The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-31

They pretend that the ratification Of the treaty would
have been adoption OF war. lie replied al con
siderable length this point and showed that there
was no war 10 adopt that The distinction made be
tween Governments de j,re aud do Jaeto was absurd
| at the present day-quoted W ebster, Clay, Benton
and Others TO sustain his postonsi insisted that inc
recognition OF Texan independence proeiuded VI
from consulting Mexico, and that both Benton ana
Clay voted for that recognltioD-gave brei history
OF The Mel lean revolution and the efforts of Adams
Clay and Jackson 10 purchase iexas OF Mexico, Dc
fore the independence OF the latter had been aeknow-
! lodged by Spain, which efforts Col b. admits uia'
he seconded-and denied that the praeai inourslon'
| Of Mexico amounted 10 a war. lie illustrated thi'
point by reference 10 a suit at law on land title,
where rich man after having brought several suits
and aled still persisted in bringing new suits TO OBJ
tam the property Of the actual settler. lie may ~
sst that he has right to continue TO bring new suls
| but his absurd pretensions amount to nothing. 30
with The Mexican claim To Texas. III has been deci-
ded against Mexico after repeated trials.
lie opposed also 10 the 4th resolution 80
far the treaty from making an uncoDstitutonal,
perfdous, clandestine aud pratica" war on Mexr
CO. that the efort of the last power TO conquer Tex
was justly deserving Of The harsh eplthets applied
10 the action Of our Government. The present
Mexican Government has been occasionally making
pTatica and perdlous' incurslons into her neigh
boris territory, without the shadow OF a claim by
which TO justify her cruelty. The 4lh resolution,
! however, declares IN addition, that we can annex
Texas whenever Mexico shall cease to carry on the
war a scale commensurate with the conquest oil
Texas. No man OF common sense can pretend That
such has been waged against Texas for he last
eight years, and of intelligence dares to Use
here and say that he believes Mexico can eve' wsge
such She can hardly keep in subiecton her
present provinces. There is no war now Inc
Mexican Congress has refused to grant supplies for
the purpose Of such war. This war objection has
no force now, and never had.
The 9Th resolution which speaks Of consulting the
people of the IT, s. and of Texas, introduced mere
Iy To give our Senators an opportunity To doge IL
cannot be expected that direct vote will be ken on
mat naked question at the ballot boxes in tbs coun-
try. The people of this Union must speak through
their Legislatures on this subject They have aIea-
dy spoken IN The election OF James IL. Poli he
| citizens of Texas spoke years ago. when heyadopted
their constitution The sovereignty OF TcXass IN the
people of that country, and the Governmental their
| choice is the Government de tacto and de jve. lie
enlarged upon this idea aud referred to the revolu
tons recorded in history to establish the correctness
OF the doctrine for which he had commended
As to the sixth, seventh and eighth resolutions he
begged leave to quote the declarations mad by Col
Benton in 1929, when he had remote object in
view. As there are two sets of gentemeDwho use
Colonel BentoD's statements auihOrityhere, he
hoped he would be allowed the SAME privilege, diff.
fering he did with those gentlemen lie read
from The essays signed "Amercanus, !" to SOW that
the h 10 del Nore is the true boundary of Ixas, and
that the territory of that Republic cannot be safely
divided and ought not to be- into slavehotlng and
non. slavehodlng States. He referred to lie map OF
Texas to the proposed division of that territory, and
to our relative situation State to sho, the I'M
minent danger in which our slave propely will be
paced-with a Don-slavehoding Stale on the north
OF Missouri one on the east and anothr on the
vest with Indian negro-steaers there to 70 OIL with
our blacks. Such a division, he contened, would
also endanger our route to the Oregon territory, and
that he for one, and his constituents woul,never as
sent to such a compromise.
The seventh resolution in Mr.. Gamble sse res en-
dorses Col. Benton's vote against the t,aty. he
preferred not to have 10 vote on what on Senators
had done, but to instruct them what to o. If he |
must vote on it, however, he should 60 fc its reec
ton. lie knew that if 1t passed, II VOID inst. uct
Gen. Alchison out OF his seat, and If tNas voted
down, il would condemn Col Benton. II 4 MIR. SIS
| constituents were in favor OF the trey. They |
would have voted for it. Forty out of very forty
one OF the citizens Of Charlton county, and of the
ten counties in which he practised, were favor Of
that treaty, and of immediate annexato. He did
not believe that ten men could be found those ten
counties who would not say that Col Is. i'd not give
| the vote of Missouri, when he opposed hat treaty
Still he did not wish to censure Col. b. Or that
act, and regretted that The seventh resoaon had 10
be passed upon.
lie should vote for the resolutions presated by Mr..
Hughes, with amendments He had nobjection to
making the first in that series more eIcit-to in
sert the word immediate" instead of ut tie earll-
est practicable period if desired. lc consider
ed the expressions however, one andbe in
slgnlhcaton. By "immedIaten he nant Just as
soon as 1t could be done Practioble" meant
ito be done" or which could be de- and the
earliest practicable period" signifies II as
II can be done. The second, third andourth in the
series presented BY Mr. Hughes, were Dad enough.
They declared in effect that Mexico oyht not to be
consulted, and that our Senators nu. oppose any
proposition OF the kind. He wouldever consent
that Mexico should haye a word TO the sub
IJect lie should go for amendma TO the fifth
resolution TO make IT stronger. He ", opposed TO
establishing Abolltlonsts our westeI borders with
Indians TO aid them in negro stealing. We were
noyed enough in our Eastern Counties ready, where
the Aboltionsts have no Indian tliyes TO assist
them. lie should oppose the ski IN toto. he
wished TO leave such discretion 10 a. Senator'S as
that proposed.
have given Mr. Stringfellows posous at consid-
cradle length, because he gave disbt utterance to
the sentiments OF decided Majority 4 the Demo-
Gratis OF Missouri and of the Legisture. Nearly
all OF the prominent Democrats deare the same
sentiments as those uttered by him.
Mr. kELsEr 81 oke next, aud recte some passages
from Col. Benton's speeches. He ID he was op-
posed to the treaty; but should 90 70 MIR. Hughess
resolutions. He was in favor Of aIsxation for va
nous reasons, which he gave.
Mr.. OBAsSoS then moved the puious question
which wa. sustained, and call oithe House was
ordered, but before a vote was takethe House ad.
journed.
From the Boston Tunes g. BAY st Democrat
REASONS FOR THE ANIMATION OF