That no person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due; and Congress shall pass all necessary and proper laws for the rendition of all such persons who shall so, as aforesaid, escape. Which was rejected—yeas 9, nays 29, as follows: YEAS—Messrs. _Buckalew_, _Carlile_, Cowan, _Davis_, _McDougall_, _Powell_, _Richardson_, _Riddle_, _Saulsbury_—9. NAYS—Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Dixon, Foot, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Hicks, Howard, Howe, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey—29. Mr. JOHNSON, of Maryland, moved an amendment to substitute a clause repealing the act of 1850; which was rejected—yeas 17, nays 22, as follows: YEAS—Messrs. _Buckalew_, _Carlile_, Cowan, _Davis_, Harris, Hicks, Johnson, Lane of Indiana, _McDougall_, _Powell_, _Richardson_, _Riddle_, _Saulsbury_, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey—17. NAYS—Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Wade, Wilson—22. The bill then passed—yeas 27, nays 12, as follows: YEAS—Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness, Dixon, Fessenden, Foot, Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Harris, Hicks, Howard, Howe, Lane of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilson—27. NAYS—Messrs. _Buckalew_, _Carlile_, Cowan, _Davis_, Johnson, _McDougall_, _Powell_, _Richardson_, _Riddle_, _Saulsbury_, Van Winkle, Willey—12. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, _President_, approved it, June 28, 1864. Seward as Secretary of State. Wm. H. Seward was a master in diplomacy and Statecraft, and to his skill the Unionists were indebted for all avoidance of serious foreign complications while the war was going on. The most notable case coming under his supervision was that of the capture of Mason and Slidell, by Commodore Wilkes, who, on the 8th of November, 1861, had intercepted the _Trent_ with _San Jacinto_. The prisoners were Confederate agents on their way to St. James and St. Cloud. Both had been prominent Senators, early secessionists, and the popular impulse of the North was to hold and punish them. Both Lincoln and Seward wisely resisted the passions of the hour, and when Great Britain demanded their release under the treaty of Ghent, wherein the right of future search of vessels was disavowed, Seward yielded, and referring to the terms of the treaty, said: