Mr.Douglas, Mr.Rice of Minnesota, Mr.
Latham of California, and Mr.Lane of Oregon were the only Northern senators who united with the compact South against the bill.
Senators from Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas were still taking part in the proceedings.

Mr.Crittenden of Kentucky and Mr.Kennedy of Maryland were favorable to the policy of protection, but on this bill they withheld their votes.

They had not abandoned all hope of an adjustment of the Disunion troubles, and deemed the pending measure too radical a change of policy to be adopted in the absence of the senators and representatives from seven States so deeply interested.

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, sympathizing warmly with the Republicans on all questions relating to the preservation of the Union, was too firmly wedded to the theory of free-trade to appreciate the influence which this measure would exert in aid of the national finances.
The test vote in the House was taken on the 27th of February, on a motion made by Mr.Branch of North Carolina to lay the bill on the table.

Only 43 votes were given in favor, while 102 were recorded against this summary destruction of the measure.