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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MAIKE. 1843 Silas Wright,t§||^ and with honest means. " If thou inayest be free, use it," or of subsequen t inquiry concerning them, will I hope be my 1841 John Rugg'es.t NEW-JERSEY. of foreign trade at , to the Petitioners and to the writers of the letters, The names above the dash under each state, are present is apostolical advice. And to this end, we venture to re­ apology 1843 Reuel Williams,t§||T 1839 S. L. Southard,*! for referring thern to the Journals of the House of Bcpre- members, whose term expires March 3, 1839. The marks NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1841 Garrett D. Wall. commend to our fellow-citizens the following important sug­ ives, upon which I have insisted that the names oi the signify : ,idc from what they pro- 1841 Henry Hubbard,tt5p! PENNSYLVANIA. gestions, from the address of the Convention, as pointing at mens and the number of signers to each Petition, with * Those who voted to lay petitions on the table Jan. 2, 1835, mention other things which 1843 STY. Pierce.f§||1i! 1839 Samuel McKe once to «the real cause and the true remedy of their depen­ the name of the place and State whence it came, should be airainst the motion of J. Dickson, of N. Y , to refer thern^ j the North. One is, that the VERMONT, 1841 James Buchanan,+t§||^' entered, for the fact of tin presentation and the disposal Ol Carried, 117 to 77. Majority 40. dence and thraldom. 1839 Benjamin Swift,* OHIO. ^vvn flour, but "crowd their planta- each Petition by the House. t Voted " That Congress ought not to interfere in any way 1843 Samuel Prentiss,* 1839 Thomas Morris, a, rice and tobacco, and then pay the " We have seen that with the industry, enterprise and I offered a Resolution to the House requiring of the Clerk, with slavery in the District of Columbia." Feb. 8, 1836, 1843 Wm. Allen,! economy of our northern brethren, and with equal favor from to cause to be made out a complete list of all the Petitions, passed, 132 to 45. Maj. 87. MASSACHUSETTS. .o pay the northern merchant, to pay the 1837 Thomas Ewing,* 1 the Government, we must not only have far surpassed them thus presented and thus treated at the last three Sessions of {. Voted for Pincknev's gag resolution, May 26, 1836. Car­ 1839 Daniel Webster, ior the flour they consume ;" by which INDIANA. in wealth, but tint wo must have been the most prosperous Congress—but the combination of northern lal or and south­ ried, 117 to 68. Maj. 46. 1841 John Davis,* 1839 John Tipton,|| lly number of millions more move annually people on the'globe. We have seen that our own mipiovi- ern capital to suppress the right of Petition and the freedom t Voted for the admission of Arkansas as a slave state, June RHODE ISLAND. 1843 Oliver II. Smith, .i to the North," so that, in September last, dence, the shrewder policy of northern friends, and the un­ of debate, unwilling to expose to the world the extent of 13, 1836. Carried, 138 to 56. Maj. Si. 1839 Asher Robbins* 1837 Wm. Hendricks, | ton and a barrel of canal flour commanded the equal action of the Government, have all conspired to bring their success, and the blushing honors of their triumph, re­ § Voted for Hawcs' gag resolution, Jan. 18, 1837. Carried, 1841 Neh. R. Knight,* upon U3 our present embarrassments. Not that they are CONNECTICUT. ILLINOIS. n Georgia." Another voluntary tribute is the fused to entertain the motion. Nor can I find it in my heart 115 to 57. Maj. 58. the immediat/cause ; but that they have so far weakened us, to blame the tacit confession implied by this refusal, that this It will be noticed that those whose names are decorated 1845 Dennis Kimberly, 1841 J. M. Robinson.i expended annually by our people in visits of plea- and made us so completely dependent upon the people of the catalogue of PETITIONERS spurned from the doors of a Willi the ab( ve marks have nearly all failed of re-election. 1839 0= J. M Nilestt§||tf 1843 R. M. Youi.g4t§i|ir! u'e North," which "swell the streams that are con- North for every thing, that the least shock to commerce, North°American Congress, would have exhibited to the Let others beware 1843 Perry Smith,t§p! MICHIGAN. , flowing from a waning to a growing people." The prostrates us, and the least pressure upon them is turned upon amazement of mankind and to the contempt of after ages, || Voted for Patton's gag, December 21, 1837, which fol­ 1837 Gideon Tomlmson,* '39 Lucius Lyon,4t§l|1f .A'miftee in passing here notice that not one third as much us with redoubled force. We have seen why it is that the the most melancholy document that ever issued from the lows : NEW YORK. '41 trJ. NorvelUt^i!" one people has risen like the rocket, and the other has fallen is expended by "our northern brethren" at the South in successors of that band of Patriots, who but three score and " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, and papers 1839 N. P. Tallmadge.H like its stick. We have seen, that their positions must two years since, promulgated from the State House m Phila­ touching the abolition of slavery, or the buying, selling, or winter, although " they double us in population," as a mark have been reversed, if the southern people had maintained The Southern Direc; delphia, the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. transferring of slaves in any state, district or territoiy of the Political Action against Slavery. of the difference of habit between the northern and southern their foreign trade. The opportunity is now offered to them We have been interested in examining a piece lately pub­ JOHN QUINCV ADAMS. United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, NO. VI. to resume it, and to reap the rich rewards from it, that they people. " The main difference is, that they are a home- printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever Perhaps there is no intelligent abolitionist who has j lished in the Charleston Mercury, purporting to be an " Ad­ have hitherto transferred to their hands. Fellow-citizens, abiding, economical people ; while we [the South] incline too shall be had thereon." Carried, 122 to 74. Maj 48. the subject of political action an hour's serious attention, who dress to the People of the Southern and Southwestern will you not resume it 1—Every thing now encourages you much to the opposite traits of character Hence their gains, From the Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839. ! Voted that John Q. Adams was out of order, because, in does not see the impropriety and inconsistency of his giving State?," by a Committee of the Convention of Southern to do so. American commerce is almost released from its illustrating the contempt cast upon the right of petition, he his vote, under any possible circumstances, in favor of any which are not larger in wealth than in power" And they fetters ; and your resources will enable you to control it. Roll of Infamy. Merchants which met at Richmond in April last. It discloses referred to a petition purporting to be from slaves. June candidate for Congress, or the State Legislature, who will exclaim, " Let us profit by their example." You are not wanting in means, in skill, in port or waters, The Political Creed of Abolitionists.—WE WILL numerous evidences of the imbecility and dependence of the 23, 1838. Carried, 115 to 36. Maj. 79. not act or vote in favor of a present emancipation. to accomplish the great enterprise. The legislatures of your slaveholding States, while it utterly fails to point out the In addition to all this " voluntary self-impoverishment," VOTE FOR NO MAN WHO VOTES AGAINST LIB­ But there are many good abolitionists who hesitate when respective States have made easy the way, and safe the at­ MAINE—8. Wm. Mason.T4t§ the address reiterates the usual complaints of the South ERTY. true cause or to prescribe an adequate remedy. Referring to * 4, tfi, 1. 6, } 5, § 5, || 4, John McK.e0n.t4t you ask them to go one step further, and act upon the prin­ tempt to accomplish it. They have authorised you to form The North has always had a majority in the U. S. House the [then existing] general pecuniary embarrassment and the about the inequality produced by the disbursements of the associations fortius purpose, in which you may invest what Hugh J. Anderson,||! Charles McVean,* ciples of voting for advocates of emancipation "irrespective of Representatives. Thus : of parties;1—that is, that in case the political party to which suspension of the banks throughout the country, the com­ national government. The whole amount of disbursements you please, without hazard of more than you invest. Your Thomas Davce,! Rutger B. Miller,5 they may happen to belong, will not nominate candidates in is set down at a thousand millions, of which " little short of interests, social, pecuniary and political, are deeply involved ] 1T89 | 17S« | 1803 | 1813 1 1819 | 1823 | 1833 1 1839 | George Evans, Henry Mitchell,* mittee find exchanges between the North and South from 7 •-K4, Sherman Page,t4.t§ favor of emancipation while the opposite party nominates in it.—A single, bold, united, manly effort, on your part, and 103 1(15 1 124 | 141 1 142 | John Fairfield;ti.f|M to 40 per cent, in favor of the former, the court dockets eight-tenths have gone North of the Potomac, or to citizens | Naifh. | 35| 57 1 77 | the thing is done. Every citizen must take an interest in Joseph C. Noyes, Job Pierson,* suitable and good men, who will go for emancipation, then, domiciled North of the Potomac." 1 South 1 30 | 50 | 65 | 79 81 1 60 | 99 | 100 | crowded with suits brought by northern houses against it—every citizen, a part in it. F. O. J. Smith,*t+§ Joseph Reynolds,*t|.t§ in this case, that they shall not only withhold their votes from •24 24] 34| 42 | 42 1 southern houses, the pecuniary embarrassments of the " The effect of these disbursements at the North, is like a " And while we are directing our united exertions to the | Maj. 1 5| 7| HI Virgil D. Parris, Wm. Seymour,t4.t§ the pro-slavery candidates of their own party, but that they shower of gold. They are far belter. They clear rivers, Nicholas Sickles,t^t^ shall actu.ally'gwe thern to the good men of the other party southern States increase as they recede from the. North, and great object, let us not forget the auxiliary duties which de­ In the Senate the North had a majority of 2, (except from Edward Robinson. improve harbors, and open roads and canals which give per­ Joel Turrill,*t4.t§ who will support emancipation. " in the meantime our northern brethren are reaping rich volve upon us as individuals. Let us reform our habits 1796 to 1802,) till 1812, when the admission of Louisiana manent facilities to commerce. They plant national estab­ Leonard Jarvis,*tJ§ Aaron Vanderpoel,*t4t§ The doing of this, does not imply that they must leave of extravagance. Let us become an industrious, economical, equalized the representation in that body. Still the North, fruits from their vantage ground." The report then recurs lishments, gather villages around them, and found other Jonathan Cilley,|| J. B. Van Houten,* their own political party entirely. Much less does it require and domestic people : and what we practice ourselves, let us having power to choose the Vice-President, may have the to the commercial history of the United States to prove public works, through which there is a constant stream of Timothy J. Cartcr.|| Aaron Ward,±t5 that they shall go over to the opposite party. No. They may teach our children. Let us make more of them merchants- casting vote. It follows that every act of the nation is AN " that in the natural order of things, the position of the two treasure flowing from the Government to the people in their Rufus Mclntire,* Daniel Wardwell,.|.t§ remain in their own party, and persuade them by their argu­ scientific, reputable, practical merchants. Let our planters ACT OF THE FREE STATES. THEY ARE VIRTUALLY THE NA­ sections should be precisely reversed." And to bring about vicinity. Suppose the General Government should make reform their agricultural systems. Let them resolve to buy Gorham Parks,*tr.t§ NEW-JERSEY—6. ments and consistent conduct to nominate better eandidates TION. Whatever Congress does, or refuses to do, the /LW * 1, t 3, 4. 1, 5 2, ! 