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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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The U.S. Senate adopted Mr. Soule's amendment to the compromise bill by a large majority (38-12), stipulating that new territories admitted as states would enter the Union with or without slavery as per their constitutions. The vote details list the yeas and nays.
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One might hope from a decision on Monday that the Senate was almost in sight of land. This decision was the adoption, by a large majority, of Mr. Soule's amendment to the compromise bill, stipulating "that when the new Territories shall be admitted as States they shall be received into the Union with or without slavery as their Constitutions may prescribe at the time of their admission." How much may be inferred from the strong support which this provision received, we cannot undertake positively to say, but we presume that its adoption has not only gained friends for the bill, but promises an earlier disposition of the whole subject in the Senate than we could have before ventured to anticipate. The following are the yeas and nays upon Mr. Soule's amendment.
YEAS—Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Benton, Berrien, Bright, Butler, Cass, Clay, Clemens, Cooper, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge of Iowa, Douglas, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King, Mason, Morton, Norris, Pearce, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Shields, Soule, Spruance, Sturgeon, Turner, Underwood, Wales, Webster, Whitcomb, and Yulee—38
NAYS—Messrs. Baldwin, Chase, Clarke, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge of Wisconsin, Greene, Hale, Miller, Smith, Upham, and Walker—12.
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adopted by a vote of 38 yeas to 12 nays.
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The Senate adopted Mr. Soule's amendment to the compromise bill, which stipulates that new territories admitted as states shall be received into the Union with or without slavery as their constitutions prescribe at the time of admission. The amendment received strong support, gaining friends for the bill and promising earlier disposition of the subject.