrison is reported its the sane voitne mat debates. aid at page .364 anad '5, in whichs heo said that, " lie couald nor ref rain from muak iung his acncnowh'dgtemt to the gentlean f'romt Virginia (.ilr. Rbansdelph.) foar the noatice he had been pleased ten take of' him. He linad beena plasod to say thtat. ia the admninisotruao of Mar. Adamse, I was a Federalist; mad lie e,,westo that conlsien, froma ths-.coturse pear suned by ime in i799, and 1800." I withn it tea be bornie in insd that Mar. Ititadoiph charge-d lim to his face of' being a zealens, pieii anid rrantk suppearser of the seditin law and black ceock ads ntdininstration. He theni proceeds in re ina reply: "A t thnat session, thme getntlemtan and tsnyaoelf' met fiur time first titme ; hie inm tl.e station 'at reprsesntate front Virginia, tand I in the msore muambae enne of' I)elegate frosi thne North Wster'n Trerritosry. Hlavitg n's vote, I dnd not think it proper to taike part ins thne discus sion ina any of tate great pioltical q'estions wticch divided the two piarties. My bnsmness was to procutre thne passage of tine bslls whsich Ilhad instroduceda foir the lienefit of' the pe'pIle I re piresen&ed. '.1 he gentlemsan had nas manns of knoawing mny poiitical pr'iniple5siunless he ob tained thnem troas priviitecotnv'ersation. As I was on termis of intnacy witha the geanlemant, it is very probnable that Ihe mnight have heard mes ex pri ci nsntimeeniie avorabtoe to the thetn admnin-. nsttratioat. Icertainily felt rhenm-so fiar, at least, Ias to tine conrse pttrsued bsy it in re'lationt to the Uiavernament of Frantce." The chnarge is stade direct guid nuteqtuivocal, anid the ausgrer does snot densy, but admits the chargg; lntt !,nists he muds ino public nipeechn to that efet in thne H. of itepresen'tatativee, insaanmehcl as Ihe had ino vote; and thtat tir. baandolph must have hoead nt from haims ian private cosnversauiions. Yethle admtits the c'hargte treue. Inn thne same. speech lie says: "For 31r. Adas I etntertainsed at that n s.,,n.u huae ever sitaeentei ta ed thiegre-at e re.gees. I believe hitn to be sin honest mnan and a pture patriot; and his condnet dutrintg that sessions proved himt to be sir/,' Thsee are the exipressed unpininas of Gen. Hatrrisesn co. cern .John Adata and hiis administrtion, in his speec'h in Jn'lg. Thne eleetiotn of the yotanger Adams (Johns Q.) is much more fresh in your recollectin. tand renidered mnemsorably by two circtumstaancen': the first . that Georgia haed a favorite candidate in the field, (William H. Craii ford;) and second the election of Mr- Ad ams by what has so fregnenitly bee-n called the coalition with Mr:T Clay. Abont Jite coalition ?I knQw nothing-Clar made Adas President and, as was natural enongh Adams made -him Secrt ury of St~a. At the first session of Con res* titler thistelebrated election,Uen. H' wa, a member of th Senate; and the journals wi,' show thit his votes stand recorded upon ail lead ing neasuree.with the Administration. it wta durng this Adiniulstration, that, in the Senate John Rtandolph.inade the charge I have quoted showing-that iFais his fikst ae~uaintance wit. Harrison up to that time they hd always dil' fered,, and that they never should agree about men or maeaures ; the one being a Federalist the other a Republican. The appendix to the Senate Journal of IM~, will show that Gen. Harrison voted fot tliat much abused, wild and vissionarv measote the Paiama Alission. On the 4th of March 1529. the Administration of Mr. Adams closed , biut, before he quit office, he was not unmrindful of the friend and ally of his father, and the continued supporter of himself On the Wdld of' May. Id2, lie appointed Gen. Harrison minister to Columbia. What otheror better evidence could be wanted of his. being a Federalist, of the old and new school? He was the friend, the zealous supporter, and admirer of the elder Adams and hi black rock ade Administration. He waq the friend and supporter tof the younger Adam's administra tion, at.d from both the fither and tie son re ceived the reward of faithful services, by re ceiving spointments from their hands. isnt fellow citizens, if Air. Webster is a Fed. eralist (and thisis not denied even by himsell) %e have otier proof of his Federulis ns, ann of later date. In his Clevoit speech of which so much ls been said, to further the claims el Gen. Harrison,delivered on tha 4th July 1833 lie remarks- "I have thus fellow citizens, en deavored to explain to you the principles upon which the government of our union is formed. I reccomnend to you however, the Procama tion of the President cot the United States. is sued on the 10th of December last, and the speechies of Mr. Webster, delivered in the %enate of the United States at the last session of Congress, in answer to the argu ments of Mr. Calhoun, as containing the taost eloqnent 1.1 satisfactory exposition of those principles that have recently been published.' What think you of his opinions of the construction of the cons-itution?