The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-01-24
OREGON.

While we 81, talking here about regi-
men,s Of r1amen, and regiments Of infantry
aud stockade forts, and ssppers and miners
pontoniers Great Britain is aiming her steam
vessels. equippiDg her fiigates and line.os-
battle ships, aud sending troops over here
I4ojbe ready. IwOud press re solution
lgiUiny the notice THIS DAY, If hoped tha,
a majority Of the House could be obsned
TO effect lhe measure.
GMr. WENTWORTH here moved tha, the
rules be suspended to afford an opportunity
for such motion; but the motion was pro.
rounced to be out of order.
Mr.. ADAMS resumed. feel myself
scarcely authorized to hope that should
| be successful should ! make The motion
But for this would have moved il on ihe
6rst day of The session. Because have so
profound sense Of the duty Of adherng TO
tr eaies, ! feel debarred from The least act
of hostility or even from meeting hostility
manifested elsewhere, i'll. no ,ice shall have
been given. While our convention remains
| will vote no increase of the army or navy
no forI or stockade, no infantry, no ssppers
or miners. All must depend on that. If
this shall be made the special order for
Tuesday, hope it will be arranged by the
gentlemen who manage the business Of this
House, that the question Of giving notice
shall come up on The same day, and shall
be taken up before any thing else. 1t is
mere wasting Of time, and whislling 10 the
wind, 10 talk about raising military force
until our conscience is clear from the obli-
Il CATION Of the convention.
And it does not follow that, if we give
nolice, must of necessity be war; nor does
lit even follow iha, we shall then take pos
session. Twill only be saying to Greal
Britain; ;ailer negotiating about twenty years
} about this matter, we do not choose 10 ne~
gotiaate any longer, we shall take posses"
sion Of wha, is our own, and then, il TO SET
lie The question wha, is our own, you wisI
to negotiate, we will negotiate as long a,
you please. We may negotiate after aoe
take possession. Much laughter That
is The military way of doing business. Ia
creased merrimenl. When the grea
Frederick came 10 The throne of Prussia
his father had prepare and equipped f r
him an army CT an hundred thousand mer
Meeting, shortly after IAN Austrian Minister
The latter said to him Your father liza:
lgiven you gre at arny;but our troops hav
seen the wolf: yours have not Wei
vel!,' said Frederick vii! give them al
opportunity TO see the VOLT Frederick
Then added in his memoir; Il had some ex
cellent old preten'ions TO an Austrian pro
vince which some of my ancestors haC
Iowned one or two hundred yonrs before
and 5 en-, an ambassador 10 HE Cour, O
Vienna stating my claim. and presen ting
Itull exp osilion Of ms rights to the province
-The same day my ambassador was re-
eeived in Vienna entered Sllesia with my
army A laugh So You see hat or
The very day his army entered Slesis, h,
gave notice TO The Court OF Vienna tha, III,
conven,ion for the joint occupation Of ST
lesia was ended. Loud and prolonged
laughter
: say, therefore, lha, hope tie frs
measure adopted by Congress be to give, ii
, ,lhe most solemn manner, the notice I,
t Great Britain which the treaty requires
: hen the coas, will be clear for us to d,
, what we please. !, does not, | repeat,
Iioes rot follow as a necessary conseqeunc.
hat, because we give this notice, we mus
a AXE possession, though i, is my" hope tha
= we shall. Ii does not necessarily draw al
n er il war, and If Great Britain chooses /
8 take such notice as an act of hostility o
our part, and forthwith commerce hosililie
on hers, we have been tdld that we shall
= all be but one party, and God Almighty
grant that may be so! II ii shall Be go, ,th
II war will have less OF those very exusord
d nary terrors which my friend from Soul
Carolina (Mr. Holmes has now just dis
covered notwithstanding the extreme mill
Utly propensiues which he .man!fesled OF
Il lhis floor last wear =: ':', ..'