The Wilmot Proviso

We are pleased to find a vory goneral response to ihis movement from the work? ing clnsae? of the Northern, Demooracy. The Mo.iroe (Mich.) Advocate hos a well vri:ten tiriicle on the subject from a corresponden!, fully sustair.ing Mr, Preston. King, atid rebuking thedoughfncos of our own Legislatura. Wc extract a sentence or two: "The Domocracy of tho Norih Is ar? otised, its rnarch is onward, and the great States of New York and Pennsylvnia lead in the vnn and beckon Michigan to füllow; hut she seems not to undestand ! She w behind the agq! The refusal of the present Lcgislature to dUcountenance the furtlier advanne of Slavery, shows most evidenily thai instcad of belonging to ihe Progressive Democracy, our Demncracy fiietnbersare reully "progressing backwards." The voire of King, and Grover, and Potit, nnd Wilmot, and othors no less distinguished in thedenmcratic raiks,has lingeredin the bn4ezo,and its sound has not ypt reachod thoir ears. Thai men should be found in sucli a time as this, opposing a restriolion so salulary as the one reforred to,wassoarce to be expec'ed! Must we stil) be taunted by the Federalists of our times, and sse tha fingars of scorn pointed at the Dough thnt still odherrs to our faces? The most formidable opposition to the further advancp of Slavory, is not with the whigs in Congress or out of it, but with thetrue democrats who have nlways proved themselves failhful to the party and toliberty; and those of our State Legislaturp, whose lack of di.se retiun bas led them to adopt a different coörse of nction wijl soon find they are off the track, and thatthe signs ol the times are nt varianco with thnt part of their political creed." A full meeting of the Democracy of Wayno County, New York, fully sanctionrd King's course. Among the resolutioïis adopt cd were the following: Resolved, That it is our irrevocable determination not to concent to the est.-iblish ment or allovvance of involuntary servitude, except for crimes, in any ncw territory of the Union, howover acquired; and we will use all profier exertions to aid in estoblising this great principie of human liberty, as tlje sottled poiicy af our government. Resolved, That wo repoct the dignity of labor, and in the name of the farmer, mechanic, and laborer, we proiest against its degredation - we will never give our consent that a barriershall be drawn around any ncw territory to be addcd to our Union, impa-ssible by us, except upon the condition that wc and our children ghall 13 forced to hold slaves, or stand on the same leve! with them. Wc therefore hail the introduction of the "Wilmot proviso," as the "white mnn's proviso," - and we will take our stand upon it noto, and at nll tim.es, whenever free territory is to be acquired by thö blood or treasure of our cilizens." We notice that Messrs. Hunt & Mc Clelland of this State, vOted for the Wilmot Proviso, whiJe Chipmnn,as was to be expected, voted against jt. Mr. McClelland made some remarks upon it, of which wo find the tho following aoiice in the Era: Mr. McClelland then addressed the 2ommitee, He contended that the projibition of slavery from torritory, wlien ncquired, was constitutional; and that it had been the invariable prnctice of the Government to prohibit it. He dpsigned to show, in tho next place, that the ordi nance ol 1787, from that time to the present, had been considcred constitutional ;thnt it liad boen so recognised by MrMadison; that it had been ratified by Congress and sanctioucd by various judicial decisions, and, finnlly, he would state tho reasons which impelled hirn to vote for the Wil mot proviso. The proviso, as amended, is in tlie following words: .. "IVovided, further, That there ahall be ncither slavery nor involuntary servitudc in any territory on tho continent of America which ühall hcreafter be acquircd by or