- If Mr. Webster is l'-ituitlinous I and Federal, so is Gen. Harrison; for he lands; and commends the t'rmer as an eloquei: and i satis-actory constitutional expositor. But what I will Ine iuembers of the Sta e Rights party say I of his high conamendations of the Proclama. , ion' a -paper that the friends of the President i tiaye traed to modify and explain. Recently i ) r. Webster inl order to aid Gen: Harrison in i his election, and to correct a falshood which lie sa s had been circulated, among .1ther things nm ke the following remarks: -He (General Harrison) has now been se lected by thegeneral voice of those whose pub. I ic priciples agree with h's own. to go to the nead ot' the colunn. and to bear tip and ad .idvanie the 11g under which it is hoped those principles may be tnaittnined and defended." 4 I have now shown you thatGeneral Harrision was a Federalist in 1798, inl 3ift, in 1833, and I if Mr. Webster is authority, itn 1840. 1 Who, then, are the present supporters of c Geteral Harison? No one can doubt that the master spirits of the party are Webster. Clay. - and Alanim; and although there are now atnong his supporters, some wtho have professed and acted with the Republican party yet, by far the majority of hip supporters are the Feder alist aid if he is elected, the Governiment will inevitably be under the control of that party. I would beg leave to preseut ailother sub. I ject for your coisiderations, worthy of your s!- I rnuns revard, a subject of vital importance t 1 the whl South. I mean the subject of' Abo lition. It is the blindn- ss of stupidity, or the iadness of party, for any man to desththat the nomination of Gen. Harrison was made with the view and for tie purpose of obtaining strength by procuring the. votes of Abol.tnonists. The friendsor Ges Harrison say. that lie was 4 nominated beenuse it was thought lie could obtainthe mostvsotes. ofthisilinvenndsoubt; lmt the reason for believing he could procure a better vite than Henry Clay, wag, he might get the strength and indumesce of this support. which Clay could not. There are some facts. evhich I know, and a few others to which I will refer. upon this subject. I know that no peti tion, having for its object the ubolishing of sasvery in the District of Columbia, in the States, or Teritories, has been presented this session. but by a Whig. I know that to speech has heen) inade in favor of Abolitionaists this: Congress, bsut has been :nade by a Whir. I know th at upon the final vote, to exclude by a rule of the Hiontse, the recefption of these peti tionss. bt one Whsig from a non slavehsolding state voted wish us, whilefouir donuthern Wh~aigs voted against ns.-mmong wvhomn was.iohns Bell. of I enniessee. the Whig candidate for Speaker I know'thast at least two of the demtocratic par ty refmtsed to be made thie itastrments of pre seuntinig stieh petitios. and one sifihemn a Sen utor from Ohio, a nson-slaveholdhing State where thme Abolitiooisms are numerous, Thessse facts hsave occurred duirinag the present session of Conmgress. anid yet very many sonth ern ime-nsbers shant their eyes to these staring trmtsa, and are glad at heart that the Northernm Democrats will loose strength in their respec tive Districts, fear givinig aus the-ir aid. lneh pains have been takena to throw poppies over the eyes of the South. hy attempting to prove that Geni. Hlarriuson himiself is not an A bolition ist. lUst official speeches and letters prove timis, theat lie is opposed to slavery amid desires it abolished. hinterniininsg these views so st-onighy disap probmatig slavery; living as he does, in a non slavehioldling State; mamde the available candi date for the presidency thsrostth their inflnence, an-i warmly suipported by Shade. Adams. Gran ger, Gases, and other advocates of abolition it the haslls ofC Congress; who will dare believe, if a bIll should psiss for immsediate emanscipoa tiomn~tfhat he would affix his veto. Whether lie is the advocate of the present action of the A boiitiosist. is very immsaterial. Hlis speechi at Vinminues, shows that ha did not approve of the designss of the Aholitiontsts; and fds i rote for the admission of Misourni withbi te striction,. are argusments in lhie fiiMr. BitI whmat is he nowl W~hat eveiende have we Clint he is not now an Abilitionist? Letters haveI been asldresseud to him npon this subject which he fatils to answer. A comamit'ec haye noiw