very as they chose. The vote was a strict slavery very vote-North and South-and wholly independcrat and whig consideration; and the vote stood 33

3 nays.

ollowing day ten senators presented to the Senate a cest against this vote, for no reason but that in their ngress should impose slavery on that State against will of the people.

these ten fanatics occupied 144 days, during the his question, in support of this impudent and infa

sition.

en, there are 10 against 43 who voted-8 of the fusing to protest-who attempt to stigmatize a vote , that is to say, three and three-tenths to one. ranscendent, impudent, and brutal violation of peregislative decorum was never perpetrated.

ew that the Senate would refuse to record their treasonable missile, and it was only made to gratify nant depravities, and to court the brutal passions of driving constituents.

less, heartless, impudent demagogues profane their and their oaths of office, and lack the courage to do force that which they would accomplish by trick They would trample down by violence all law, majorities, and ride rough-shod over the people, as ther rude and tyrannical aristocrats have done, under and pretexts, ever since the days of their eldest

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3 supposed to be of startling magnitude have been ed. The toleration of irritating and alarming diss been abolished.

s, for ages to come, the peace and security of our have been guarantied.

w be written down for solemn thought and perpetual hat, whatever may be the supposed or real sincerity nents of war and slavery, non-resistance, anti-tariff, mancipation, and however these doctrines may enter

1 these squads and ractions united their whole strengɩn r the popular name of free soil, with a distinguished cane, Mr. Van Buren, for chief magistrate, and at a propiseason, and the result has shown their utter insignificance. ut of a national vote of more than 2,892,000 they have ned up only 291,342 votes, less than nine to one hundred, almost a thousand to one hundred-a proportion of the e too small to be regarded, in morals, religion, or politics, party.

nd they have been recreant to themselves, and thus ford the respect they claim for their conscientious pretensions, n the city and county of Philadelphia, where there are certainly five or six thousand Quaker votes, who profess tionism as a part of their religious faith, there were polled his ticket but eight hundred and seventeen votes, and out ree hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and two votes, in Pennsylvania, they polled but eleven thousand hundred and sixty-three, about one to thirty, or three to hundred; and the same ridiculous discrepancies occurred ver the country.

11 these subjects have been fully before the people, and at time it is obvious that they care nothing about them; not that these and all other proper matters will receive their opriate and suitable legislative consideration, but that they now considered as too local and transitory to be made eleEs of constitutional and national policy.

or should these old saws be filed over again upon the pree that they and their advocates have not been understood, by books, pictures, plays, songs, and sermons in pulpits senates, by thousands of zealots, demagogues, and devout chers, they have been put forth and paraded over the whole for sixty years past, until it was thought that a test vote d show their advocates to be a party.

that now it is beyond doubt that, whether war, anti-tariff, soil, slavery, and abolitionism, be right or wrong, Christian agan, the masses do not care for them as party national tions one jot.

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scussed and examined, and calmly considered for a of years, as those in question have been, and are 1 upon, at a time distinctly favorable for their trial, majorities deny that they are of sufficient importstitute a cardinal rule of national action, it is as is unjust to contend that there is not in all this as ponderance of moral and mental as there is of nungth.

na minority should in future wholly abandon their Their political fraternity, under such circumstances, incerity of their motives in question, and justly exto the suspicion of selfish intentions.

considered turbulent, and become unpopular, and their own ability for usefulness.

such portions and fragments of communities can do ge is, not by abuse and scurrility to array themst the others, but, by appropriate remonstrance and mportunity, to appeal to the justice and wisdom of

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ails, they should be silent, unless the emergency provokes insurrection, and then they toss the copper victory.

ds, or association of squads referred to, have been fair test, to be ridiculously diminutive, without any pacities of increase or cohesion, and hereafter they Id as factions, and be classed with Joe Smith and ler, and their fanatic followers.

se passing presages of popular will, the South has e of just and wholesome rebuke..

o, have been most significantly admonished to be ind loyal.

uld retire from the rotunda of the Capitol, and no b the repose and character of the nation.

re question of slavery has everywhere, repeatedly, final sentence by the people, and their decree must ed to without a murmur.

ey will not, on the one hand, hereafter suffer negro

on to disturb the country.

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the other thow will

avedrivers desecrate free soll, will be crushed into the

e voice of prudence bids them hold in silence, within their imits, that which all civilized men but themselves have -n off as a loathsome serpent.

the last election, a desperate struggle was openly made e fifteen slaveholding States, with all their strength, in ort of General Taylor: out of the fifteen Slave States, seven s, to wit, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, , Arkansas, and Missouri, almost one-half, voted against and the fifteen Free States which sustained him did so her grounds.

this test of States, they stood twenty-two to eight, almost

to one.

eir popular vote, in all the Slave States, was four hundred hirty-five thousand three hundred and forty-five, against million eight hundred and seventy-two thousand and fiftymore than six to one.

e slaveholders got for General Taylor every vote from all es that ever could be polled as a slave vote. There was not ose States, perhaps, a single vote for General Cass that at ime could be drawn off for a slave candidate; and if a test vote were to be put, they certainly would not get, direct slave test, all the votes they have obtained for ral Taylor; for some who voted for him certainly voted other grounds than slavery, and it is not probable that lave party man voted against him.

is, therefore, certain that they can never poll, relatively, onger vote than they have just polled.

is vote numerically places them upon a footing but little r than the abolitionists, who polled almost three hundred and, and they a trifle over four hundred thousand; and cannot, in fact, poll more votes than the abolitionists can for this difference in their vote over the abolitionists was rsons, beyond all question, strongly urged by their admiof General Taylor's elevated rank and singular success

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been ridden down by parties

factions.

nd file on both sides were restless; a change was ound.

ines, it was believed, had been rubbed out, and the who could not see or appreciate the old points of llenged the leaders of the two great parties with a lict for spoils. General Taylor, in the summer of onversation with a number of persons, said: "That politician, and that he had not voted for a great years." This was published on the tenth day of 7, in a Philadelphia newspaper, and thereafter the country, without contradiction. It obtained nd was held to be a distinct expression of his averons and political leaders. It excited political imh were sympathized and responded to by all the from twenty to thirty-five years of age in the whole

the secret emotion, and cabalistic signal, and passpopularity; and by that declaration his political e telegraphed to the hearts of more than a million a freemen.

not a doubt entertained by all impartial and intelns of this having been the main cause of his tri

ccess.

e measures of his administration neutralized these ews, and in some measure, perhaps, disappointed the then entertained, it is doubtful whether the canave been repeated with a similar result.

the secret of his surprising popularity. He owed but suffered from, his political friends. His ridiination at Philadelphia was accomplished by the and gamblers for office, as was openly charged in ion by gentlemen of the most unquestioned respectit was never denied.

erous ballotings were waited for, and watched with itement and sordid anxiety peculiar to a lottery a game at faro.

ctness of the report upon the last ballot was quesvote was ventured upon its validity, as all parlia

ed and uggged required and the acgamble broka un