_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.]

[Fifteen Southern Representatives did not vote.]

DANIEL WEBSTER was not a member of the Senate when the vote on the
Fugitive Slave Bill was taken. He had been made Secretary of State,
a short time previous. All, however, will remember the powerful aid
which he gave to the new compromise measures, and among them to the
Fugitive Slave Bill, in his notorious Seventh of March Speech,
[1850.] A few extracts from that Speech will show how heavily the
responsibility of the existence of this law rests upon DANIEL
WEBSTER:--

"I suppose there is to be found no injunction against
that relation [Slavery] between man and man, in the