5. Brunswick a naval depot; would it be a twelve month before Joseph Hall,*t+t§ in future. this reversal, and, of course, give the South the advantage nothing that their farms can produce, and to sell bread stuffs responsibility rests upon the free states. The only way to that place would become a busy thriving city 1 And would under every season. By this policy, they will not gain Moses Mason,t^t§ John B. Aycrigg,! Neither does voting for such candidates nominated by over the North, is the avowed object of the Southern Com­ absolve ourselves from the guilt and shame of our national it be longer before its influence would be felt through the N'iw HAMPSHIRE—5. Win. Halstead, more in independence than in wealth ; for their cotton crops crimes is to discard those who perpetrate them, and choose other parties, "irrespective of parties," bear the remotest mercial Conventions, one of which is to meet this month at whole State 1" * 1, t 5 4, t 5, §5, || 5, ! 4J. P. B. Maxwell,! reduced one fourth, would command a higher price than they men to represent us who will not vote down the foundation > + resemblance to the setting up of a separate political anti- Augusta, Ga. And the great means relied on to effect this now do. Nature has practically demonstrated this truth to C. G. Athcrton,||! James F. Randolph,! slavery party. Another complaint is that the pensions to the soldiers and principles of our government. To assist northern freemen Samuel Cushman,t4.t§||! Charles G. Stratton,! marvellous change in favor of the South, is the establish­ our planters, again and again ; but they will not profit by m this work, we insert from the Congressional journals the With this explanation, let us look carefully into the sub­ widows of the revolution, go to the North in the proportion her lessons. Never does he shorten their crops, that they .lames Farrington.||! T. Jones Yorke,! ment of " a direct trade between them and foreign nations." names of a few who have voted against liberty. ject. It is a question which every abolitionist, must, of of 17 to 2, as if the fighting and danger and loss of life had are not more than compensated in the price ; and yet they Joseph Weeks,tt§|| The historical data respecting imports are curious enough. K course, settle for himself; but it is of infinite importance that not been in the same proportion. The " restrictive system" cannot be persuaded to shorten them themselves. In 1825, I. Jared W. Williams,!!! Philemon Dickers6h,*ti he should so settle it, that his decision and consequent action "VVe have arrayed some of them in the following table, show­ Ferdinand S. Schenck,t§ also (which was in fact a purely southern measure) cost the a rumor was spread and generally believed, that the cotton January 18. 1805. The following resolution was moved shall be such as to satisfy the demands of the responsibilities ing the amount of imports of the different sections at several crop on hand, would not supply the demand by some fifty in the U S. H. R. Franklin Pierce.*i±t§ Wm. N. Shinn,t§ he now sustains, and which will press with their full weight South 50 millions in six years. But it is said :— Benning M. Bean.t4.t5 PENNSYLVANIA—28. periods. or a hundred thousand bales ; and immediately the article Resolved, That from and after the 4th of July, 1805, all upon him, a thousand centuries hence. Robert Bums.t4.t5 *l,tl5,4.9, til, 510, ||14, : 13. States 1760 1791 1821 1832 " The Restrictive System was not more oppressive to us rose from twelve or thirteen cents to thirty." blacks, and people of color, born within the District of Co­ The question of present emancipation, or continued slave­ William Beatty,||! than propitious to our northern brethren. It was the touch lumbia, or whose mothers shall be the property of any per­ VERMONT—5. ry, is confessedly a great moral question. N. England £561,000 They have tried " restricted trade," and that did not help Richard Biddle, of Midas to their property, and the ablution of Midas to the son residing within said District, shall be free, the males at Heman Allen, ' It is a question that admits of no neutrals. He that de­ New York 189,000 $3,222,000 $23,000,000 $57,000,000 them. They then tried " free trade" and that did not help Andrew Buchanan,t§||! streams. Through all its operations, it enriched them—in the ape of ° , and the females at the age of . Lost, Horace Everett, clines present action, in his power lawfully to put forth, in Penn. 400,000 all its consequences it profitted thern. With its other effects, them. " Direct trade," will come out just so. Let them yeas 31, nays 77. Isaac Fletcher, Edward Darlington, Edward Davies, favor of emancipation, in reality acts against emancipation. Virginia 851,130 2,486,000 1,078,000 550,000 it gave them the command of southern trade ; and thus in­ abandon the chase of humbugs and try " the industry, enter­ Northern men against it, Hiland Hall, It is a question which admits of no innocent compromise. N H. Samuel Hunt, Samuel Tenny, 2 of 5 ; Vt. Gideon Jacob Fry, Jr.,t+t§||! S. Carolina 555,000 1,520,000 3,000,000 1,213,000 creased our dependence upon them, and multiplied our debts prise and economy of our northern brethren." That's the William Slade. There is no price nor advantage for the securing of which to them. Let us not be understood as mentioning these Olin, 1 of 4; Mass. Jacob Crowninshield, Mana^seh Cutler, MASSACIIU SETTS—12. Robert H. Hammond,|| ** Thus the import trade of New York baa gradually in­ true secret. -But to this end, they must lay aside their high the enslaver may continue to enslave—nor for which the things, in the spirit, of complaint or disaffection ; but m con­ Win. Eustis, Simon Lamed, Wm. Stedman, Samuel Tag- *2. [Thomas Henry, creased from ,£189,000 sterling, (about $840,000,) in the year notions, FREE THEIR SLAVES, and go to work—as we National or State Legislature may defer constitutional action firmation of the positions which we assumed at the opening gart, 6 of 17; Ct. Simeon Baldwin, John Davenport, Calvin John Q. Adams, Edward B. Hubley,t+t||§ 1769. and from about three millions of dollars in 1791 to the in favor of emancipation—nor for which any one of the sov­ of our remarks. Indeed the southern people, now reap no do. Goddard, Roger Griswold, 4 of 7 ; N. Y. Henry W. Liv­ Nathaniel B. Borden, George M. Keim,! enormous sum in 1832, of fifty-seven millions of dollars ! ereign people, (whose representatives and servants the rep­ small benefit from the measure, which has been so favorable ingston, Simuel Riker, Geo. Tibbetts, Philip Van Cort- George N. Briggs, John Klingensmith,t4t||§! While Virginia has fallen off, in her import trade from two Henry Logan,t}||§! resentatives of the state and nation denominate themselves) to their northern friends. It has enlarged the demand for Petitions. landt, Kilian K. Van Rcnsellaer, Daniel C. Verplanck, 6 of William B Calhoun, and a half°million5 of dollars, in 1791, to $375,000 in 1829, Charles McClure,|| may defer constitutional action in favor of emancipation. their principal staples, and opened to them a home market, 17 .