--> 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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