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Show , 330 SLA VEB.Y AGI'r A'riON. AIJraham McClclla.n<l, Charles .1\feClure, Isaac .McKim H.ic;ltard n. Menefee, Ita 1'1 ·s P. I\ I Creer, William Mont~ gomery, Bly .1\1oor<', \Vm. . 1\lurgan, amucl vV. Monis Henry A . .1\[ultlenberg, John L . ~lunay, \tVm. II. NoLle' .John Pu.!Jner, Ama a. I. Park •r, J ohn l\tl. Patton, Lemuci Pa.) ntcr, I san· S. Pen11yha ker, David Petri kin, Lancclot Ph ·Ips, Arnold Plum r, Zat1ock Prntl, John 11. Prentiss, I 111 tIter ltei ly, Abraham Jtcnc!ter, John H obcrtson, iamucl 'r. St\ wyer, Au gus! inc l L heppcrd, Charles h ·pard, l%cnczcr ,J. '11tic1Lls, .MaLLhias heplor, Pnt~~eis 0. J . tllith, Aclurn \V. nydcr, 'Vm. vV. outh(r:tLe, tln.m 'S B. j>CilCCl', ]~tl-ward '1Lanly, Archibald tuart, vYm. Lon, J ohn 'l'alia. ferro, \Vm. Taylor, Obadiah 'ritus, l:-;aae Tou<·c·y, IIopkius L. 'rum y, \Joseph H. Underwood, llcnry Vail, David D. Wagner, 'l\tylor 1Vebster, J o:eph 1V eckR, Albert . 'Vhitc I .John vVhite, Thomas .J. \VhiLil •scy, Lewis vYilliams I Sherrod Williams, Jarcu W. vVilliarns, J o ·eph L. 'Vi!Jiams ChrisL'r JI. '\ViJliams, llenry A. WiHe, Archibald Yell. I ~rhe Nays were : Me srs. John Quincy Adams, James Alexa.ndeJ', J1 ·., lfcmnn Allen, J oun \V . .Allen, J. Banker Aycrigg, Wm. l'" y Bond, Nathaniel 13. Bord 11, GrOJ'<rc N Hri()·crs Wrn l • bb' / . B. Calhoutl, Charles D. CofTin, H.obcrL B. Crau, ton, Calch Cu~hing, Bdward Darlington, 'rlwmns Davee, El1wo.l'd Davies, Alexander Duncan, 0 ·orge II. Dnnn, Ocol'ge Eva11~, lioraee E \'erctt, John Ewing·, I saac I~, letcher, Millarcll~ illmore, IIenry A. Foster, Pat ri ·k G. Goods, Gcorrro Grenn 11, Jr., Elisha Ilalcy, lliland Hall, Alexander Harper, Wm. S. lin ·ting., Thomas lienry, \Vm. Uct'oc1, Samuel Ingham, Levi Lincoln, R.i<'hanl P. ~1n.rvin, am. son Mn.. on, Jolin P. B. Maxwell, Tho .. M. T. McKcnnnn, Matthias Moni~, Cal vary ~f orris, Charles N a.ylor, J osrph C. N oycs, Charles Og·l e, W m. PnrnH•tt tcr, 'Vm. Patter on, Lnt11er C. Peck, Stephen C, Phillips, navid Potts, Jr., James Rariden, J oscpb P. 1\.andol ph, J uhn !teed, ~J osepb SLAVBHY AGI'l,A'l'ION. Ridgway, David Ru S<' ll, ~nnicl hcfTcr, Mnrk, ~.I.. Sibll'Y· Wm. 1 Jn.d ', Chn.rlc~ C. Lrn.tto n, J oseph L. li!Itngltnst., Qeo. vV. 'l'ola.nd, Blisha. \Vhi tllcsey, 'riJOmas J OllCl:i Yorke. 'rltis waH one of the most important votes ever del ivcr<'cl in the House. U pou its issue dep •nd •d Lite quiet of tho House on one hand, or on lhc olh ·r, I he renewal, and perpetuation of Lhc sc;ene:-; of the da.y ~ > •l'on'-?lldi ~ tg in brenkinrr up nll deliberation, and all rmtronnl lcp;tsla.LtOil. lL wu.s successful, n11d tltaL criti cal st 'P being safely over, the pa:snge of the rcsululion wn: .·e ·urcd-Lh · free ital · frieudly vote being itself' stdlicicnL lo carry it: but although the pns ·uge of the rc ·oluLion was secured, ycL resistance to it contiuued. 'l'hus was ,· tiflcd, and in fu tu re prevented in the llousr, the inflammatory clcl)a.Lcs on these disluruiug petitions. It was the great sc:sion of th ·ir prcsenLu.Liou-being offereu l> hun<.lred ·,and signed by hundreds of lhousa.ncls of pers~ m;-many or them women, who forgoL Llte ir ·ex and their duLic , to mingle in . uch inflammatory work; some of them I • clergymen, who forgot their rni:sion of peace, to sLtr up sLrife among those who should be br ·tltren. Of the pertinacious 63, who backed Mr. Slade LhroughonL, lhe most notable ·were :Mr. AdamH, who hnd b ·en Prcsi<.lent of the United Stntes-:Mr. l.,illrn ore, who became so-and Mr. Caleb Cushing, who eventually became as r •atly to abolish all impediments to the general di(l'u ·ion of slavery, as he then was to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. It was a porteu Lou s con tesL. The motion of Mr. Slade was not for nn inquiry into the expe<.licncy of abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia (a motion in it elf , ufficicutly inflrunmat?ry), buL to get the eommnnu of the IIou ~ • to l>ring iu a brll for that purpose- which would be a decision or the question. His molion fuilc(l. ~Phc storm subsided; and very few of the free State mcmucr ' who had sLaked Lhclll~elvcs on |