Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-14


ken in connection with certain omissions the part Of the
Executive that when he us that the President
would feel himself in honor bound accept his own offer il
now recpocaed by Great Britain, he spoke that which
knew 10 be true And this opinion yet strengthen
ed and confirmed by what oundo be the effect Of his speech
ON the two Senators have naed-the leaders if they will
permit me to call them Of the uists this subiecI
mean the Senator from Indiana (Mr HAssxsAs and the
Senator from Ohio, (Mr. ALLEN. He must have been an
undscernng witness of the which took place in this
chamber Immediately after the speech of the Senator from
North Carolina, (Mr HArwoop,) who must not have seen
that those two Senators had consulted together with the view
OF asceraiang how far the Senator from North Carolina
spoke by authority and that the result of their consultation
determination to catechse that Senator and the bet
ter to avoid all mistake that they reduced
writing in order that might be propounded to him by the
Senator from Indiana, (Mr HASSEGAS and If was not
answered, that then TO be held constructvely
swered by the Senator from Ohio Mr. ALLRS) What the
result Of the deioueme do not pretend know
this will venture say that in the keen encounter of wits
to which their cooqny ed the two Senators who commenc-
ed got rather the worst Of the My hope and belief
has been yet further strengthened by what has since hap
pened The speech OF the Senator from North Carolina
made Thursday and though week has nearly elapsed
that time notwithstanding the anxious solciude of both
those Senator'S and their evident desire the public right
on that subject, have from that day this heard from ne
her Of the gentlemen the slightest inmation that the
sucion given to the message blythe Senator from North Ca
rolna not true
Mr.. HANNEGAN. refer the Senator to the columns Of
the government paper.
i
one who has right to know what all the relations Of the Pre-
dent are that the paper he audes the
paper because, read what is in the government paper
to which he refers, 1t clear the
that the Senator from North Carolina right and the Sc
majors from Indiana and Ohio wrong. It was my
purpose TO have made of extracts from that paper the
organ Of the Government by but have it adj
med rom very high authority that that paper the organ
OF the Government | believe, however, there was time
when the Senator from Indiana would have very promptly lis
claimed the authority Of that organ.
Mr.. HANNEGAN. do not speak beyond the authority
which find in the paper itself.
Mr. JOHNSON. That is quite sufficient / am content
with the Senators judgment being quite correct But
resume On Friday night after the which have al
uded and which apparently threw much dsmay the
few the many whether they few or many will appear
hereater) who go for $40 4O war, and after the ae
ton Of the President must have been called to what had
ed in this chamber, told in relation the conduct
which the President is likely pursue this
his future must be judged by his past conduct; that
whether he will accept the offer Of 400 may be decided by
the fact that he formerly offered 400. Nor is this ALL In
cautious and honeyed words o which the editor Of that print
is so complete mastery he reads mild lecture to the Sena-
tors from Indiana and Ohio, and all who with them
their views OF this matter After saying Of Senators on this
side OF the chamber who evidently enjoying the
cations which took place the other side Of and chuckng
over what the storm foreboded the editor gees say
The generous spirit OF the Senators will prevent their repe-
ion Our friends from Indiana and Ohio are no longer
ssen caiechsng the Senator from North Carolina They
are all the friends of the President As much as to say to
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remarks will him from his course disturb that
selbaanced equanimty of spirit which graces the Chief
Magistrate, who IL determined TO do his duty, amid all the
difficulties that bese his path whether they proceed from
political enemies his friends at home from the Cab
nets Of foreign os" Whatever therefore rnay pro-
coed from the Senator from Indiana (Mr HAssKsAs or the
Senator from Ohio, (Mr ALLES,) told that the self
balanced mind of the Chief Magistrate will proceed in the
course OF duty regardless of all difficulties, they from
what source they may. If that is given by authority from
the President then conceive that the Senator from Indiana
is the leader Of forlom Sope A laugh
MIR. HANNEGAN. hope, however, that will lead TO
victory.
Mr.. JOHNSON Then it viii be a victory over your own
President. A langh.l
say therefore, that though my mind the commence
ment Of this session. and since the inaugural address WAS
delivered had undergone the most intense and agonixnr
alarm, is comparatively easy and is 80 from the
settled and abiding conviction that the President esecs him
self " honor bound to settle this controversy herea nc
be my object to prove that the honor Of the country sound
TO that settlement
will now advert to facts having bearing on the
controversy in regard to the question Of title.
And the first fact which advert is that from 1899 To
the present hour England has been the practical
OF rights IN the disputed territory connexion originally
with SPAN from the year 1872 in connection with the Uni
Ted States as standing upon title before 1875 and
by the express authority and recognition Of the United States
by the convention Of the 10th Of October lsls renewed
the 9th OF August 1927 and continued the present hour
space OF than fifty years. To what extent she epov
practically alleged the possession of rights coast that
those rights recognised by SPAIN and from 1892 TO
practically recognised by the United States and om 1918 10
this day expressly recognised by treaty. about which
there can be no controversy How did she the rights
thus practically exercised Whence were they derived (vbe
her correctly or not is another question y but whence did
she pretend TO derive them First from discoveries Of her
own Her second ground was that that whole territory was
IN such condition that exclusive right sovereignty over
existed IN naton and that the convention of Nooka
was founded on the principle that the and territory were
10 such anomalous condition TO be open settlement and
occupation by any and every nation wherever settlements
not previously been made This the ground assumed by
England What stood in the way Of its acknowledgment
First the Spanish title acquired by discovery and alleged su
the ground Of discovery and possession and third the Rus
sian title supported in the same way
Whhe England in the of these rights by whom
were they ever questioned Not by the United States ill
recently not by SPAIN after the treaty of 1890 not by Rus
sa after her treaty with England in 1924 And ms far as
we are concerned treaty in 1927 went ON the admission
else those who negotiated it false their trs that
there were rights in England portion OF that
territory Now, when the treaty Of 1918 made the Uni
ted States Government far from claiming right to the
country under the Spanish title for claimed on our own
right directly against the title Of SPAIN We claimed by our
own discovery and settlement made in the exercise
OF our own alleged national ghs-ghs were inconsist
ent with the title of any body else whether that title was
legged 70 rest on discovery possession any other ground
rom I75 to this day. Spain has had possession OF any
part OF the territory north Of 42o and during the greater
OF that time having lost her possessions the interior and
lost all her American colonies of every kind she has had no
fooihod since 1919 the American continent From 1895
10 1878 Is twenyour years and il Spain barred by the
aoanuonment OF The coast we claimed under Spain in 1919
might not our title well he said be barred also
Now IN my Judgment would be better for the respective