The Arkansas banner., 1845-06-18

IL
 % Sg inc dismembrance of one of
 ge obtained a new boundary,
 , " was ours, giving to England a
 .vvteoded military frontier, against
 He He obtained a stipulation by
 70 10 detach large part of our [l,at seas, at vast expense. He
 bamiliating provision by which [,rs,Iyes to England that ace will
 ,o two of our oaon States, thus
 rchts and interests of those
 ,be guardian guarantee of for
 sneai against our oicn. These
 .btained-our negotiator having obiog. And when, sir, the Brit
 had thus settled part of the, "mat- Ireioa''-when he had negotiated
 which had not been Gin discus
 \ as that for the African squad T cir. he, all of a sudden, narrops ,os upon which the negotiation soced, and for the first time, dis jgdo of p0wers "to settleo the oth-
 pvfich had been Sin discussion''
 rth of a century.
 r.v il was that the Oregon boun- |eli unsettIed-left open for future la line stretching from the Rocky
 othe Pacific ocean-a part of the
 boundary, in settling the north
 fof which we had made so many bamiliating sacrifices in the treaty. tghslanding the manifest insin- England, in protesting a desire to hfsrences-to remove all causes notwithstanding the sacrifices we ] jO remove these causes, and our Eo notwithstanding the future fefl as cloudy with troubles as the Eihstanding every senator felt and
 10 be the Gacts,-yet was this Eed by a vote of more than two-
 he Senate. And why so? Was EaY single senator approved of the gas il because any one man of this
 as President, have signed it?-
 one, l am sure, would have vo- yd, if by it's rejection, our inter have been piaced buck, in a con- ed as when the negotiation com But that could not be. Senators hey knew the concession already m tAegotiator rendered that impos- y thought that, after those con- EeRjeciiOn would place our inter- |ndition even worse than the rati- { as that condition is acknowl-
 10 be.
 manifest, then, that in this instance l.nportant matter of ceding away of Remembering a State-of sur
 strong military frontier to a dan Ehbor, the Senate was reduced te
 power upon the act of the Pres nd IS 1t not equally obylous, that power was rendered abortive by Et of the President himself? Yes. E Ebecause, though the negotiation bed In this city, within one mile fte' then in session, yet the Sen E1al agent with the President in Fmaklng power, allowed itself to nller ignorance of all that was go- l ll Il was too late to do anything rulnous treaty, or to reject 1t, as the hazard of a war.
 |R, put the question, and solicit an Why was not the western as well en half of the line settled in the |ld not Lord Ashburton disclose E ample to settle -aH "matierS in F Did he not profess an in emove all causes of future ani- Vas not the western end of the F" m diScuSSion"? Was not that
 any other matter to become the atterness and striGe' Wherefore, leitunsettled? Wherefore, when Il might have been to us more llsly and safely adjusted in con- Ataan aparl from other questions. | ae British negotlator understood N Ills government had an object :, purpose to reach it. He was not Fas to settle some of the matters oa,0 than to Keep others open.- settle that end of the line where orce at hand to protect our rights, unsettled the other, where we [eat all. Our policy was just the
 l ms prevailed. It has ever been |poIlcy to keep open, always, some aFrel with other nations, and es-
 VI those having unoccupied terri IS her policy, because, as a great
 aallon, colonies are deemed es- aF enlargement of her trade and Onol her navigation and because iuarrel afford excuses to her for 'ane v, territory of others and plant 'olonies.
 slr' when the American people Oregon question excluded from alon, which, we were told, was opposed all our troubles-when ven lher rights of territory, up-
 ss ol the western ocean, utterly 'ne Executive, and that at the all others-at the only time
 nsaiS might have been most cer- a'tiy secured by treaty-when @uis territory in manifest danger b,a a''illy Into the possion of Great a' m consequence of this neg
 ase'' they have aroused them ,a 'ney have enjoined it loudly
 ssS 10 take immediate measures %.a'lon ar "a of the territory, and the '.al % 'neIr fellow countrymen, who poa lt-when such is the state h, |Tb.' what are they told, and by ssey are told by the Prime Min sand' ' that the President has, since already so committed himself government as to have rem s.sslole for him to sanction the
 rsress or ,t upon this subject. Up- |s1 r h' 'ne President himself, we are |s'l oy ,y a senator upon this floor, M. mat England is again smitten O'e Ot Deace ,bot o,,oo ,,.o