The New York herald., 1846-01-17

progress OF the debate upon the Oregon question,
members have indulged!in quotations of poetry, who
among the last men we should have suspected
OF being accessory to the fact II only shows that
while are the most utilitarian people IN the world
there is great deal OF music in our souls" when
you bring us TO the test.
Poetry quoted in the Oregon debate =
BY Mr.. Adams
Your father has given you great army but our
troops have seen the wolf ; yours have notD "Weil.
well" said Frederick, will give them opportsni-
ty to see the wolf"
BY Mr.. c. J. Ingersoll-
Fear in public councils, betrays like treason
A land OF
Antres vast, and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch
heaven"
This was Oregon, as Mr.. l. understood it.
BY Mr.. Winthrop
E' snimo semper fui inuidiam rirute partam elo.
riam, inridiam, putorem."
BY Mr.. Baker, Of ILL.,
"Rapt dream or solemn vsiOn."-"The whole or
CyB.." The tongue which God had placed in the
" The last echo of host o'erthrown."
" Like the Sultan sun,
Struggle upon the fiery verge Of Heaven"
BY Mr. Geddings-
"You have prepared the cup,
And will press it to your lips,
"Let say that desire a slave insurrection but
sir doubt not that hundreds Of Thousands of honest and
patriotic hearts, will laugh at your calamity and mock
when your fear cometh."
BY Mr. Rhett-
mo with the United States can be little war"
The whole of Oregon"
move"
BY Mr. Hilliard of Ala
That little speck of "a cloud, bigger than mans
hand"
"And many banner shall be torn,
And many knight TO earth be borne,
And many sheaf OF arrows spent,
Ere scotlands king shall cross the Trent"
Shedding disastrous twilight over half the nations"
Westward the star Of empire holds his way.'
BY Mr.. Yancey, of Ala
"onthe, GramPan hills his father fed his flock,
frugal swain"-
But that the good old man had kept him
:" An only son at home"
But
"He had heard OF battles, and longed
To follow to the field some warlike lord"
"Welcome be Cumberlands steed tolthe shock,
Let him dash his proud foam like wave on the rock
But wo to his kindred and wo his cause,
When Columbia" her claymore Indignantly draws
When her panopled warriors to victory crowd
Brnvehearted and true, and dauntless and proud,
Their swords are a million, their bosoms one,
They true to the last of their blood breath
And. like reapers descend to the harvest of death
BY Mr. Giles, OF MIDI
britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep,
Her march is o'er the mountain wave,
Her home is on the Deep"
" For freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeatbed from bleeding sire to son,
Though bafiied Oft, s ever won"
Mr. Caleb B. Smith, OF Indiana-
:" Manifest destiny"
" Beard the British lion in advance"
+" Are you ready for war 7"
Mr.. Levn's speech was all poetry.
BY Mr. Hamn, of Maine
And let that flag, which
" so proudly drinks the morning light,
Ger oceans wave in foreign cline,
symbol Of our might"
Float only the homes OF free people.
Then, in the inimitable language of our own dis
tinguished poet
"Widc shall own free race increse
And vide extend the elastic chain,
That binds in everlasting peace
State after State-a mighty train"
" To damn him most supremely, call him Hastings"
"And the gun of nations natal day,
At the rise and set of tho sun,
Shall boom from the far Noreast away,
To the wales of Oregon
And ships on the shall Iuff and tack,
And send the peal of triumph back"
BY Mr.. Chapman, OF Michigan
" This is gun boat, MOL,
Wiggle waggle went her tail,
And pop went her gum
The conclusion to be drawn from all this is. that
war and poetry are very nearly allied-that love,
music, patriotism, blood and murder and poetry.
often 90 hand -in-hand THE DoCToR.
N.B We have missed several speeches but we
have given enough show that poetry Is not abso-
lutely gone, like the days of chvalry and the min
strel boy.