The Public Record and Past History of John Bell Edw´d Everett (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Public Record and Past History of John Bell Edw´d Everett The only mode, therefore, for the citizen to learn the views of these candidates is to refer to their past history connected with the public service, to which they are invited. To the record, then, let us go. As the slavery question is the paramount issue in this canvass, let us first taka up the record of Mr. Bell in reference to it, before proceeding to other matters. John Bell On Abolition Petitions. Up to the23d Congress, Mr. Bell had been the firm friend and supporter of Gen eral Jackson. He represented the district in which General Jackson lived in Tennessee, and the General knew him well. Up to this time he had voted uniformly with his party against the agitation of the slavery question in Congress through the presentation of Abolition petitions. But after abandoning General Jackson, and contorting with the Abolitionists, Federalists, and disappointed Democrats, in order to reach the Speakers chair, all of which will be more fully explained hereafter, we find him abandoning, by degrees, his opposition to the Abolitionists, and at last voting with them, and receiving their plaudits. During the 24 th Congress, the Abolitionists and Federalists of New England first conceived the idea of annoying Congress by the presentation of large batches of Abolition petitions, praying for the abolition of slavery in the States, and in the Dstrict of Columbia. Mr. John Q.Adams, of Massachusetts, and Mr Slade, of Vermont, were their chosen mouth-pieces. These gentlemen would present these petitions, and then deliver long harangues upon them. To stop this agitation and wase of the public time, it was usual to lay these resolutions on the table. Accordingly, on the 18 th of December, 1835, when a petition for the immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia was presented, a motion was made to lay it on the table. Mr. Bell voted in the negative with Messrs. Adams, Sladt, Co. (See page 34.) Again, on the 21 st of December, when a similar petition was presented, and a motion made to lay it on the table, which was carried by ayes 140, noes 76, we find Mr. Bell voting with Adams, Slade Co., against the motion. (Page39) The frequency of the presentation of these petitions, and the time wasted in their discussion, to the great detriment of the public interest, called for some decisive action on the part of the House. Consequently, Mr. Owens, of Georgia, moved to suspend the rules, in order to introduce the following resolutions: wResolved, That in the opinion of this Houso, the question of the abolition of slavery int lio District of Columbia ought not to bo entertained by Congress. And he it further resolved, That in case any petition praying the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia be hereafter presented, it is the deliberate opinion of this House that the same ought to be laid upon the table without reading. Mr Bell voted with Adams, Slade, Co., and defeated the motion to suspend the rules, two thirds being necessary for that purpose. (Page 39.) In order to dispose of this matter, Mr. Pinckney, of South Carolina, moved a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee, with instructions to report, that Congress possesses no constitutional power to interfere in aDy way with slavery in any of the States of this Confederacy; and that in the opinion of this House, Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia, because it would be a violation of the public faith, unwise, impolitic, and dangerous to the Union. On the motion to suspend the rules for the purpose of offering this resolution, the yeas were 135, noes 65. Mr. Bell voted in the negative. He also voted against ordering the main question to be put so as to bring the House to a vote on tho resolution 33 but he yet lacked the nerve to vote againsfc them. Pages.170.
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