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--> Every Representative of a Slaveholding State, who voted at all, voted YEA. Their names are needless, and are omitted. NAYS _Maine._--Otis, Sawtelle, Stetson. _New Hampshire._--Amos Tuck. _Vermont._--Hebard, Henry, Meacham. _Massachusetts._--Allen, Duncan, Fowler, Mann. _Rhode Island._--Dixon, King. _Connecticut._--Butler, Booth, Waldo. _New York._--Alexander, Bennett, Briggs, Burrows, Gott, Gould, Halloway, Jackson, John A. King, Preston King, Matteson, McKissock, Nelson, Putnam, Rumsey, Sackett, Schermerhorn, Schoolcraft, Thurman, Underhill, Silvester. _New Jersey._--Hay, King. _Pennsylvania._--Calvin, Chandler, Dickey, Freedley, Hampton, Howe, Moore, Pitman, Reed, Stevens. _Ohio._--Cable, Carter, Campbell, M.B. Corwin, Crowell, Disney, Evans, Giddings, Hunter, Morris, Root, Vinton, Whittlesey, Wood. _Michigan._--Bingham, Sprague. _Indiana._--Fitch, Harlan, Julian, Robinson. _Illinois._--Baker, Wentworth. _Wisconsin._--Cole, Doty, Durkee. _California._--Wright. ABSENT, OR NOT VOTING. Andrews, Ashmun (Mass.), Bokee, Brooks, Butler, Casey, Cleveland (Conn.), Clarke, Conger, Duer, Gilmore, Goodenow, Grinnell (Mass.), Levin, Nes, Newell, Ogle, Olds, Peck, Phoenix, Potter, Reynolds, Risley, Rockwell (Mass.), Rose, Schenck, Spaulding, Strong, Sweetser, Thompson (Iowa), Van Dyke, White, Wilmot (Penn.) [33--all Northern men.] [Fifteen Southern Representatives did not vote.] DANIEL WEBSTER was not a member of the Senate when the vote on the Fugitive Slave Bill was taken. He had been made Secretary of State, a short time previous. All, however, will remember the powerful aid which he gave to the new compromise measures, and among them to the Fugitive Slave Bill, in his notorious Seventh of March Speech, [1850.] A few extracts from that Speech will show how heavily the responsibility of the existence of this law rests upon DANIEL WEBSTER:-- "I suppose there is to be found no injunction against that relation [Slavery] between man and man, in the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or of any of his Apostles."--_Webster's 7th March Speech_, (_Authorized Edition_,) p. 9. "One complaint of the South has, in my opinion, just foundation; and that is, that there has been found at the North, among
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