The Wilmot Proviso Lost

Tho engrossing subject so long before Congress - the Th reo Million Bill - was finally disnosed of on the last day of the session, in a full house, and in the pres ence of crowds of spectators. Mr. Cobb presided in Committee of the VVhole. An amcndment, providing for the extensión of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocenn, was lost by a vote of 54 to 96. The queslion on the Proviso coming up, it wijs carried, 98 to 60, severnl Southern Whigs not voting. The Committee rose, reported the bill with the nmendment ; the previous question wns demanded and sustained } the main question was orc'ered ; ond on thequestion, Shall the proviso pass ? tho vote stood- yens 97, nays 102 ! So the Proviso was lost. A motion to lay the bilí on tho tnble was lost by a vote of 87 to 114. A reconsideraron was moved, bul fatled. The bill finally passed without the Proviso, veas 115, nays 81.Th is result we feared, becnuse in every protracted stniggle that has yet taken place bet ween the Slavc and Free States since the Government was estal)lishedr the Siaveholders have ultimately triunihed. They succeecied in this insinnce through the influence of the immense patronage of the Executive. The peopleof the Freo States can see the benefit of filling the Presidential Chair and nll the ofiices of the Government with Siaveholders and Serviles.Wc shall publlsh the veas nnd nays next week. VVe givo the followiug retnarks from th National Era . " The deed s done. Executive influence has aguin triumphed. Freedoni is betiayed. At half pnst one o'clork, Wilmot's proviso was defented by Northern votes. The veas were 97, nays 102. - It passed the House a IVw weeks since by nine majority - yeas 115, nays 10G - The following members from the Norih changed their voles, liaving voted yeu wben the proviso was under consideration belore, but nay wh"n the vote was taken yesterday.RUSSELLand W00DRÜFF, of New York; EDSALL, of New Jersey; NENLEY, of Indiana; JACOB THOMPSON, of Pennsylvania. VVhat nesw light has dawned upon them during the last three weeks? Within ihat time, we must remember, the President has had some five or six hundred new offices put at his disposal. Remarkj ble cotneidence ! The truth is. with a proslavery Execulive, with immense patronagR ut i'.sdisposnl, it is wonderful that more changes have not taken place. In the Senate, itwill be seen that the question has been carried naiust Liberty, nlso by Northern and Wes'ern men: CASS, of Mirhigan ; DICKINSON, of New York, BRIGHT and HANNEGAN, of Indiana, BRÉESE, of Illinois, Semple was absent. Mr. Lewis, of Alabama, who had been dangerously sick for weeks, was brotight out t vote. Honor to J. M. CLAYTON, of Delaware, who voted forihe proviso. But what of General Cass ? Tho disnppoiniment of Mr. Calhoun at the vote o!' General Cas., some sy, was extreme. It could not have been greater than will be the disappoii.tmcnt that awaits the General. This vote was an act of suicide. No matter how brought out as a Presidental candidate, he can expeetno free State, excopt Michigan and Illinois, and in tho South Mr. Calhoun has forestilled him. We cannot forbear dirocting attention to the course of Preston King and his associales, BrinkerhofF, Wilmot, Went worth, and a few other fearless Domocrats, who maintained their integrity to the last - fighting for every inch of' the ground that they had taken and boldly recording their votes in the negative on the iinal passage of the bill, when stripped of its proviso," Bui the question nrisos, what consequences will flow from this vote ? We do not seo that they must necessarily be disastrousio the cause of freedom. We rather anticípate they will conduce lo its ultímate Iriumph. This antislavery Proviso was only to take effect in case territory should be acquired from Mexico by treoty - an event very far from being eer' tain aewe.ll on account of tho vicissitudesof the war, as from the Tact that every treaty musí be ratified by two thirds of th Senate. Should no territory be acquired, Slavery cannotbe established ïnanyterritoryobtained from Mexico. Cönsequently the Slaveholders will gain nothing in this respect, by the defcat of thö Pro viso. But suppose territory should be acquired from Mexico by treaty, whatthent Dois it not belong to Congress, by expres provisions of the Constitution, to make all " needful rules and regulations" respecting t ? And if a mnjority think a prohibition of slavery "ncedful" insüch territory, have they not the power and the right to prohibit it, as they did in the territory Northwest of the Ohio ? Clearly they have ; and consequently, in case of the acquisition of territory beibre th next session of Congress, the battle muy be again renewed, under more farorabk auspiccs, on the first days of the essioft, by a motion to establish an omtis)avery Ordinance, similar to that of 1787, over the whole of the new domain. The spir itand vigor manifested by the northern mernbers during this session, and thefulï support to the Wilmot Proviso by th Northern Legislntures without muchdis tinction of party, give reaaon to hope that another set of meml.ers, fresh from the people, encournged by the unanimity of their constituent, will be so fully con firmed in their opposition to the extensión of slavery, they would be enlirely proof against all temptationsto abandon ar conv promit the cause of Freodotnr.