American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-02-13


The Vice President presented the reply Of
the Secretary Of the Navy in regard TO the in
guiry touching a Dry Dock at Pensacola.
A few unimPortant memorials were present
cd.
Bills for the relief of Quack enboss & Co -,
sureties for Swartwnuti and for the relief OF the
legal representatives Of George Duval, Che
rolee Indian, were passed.
Messages in writing were received from the
President.
Tho special order, Oregon, was then resumed.
Mr.. J. NJ. Clayton called for the reading Of
the joint resolution, and also the prop0scd sub
stItuto offered by Mr.. Crttenden. These hav-
mo been read he roDarked;-We have thus
two distinct propositions before us for giving
this Notice; the one proceeds directly from
Congress, bile the other devolvcs upon tho
Presidont the responsibility, saying in fact that,
with all the information in his possession, he
may act according to his best Judgment. He
preferred and should vote for the latter, but 1t
was in no spirit Of iactous opposition that he
opposed the former On questions affecting
our Foreign Relations he never had known any
party. End trusted in God that no Senator
would place his views upon party grounds
Ola the questions of the North East Boundary
and the French Indemnity there had been, as
he we'll rocollected, no party divisions He
hoped there would be none here.
That there was any danger OF war he could
not believe; for although the President had
;eked Us to give the Notice, he had not follow
uu up the request with the slightest ntinatlon
that it would lend TO war; nor have We had
from those officers whose duty it would be in
the event of such danger, the Secretaries OF
War aud Navy, any propositions Tor warIike
preparations On the contrary, the bill for in
cteasing the Navy was accompanied with let
ter from the Secretary of the Navy, saying that
1t was not a war measure, but needed Tor the
p tec,ion of our commerce. To suppose that
the President and his Cabinet had brought US
p, he verge OF war, in Vie present defencelesS
condition of the country, without the smallest
animation Of tho hazard, was impossible; and
vet he confessed, if he looked to the correspon-
dence alone, he saw not upon what grounds
the question was to be settled. The President
of the U. States has the power of provoking q
war if he choose; if he (the President do so,
he should deeply depIore it, but the fault would
no be his. To discuss tho question oftitle, ex-
cept in Executive session, he held to be impro.
peT--it was one ofthosc delicate subjects upon
Which he held it to DO eminCnlly his duty not
10 speak until he was spoken 70. But the Sc
nator from Ohio Gays we are committed on that
quostiou-cou'Uitled hoW--hy the action OF
the Baltimore Convention! / hose wAo chose
might take this pori'san ground, but not Ia.
lie should vcto for the II office os prolosed by !
the Senator from kontuciyy, because he belize
we'd it the usipicut step for settling which
ought to be speedily settled, for az The Senator
from Indiana, (Nr. llaoncgau,) had well re-
marked, II douhio-hcaded government, could not
exist without collisions, which would lead to
war.
MFR. G.. then passed to the Senator from
Ohio, mir. Allenl whose extraordinary l0ngu-
age, IN speech Of two days, would 90 10 the
world as coming from an individual at the
head OF the most important committee cf this
body. From the beginning, that gentleman
had studiousy sought to aggMvajc existing
difficulties, and maintained hat the "hoagts OIL
the people should DO prepared iog war"-bnt
all that he had done TO excite our c0untrymcn
was not half so bad as the effort to excite the
English against us, by telling them that they
dared not" 90 20 war. What American, but
would feel Justly indignant if such ,nguagc
was INDUCED III towards us by any member OF
the British Parliament. Humble az he was, he
undertook to advance tho opinion that the
sentiments Of The Senator from Ohio, were not
responded to by one-thrd of this body, nor by
the President and Cabinet, nor ty Congress,
nor by the people.
While he was not of the class who would
deprecate either our adyefsariGs OF ourselves,
he held it right and cmnently proper to go
into the question of relative preparation for
war; und the tenor Of the whole speech Of the
Senator from Ohio in this respect was rebuke
upon the Hon Senators, (NlessIs. Cass aud
Iiauuegan) who had already moved upon this
question. There Mr.. C. went into long sta
tistcal details to slew the relative naval
strength q tho great commercial! powers. The
SUM Of i. .'ds, Chat while for every 100000
tons Great Britain had Gao guns for defiance,
for TIE same amount We had but 100. Great
Britain gave I, France 10. Russia IS, Den
mark s, Sweden !, and Holland times as
much protection TO their commerce as We did
10 ours
SIR, the people Of this cOuaIry DO act desire
war. Ii they could be assemble in ono great
mass in front Of the Presidents mansion they
would address him in much the same language
- that employed by his couaselogs to the
conqueror Of Agiucourl, when he inqyiryd
concerning his claims to France.
God forbid
ThatyuH should fashion, wrC>t o., bow 0UF reading
CIR nicely charge your understanding soHi
Mnh opening titles miscreu'2, whose ts1t
suit u0l in native c0Icfs with The Truth,
For God ooh know how many no" ia htl!Lb
Suall Grup their blood IN ap rIJlUOn
q, What your re pcWucc III al inClte u to,
Therefore take heed bow III inratn our person,
t'"s you awake the sleeping word Of wax
VI charge you, in the name of GOD, take heed.
4 war between England and tho U. States
would bo the carnival Of death-thc vintage Of
the grave So those who had the power Of
bringing on the catastrophe, he said, in tho
name of God, take heed!
p MIR. Hannogan next took the floor, when The
Senate passed into executive session, and az
ter short time thus spent, opened the doors
and adjourned until Monday next.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MIR. Stephens, by consent, submitted reso-
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