Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-02-06
OREGON AND TEXAS


1t seems that the Federal majority in tie
nate, which was won't 10 be SD active, tas
come paralyzei When Mr. Clay dica'.
doing, ii could dispose OF all the great ari :
questions which had asilated the public Z
for years, in The few weeks OF hastily {.
extra session. A Bank charter 10 svi
up all The functions OF the Government nrli.
10 finance, revenue and currency, The broa..
OF a vast funding system, in time 10 assume
consolidate all the Stale. debts in an enormogs
ional debt; the overthrow OF The compromi>c 7;
system, and the establishment Of new embry5'
tective SYSTEM the passage ola universal bars-
law, sponging out all debts at The voluntary K.
OF the debtor, in total disregard OF the rgh,
wishes ofthe creditor: the abolition ol STATE II
diciion over crimes committed hv iorer,
within their limits, the authority OF anottd
vernment was pleaded asa warrant for tier
these, ard many other great Fedcrs Z
sureS, could be dispatched BY Fedora I
joriiy in few weeks, when acting under he
mediate orders OF Mr. Clay. The House
waited The movements OF the Senate, and as q
as platoon could 60 through the motion :.
a tuglcman, the representative body perior-
The evolution after the Senate.
But now how changed The Senas
grown as torpid, after its prodigious ACTIVITY
catamount after having despatched the ho1e
The farmer in all the warnings Of his Told 7
ing the whole winter The Senate has laid still I
sort of 'cold obstruction" almost wilhou.
signs oflife. With the greatest measures te,,
ing before il, involving the fate OF reeions q
territory. worth more than the half Of l.n'
soil and climate alone considered, not 4 :,
tom of concern has been cvinccd by The con-
ing power OF the body.
A Senator ofihe minority has now and tier
handed what has become OF Oregon; AM
chairman OF the Committee on Foreign Relai
would respond that it was highly indecorou'
press that inquiry under existing circumsar
From time 10 time members would presen; :
bill or resolution providing for the annexatol
Texas, and it would be al once referred 10
Committee on Foreign Relations, which serr
hold every thing in sort OF mortman.
House having malured and passed mea
for the annexation Of Texas 10 the Union,
same dead mans hand has got hold of il, al
has gone To its grave in the Committee on
elgn Relations.
We inquired today, in the Senate, whe
there was any probability of The act Of the II
obtaining resurrection from this optimism
committee. and learned that il was hoped
some time during the next week Lazarus nj
come forth. ,ey
Well, is not this promising state OF il
when the greatest interests this country ever
are at Stake, and which It's most vigilan!i
powerful enemy is teaching with easernes
seize2 The last sands OF The Congress are :
ming. A few weeks postpones every thing z
year; and still the Federal Committee on
reign Relations is in state of incubation. ,fs
TO warm its benumbed faculties 50 as 10 p'o:i
repo,tt-mark that mere reports on, oiiA- !
great ostrich eggs OF Texas and Oregon n
The time the reports burst the Shell. The oF'
whom they belong will have run of; anc I
Texas and Oregon must lake care o. then%.F
The truth is, there is an evident n,en'Iei
the part Of the dominant party in the sefaf
defeat the great measures Of the country By o.
When the session commenced, We predic!et
the public will, SO signally pronounced u
Presidential election, in regard 10 the imme4
steps which should be taken to preserve or.
ard Texas from The grasp Of England, woa:
disappointed. We are confirmed in our az
hension, by the conduct OF the Federal ma
in the Senate. We sincerely trust, tia. Tx !,
mocralic minority will do nothing in the :;
embarrassing action on the imporan, ri,
question, so as TO be under the necessity G: =
ing the responsibility with The enemies O W'.,
and Texas for their loss, which will wei.a -
forever all concerned in it.-lGlobe.