The Arkansas banner., 1844-04-17


 than twelve months aiIer the notice is given to Great Britain; rot i'll the most ample time is afforded for settling this atiair dipIomati- Gall}, il 1t ever can be settled ill that. way This, sir, is the sum and substance of our diereepeet We propose 10 do what the Pre- sident cannot do without our concurrence. tie has no power, per SC, to annul or abrogate the convention of lS27 Wepropose, by our resolution, to invest him with this power. This is our disrespect. We propose, in set ting our controversy, to give him cur coaf- denea i'll advance. This is our dislespect We propose, in bringing this question 10 q to back, sustain, and lortfy him, and to remove out of his way every impedi- ment This Is our distespect. Disrespcctto the President! How long has il been since our adversaajes have become so tendeHy con- siderate of that high officer;
 Sir, the President has settled for Us one of our boundary questions With Great Britain; and l trust it will be his good fortune to settle the other. He had difficulties to settle in the former case, and l fear he will have them iu this. all our efforts, thus far, 10 get this question settled on fair and just terms all of our concessions, (and they have been great )-haYe, thus far, been unayailing. She is in possession of the whole of that coun- try; she has attached Ii, by act of Parliament, torjudicial purposes, 10 her province ol Upper Canada; and she has extended the civil and criminal laws of that province over 1t; she has built up forts in 1t to protect it; she has armed vessels riding at the mouth of the Columbia river, and al other points on that coast; she Is in our vicinity on the Atlantic; she is our border nciohbor OH the cast and north and all that she now requires IS Oregon, Texas, and Cuba, to eneircle us completely. Her power in Europe is everywhere, and ire sistible. India is hers; and, lately, the Celes- tial Empire has been dismembcred by her. What her objects are on this continent, l cannot pretend to know. But one thing do know, and that is, that l should like her better if she were farther off. should like her better if she manifested less ayldity ln acquiring dangerous and controlling positions in the vicinity of other independent powers I protest, for one, against her coming any nearer. l want her, particularly, out ol Ore gon; first, because she has no right to be there; and secondly, because at that point she is too convenient to our commerce and shipping on the Pacific. Al that point, she is in the pathway of our trade to Russia, China, and the Sandwich Islands and at that point, she is too near the Indians on oar western and dnorthernlrontier Wgreatness, security, strength, and independence, as a nation, alt.require, in my judgment, that the whole country should be ours, from one ocean to the other Can the President effect an object so desirable to his country? He has shown a laudahle desire to do SC, and am disposed 10 aid him as far as l can. am
 unwilling to send him on an errand so unPfo- fitable, and 10 leave him no option but to persevore and persovere, without our chang ing the condition of things, iR negotiation whose fruits, thus far, have been but disap- poinfment and bitter modification. am anxious 10 move out of his way every impe- diment which previous negotiations (Wise, probably, at the time, ander the then existing have placed i'll il. Other sen ators are not, because they consider Il dlsre- speetful to the President.
 Sir, the passage of the resolution is said to be unnecessary; and the eloquent senator from Massachusetts Mr Ghpate has at tempted to show that 1t is unnecessary. He tells Us that his sole object in this dcaatc was to induce the Senate to leave this qucs- ton 10 negotiation precisely as 1t now stands ---to leave fl to negotiation ii the precise form in which 1t has stood for the last six and twehty years-as it stood nnder the admin istraton of Mir. Monroe, 1Ir Adams, Gene ral Jackson, and 3Ir. Van Buren. And what is that precise form3 The precise form in which t now stands, and has stood for the last six and twenty years, Is that the whole country Is in the exclusive possession of Great Britain, with her sovereignty and laws extending over the whole of 1t. He thinks this the most fortunate position for us this question can be placed i'll, and therefore Is against altering that state of the question in any manner whatever; and, by way of en- coufaging us, he tells Us that Great Britain does not want the country, except for hunt ing ground and that, as the game in 1t IS nearly eXhausted she does not want 1t for colonization, or for any other purpose than hunting, and is just ready to abandon it al together. He eHhorts us 10 wait patiently, and to do nothing to change the state of the question and above all things, to be careful not to make Great Britain mad, by our folly :: and that the good old Anglo-Saxon mother will give t up to Us most willingly and peaeeably, rescving only the right, but for short time, to navigate the Columbia river, (which he tells Us not navigable) and the straits of Fuca He begs us not to give the notice we contemplated, that our old mother is So sensitive, so proud, and so naughty, that notwithstanding the convention which authorized il, and all her wisdom and her great and just desire for peace, she will prob sibiy construe t into an insult, which her higl sense of honor may prompt her instantly to resent; she may possibly look upon it as threat; and (oh ye gods it will never do to threaten Great Britain
 Sir, the honorable senator denounces this notice as a sort of war measure; and when we express our surprise at this construction
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