The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-29

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the profits Of the company depend economical arrange
mentS for the quantity ofpey in this section OF the
Try and indeed the fuTrade this side Of the mountains
has fallen on fifty per cent in the lastie years ~ - ~
deed reported that this business at present hso'
| puHuinga
The English writer, already referred TO- COM
menting upon this, says:
"Thisis confirmed by statement which we have now
before ofhe compsnys whole mporatOns for 1894 snd
OF their imposons from this Columbia (which includes
the whole Oregon n SsI nsr 70 S s .nsS s
hunting unds 39s skins OF the value OF fIS9So ~
owhieh Oregon furnished only so9 skins valued at on
been only 6T6ls skins valued at f56749 l4s We have
Is a %SS America for the ysaT sndng the t Of
l5l II Is 2l2 There many single manufacturing es.
Adjustments Ia Eng lansuch the Great Western cotton
factory in bristol OF Mr. Manhalls, in Leeds-whieh keep
In activity much larger capital employ much greater
number Of persons and give much larger annual produce
than can be prStcated OF company which IL the actual
proprietor Of territories larger than the British Islands, and
has the exclusive use oil region greater than the whole Of
Europe!"
This is the situation Of Oregon. England cannot
colonize IL; can. The only trade there which
they care anything about is fast disappearing; II
has become already comparatively unlmPoTlant'
The English have ,2l2 subjects there. We have
been told, in this debate, that we have already sew
en- thousand ciuzens IN that territory, and before the
adjournment of Congress we will have ten. Under
these circumstances is there any necessity for this
"hot haste" in terminating the JOINT occupancy
think not. Every day we are getting IN better
condition there. In short time, in the language Of
Col. Benton, in a speech made during the last Con-
gress on this subject
Let the emigrants 20 on and carry their nnes We
want their thirty thousand rifles in tbs valley OF Oregon
Tsat Britain for the dominion Of that country The war
II 1t comes, will not be topeal will not be confined to
ers through the globe. Thirty thousand rides on the
Oregon will annihi8te the Hudson Bay Company, drive
hem on our quiet their Indians and protect the
Missouri the Platte, and the Arkansas and In all the vast
region Of the Rocky mountain"
The English and the Indians almost exclusively
under English influence, are disappearing almost as
fast as population is augmentng. The Sec
rotary Of War informs Us that the number OF In
dams at this time IN Oregon are about forty thou
sand but they melting away before the advance
OF a civilized population as snow before the sun;
During my stay at Vancouver says Captain wilkes,
II frequently CSSenoye the chief Of the KlackaiRck
tribe. lie lord Of all this dominion His village
situated about six miles below Vancouver, the
north side OF the river and within the last fifteen years
quite popnlous he then could muster four ave hundred
Warriors but disease has swept on the whole tribe, Is
said they all died within three weeks He stands
alone his land tribe and property oil departed and hele
on the bounty Of the company"
The melancholy fate Of this Indian is fast becom-
ing the fate Of his race. But the gentleman from
Illinois Mr. DoUGLAssl says this mode Of getting
Oregon is stealing It. IL is unnecessary for me to
say do not agree in the opinion, any more than |
admire the mode Of expressing it. desire, Mr..
Chairman, that may not be misunderstood upon
the point have been last arguing. do not insist
upon any protracted delay in settling this question.
Whatever may have been the wisdom Of such a
course originally, It is now impossible. The pub
lie mind in the two countries has become excited
upon it, and it must be settled But do not wish
to restrict the period within which this may be done
| TO twelve months, particularly when, as | have
shown, we are losing nothing by the delay, and
may, in the mean time, prepare for the worst.
| But, sir, such of us belong to the republican
party, have been told that the President has recon-
mended the giving of this notice, and that such of
us refuse to vote for it, abandoning the ad-
ministraton. This is purely party view ofthe sub
iect which scorn. The President has referred the
whole subject to a coordinate department Of
| the government, and we will act unworthy Of our
Selves II, in dispoing of II, we are Influenced by
any other consideration than the dictates of our own
judgment. The question is merely one of expe-
diency, which involves principle, and one about
which gentlemen may well differ. This is not
party question. IL 1t is, the gentlemen from Massa
| chusetts Mr.. ADAMS is the leader of the party;
and for one will not follow his lead. But do not
understand that such of us oppose giving the
tice until we ready to give it, and in the mean
time express desire to get ready to give il, go
| ing counter to the recommendations of the Presi-
dent. His recommendation is unrestricted as to
| time. He does not ask us to give il to-day or to-
morrow-at this session the next. He has not
recommended that this subject should be taken
up at once, 10 the exclusion of everything ese and
| pushed through at once. We can give the notice
| six months hence, or even at the next session, if
intervening events shall render il unnecessary
| The Congress will still be composed of the same
members. Charles James Fox used to say that
the maxim "never put off until tomorrow what
you can do to-day" was fit only for lazy men, who
could not be depended upon for discharging each
day its appropriate duties. His maxim was, 'never
do to-day what can be well done Tomorrow
| In politics il is the kim of wisdom. III 1t had al
L Uu bee w fron hOI
rors would it saved themi Often, often accident
| would have done for them what their statesman
ship had not. p
| In view Of some of the considerations which
have presented, do not mean to say that will not
for the notice, if nothing shall before the
adjournment Of Congress to make it unnecessary
provided | see Congress setting about in earnest
to prepare for the emergency: But will not vote
for it now. Tomorrow | may regret it if | do
Tomorrow l cannot regret not having done it to-
day; for, if shall then the propriey of it, can
do it at once. What | am willing to do now, is to
carry out the other recommendations of the Presi-
! dent. | am willing "to extend our laws regulating
trade and intercourse with the Indians east of the
Rocky mountains TO such tribes as dwell beyond
them" | am willing to vote ''that provision be
made for establishing an Indian agency and such
sub agencies as may be deemed necessary beyond
the Rocky mountains" 'For the protection OF
of emgrants whilst their way to Oregon, agains,
the attacks of the Indian tribes occupying the coun-
Wy uHouSh Which uicy pass am VIKING 10 pro
vide "that suitable number Of sockades and block
house forts be erected along the usual route between
our frontier settlements the Missouri and the
Rocky mountains; and that an adequate force OF
; mounted rihemen be raised to guard and protect
them on their Journey" | am willing to extend
"the protection of our laws, both civil and criminal
over our citizens in Oregon" All these recommen-
dations of the President am willing to aid in car
ryng out. But, for the reasons ] have given, can.
not vote at this time for giving the notice for the
termination of the convention of 1918.
But we have been told again and again that the
Texas and Oregon questions are twin sisters, cou-
pied together in the resolutions of the Baltimore
convention; and, that the Texas question had
been consummated, such of us al attached import.
ance to its success, are now bound to aid in consum
mating the Oregon movement. The first answer to
this is, that no one proposes to abandon Ore.
gon. The only difference between US is as to
the best means of securing it. We do not differ as
to the end, but only to the means. In the second