The name of the Northern men who voted for this cruel kidnapping law should not be forgotten.  Until they repent, and do works meet for repentance, let their names stand high and conspicuous on the roll of infamy.  Let the “slow-moving finger of scorn” point them out, when they walk among men, and the stings of shame, disappointment, and remorse continually visit them in secret, till they are forced to cry, “my punishment is greater than I can bear.”  As to the Southern men who voted for the law, they only appeared in their legitimate character of oppressors of the poor—­whom God will repay, in his own time.  The thousand-tongued voices of their brother’s blood cry against them from the ground.

The following is the vote, in the Senate, on the engrossment of the bill:—­

     Yeas,—­Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Bell, Berrien, Butler,
     Davis (of Mississippi), Dawson, A.C.  Dodge (of Iowa), Downs,
     Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones (of Iowa), King, Mangum, Mason,
     Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Spruance, Sturgeon (of
     Pennsylvania), Turney, Underwood, Wales, Yulee.—­27.

     NAYS.—­Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase, Cooper, Davis (of
     Massachusetts), Dayton, Henry Dodge (of Wisconsin), Greene,
     Smith, Upham, Walker, Winthrop.—­12.

Absent, or not voting.—­Benton, Borland, Bright of Indiana, Clarke of Rhode Island, Clay, Cass of Michigan, Clemens, Dickinson of New York, Douglas of Illinois, Ewing of Ohio, Felch of Michigan, Hale of New Hampshire, Hamlin of Maine, Miller of New Jersey, Morton, Norris of New Hampshire, Phelps of Vermont, Pratt, Seward of New York, Shields of Illinois, Whitcomb of Indiana. [Fifteen Northern Senators absent from the vote.]

On the final passage of the Bill in the Senate, the yeas and nays were not taken. D.S.  Dickinson of New York, who had been absent when the vote was taken on the engrossment, spoke in favor of the bill.  Mr. Seward was said to be absent from the city, detained by ill health.

When the Bill came up in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, (September 12th,) JAMES THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, got the floor,—­doubtless by a previous understanding with the Speaker,—­and addressed the House in support of the Bill.  He closed his remarks by moving the previous question!  It was ordered, and thus all opportunity for reply, and for discussion of the Bill was cut off.  The Bill was then passed to its third reading—­equivalent to enactment—­by a vote of 109 YEAS, to 75 NAYS; as follows:—­

YEAS.
     Maine.—­THOMAS J.D.  FULLER, of Calais; ELBRIDGE GERRY, of
     Waterford; NATHANIEL S. LITTLEFIELD, of Bridgton.

     New Hampshire.—­HARRY HIBBARD, of Bath; CHARLES H. PEASLEE,
     of Concord.