The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-01-13

pend on that. While we sit talking here
about regiments of riAemen. and regi-
ments of infantry, and stockade forts, and
sappers and miners, and pontoniers, Great
/ Britain is arming her steam-vessels, E.
! quipping her frigates and line-of-battle
ships. and sending troops over here to be
ready. ,csuLd press a resolution giU-
ing The notice THIS DAy, if | hoped that
a majority of the House could be obtained
to effect the measure.
Mr.. Wentworth here moved that the
rules be suspended to afford an opportuni-
ty for such motion; but the motion was
pronounced to be out Of order.
| Mr.. Adams resumed. | feel myself
scarcely authorized to hope that | should
be successful should / make the motion.
| But for this | would have moved it on the
! first day Of the session. Because | have
so profound sense of the duty of adj
herring to treaties, 1 feel debarred from
the least act of hostility, or even from
meeting hostility manifested elswhere, till
notice shall have been given. While our
convention remains, will vote no increse
of the army or navy, no fort or stockade,
no riflemen, no saPpers, or miners. All
must depend on that, IL this bill
shall be made the special order for Tuesl
! day, hope it will be arranged by the
gentlemen who manage the business Of
this House, that the question Of giving
notice shall como up ON the same day,
and shall be taken up before any thing
else, 1t is mere wasting of time, and
whistling to the wind, to talk about rais-
ing military force until our concience is
clear from the obligation of the conven-
| ton.
And it does not follow that, if we give
notice, there must Of necessity be war;
nor does it even follow that we shall then
take possession. 1t will only be saying
to GreatBritain: After negotiation twenty
years about this matter, we do not choose
to negotiate any longer; we shall take pos
session of what is our own; and then, if
to settle the question what is our own,
YOU wish to negotiate, we will negotiate
as long as you please. We may nego-
tiate after we take possession. Much
laughter. That is the military way Of do
WRTn winch Rfaig9fs faig great fItgs5deFfcf came 70 the
throne Of Prussia; his father had prepared
and equipped for HIM an army of an hun
dred thousand men. Meeting, shortly
after, the Austrian Minister, the latter
said to him: ''Y our father has given you
great army; but our troops have seen
! the wolf; yours have not" '.Well, well,
said Frederick, Il will give them an OPP
portunity to see the wolf" Frederick
then added in his memoir: Il had some
excellent old pretensions to an Austrian
province which some of my ancestors
had owned one or two hundred years be-
fore, and / sent an ambassador TO the
Court Of Vienna stating my claim, and
presenting a full exposition of my right
to the province. The same day my en-
bassador was received in Vienna entered
Silesia with my army" A laugh. So
you see that. on the very day his army
entered Silesia, he gave notice to the
Court of Vienna that the convention for
the joint occupation of Silesa was ended.
| Loud and prolonged laughter.
say therefore, that | hope the first
measure adopted by Congress will be to
give, in the most solemn manner, the no.
tice to Great Britain which the treaty re-
qulres; then the coast will be clear for us
to do what we please. 1t does not, re-
peat, it does not follow as a necessary
consequence that, be cause we give this
notice, we must take possession, though
it is my hope that we shall, 1t does not
necessarily draw after it war: and if
Great Britain chooses to take such notice
as an act ..of hostility on our part, and
forthwith commence hostilIties on hers,
we have been told that we shall all be but
one party, and God Almighty grant that
it may be so! If it shall be so, the war
will have less of those very extraordinary
terrors which my friend from, South Caro-
lima Mr. Holmes has now just discovered
Notwithstanding the extreme military pro-
sensities which he manifested on this
floor last year.
The gentleman was most valiant man
when Texas was in question. But |
shall draw no comparison as to what we
witnessed then and what we see now;
but this will say, that | hope, if war
shall come-which God forbid, and of
which entertain no fears at all: the whole
country will have but one heart and one
united hand. And of this am very sure
in that case Great Britain will not long
occupy Oregon, or any thing else north
of the Canada line. Great sensation,
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ofapplause. But
if you will agree to give notice, strong as
is my horror of war, and Of all military
establishments, if there should then be the
breath Of life in me, hope | shall be will
ling to go as far as any in making any
sacrifice to render that war seccessful and
glorious. | can say no more. But, till
notice is given, am not prepared to vote