The Star Of The North

Pennsylvania Legislature.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1862.

The House was called to order at eleven o'clock A.M.

The Slavery Question.

Mr. TATE, (of Columbia,) offered the following:

Resolved, That while the great State of Pennsylvania, ever loyal to the Union and Constitution, is in favor of sustaining the National administration in a vigorous prosecution of the war upon the principles enunciated in the Congressional platform, and for that purpose, has furnished more men and money, according to her means, than any other State in the Union, she is not in favor of seeing her Senators and Representatives in Congress, wasting precious time in advocating the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of the negro or any other measure, in violation of the Constitution.

On the passage of the resolution,

A motion was made by Mr. SMITH, (Philadelphia,) that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.

On Mr. Smith's motion the yeas and nays were required by Mr. GASKILL and Mr. JOSEPHS, and were as follows, viz:

Yeas—Messrs. Abbott, Alexander, Armstrong, Banks, Barron, Bates, Beaver, Beebe, Bigham, Blanchard, Bliss, Brown, (Mercer,) Chatham, Cochran, Dennis, Dougherty, Elliott, Fox, Freeland, Gamble, Grant, Gross, Hall, Happer, Henry, Hotter, Hutchman, Kennedy, Lehman, Moore, Myers, Pershing, Ritter, Ross, (Luzerne,) Ross, (Mifflin,) Russell, Shrock, Scott, Sellers, Shannon, Smith, (Chester,) Smith, (Philadelphia,) Strang, Tracy, Twitchell, Vincent, Wakefield, Warner, Wildey, Winley, Windle, Worley and Rowe, Speaker—53.

Nays—Messrs. Boileau, Brown, (Northumberland,) Caldwell, Craig, Crane, Delone, Divin, Donley, (Greene,) Donnelly, (Philadelphia,) Duffield, Early, Gaskill, Graham, Greenbank, Hess, Hoover, Hopkins, (Philadelphia,) Hopkins, (Washington,) Josephs, Kaine, Kline, Labar, Lichtenwallner, M'Colloch, M'Makin, M'Manus, Neiman, Peters, Potteiger, Quigley, Ramsey, Rex, Rhoads, Rowland, Ryan, Tate, Thompson, Tuton, Weidner, Welf and Zeigler—41.

The no party republican-union-party, unwilling to show their hand upon the Nigger, gladly buried the above resolution in the tombs of the Committee on Federal Relations. That dodge won't do, gentlemen "Unionsavers." The people want to know who are the loyal citizens of Pennsylvania.