- N. J. Adam Boyd, William Helms, James Mott, Hen­ Caled Cushing, and $550,000 m 1832, not a great deal more than the freight The following letter, from the MENTOR of the Petitioners, T. M. T. McKennon, Look back, now, and read over these propositions again. where they can be supplied with many articles in daily use ry Southard, 4 of 6 ; Pa. Frederic Conrad, Joseph Hcistcr, Richard Fletcher, of half a dozen ships ! ought to attract universal attention. Matthias Morris, Understand what they mean ; ponder their full bearing", and at the South, upon better terms than they are offered in any John Hoge, John B. Lucas, John Stewart, 5 of 18.—Total, George Grennell, "From these calculations, a few curious facts appear.— From the Quincy Patriot. Samuel W. Morris,||! see, and decide whether they are not correct. other market. 28, of 77. William S. Hastings, The imports of New York were, in 1832, seventy LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS. Charles Naylor, If you find them correct, carry them out into detail, and " But, fellow-citizens, how trivial would all our other II. Levi Lincoln, times as great as they were in 1791. Virginia on the other Charles Ogle, apply them to the case now in hand. loses have seemed, had we only secured to ourselves the QUINCV, September 21, 1838. Wm. Parmenter. hand, imported, in 1829, about one-eleventh of what she did The Missouri question came up Feb. 2, 1818, and was Lemuel Painter,||! You say there are no circumstances nor advantages which importer's profits !" Stephen C. Phillips, in 1796, and about one eleventh of what she did in 1691. To the Editor of the Quincy Patriot : finally settled in the House, Feb. 26, [Senate 28,] 1821.— David Petriken,||! should tempt the slaveholder to remain a slaveholder one mo­ The marks designate the votes of northern Representa­ John Reed. In a period too, of eight years, the aggregate imports of New That is now the philosopher's stone that is to tarn all the SIR,—At the second Session of the 24th, and thefirst an d Arnold Plummer,! ment longer. He tells you the tax of emancipation would York amounted to thiee and eleven millions of dollars; cotton into gold. The question is, how will you get it 1 And second Sessions of the 25th, or present Congress, great tives, as follows : Benjamin Gorham,* Wm. W. Potter,! be greater than he can afford. He tells you it would be giv­ * Feb. 16, 1819. Against a clause prohibiting the further those of South Carolina to about sixteen millions, and those on this point, it seems, our southern statesmen-tnrned- numbers of Petitions, Memorials and Remonstrances, ad­ John Davis,* David Potts, ing up all his property ; and in the 'case of some slavehold­ introduction of slavery into Mo. Carried, (i. e. the of Virginia to about five millions! New York imported, dressed to the House of Representatives of the United RHODE ISLAND—2. Luther Reily,||! ers who own slaves but do not own land to employ them on, merchants are as unphilosophical and impractical as they are clause against slavery prevailed,) yeas 87, nays 76. therefore, in 1832, eleven times as much as Virginia did in Stales, were committed to my charge, from citizens of other Robert B. Cranston, John Sergeant, as free laborers, if emancipated, the story would be very ill-agreed among themselves. t Against a clause for the future emancipation (at 25) of eiotit years preceding, and nearly four times as much in the Districts in the Commonwealth, and from other States of the Joseph L. Tillinghast. Dan Sheffer, nearly, if not quite, true. But no matter. \ ou tell him, slaves born in the state. Carried, yeas 82, nays 78. single year of 1832, as South Carolina imported in a period 1. We have the scheme of that eminent merchant and Union, besides those directed to me as the Representative of CONNECTICUT—6. (and you tell him truly) it is his duty to give his slaves their || Feb. 18, 1819. Against a clause prohibiting the future George W.Toland, of eight years. Again, New York imported in one year, financier, Col. A. P. Hayne, of Charleston, who is for doing the Twelfth Congressional District of Massachusetts. t 5, 4. 3, t 5, § 2, || 3, ! 5. David D. Wagener,t4.t§il liberty now, and run the risk of starvntion.—He pleads that (1S32) nearly fifty times as much as South Carolina in the With many of these expressions of the wishes of the peo­ introduction of slavery into Arkansas. Lost, yeas 70, without banks altogether. He says,— Elisha Haley,tt! his emancipating them would subject him to the exactions same year, and about one hundred and ten times as much as ple I received letters, assigning the reasons why they were nays 71. Orrin Holt,|| Joseph B. Anthony ,t5 and the penalties of the laws—that it would brand him a 4. Against the future emancipation of slaves born in Ark.