The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims eBook

American Anti-Slavery Society
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims.

The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims eBook

American Anti-Slavery Society
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims.

     Massachusetts.—­SAMUEL A. ELIOT, of Boston.

     New York.—­HIRAM WALDEN, of Waldensville.

     New Jersey.—­ISAAC WILDRICK, of Blairstown.

Pennsylvania.—­MILO M. DIMMICK, of Stroudsburg; JOB MANN, of Bedford; J.X.  MCLANAHAN, of Chambersburg; JOHN ROBBINS, Jr., of Philadelphia; THOMAS ROSS, of Doylestown; JAMES THOMPSON, of Erie.

     Ohio.—­MOSES HOAGLAND, of Millersburg; JOHN K. MILLER, of
     Mount Vernon; JOHN L. TAYLOR, of Chillicothe.

     Michigan.—­ALEXANDER W. BUELL, of Detroit.

Indiana.—­NATHANIEL ALBERTSON, of Greenville; WILLIAM J. BROWN, of Amity; CYRUS L. DUNHAM, of Salem; WILLIS A. GORMAN, of Bloomington; JOSEPH E. MCDONALD, of Crawfordsville; EDWARD W. MCGAUGHEY, of Rockville.

     Illinois.—­WILLIAM H. BISSELL, of Belleville; THOMAS L.
     HARRIS, of Petersburg; JOHN A. MCCLERNAND; WILLIAM A.
     RICHARDSON, of Quincy; TIMOTHY R. YOUNG, of Marshall.

     Iowa.—­SHEPHERD LEFFLER, of Burlington.

     California.—­EDWARD GILBERT.

[All these Northern Traitors called themselves Democrats! save three—­Eliot of Massachusetts, Taylor of Ohio, and McGaughey of Indiana, who were Whigs.]

—­> Every Representative of a Slaveholding State, who voted at all, voted YEA.  Their names are needless, and are omitted.

NAYS
     Maine.—­Otis, Sawtelle, Stetson.

     New Hampshire.—­Amos Tuck.

     Vermont.—­Hebard, Henry, Meacham.

     Massachusetts.—­Allen, Duncan, Fowler, Mann.

     Rhode Island.—­Dixon, King.

     Connecticut.—­Butler, Booth, Waldo.

New York.—­Alexander, Bennett, Briggs, Burrows, Gott, Gould, Halloway, Jackson, John A. King, Preston King, Matteson, McKissock, Nelson, Putnam, Rumsey, Sackett, Schermerhorn, Schoolcraft, Thurman, Underhill, Silvester.

     New Jersey.—­Hay, King.

     Pennsylvania.—­Calvin, Chandler, Dickey, Freedley, Hampton,
     Howe, Moore, Pitman, Reed, Stevens.

     Ohio.—­Cable, Carter, Campbell, M.B.  Corwin, Crowell,
     Disney, Evans, Giddings, Hunter, Morris, Root, Vinton,
     Whittlesey, Wood.

     Michigan.—­Bingham, Sprague.

     Indiana.—­Fitch, Harlan, Julian, Robinson.

     Illinois.—­Baker, Wentworth.

     Wisconsin.—­Cole, Doty, Durkee.

     California.—­Wright.

ABSENT, OR NOT VOTING. 
     Andrews, Ashmun (Mass.), Bokee, Brooks, Butler, Casey,
     Cleveland (Conn.), Clarke, Conger, Duer, Gilmore, Goodenow,
     Grinnell (Mass.), Levin, Nes, Newell, Ogle, Olds, Peck,
     Phoenix, Potter, Reynolds, Risley, Rockwell (Mass.), Rose,
     Schenck, Spaulding, Strong, Sweetser, Thompson (Iowa), Van
     Dyke, White, Wilmot (Penn.) [33—­all Northern men.]

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