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On the final passage, the Yeas and Nays were not called, the fate of the bill being decided by the preceding vote; but that eminently national statesman, Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, made a few remarks in favor of the bill, and it passed without further division. Mr. Seward was absent from the city, unwell. Mr. Hale was, we believe, with his family, for a few days, in New-Hampshire; but most of the twenty-one absentees were only indisposed to vote.

The bill was taken up in the House, September 12th, and forced through, says the editor of the National Era, without discussion, consideration, or any opportunity for amendment. The bill coming up, JAMES THOMPSON, of Pennsylvania, was recognized by the Speaker, who, it is believed, fully understood the views of that recreant representative of a Free State. He addressed the House in support of the bill, and closed by moving the previous question. Thaddeus Stevens, of the same State, strongly appealed to his colleague to withraw the motion, as he desired to reply to him. Thompson would consent only on condition that Mr. Stevens would renew it; but this HE NOBLY REFUSED TO DO. Other members renewed the appeal, but their entreaties were in vain. Thompson was inexorable. Mr. Crowell moved a call of the House. It was refused, and the demand for the previous question was sustained!-yeas 87, nays 69. Mr. Stevens then moved to lay the bill on the table. The motion. was lost-yeas 67, nays 113. The main question was then ordered to be put, and the bill was ordered to a third reading-yeas 105, nays 73. The bill was read a third time by its title, the question being, "Shall it pass ?" Mr. Thompson moved a call of the House, which was decided in the negative,-yeas 73, nays 100. The question, "SHALL THIS BILL PASS?" was then decided in the affirmativeYEAS 109, NAYS 75.

The following is a classification of the vote:

Maine...

YEAS-CALLING THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS

THOMAS J. D. FULLER, of Calais; EL-
BRIDGE GERRY, of Waterford; NATHL.
S. LITTLEFIELD, of Bridgeton.

New-Hampshire... HARKY HIBBARD, of Bath; CHARLES H.

New-York..

PEASLEE, of Concord.

HIRAM WALDEN, of Waldensville.

New-Jersey..

ISAAC WILDRICK, of Blairstown.

YEAS-CALLING THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS.--Continued.

Pennsylvania... MILO M. DIMMICK, of Stroudsburg; Jo MANN, of Bedford; J. X. McLANAHAN of Chambersburg; JOHN ROBBINS, JR., of Philadelphia; THOMAS Ross, of Doylestown; JAMES THOMPSON, of Erie.

Ohio....

Michigan...
Indiana.

Illinois......

Iowa.
California

MOSES HOAGLAND, of Millersburg; JOHN
K. MILLER, of Mount Vernon.
ALEXANDER W. BUELL, of Detroit.
NATHANIEL ALBERTSON, of Greenville;
WILLIAM J. BROWN, of Amity; CYRUS
L. DUNHAM, of Salem; WILLIS A.
GORMAN, of Bloomington; Jos. E.
MCDONALD, of Crawfordsville.
WILLIAM H. BISSELL, of Belleville;
THOMAS L. HARRIS, of Petersburg;
JOHN A. McCLERNAND, WILLIAM A.
RICHARDSON, of Quincy; TIMOTHY R.
YOUNG, of Marshall.

SHEPHERD LEFFLER, of Burlington.
EDWARD GILBERT.

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Virginia...... Averett, Bayly, Beale, E. Edmundson, McMullen,

Holladay, Meade, Millson, Parker, Powell, Seddon.

North Carolina.. Ashe, Caldwell, Venable.

South Carolina.. Burt, Colcock, McQueen, Orr, Wallace, Holmes,

Georgia......

Woodward.

Haralson, Jackson, Wellborn.

Bowdon, Cobb, Hubbard, Harris, Inge.

Ewing, Harris, Johnson, Jones, Savage, Stanton,

Thomas.

Alabama....

Louisiana....

La Sère.

Tennessee...

Mississippi.

Arkansas..

Texas....

Missouri...

Kentucky.

Brown, Featherston, McWillie, Thompson.

Johnson.

Howard, Kaufman.

Bay, Bowlin, Green, Hall, Phelps.

Boyd, Caldwell, Mason, Stanton.

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Delaware...

North Carolina..

Georgia...

Alabama...

Tennessee.

Kentucky....

Maine....

Connecticut....

Ohio..

Michigan...
Indiana...

Illinois....

EDWARD W. MCGAUGHEY, of Rockville.

Haymond, Morton.

Bowie, Kerr.

Houston.

Clingman, Deberry, Daniel, Outlaw, Shepperd,

Stanley.

Owen, Toombs.

Alston, Hilliard.

Anderson, Gentry, Watkins, Williams.
Breck, Johnson, Marshall, McLean, Thompson.

NAYS-DEMOCRATS.

CULLEN SAWTELLE, of Norridgewock; CHARLES
STETSON, of Bangor.

WALTER BOOTH, of Meriden; LOREN P. WALDO, of
Tolland.

