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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bright's defence — his speech. (search)
was one of the Committee of Thirteen, with Mr. Clay at its head, and Daniel Webster as one of its members, on the Compromise measures, and to the fact that he had from the first opposed the sectional measure of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Wilmot,) the proviso which he wished to attach excluding the South from, the Territories. Though representing a free State, he had never given a sectional vote. He singled out these two political acts of his life as signal, though they were but Yeas--Messrs Anthony, Browning, Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Johnson, King, Lane of Indiana, McDougall, Morrill, Pomeroy, Sherman, Simmons, Sumner, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Wilmot, Wilson of Massachusetts, and Wilson, of Missouri--32. Nays--Messrs. Bayard, Carlile, Harris Kennedy, Latham, Nesmith, Pearce, Powell, Rice, Saulsbury, Ten Eyck, Thompson, and Willey--14. The Senate adjourned.