The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-01-15
REMARKS or TuE Hos. ". p. MANGCsi
lE SsxATE-Dceemtcr Is, 1915.

REMARKS or rHr Hos. w. p. MANGc,i.
IL SsxATE-DCccnber Is, ISl5.
MR.. MANGUM said he regretted ex-
ceedingly that the honorable ,Scaaior flom
Michigan had thought il his duiv 10 bring
forward these resolutions at tits lime: md
he still more profoundly reeretGedlh strain
Of remarks which the Senator had thought
proper 70 use. The honorable Senator
had expressed his en,ifc and perfect con-
lidenre in the wisdom and discretion Of
the Executive, and his own perfect cnia.
cidence of sentiment with the Executive.
Ma. CAss disciaimed having used any
such expression.
Mr.. MANCUM said he was not little
surprised that gentleman who felt So
strong a confidence, then. in the Execu-
tive, should have found il necessary to
move the adoption, by this body. of rcso-
lutions OF dis description nj time like the
present. The public mind was inaamed
by the rumors which were spread abroad
concerning the state Of the negotiations
about Oregon. and it was expected by some
that we were to be plunged into war
forthwith. This, then, he considered .
very unpropitious time for proposing the
adoption of resolutions such as these. and,
above all, for holding the language which
the honorable Senator had used this day.
As for his own part. he was happy to say
that the course pursued by the Exerutiye
in relation to the 0regonhad inspired him
with very great confidence in the wisdom
and moderation which would be exhibited
BY the present chef Executive officer, il
the matter were left where it properly be-
longed--in his hands. Ie for one, was
willing to confda The whole matter TO the
Executive; and If war should come. lei ii
come II would be far preferable 10 the
surrender Of any of our rights: butlet he
done legitimate; lei not The subject be
wrested from the hands of the Executive.
And fwareventuaily should come, though
he prayed it might be arerted, saving the
honor and the interest Of. the country, it
would be seen when hereafter the votes
came to be recorded, that there would not
be iaund an anti-war man in the commH-
nifty. No, they might have various COLI
sions of interest and struggles of party on
minor questions; bat when 4 proud, aero
CANT, and, he would adl, grasping enemy
gives blow at us, there would be found
ready TO resist aggressions one solid pha-
lanx of The whole American people. lie
prayed God that the greatest Of i'll nation
al evils might not come upon us: he was
quite willing 10 entrust the negotiation to
the President; and he would say, that, in
his humble judgment, all agitation of the
yituperation. recriminatiOn-all
this was calculated to praeipitato rs into
that condition which every man who re-
gardedhis country's welfare would deeply
.deplore.s r
iIeswas unwilling that these resolutions
should be adopted, Why! Because it
was known 10 every Senator present that
the act was wholly superemgatory. 1t
was the duty of the several committees
namedto inquireinto the state of The coun-
try, so far as then particular departments
were concerned, withoussbeing stimulated
TO the performance Of that duty BY specific
resolutions of the Senate,
Besides, what could these resolutions
bring forhl The reportsof the commits
tee, the effect ofwhich must be to expose
our mpotent condition. Would not this