JOSEPH CABLE, of Carrolton; DAVID K. CARTER, of
Massillon; DAVID T. DISNEY, of Cincinnati; JONA-
THAN D. MORRIS, of Batavia; Wм. A. WHITTLE-
SEY, of Marietta; AMOS E. WOOD, of Woodville.
KINSLEY S. BINGHAM, of Kensington.

GRAHAM N. FITCH, of Logansport; ANDREW J.
HARLAN, of Marion; JOHN L. ROBINSON, of Rush-
ville.

JOHN WENTWORTH, of Chicago.

Wisconsin....... JAMES D. DOTY, of Menasha.
California... GEO. W. WRIGHT.

Maine...

Vermont..

NAYS-WHIGS.

JOHN OTIS, of Hallowell.

WILLIAM HEBARD, of Chelsea; WILLIAM HENRY of Bellows' Falls; JAMES MEACHAM,

NAYS--WHIGS.——
--Continued.

Massachusetts... JAMES H. DUNCAN, of Haverhill; ORIN FOWLER, of Fall River; HORACE MANN, of West Newton.

Rhode Island.... NATHAN F. DIXON, of Westerly; GEORGE G. KING of Newport.

Connecticut....... THOS. B. BUTLER, of Norwalk,

New-York....... HENRY P. ALEXANDER, of Little Falls; HENRY BENNETT, of New-Berlin; GEORGE BRIGGS, of New-York; LORENZO BURROWS, of Albion; DANIEL GOTT, of Pompey; HERMAN D. GOULD, of Delhi; RANSOM HALLOWAY, of Beekman; WM. T. JACKSON, of Havana; JOHN A. KING, of Jamaica; ORSAMUS B. MATTESON, of Utica; THOMAS McKISSOCK, of NEWBURGH; WM. NELSON, of Peekskill; HARVEY PUTNAM, of Attica; DAVID RUMSEY, Jr., of Bath; WM. A. SACKETT, of Seneca Falls; A. M. SCHERMER HORN, of Rochester; JOHN L. SCHOOLCRAFT, of Albany; JOHN R. THURMAN, of Chestertown; WALTER UNDERHILL of New-York; PETER H. SILVESTER, of Coxsackie.

New-Jersey...

ANDREW K. HAY, of Winslow; JAMES G. KING, of
Hoboken.

Pennsylvania.... SAMUEL CALVIN, of Hollidaysburg; JOSEPH R.
CHANDLER, of Philadelphia; J. C. DICKEY, of
New-London; J.FREEDLEY, of Norristown; MOSES
HAMPTON, of Pittsburg; H. D. MOORE, of Phila-
delphia; CHAS. W. PITMAN, of Pottsville; ROB-
ERT R. REED, of Washington; THADDEUS STE-
VENS, of Lancaster.

Ohio...

Michigan.....

MOSES B. CORWIN, of Urbanna; NATHAN EVANS, of Cambridge; SAMUEL F. VINTON, of Gallipolis. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, of Kalamazoo.

EDWARD D. BAKER, of Galena.

Illinois..

Wisconsin...

ORSAMUS COLE, of Potoni.

NAYS-FREE SOILERS.

New Hampshire. AMOS TUCK, of Exeter.

Massachusetts... CHARLES ALLEN, of Worcester.

New-York

Pennsylvania
Ohio....

Indiana

Wisconsin.....

NAYS-FREE SOILERS.-Continued.
PRESTON KING, of Ogdensburg.
JOHN W. HOWE, of Franklin.

LEWIS D. CAMPBELL, of Hamilton, JOHN CROWell,
of Warren, J. R. GIDDINGS, of Jefferson, Wm.
F. HUNTER, of Woodsfield, Jos. M. ROOT, of
Sandusky.

GEORGE W. JULIAN, of Centreville.
CHARLES DURKEE, of Southport.

YEAS, 109; NAYS, 75.

ABSENT, OR NOT VOTING.

Northern Whigs.-Andrews, Ashmun, Bokee, Brooks, Butler, Casey, Clarke, Conger, Duer, Goodenow, Grinnell, Levin, Nes, Newell, Ogle, Phoenix, Reynolds, Risley, Rockwell, Rose, Schenck, Spaulding, Van Dyke, White-24.

Free soilers.-Wilmot, 1.

Northern Democrats.--Cleveland, Gilmore, Olds, Peck, Potter, Strong, Sweetser, Thompson, of Iowa--8.

Southern Whigs.--3.

Southern Democrats.-12.

Total absent, or not voting-48.

Northern Democrats voting for the bill-27.
Northern Whigs voting for the bill--3:
Elliott, of Massachusetts; Taylor, of Ohio;
McGaughey, of Indiana.

The members who intentionally absented themselves when this bill was about to be voted on, are less to be respected than those who boldly recorded their names in the affirmative. Some of the members who did not vote are known to be opposed to the bill, and will doubtless give a good reason for their absence at such a critical time. The dough-faces, who dodged as the vote was about to be taken, should be ascertained, and held up to the merited contempt of the world. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, after the passage of the b'll, gravely rose, and suggested to the Chair the propriety of dispatching one of the pages, to inform his Whig friends who had gone out, that they now could return in safety, as the slavery matter was disposed of How mean and dastardly does the conduct of such "Whig

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