annexed to tho Uniied Sutes by viriue of this nppropriation, or n any otlier manner uhatever, except for crimes whereof the party shall hiive been duly convicied; Provided, ahvays, that evcry person escaping into such lerritory from whom labor or service is lawfully claimod in any one of the Uniied Stntessuch fugitive may be lavlil)y claimed, and convcyed out of said tcrritory to ihe person claiming lus or her lab. ir or service." That our readers mny seehovv completely party unes were anttihilated on this question, we give ihe yens and nnys on the final passage of the bill a.t length from ihe New York Oom, Advertiser, the Whigs boing distinguishod hy italics. Y E AS - (Tor the Proviso. ) Mainr- Dunlop, Harrlh, McUrate, Sawtellc, Scammin, Scvcrancc, Williams; 7, Nkw HAMPsniRE--Johnson, Moulton, Norris; 3. Massachüsbtts-.4 dams, Abboll, Ashrnün, GrinncH, Hae, Hudson, King, Rockwell, Tiampsion, Winthro'p; 10. Kiioqe IgLANu- Arnoïd, Cranslon; 2. Connkcticut - Dixon, Iiuèbtrd,Rock well, Snu'h; 4. Veumoxt - CollawcriDillinghamlFooil Marsh; 4 New Vork - Anderson, Benton,Cnmpbell, Carrol!, Collin?, Culvert DoMatt, Ellsworlh, Goodyear, Gordon, Grover, Holmes, Mough, Ilungcrford, Hunt,Jon-. kins, King, Lawrence, Ltetcis, Maclxiy, Miller, Mosclcy,N evin, Llalhbun, Riplcy, Russell, Seaman, Smiththoaoi), White, Wood, WoodruiT,Woodwoptl 33. Nkw Jersey - Ed.sall, Hampion, Rur.lc, Sykes, Wrighti 5. Pennsylvama - nianchard, Bujingion, Campbell, Darragh, Ewing, Garvin. Ingcrsoll, Levin, Mcllvaine, Pollock, Ramsay, Ritter, Slctcart, Slrohm, Wilmot, Yost; 16. DskAWARE - Hoiisfanj 1, Onio - Brinkerhofl Cummins, Dclano, Faran, Fries, Giddings, J[rpcr, Mc. Dowell, Perrill, Root, SchcJick, Stuikwoather, Thu.rm.qn, Tilden, Vancc, Vin ton; 1G. LsniAKA--Calhcart, Ilonley, Kpti-7 nedy, McGaughy%Vcnht T, Smith, C. W. Smith; 7. Illinois - Henry, Hoge, Wenlworth; 3. Michigan - Hunt, McClelland; 2. Total 115; (114 from Free; 1, Houston of DeluwarCjfrom a Slave State. ) N AYS- '-(Against the Proviso) New YonK=Sirong; 1. Pexnsylvanïa Blnck, Broadhead, Erdman.Foster, Ingergoll, MoCieanj 5. Omo - Cunningliam, Morris, Parish, Sawyer, St. John; 5. IsniANA--Owen, Wiek; 2. Illinois - Douglass,Ficklin, Mc Clernand; 3. MiciiiGAN-Chipmanj 1. Marylanp- Chfipman, Ligon, Long, Perrv, Virginia - Atkinson,Bayly. Bedinger, Brown, Chopm.-in, Dromgpole, Hop-kin?, Ilubard, Ilijntpr, Johnson, Leake, McDowell, Pendlolon, Seddon, Tread way: 15. Nouth Carolina - Baringer,Briggs, Clarke, Daniel, Dobbin, Dockery, Graham McKay, Reid; 9. South Carolina - Black, Inrt,Holme?, Rhett, Sim-, Simpson, Woodward; 7. Georgia - Cobb, Haralson, Jones, King,Lumi)kintfSlcphens, Too;n5, Towns; 8. Alabama - Bowden, Chnpman, Cottrell, D&rgQ,n,HUHard, Houston,Payne;7. Missiaaii'pi- Adams, Ellet, Roberts, Thompson: 4. Floripa- Brockcnbrough; }. Louisiana - Marmanson, La Sere, Morse, Thibodcaux; 4. Kentucky - BellJSoyáiDaviSiGridcr, Martin, Mcllenryriomasson, Tibbatts, Trumbo, Young. 10. Tennbssee - Brown, Chase, Cocke, Crozier, Cullom, Ewing, Gentry, Johnson, Jones, Martin, Stantonj 11. Missouri- rBowlin, McDaniel, Phelps, Rejfe, Sims; 5. Arkansas - Netvton; 1, Tr.as- Kaufman, Pülsbury; 2. Total- 106. 18 from Free, 83 from Slave States. ABSENT, OR DID NOT VOTE. Pennsylvrnia - Leib, Thompson; 2. Maryland - Constable. Giles; 2. Iowa - Hastings, Lefiler; 2. In-Jj'ana - Davis, (Speaker) 1. Smhhj l. Total 8. It will be seen that every member from New York except ono voted for the Proviso. Every man from the Slave States voted ngainst it,except J. W. Houston of Delaware. The 18 from the Free Sta'es who voted against tho Proviso were all Democrats, Twenty two Whigs, it will be &een, voted against the proviso, and in effectfor %he extensión of Slavery. So much for the more favorable pnrty. The six New England Statea, it will bc observed rere cntirely unanimous on. the question.