Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-04-13
From The Washington Globe Of the ODD of February.
% Nor. '.'' ID CONGRESS.
Secretary Of War.

OON(IRESS.
In the Senate, to-day, the most important sub.
Ject considered was the resolution of Mr.. Semple,
directing the President of the United States to
give notice to England for the termination of those
stipulations of treaty allowing the joint occupa-
ton of tho Oregon. Mr.. Atchison opened the de-
bate in favor of the resolution. He presented the
strong views entertained by the vast population of
the great Mississippi valley upon the question !;
which wore, that the title of the United States 10
the territory of the Oregon was ndisputable and
that inch of the soil of that territory could not
be yielded to the unjust demands of England,
without dishonor that ono inch Of it never
would be yielded; that the claim of Great Britain
was a mere pretence, without shadow of right or
justice to support it. The joint occupation. he
maintained, should have boon determined long
ago. The honor of the United States, no less
than its interest, dema nded that Great Britain
should no longer occupy part of her territory.
His speech will be published entire in a few da vs.
Mr.. Choate followed Mr.. A,chison, and was dc.
livered of one of those harangues which are COM
posed in two months absence from the Senate,
and which, being delivered, the parties until the
period of CESSATION is over for another. Mr..
Choate gave US sort of resurrection of the old
fedora! speeches which We had during the war,
and in the times of impressment and Jays treaty,
and the retention of the northwestern posts,
which were to become ours by the advance Of
population. if we would only wait for them. The
power Of England, and the danger of war with
her, was the staple Of his harangue, as it has
been Of all federal speeches since our indepen
dence. 1t was truly British speech; or IA Their
the speech OF two men, one an arrogant English
man, the other a pusil!animous American. A
large part of his time was taken up to show the
friendly designs Of Great Britain and that she did
not want Oregon, and that ii was not worth having:
ana tho next largest part of it was taken up with
proving that we must go to war with England, if
we gave the notice for the Termination which
the convention itself gives This was new and
beautiful War-bloody, dreadful war, if we
gave the notice which the convention slipulates
And then Mr.. Choate dilated upon the horrors of
war, both by sea and land and, when he came
to the Indian part. he made a most faithful edi.
ton OF Fisher Ames's lamentation over the
western breezes, freghted with the tea rs and
signs" of the tomahawked women and children
which the rejection Of Jay 3 treaty would bring up.
on US. In word, Mr.. Choate's speech was the
eptome and condensation--the revival and resur.
rection-the embodiment and shadow of every
federal speech made in favor of England and
against the United States, from jays treaty to
the Webster treaty-the Webster speeches and
other federal speeches of the war included ; and
it seems probable that this Oregon question will
draw the lines again between the British party in
the United States and the American party, just as
clearly as those lines were drawn in the time OF
the Old Black Cockade and the late war. The