— Virginia. " The fact is, the whole system of exchanges is broken entrusted to me. These were of various characters, but Samuel Ingham,t^t! Michael W Ash.t4.t5 fanatic and subject him to Lynching and murder. Yet still Carried, yeas 75, nays 73. " At the conclusion of the last war with Great Britain, tip, individual credit destroyed, want of confidence and dis­ almost universally such as are entitled to my warm and Launcelot Phelps,t4t||! Andrew Beamont,t5 you uri0! state should afterwards be admitted, extending north of and south-western merchants, of equal standing and respecta­ 5. Against the admission of Texas into this _ John I. De Graff,||! Patrick G. Goode, tional dangers nor advantages should tempt Congress to on foreign merchandize, and that of the domestic productions the south line of Missouri. Any two in the House might bility to responsible houses at the North, would not be taken 6. Against the fraudulent treaty of New Echota, and im­ John Edwards||! T. L. Hamer,*t+t5! neglect, for one moment, the performance of a high moral duty, have turned the scale. Those marked thus, (JJ\) have given in exchange for this merchandize, two-thirds were of for $!5 000 by a northern banking institution. ploring MERCY lor the perishing remnants of the Indian Millard Filsmore, Alexander Harper, imposed upon them by the Great Ruler of the nations. You been since re-elected, (the figures show how many times) southern growth. They say then, " Without disturbing the Now the destruction of the credit of the northern merchants Tribes. Henry A. Foster, Wm. H. Hunter,||! bid them implicity (as \ou bid the slaveholder) to obey God, their constituents thus assuming their GUILT AND vexed question, who pays the duties, we may state then, in Europe, but especially in England, for thefirst time since 7. Remonstrances to the House of Representatives, against Albert Gallup, Daniel Kilgore,t4-t5 and trust His promise that the result shall be satisfactory. SHAME. what all will admit, that the Government has been indebted theformation of the Government, places the southern and the Gag-Resolutions of 18th January and 21st December, Abraham P. Grant,! D. P. Leadbetter,! The Legislature of your own State declines to put forth 1837 NORTHERN REPRESENTATIVES. Hiram Gray,! its appropriate and constitutional action in favor of emanci­ to southern industry for six hundred and thirty millions of south-western merchant on a better footing, as it regards A. W. Loomis,! credit at home and aoroad—in truth, the crisis places them 8. Concerning the fatal duel, and demanding some act of Ogden Hoffman, Samson Mason,5 pation, and for the complete removal of slavery from our own money." " Had the southern people then, shipped their own Congress for the suppression of the practice between its Me. (then a District.) David A. Ogden, *tfH§ in a position of vast power and strength, from the fact, that James Porter,^ T. B. Jackson,! < 'alvary Morris, state. And this dereliction of duty is defended, in like man­ produce to foreign markets, and brought the return cargoes members. ITT Mark L. Hill, it is our cotton, that great and important staple of the South, 3 Nathaniel Jones,! Ridge way, ner, by an array of the costs and disadvantages and losses Of these eight classes of Petitions large numbers were O John Holmes.*t||4.tir§,ca CTH. R. Storrs,*tH+tir§XI]4 to their own ports, they would have had eight and forty which has almost exclusively furnished the basis of all re­ Gouverneur Kemblc,|| Matthias Shepler,! connected with doing right. The interests of the State are received and presented to the House by me N. H. N. J. millions distributed among them since 1789, si nply in the mittances and exchanges from the United States to the rest Arphaxed Loomis,||! Taylor Webster,§ thought to require the establishment of a National Bank, or Upon the duel, from three to four weeks of the time of JohnF. Parrot.*t|L|.tir§ IE7Jos. Bloomfield, *t||4.}1i§ of the world. We are comparatively independent of the use Richard P. Marvin, Elisha Whittlesey, the prevention of its establishment—the institution of Sub- pay of their revenue officers. This would have gone into the House were consumed in a struggle to turn the whole U"Charles Kinsey, *4.t"1F§ of Banks—the bank of the southern and south-western States MASS. Robert McClellan,||! Treasury, or the prevention of such an institution—the re­ the pockets of individuals, to be sure ; and so goes all that transaction into a political electioneering engine, to blacken ID= Jonathan Mason, *t|| t*§ Cj^Bernard Smith, William Allen,* is our COTTON—a bank which has never yet suspended specie + John Linn.t Charles F. Mitchell, peal of the Tariff, or the prevention of its repeal. On the constitute the wealth of a nation. Here it would have been re­ payments.'''' all the individuals concerned in the tragedy on one side, and [LFHenry Shaw *t||+tT§ Ely Moore,t§||! Elias Howell,*tt decision of these seemingly important questions, millions to whitewash those on the other. A bill to suppress as far PA. ceived, and here expended." " This sum divided among the Ezekiel Whitman. Win. H. Noble,||! Robert Mitchell,* and millions of dollars are supposed to depend. Public 2. We have the plan of Messrs. Fontaine and Prince, of as possible the practice of dueling among the members. R. I. CJ*-Henry Baldwin,*§ citizens of Norfolk, Willmington, Charleston, Savannah, 1 John Palmer,|| Wm Patterson,*t45 prosperity is expected to result from the adoption of the one, Mobile, who we believe are real merchants. They have actually passed the .senate and was referred to the duel ICF David Fullerton. James B. Mason, i Amasa J. Parker,||! David Spangler,*t45 or public ruin to follow in the train of the other. And th Mobjle and New Orleans, would have quieted many a dis­ Committee in the House. They did not report it back to the OHIO. issued a very long circular, advertised in the papers, pro­ 0*Samuel Eddv.cl£nS Win. Patterson, Benjamin Jones,t State Legislature think they have good reason to apprehend turbed bosom in the Irving reign of the.protective system. House till it was extorted from them, and never made the Philemon Beecher,t||4.t1T§cca3 posing to establish a [one] southern commission house in CT. Luther C. Peck, Win. Kennon,t|5 that if they should act in favor of emancipation, these pr, slightest effo:t even to call it up for consideration. It may John W. Campbell,tir§-Q;2 Savannah's portion of it, would have defrayed the whole ex­ Liverpool for the transaction of this "direct trade." They O-Samuel A. Foot,.