Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-02-28

l1Es 05u6hg ERdptuBa Hi9Hlh2 IAdt bHe A9d
ding Of 1t be postponed and make il the orde-
of the day FIR Tuesday next, to which Mr.
Read objected
The speaker hoped that the member from
Baton Rouge would withdraw the objection
1t was no longer q question between riga
towns. ! twas a question in which the whole
State was concerned, AID he should wish e
have a more iull attendance of It's representa-
lives on so important a question.
II was then made the special order Of the
day for Tuesday next.
Tho House then adjourned TO 10 o'clsck
A. NJ on Monday next.
0REsoN.-The news from Washing
ton ID of very little Importance, If we es-
empt tho rumors Of q probable arrange
ment Of the Oregon question by a cont
promise with the friends Of Free Ttade.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore American, writing on the 18th
thus speaks in reference to the subject:
The runners are becoming so current
that the Oregon question is to be coupled
with the Tariff, and the hitter sacrificed
TO the former, that do not feel at Liberty
longer to remain silent upon q subject 80
important. The free Trade members of
Congress have suddenly taken a more
satisfactory turn Of mind upon the two
questions. The Secretary OF the Treas.
ury, too, is about sending in his plan for
a new law, and there are many indica-
tons which shpwthe following facts /:
That a Tariff will be reported with a
30 per cent basis, In which will BIZ inctu.
ded all cotton goods, hemp, &C., but
which will embrace exceptions in favor
Of coal, iron, sugar, moIasses and ready
made clothing these articles to bear "a
duty of 80 per cent. Woollons, coarse
fine, and worsted, will pay a duty Of %
per cent, aad shawls a duty of rs pei
cent.
This tariff, / am well assured, will prove
60 satisfactory 10 the British Government
that if it becomes a law, there will be no
difficulty IN the way Of compromise of the
Oregon question, upon the basis of the
4ofhdegree of north latitude. The bar
gain, in a word, is in contemplation, by
which the tariff will be sacrificed, and the
Oregon question settled.
The Committee of ways and Msa ms
have had tho object ef ths revised tariff
before them this morning.
The Baltimore Patriot Of the 14th has
the following ;
We copy into another column reports
from Washington, which reach us through
Eastern papers, that the President is a
bout to send in a messages, asking that
Congress shall define what are il, rue
boundaries Ct our Oregon claifn-lnd
that he will recommend military prepara-
tons ia lhs same message.
This report it il insisted by the writer,
who gives it out, TO be we'll founded. l.
seems to US 10 have probability 10 sapport
it, and, if true, is perhaps intended to re.
Iieve the President from any seeming
backing out from his claim to all Oregon,
we have, at the sams time, a rego t
that il is already agreed that the Oregon
boundary II settled on the line Of the AZ
parallel, with conditions that amount {,
giving up all manufacturing III this coun-
try and depend on Great Britain for
what we may want in that regard, except
iron.
Against any such bargaining We should
object for the evil of the thing itself.
Whatever are our rights 10 Oregon they
have no dependence on the amount ofdu-
" we may impose on English manufac.
lures, and are 10 be insisted upon only
because they are rights. IF to make up
what may be regarded as doubtful title
to any or all of Oregon, it be proposed to
sacrifice the protective policy, which now
gives employment and secures remunera
ton to all who labor, and 10 which we
trace whatever of prosperity the country
enjoys-ift this policy is to be sacrificed
for any orall Of Oregon, we say hat no
evil, not even that Of war, isgreator than
such a sacrifice would bring. We de.
sire 10 see the Oregon dispute settled
wa believe, have ever believed, that it viii
be settled amicably-but if it is only TO be
settled by sacrificing our domestic indus
try, then, we say, let it ever remain a
cause of contention, and if war is to
come from il. '.let it come."
If Mr.. Polk must back out-if he
must give up something-.much better
that he should give up all Oregon, than
that we sho1ld abandon our manufactures,
reduce TO ideness our mechanics, and
bring the price Of labor down to the
standard ofihe panpers Of Europe. Bet
Ter, much better, we say, that all Oregon
should be given up, than such consequent
ces should be imposed Oh the country.
III il said. in the letter we have referred
to. (which we copy from The New York
Express,) that d treaty for The settlement
of the Oregon question with the condi.
items we have denounced, will be ratified
by the Senate. We do not believe that
the American Senate will so humble it.
self before British influence AMI British
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. III, however, we have
placed loo high an estimate on those who
now compose the Senate, we have full
confidence that the people Of the Uaited
States will take care to right themselves
in all good time.
The bitter quarrel between ex-Psesident
Adams And SIR. c. IageFsoIl Is said to have
been ADJUSTED. A iettsr writer tells the fol-
aRecdote IN regard u the recoacil-
iation
A member Of lhe House observed to Mr.