fak'en charge of Ihis person andl opinions, so far as to sitaand between him and the pe'ople of the United States. wvhose confidence he seeks, andi refuses to give aniy' satisfaction. WVihIthe Statj eof Georgia. wvith' these facts anilthestihfe anif staring them in the face, he satisfied with .the remarks he made mansy years ago upon tilis mubject, eseeially when thsey know how thej fist of abolitionists have mwellerd in Ohio sinee his speech at Vinacensnes? For me, thie well authenticated fact that lie is a Fedalhist that 4e is their candidate and supported by them ind that ifelected, it will be a Federal admin tratidh, bdhlle'Aibteientto prevent we from yielding him any support. And his position. ,y affiliating with the Abolitionists, as I have 'hown, would bs of itself a sufficient barrier. t is not my pqjpose toabuse General Harrison ar from it. Nor will Labu'a- Federalists. or abolitionists. It is enough that I am not wil. .ing to trust the Government in the hands of tither; and I shall be mistakenif the'pedple if Georgia are, . - Having given these reasons why I emnnol consent to support General Harrison, I will now assign those which induce me to pre Aer his opponent. In doing so none will charge mie with comingto the task influenced by any l'eelings of partiality. The vote given for the tariff in 1828, is now trunpeted abroad as an objection to Van Buren For this both'theantdidates for the.fre sdency voted. But here again I am -topped. In the year 1832. a party of which I am a member rave again their support to Mr. Van Buren for Vice President of the United States. His vote and the circumstances tinder which it was given. were no secret-were well known to the public, and at a time of great excitement upon the subject of the tari. It is not my wish to censure others, but to assign the reasons which govern my own condnrt. Acting with my own party, I gave a cordial supp ort to Mr. Van Buren at both these periods 101 and 1832. Witho ut going into a vindication of those votes now I think that you will agtee with me that I should present them with bad grace as reas. ous why he could not ret my vote. We sup. ported him then without a call for his opinions upon the subject of slavery-ince which we have had his published opinions, and resolves upon this vital subject, to which I call your sitention, He was interogated by the Jackson mid Shaceo committes before his election to the Presidency. his answers to whichshow how rar his votes, twenty years ago. ought to alarm the South upon the subject if slavery. He says if elected," I must go into the Preosential -hair that inflexible and uncompromising op ionentof any attempt. upon'the part of Con. tress, to abolish slavery in the District of Co. nmbla against t:?e wishes of the slaveholding tatest and also with a determirnation, equa'ly lecided, to resist the slightest interferene wnh he subject in the States where it ix'sts " But am aware that many declared then he was in incere, antdcould not be trusted. Yet after his lection, when, if he had any desire to b-.tray our rights and falsify his declarations, when here was too actual call or neeeesity, in his in tigural address lie repeats them. But nearly four years has passed, and yon nay wish to know whether he is still inflexible ipou this nbert. and whether the growing age of fanat6m has not driven him from his ,osition. This is right you should known. and Without a distinct confirmatian, you might pru lentlyWithold your votes from any canldidate. )n the 10th of Febuary, of the present year, i very respectful letter was addressed to. Gen. -larrison frmm some gentlemen in Vikginaia.fn rhich they propounded, among others the.e Luestaons; * Is it constitutiona'. nnd it so. would it be xpedient to abolish slavery in the District of oolumbia." In the event of your election, should a bill o abolish shivery in the District of Cc uabia mass Congress would it resuive yoursanction" Now these were very plain questions, easily Inswered by an honest man who intends no im 'osition, and yet Gen Harrisoq refused. j inswer. His friepds in the South iay say one hing, and appeil to his spsech iride lt Via ennes. while his friends in the nofi ulayilfWl'd Ig states ki.ow another. How dif'ereuit hias dr. Van Burei ated. On the 21st March. of he present year, a letter from Virginia was iddressed to him upon this subject, to which he 'eplies on the 27th of the same; '-1 have re est-ed your letel of the 21st histi t. inid -a mave no objection to say in reply, with the sen iments expressed in my letter to Junius Aims nd 6ti'eirs ni the 6th f Match 1836, and sub. tantially repeated in my inaugural address are iot oly still entertained by me. but have been ,reatly strengthennd by stibseqtesnt experience Liad reflection." By this, we have renewed as nrances of his determination to preserve in riolate this species of our property. There is its concealneut-there. is no eq'uivocation out a sentiment candidly and fully expressed. md uibish,-d to the world, I should feel . .y ielf exceedingly humble4 If I vrere now to say o the people of my stiste, that I oppoee Mr. Van Buren for the vote instructing Rufus Kin0!. or the vote changing tihe constitution of NJew York, or the vote or restriction upon Flo rida. No matter how objectionable these votes [ and the party with which I acted, to say the east of it. excured them then without any fa able pledge from Mr. Van buren. Not an 'bjctiionable expresuin has fallen from his lips ir pen since , upon this subject. and those re pecated assurances in our favor; nid how could .with any sort of consistency, assign. these rotes as reasons for denouncing him now. But there is other public evidence of his sincer ty upon this subject. My fellow citizens will remember, that a bill was intuoduced in the Senate to prevent the transportation by mail if aniti slavery; pamphlet., books, newspapers, &c. &c. This bill camne before the Senate oin he question. "'Shall this bill be engroesed. and read a third time?" while Mr. Van Buren vas,'Viee President..- Upqn this question the Senate tied, 18 and 18 and th decision had to eo mnade by Mr. Van Buren. He met it prompt. y and voted foar its passage. We are treating gentlemen from non slaveholding states with ireat unfairness, when we abuse them, after tvery demonstration they can make in our favor. [ shlt have to lose nmy rqrd for virtue and :onsistency, before I enlist in the crdside. But strang as awe expressions, and so delusive as ma been the conduct of Mr. Vajn Btnren, I would not feel that the South would be jatst te~ icselftto yield inm her support, ifhe wascon~t tag abolition votes at the expense of our right. nd f his stpourters were affiliatinig with these ~anaticks. For this reason, the candidates for President Mie the representatives of great prin :i'les. which principles I must oftan under itand from the z'eal asyl-haracter of their sup ?orters. On mnany, the tast~monv I may offr nay have bitt shght effect, u'd with some none it tall; but situated where I have been enabled to weigh every circumstance with reasoneble im partiality,1 feel its force. In all thie'mpt's to prove flarrison no abolitionist, and that he weatld r~ot get the suppoit of these faiaies, no tue pretends to charge the fast tha't Mr. Van B~uren stands any chance to ebtain them. They letnouncie him in every print as #Ji slqre of 'Je mouth; that lia son has married the daugh at of an extensive slave holder~and theg he is i"northemmn with soihr yhs" ut inropdseteoofarther. ak nOwspen.. derating- diference in favor of the northui.m s Democrats, the supporters of Mr. V40 Burg ! In the last Congrens there were presented a 4,070 abolition petitions, eacJh petition varyld as to the nutuber of petitioners they contained. Of this large amount of petitioners brought n. to Congress, williit not be some conseqence lor you to know in what propottion-they were presented by Whigs and Democrats? I have aken tie paius to inform mysel& and the 1'anis is that3,786of tha.Uumie'r ;Vetc~t, .4A Whigs, and the remaining 393 by Demoerti Will it not strike the mind of every man, a; once, the immense disparity between them? Another ingular fact is worthy of notice, tha' in some of the states, and t mention especially Now Hampshire, where the Democratic party is strong. and where the whole representation of the state is of that party, the representatives refuse to present these petitions; and the aboli. tionists from those plaes send them to their friendsty coe from other states. Of she 4,097 pititiona.,pesented last Congress, the Whigp presented n tates in which they did not reside 1,317; the Democrats 7. 1 will not enumerate the many1,votes given daritg the several precedingsesuoys,all ofwhic wilb the preponderating infiuene of the Wf s 1 favor of the Abolionists. I wifl .inb-at a i votes only. By reference to tihe resolutions in. troduced upon this suboct by Mr. Fnckneci S.C. one of them will be found to read thods "That, in the opinion of this House Congress ought not to interfere. in any way, withslavery in the District of Columbia." 