^Q.2 Jeremiah McLene,t4t5 be taken up at the next Session, and feeble and inefficient as W H. HAKRiRON,*t||4tir§XD Zadoc Pratt,||! interests would be sacrificed. But will you—who are an penses of the government of Georgia for more than thirty Bellamy Storer,t have also numerous recommendations as to their " strict in­ it is, would at least have the good effect of bearing the ICJ^James Stevens. III. John H. Prentiss,||! abolitionist, be satisfied with such excuses ? By no means '. David Rnssel, John Thompson,+5 But why not ? That is the question. It is because yon years "" tegrity" and "good business qualifications." We submit solemn testimony of Congress against, a practice congenial N. Y. JohnM'Lean. *||j.tV§(a£a!2 Another effect [not cause] of the decline of the direct Mark H. Sibley, INDIANA—7. held it a first principle that no considerations of advantage it to our merchants to judge of the precise value of such a only to the moral code of slavery. Daniel Cruger, *m§ *4, t6, 42, t2, 55, ||1, trade, is the loss of the profits which have occurred to the 1 James B. Spencer,|| or of disadvantage, of profit or loss, of expediency on-of inex­ letter in a mercantile point of view. They, however, insist All the other classes of these Petitions were, without IQ- - Henry Meigs, Rat liff Boon, t+t§||! NORTHERN SENATORS. Wm. Taylor,t+t$||! pediency, should deter any moral agent, a single moment, northern merchants, on the $2,500,000,000 which the Com­ being read or considered, laid, on the table. Those relating George H. Dunn, upon it that the moving power, the Hercules who is to lift Those with this mark, (. C^) voted, March 2, 1820, for Obadiah Titus,||! from DOING RIGHT. Hence it is that you abhor the mittee assume as the value of the goods paid for by " south­ directly to slavery or the slave trade, by the sweeping Re­ John Ewing, the great wheel, is in the Banks. The following extracts striking out the clause prohibiting the extension of slavery in Henry Vail,||! truckling temper, the time-serving policy, and the craven spirit solutions of 18th January and 21st December. All the rest William Graham, ern industry." from their circular are recommended to the consideration of by separate motions of individual members. To this uni­ Missouri. Carried, yeas 27, nays 15. Abraham Vanderveer,! of your State Legislators ! You are astonished that they do William Herod, " How were these goods brought to this country and dis­ versal extinction of the constituent voice, the only exception Those with this mark, (*) voted against a clause for re­Samuel Barton,t|t§ not understand that considerations of advantage or disadvan­ the " Board of Trade." James Rariden, tributed 1 The northern merchant has come hither and has been enjoyed by the Petitioners against the admission of stricting slavery to the east side of the 17th or 94th degree Abraham Bockee,t4j.§ tage, in some form, constitute the very essence of all the " In the first place, we contend that it is the interest of the Albert S. White, bouaht from the southern planter produce of equal value Texas, and they only by inadvertence ; as was affirmed by of W. longitude. If that resolution had passed, slavery MathiasJ. Bovee,T4.§ temptations, by means of which Satan entices many human South to establish a Direct Trade with Europe. The whole abating from the price all the expenses, direct and incidental, the Chairman 'of the Committee on Foreign Affairs—or would still have had full sweep through nearly the whole of John W. Brown,t.|.t§ beings from the path of plain duty. South is Waking up, and viewing the great importance of it. John Carr,*t5 of transportation. He has insured them in northern offices rather only because four State Legislatures of the South, the present state of Arkansas. By rejecting it, Congress G. H. Chapin,t.|.t§ Come then ! " Thou that sayest a man should not steal, Is not the South now, and has she not always been under pe­ E. A. Hannegan,*t5 and shipped them abroad in his own vessels—exchanged had passed Resolutions, earnestly urging the annexation, on deliberately threw open to the monster the immense unin­ dost thou steal 1 Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou com­ cuniary and mercantile vassalage to the North! It cannot John Cramer,*t4t§ George L. Kinnard,*t| their at a small profit for foreign merchandise—brought it the express ground of fortifying the peculiar Institutions ofhabite d territory from the Mississippi to Mexico. Ulysses F. Doubleday,tit§ mit sacriliegel" Thou that sayest a man should not bow be denied Is it desirable that she should continue in the Amos Lane,*tt5 home—paid one-fourth of its value to the government- the South and strengthening the feeble knees of slavery. The whole Illinois delegation voted for slavery on their down to expediency, dost thou worship at the shrine of expe­ same state,or shall she break her bonds ? The problem-for Valentine Effner,t§ JohnW. Davis,t§ added that amount and all the expensess of importation, and It was this interposition of State Legislatures thirsting for own borders. Mobs killing free citizens and destroying free diency ? r J- • *• the South to solve is, what measures can be adopted, that Dudley Farlin,t4.t§ ILLINOIS—3. fifteen to twenty percent, for his profits, to the price, and ex­ Texas, which burst open the doors of discussion upon the presses have been theirfit reward . James Noble has been You have an opportunity to vote in favor of emancipation, will most likely free her from the vassalage to which we have Win. "K. Fuller,*t+t§ *1, t3, +3,t2, 53, ||3, !2. posed it for sale. The southern merchant has now gone to him; blessings of slavery, so long and so pertinaciously bolted Governor of Indiana. by voting for a legislator, who you know will vote in favor of alluded, and promote and encourage a Direct 1 rade with R. H. Gillet,*t+t Zadoc Casey,t4t5l|! lingered the summer through with him at a heavy expense- and barred by northern labor and southern capital, against all N. H. PA. immediate emancipation. The opportunity is as real a one Nicoll Halsey,* Wm. L. May,*t+§ll bought a of "^ of these goods, reshipped them in northern Europe 1 In order properly to apply the remedy, we must Walter Lowrie,* freedom of debate in the Representative Hall of the Ameri­ O"John F. Parrot.