Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-03-16
OREl.ON.

.-ls.e-asassaa,.O OREGON. $1,000
The democratic papers are bpsily enga-
ged in asserting that Mr.. Clay and the
wing party are opposed to the United
States taking possession of Oregon Terri
tory, and would relinquish our claim rather
than runthe risk of war with Great Brit
ain-that they are actuated by motives Of
fear, sc. Mr.. Dayton, of New Jersey, in
reply 10 Mr.. IIannegan, in debate in the u
S. Senate, on the Goth, says:-- z'sa9
'.Girs up Oregop2 Gire up what we own!
Gfre up whatwe own through fear? WHO had
talked Of giving upo Did any Senatorsonithis
side Of the chamber utter such word--give
the slightest intimation Of such apurpose? dc
had. heard no such thought uttered By any one.
Mr.. Dayton had certainly taken no such position.
The argument based on the many OF giving up
the territory through fear, or FOL any ether reason
was wholly aside from the question. That MAS
not the issue in debate. r.. he t.,s -.s.,,-.-
"Another issue has been made by gentlemen
on the other side,; and il was this The conven.
ton under which we now hold Joint occupancy
with Great Britain OF The Territory Of Oregon, is
so discredtable that il cannot continue an hour
longer without a sacrifice Of he national honor.
That was the issue rendered, and on that point
alone the whole matter Of honor and glory turn.
ed Now it was important first 10 settle who il
was that had been guilty Of putting this stain oil
public shame on the national fame. If the mere
continuance OF the convection for an hour longer
was an indignity not TO be borne, surely its 10.
: cepton must have been Infamous beyond express
sion. Who, then, he agan asked, had fixed this
brand Of shame upon our escutcheon, and left il
burning there for tweoty five years? he an.
swered THE WEsT, the ertre West. When the
convention was put TO the question, there was not
a vote wanting. Every Western Senator gave
his voice in its favor
1.-THE ratification took pace in 1918; and JUS
tice 10 the senior Senator from Missouri (Mr.
Benton) required him Il say that the Senator
was not at that time on ills floor He took bis
seat in the body in 1920 and, from thai day 10
this, he had, with undeviaing zeal and great con.
sistency, advocated the AIMED settlement Of the
territory: his arguments inits favor had been able
and very elaborate; and yet, when the lest vote
was taken, the measure vas lost by 25 TO IA.
His friend over the way (Mr. Hannegan) had
said that, in 1927, Mr.. Clay offered TO give up
the territory through fear Of a war. Now, il
those who opposed taking possession acted through
that fear. what would the honorable Senator say
to the fact that Mr.. Val Buron, who was at
that time in the Senate, 'oted to lay the resolu.
ton on the table, that s, he voted agans, the
occupation? Perhaps it would be as we'll to
''stck pin there" l..'-'
"Things continued thus till 1928; then this
convention, so disgracelu to the nation that it is
now maintained to be apublic shame to allow
it to remain on the STATUTE book day longer,
was again presented for r,ti6caiion in an ndef.
mite form as 10 duration; and it was sent to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. When Mr..
Macon Qet the name be remembered) reported
back the bill without amendment, and the ques.
ton being put, the ratification passed by vote
Of 81 10 Z. And some Of the gentlemen now
present on the other side, who had long been a
light TO the feet and lantern 10 the path OF their
political friends, voted in avor OF the ratification.
When that vote was taken Mr.. Van Buren, was
mong the missing. The convention was again
rifed by large majority OF Western votes,
S lls out Of seven; and among them Barton and
Hedricks This base dishonorable convention,
so 1lsgraceful, so humiiating, that we ought to
: die 'aher than suffer it to live an hour longer,
). had ne stamp Of the West upon t--ay, burned
:, INTO ~ And what more? Immediately after the
: secono ratification Gen. Jackson came into
po"er;he had majority of both Houses with
d HIM in eminent, and he could have dissolved
C this coonention any day he had chosen to dis
solve t-but did he do ii? No. Yet Gen
! Jackson vs. Western man; not very cowaIdIy
neither; an not altogether dead to the nationa
honor yet hetonvention rested very quietly il
T. the State apartment. And when Mr.. Van
r Buren, cameinto the shoes, il not the footsteps
OF his lliustfos predecessor, he made no com
d plant about I'll disgrace-said not word about
dlssolvng; nor vas it until the third year OF tn,
r reign Of John Fer, that it was found out to b,
s. an agreement sotterly discredtabe that it mus
g be expunged at blow from the statute book,
le and that, too, VIE friendly mission from the
opposite party 70 re convention was knocking
/. at our door!
:, "Mr. D. could OF perceive how it was {
n dlscredit TO US to srer convention so sane
=, toned still to continue Those who entered into
a. it at the beginning an, those who deliberately
'e suffered it TO continue force COR twenty. ST,
r. years, were vouchers thin and to the countr,
= that the national honor ould suffer no dspar
agement by letting it stall undisturbed few
We years longer or till supseded by diferen
N arrangement" a. ..
DEATH OF NICHCAS BIDDLE.
The Philadelphia Ga2te, of the 27tt