'This resolution passed by a vote of 163 yeas to47 nays .1 sug pose you would consider this vote in the tspea% tive some evidence that there were men in Con. gross who felt that Congress ought to interiere with slavery in the District? Of the 47 who voted in the negative, 42 were Whig the re maining five were Democrats Mr Patton, of Virginia, under the instruction, it is said, of a meeting of Southern members at thesucceeding Congress, offered this resolution, viz: -Resolved. That all petitions, memorials:-and papers t ching the abolition of slavery, or buyng sellitg. or transferring slaves .i ab State. DistrictorTerritqry, of theUnited Stases be laid upon the table without being debated; printed, read or referred: and that no furthe& action shall he had theri'on." po'tie adoption ofthis resolution, the.eto sands rded: veas 122. nays 74. Among hose *'oting in tie affirn-ativefrom non-lave& hold* 9i6ites,there were fifty one Democrati. and but one Whig. Mr. Atherton (Democrat) of New Hampshire, intrnduced resolutsiousons of which wasthis: "Resolved, That petitions for the abolition dfslayry in the Distrietof Columbia and. that Teruitorlie ohe United States.and against th removal of slaves from one State to nnothe are part of a plan ofoperations set on foot to affect the institution of lavery in the several States, and indirectly, to dmstroy that institutiun within their limit*? . " This resolution was offered by a Democrat rom a non-.daveholding State. upon its pa* sage, there sand.recorded-136 yeas, abd 66 nays. Of the 66 wLo voted in the negative, were Whigs, 61 northern Whigs. His thid, resolution upon the subject was this. - ."Reinlve, That Congress has no right to do that indirectly which it cannot do directlv.' In favor of this the yeas arel70 andnays'.0, Evety an who voted in the negative was a Whig. The fifth and lastresolution was divio ded, and the vote demanded upon the first branch, which reads tut. "Resolved, That attempts on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, or the Territories, or to prohibit the removal ofalaves from State to State, or to dis criminate between tihe institutions omf one por tion ofthe Confederacy and another. with the views aforesaid. are in violation ofthe Constitu. tion, destructive of the findamental principles on which the union of these States rests, and bevond the jurisdiction of Congress." This branch of this resolution is as strong a any tman from the South can ask; and let it not be forgotten that it was introduced by a northern Democrat. This passed bya vote of 146 yeas, to 62 nays. You will be glad toknow, doubtless, who voted in the negative; I have their names. Of the 52 thie * were 47 Whi and but 5 Democrats. During the same ne sion; the joui-nals show that Mr. Slade, a zeal. ois Whig, and an equally zealous Abolitionist, made a motion, "that tle rules in relation to the order of business be suspended to enablo him to move a resolution, which wasreadat the Clerk's table, as follows: "Whereas, there oxists, and is carried on; between the ports in the Distiet of Columbia. and other posts of the United states, and under the sanction of-the laws thereot, a trade in hu man beings. whereby thousands of them are annually sold and transported from said District to distant part of the country, in vessels belong ing to the citizens of the United States, theme, fore, to the end that all obstacles to. the en,,-id' eration of thtissubject be remo'ved and arentedy for the evil pedily pro'vided. "Resolved, That so much of the fifth section of the resoluttions on the stubicet of slaveryps led by this Hlouse on thelf ilhand 12th of th' present month, as relates to the removal oi* Slaves from State to State, and prohibuts the action of this Hlouse. and every vw'tition. "a.. morial, resolution or paper, touching the same, be, andI hereby is, rescitnded." The effort torepeal this part of the reioatio; I deem a .ther quesion,. tdldulted to sh,.w whisk par y leans to. and is sustained by the Abolitionists. Upon this motion there stand, recorded 56yeas and 147 nays. Of the56wh6 voted in favor of Mr. Siade's motion 63 were Whigs, and but 3 Democrats. The firaf montion made to introduce a petition ~ot rrtn sIasachtz setts. This was tnet by southern gentlemeni, among others Mr. Cave Johnson .rho moved to lay the motion for reception on the table -a if thus motion prevailed, you will perceive that it was equivalent to the rejection. Thte vote was taken upon this motion, which was carried in theaffirmative by avote nf 365to 68. Of dre 68 votes given in the negative, 61. were north. ern Whigs, I southern Whig, and thme temairy nug 6 Democrats. In thus vote it was nat con sidered tharthe ightof pamition was invlve&, and nearly the wltnle Democratic party voted with the South. When the vote wasafterwaalr. taken to make it a rule of the House, that pno petition upon the subject should li fteived, tJaesgptitio was niarhuinglv en'orce&. the northern Demoemmey voted with us to aiog the rule. In this27 Demeeratswent farther lii