* S. G. Hathaway,* A. W. Snyder,||! as though you held a seat yourself, in the national or state ports—added twenty-five per cent, more ascertain the cause of the disease. Why then has the trade 11. I. Jonathan Roberts.* councils. You are, in fact, the legislator yourself. Your of the South, both export and imptrt, been carried on through can people. Abel Huntington*t4t§ 'Cjfejgxpenses *pd profits—and sold them The Petitions, Memorials, Remonstrances and lxesoln^^x^^Wing . Hunter. IND. Gerrit Y. Lansing,*t4_t§ John Reynolds,tl-t5 representative is only vour agent, your servant, your decree m ( .Ii., Northern cties ! Because, in mercantile pursuits,-there •*•' Tr3fc i "uumy> in ''' his tions of State Legislatures, concerning the annexation at this CT. James Noble,* JTJ\ Gideon Lee.t4.t5 MICHIGAN—1. carrier. Will you not vctefor emancipation while the oppor­ is aiu! aiwavs has been an evident want of •f^^T™*^ .izens, i >.-thern Texas to the United States, were ic-fcuod to tw<, C^™ '"' nncs L man. Wall.,. T„j,Inr * Joshua Lee,4t5 tunity presents 1 Will you do it INOW 1 '' . dual capital at the South to control our Trade Ihe \mth ( an Isaac E. Crary,! tsv%av^n in discnargiiMcichants jpe made of Foreign Affairs ; a Committee, with the exception ol iVi VT. Sywhen B. Leonard,tit5 « Why —as to that you have always been a good friend has had the capital, and the wisdom to apply it for hei own n planter supplies nearly members0 out of nine, which could not have been better ID'Ninian Edwards,* Wm. A Abijah Mann, Jr./- 14.+S 62. of the slave. At any rate you have determined not to vote benefit, and to obtain the use of her capital, we have had to Palmer.* Total, * 37, t 82, + 61, t 63, §70, II 52, ! all the foreign goods of this country, gets his port.on of them suited for Texian purposes, if in their appointment the JT7Jesse B. Thomas.*J^J. against Mm." , , . pay tribute to her. All monied operations, converge to Wall- burdened with every expense that the government, merchant, Tennessee Speaker had taken the nomination of them from NORTHERN SENATORS. That is not 'V *an. I daLnot ask you whether you street, until New-York has become the London of America. III. insurer, seaman, wharfinger, drayman, boatman, and wag­ the Tennessee President of Texas. werenl'ucJuB% TreasurW^a^^'^ft^ Vyl/m-ShivwniiM How can the evil be remedied 1 By our Banks They have On the 6th of January, 1829, Charles Miner, of Pa., sub­ Their term of office, (which continue six years,) expire oner can pile noon them. His burdens of course, are At the heel of the Session this Committee, without ever not help relieve hfttT. TVill you vote for nflK—rffrTCTTo will the means, but have misapplied them. Instead ot taKing mitted the following resolution to the H. R., accompanied March 3, in the years opposite their names. The marks needlessly increased in landing the goods at northern ports, looking into one of the Resolutions, Petitions, Memorials vote for his emancipation 1* _ Bills on Europe against the shipments of Cotton, they have with a preamble, describing " enormities startling enough to signify as follows : and Remonstrances referred to them on this transcendently and bringing them thence to southern markets. Lvery item preferred to take paper much more insecure, drawn on> agents * Mar. 10, 1836. Voted to lay Anti-Slavery petitions on You scruple ! You hesitate ! What is the matter T in the endless catalogue of charges, except the government important subject, turned them back upon the House, to lay wake the dead." «*«; r .u WThy, he does not belong to yoir political party ! of European Houses, located principally in New-York to the table. Carried, 24 to 20. du^s mavue considered a voluntary tribute from the c tizens them all again upon the tabje. Resolved, " That the Committee [on D. C] be further And what if he does not ? Yo 1 admit he is a good man, and instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law t Mar 1 1837 Voted in favor of recognizing the independ­ of the South to their brethren of the North ; for they would draw at. , , i, nf This purpose was however disappointed. 1 he slaveholders would vote for emancipation ; and your party have not nomi­ " Our Banks can furnish all the means to purchase all ot for the gradual abolition of slavery within the District, in ence of Texas. Carried, 23 to 19. March 2 Mr. Rug- all have gone to our own people, had we done our own ex­ of South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama deserted the nated such a man. You say, yourself, that you cannot con­ our Cotton, and they should do it, If they do not do it, Nor­ such manner that the interest of no individual shall be in­ gles, of Maine, moved to reconsider. Lost, 24 to 24. porting and importing." standard of the gag—the majority of the House refused to scientiously vote for the candidate of your own party because thern Banks will. If our Banks would, as they can do, con­ Among the indirect, consequential losses, "to which take the Previous Question—refused to lay the whole sub­ jured thereby:" . . ., . 4 Dec. 18, 1837. Voted to lay on the table the question of he is a pro-slavery man. How can you conscientiously with­ trol all the funds arising from the sale of our Cotton in Eu­ The following northern men voted against considering this the South have been subjected by the decline of their foreign ject on the table—and when the Session closed, the Chair­ receiving Anti-Slavery petitions. Carried, 25 to 20. hold vour rote for this candidate, who is the only friend of rope, could they not in a great measu.e, if not entirely, con­ resolution. Maine, James W. Ripley, N. H, Jonathan Har­ man and the slaveholding portion of the Committee, were t Jan 6, 1838. Voted for Calhoun's third resolution, that emancipation nominated, that is, the only one in a situation trade," the committee mention one whose connection with the trol the exchanges of the country 1 We think they could. vey, N. Y., Samuel Chase, Pa. George Kremer, Daniel H. as tenacious of the freedom of debate, and as anxious for the general government is bound " to give increased sta­ to do the slave any good? You say he is not of your politi­ case in hand seems to us to be rather far-fetched ; viz. the " It is alone in the power of the Banks