The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-04-16


had yet to learn the more difficult lesson, to know
HIMSELF and until he learned to do so, he should
| have TO wait for an answer The gentleman had
! taken on himself the high and assumed Office Of
yindcating the House Of Representatives; but he
could derive no right from that To treat that
! body (the Senate) with a want of respect As 10
any feeling he (Mr. c. might have in the adoption
OF that resolution, II was altogether absorbed in the
interest he took in that body in which he had had
the honor OF sitting many years, and which the
gentleman thought himself authorized to character.
lze paltry, umd Iremulous sort OF thing and
so formed as to avoid responsibility. He (Mr. CT
could tell the senator that that body and the indi-
yldual members OF il who framed the resolution,
had as httle sense of doing wrong the senator
! from Ohio, and he felt he belonged to a body not
accustomed 10 put up with unfounded charges, how
ever yehemenIy made, and enforced by all sorts Of
gesucuauon. IL the force Of the gentleman's argu-
ment was TO be measured by the extent and ygor OF
his manlpuIauons, 1t would be altogether unanswer-
able lie would say again, he could not stand there
and hear that body mIsrepreseBted as the gentleman
had done. He made partial, voluntary, and, in
ms (hr, C's) opinion, dangerous advocacy OF the
loHse OF Representatives. What was the House
OF Representatives that 1t wanted such an advocate
VINO had srraIgned Them Who did not respect
them; What member OF the Senate who knew
no" 10 respect his own dignity but knew
they were Coordinate branch Of the legs-
azure; Whtn was Il ever before said, the
governed
by majority Of the House Of Representatiyes n
that House, If they knew their high station, think
that body as servie as the senator from Ohio
seemed to DO, laid by all Independence Of character
and allowed themselves 10 be controlled by the action
Of the House Mr.. President a. the presidinp ofcsr
OF this body, lapPea TO you TO know IT, in all m,
gentleman bad said, he had not violated something
more than the rules Of that body-if he had not VIC.
ated the great principles OF American legislation
as well as the rules Of the Senate And how were
they 70 respect gentleman who did not know how
70 respect the the body 70 which he belonged TIL =
body are not thought 10 be Influenced by the pro
eeeding ofany other, and His out Of order TO MAKE
II question here. IL Ill becomes the gentleman to
set limits TO the action Of the Senate much less IN
hector It over them as be Attempted TO do. How
should they like 10 be told in the other house that
ought to follow certain course because the senator
} mad voted In certain manner He trusted II he
knew anything Of the matter that no such language
! would obtain there. II was altogether without pre-
cedeni. The President would hide behind no
vote, the gentleman said. Did he mean to IN
stnuate that the Senate was hiding behind
a vote Was that his meaning? II not wa. il an
innocent sort Of rhetoric, that had no meaning in ~
; The gentleman was very anxious for unanrmity
Oh, yes: Was ever the like heard A gentleman
IN the minority in that body 10 be constantly slpp!.
eating for unanlmity. That was the gentleman
asked the majority 10 abandon their position,
I and so over to the minority. Now did the
comprehensive genius of the gentleman sugges,
} no other mode of producing unanimrty. Tha,
would not do. They were TO regard, as heretofore
I unhe' died. that invocation OF unanimity. They
we're to look upon the gentleman as the standard
alone, under which courage, patriotism, and unanim-
uy were 10 be found Yes, il was the fag that was
( to bear witness of those who were under il and
I the gentleman was to be the standard there He
Mr.. o. should suppose It possible to be quite pat
nouc, and 10 have as much bravery as is required IN
the ordinary concerns Of life and not rally under
that standard The gentlemen seemed to have high
E .lalms 10 invoke that unanimty, because he told
the Senate that, many long years ago he stood soil
n AIRY and alone. Was he then much in favor OF
unanlmity as now: Did he 60 over for sake of it al
asst: Oh, no: but such had been his influence that al
mankind had come round him and hocked to his star
2 lard Could not the gentleman allow them FIVE YEAR
10 think on the matter or did he want instant sub
n mission? He (Mr. c thought when the vote wa.
= commenced today 1t was 10 be nothing hut vote
he remembered, the senator from Ohio arose in hi,
place the other day and exhibited the greatest soil
ude that this subject should be brought TO an end
r And what now was the case His own appointed
time had come, and Il seemed to have onIv the ef
feet OF quickenng the desire Of the senator for pro-
crastlnalon. The country would have great res.
son to congratulate itself that he chose to stand
there for FIVE years. till all the world saw the wis.
ION of his course. Achilles in his TENT The osn
tleman now found for the first time that the princ
pies IN one portion Of the amendment were entirely
inconsistent with the other. The President recon-
mended notice. This resolution authorizes him r.
! give 1t. WHAT was there inconsistent in tina,
What more did the resolution dee IL declared thai
under the prevailing state OF things il WAS d.srabl,
to terminate the convention and in that view author
$ ICES the President to do so. Now, he would ask
0 was there anything inconsistent there? As he IN
derstood IT, II was quite in conformity with the rec.
' concentrations of the President notwithstanding
e the discovery now made, for the first time by the
senator from Ohio that it was not He (Mr G
= would he ~.
e IN such discussions; but he would neither sit no,
c stand there to hear snch supercious and arropan,
language addressed to them had been pronounced
n there. They had enough of it, 1t seemed to have
personal effect on all the gentlemen around him
E There was scarcely moment between the word
4 and the blow. He trusted, however superabunAa,,
the patriotism and bravery Of the gentleman thew
J would not have repetition. He hoped there would
DC little forbearance on the part of gentlemen thai
they might not be frightened from their propriety
Inc gentleman might get up panic if he continued
and there was no saying what would be the conse-
quenoe. He (Mr. c. had heard of panics stanape-
does, and all that and such might be produced there
But they were told they were hiding behind vote
e differing from the House of Representatives. and
violating principle. Before sitting down he would
take occasion to say, he hoped the President would
get all Oregon. He would be very willing to sub
e NIT TO 49O if that was the best we could do: but he
Mr.. C.) would not like To be placed upon record
s as occupying such position as that attributed to
! the Senate IN speech made by the senator from
Ohio on former occasion. Mr. C. here read ar
extract from the speech of Mr.. ALLEN in which h,
spoke of the Senate as having passed bill former
y for extending the jurisdiction of the United State.
overthe whole of Oregon. He (Mr. c. though, the
Senate never passed such bill, The senator mich
/, not be correctly reported. There was, he remem.
oered bill before the Senate that perhaps obtained
majority of votes, egislating on it as England
had legslated, and extending our laws over all III,
territory during its join, occupancy, and having iu
rIsdictlon over the whole of it, rs our exclusive
or particular right, but applicable only to our owr
citizens within the prescribed boundary. He MIR
. @ would assert they had or claimed no excIusiu,
= right. No question of the kind was raised NJ
, such question was involved. The bill provided ex
pressy that 1t was TO operate only on citizens o
the United States settled within those limits and
bounds. 1t legslated for it in its then condition
subject to joint occupation. And there il wa,
given TO the public in that document that major
~ OF the Senate of the United States did vote tina
we had clear and unquestonabe title to the whol,
1 Of Oregon. The gentleman NAV be numerically re.