to remedy the evil Miller, and John Mitchell, Ohio, William Stanberry t Rolm their right of reply as the truest believer in the self-evident bility and security to the domestic institutions of the cal party. What does that mean ? Does it mean that the greater ability of the North to loan money to the national They drive impc rters of merchandise from our cities, by not C. Mallory of Vt., voted against the adoption of the resolu­ truths of the Declaration of Independence. states." Carried, 31 to 11. points on which you differ are great moral subjects, like that discounting the notes they receive from Planters and Mer­ government. Of the 422 millions of dollars that have been TEX\S will therefore again be the order of the day at the tion. Jan 9 1838. Voted for Calhoun's fourth resolution, that of slavery and emancipation ? chants, in the interior, for supplies. They, therefore, can­ paid by the United States Government on account of the ensuincr Session of Congress-arid it is important that the systematic attacks on slavery are " a violation of solemn Oh no That is not pretended. You own him, perhaps, not afford to sell Goods on as favorable terms as Northern POLITICAL REGISTER-TWENTY-FIFTH CON­ national debt, the proportion paid in States North of the Po­ Petitioners against the annexation of that Republic to this obligations, moral and religious." Carried, 34 to 5. as a Christian brother, and are willing to sit down to the same tomac was to them South of it as 165 to 11 ! And the com­'"^Amerfwn Houses (as they are called) in England have Union, who have honored me with the charge of their Peti­ GRESS, &c |! Jan"lO. , 1838. Voted for Clay's resolution against the communion table with him. You never thought of impeach­ mittee ask, with amiable simplicity, "whence but from their interests identified with the North. Will they^ favor a tions, should be informed whether they were received and " By their fruits ye shall know them." Abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Carried, ing his moral or christian character, on account of his views presented, and what is their present condition 36 to 9. ,' . ... of political economy, though you could not hold fellowship their commerce did the northern States acquire the means of Direct Trade between the South and Europe! We judge In giving a catalogue of the northern members of the 25th L I purpose then, to send you for publication in your next IT Jan 10 1838. For Clay's resolution against abolition with a defender of slavery. You meet him at the monthly Well, what is to be done, in order to break up the Congress, we have carefully marked those, who by their loaning so largely to the government]" They overlook the fact channels ofc mTrade i , anJd direc.1: t*- the.Vwwum. int<-into» nenotwu onesnnp.fi/ ? "Am " e paper a list of all the Petitions, Memorials and Remonstran­ "in'any territory of the U.S." Carried, 33 to 9. concert, and vou mingle your prayers together with his, for votes have linked the gathering infamy of slavery to their that the loans connected with the debt of the revolution were rican Houses" must be built up in England, whose feelings ces against the annexation of Texas presented by me, at O" Jan 10 1838. Voted to lay on the table a resolution the emancipation of the enslaved. Your vote for him would own names. Freemen of the North, will you make their made when Virginia imported more goods then New York. and interests are identified with the South But after all, the'first Session of the present Congress, with the names of fnroposod' by Mr. Smith, of Indiana,) in favor of FREE­ be a vote for emancipation. Why will you not give it 7 guilt and infamy your own by re-electing them 1 They omit also to consider that the North acquired its superior unless the Banks come to the aid of individual enterprise, the first aicrner, and the number of the signers of each Peti­ DOM OF SPEECH, and of THE PRESS, and the "Why, he don't belong to our political party . tion and of the State from which they respectively came— ability to loan to the government by the very same means nothina can-nothing will be gained by our effoits at eman­ RIGHT OF PETITION. Carried, 23 to 21. Well Wherein do your parties differ 1 . cipation. We shall continue bound, hand and foot, to the to b'e followed by a similar list of the Petitions to the same * While he professes to believe that slavery is " a curse to the - j . 16, 1838. Voted to lay on the table the Vermont "Why one is in favor of a National Bank, and the other is with which it engrossed the foreign trade of the South—the / TI an North, as heretofore." effect presented by me at the winter Session. master, and a grievous wrong to the slaves-See Colonization resolutions. Lost, 12 to 26. against it. One is in favor of the Sub-Treasury, and the fact which the committee mention indeed in another connec­ These petitions, etc., form but a small portion of those other is against it. One is in favor of the Tariff, and the Truly, we hope our brethren of the South will be " eman­ Speech made in Kentucky, in 1836. ' March 21, 1838. Voted against considering Morris s re­ *The supposition is, of course, that the candidate is of good moral tion, but without seeming to be at all aware that it contains which I have at the same time presented, touching the aboli­ solutions proposing an inquiry in reference to the slave other is against it." . cipated" somehow or other. We are the advocates of uni­ t Two from Maryland and one each from Del., Va. and N. C, character Yor no freeman should votefor an y other , T the key to the whole mystery—" the industry, ENTERPRISE tion of slavery and the prohibition of the traffic in slaves. trade with Texas. Lost, 31 to 8. And this then, is the whole difficulty in the case ! It versal emancipation. We even go for SELF-EMAN­ voted for considering. and ECONOMY of our northern brethren." But this is The utter impossibility of answering all or even a hrge por- 1 seems you canH vote for emancipation, for fear it would en- CIPATION, in all case* where it can be done peacefully tion of the letters which I have received with these Petitions, » mentioned by the committee in another connection altogether,