The North-Carolina standard., 1846-03-25
coNGREss-NoTICE.

The letter of our Washington Correspondent,
in another column, will be found to contain
synopsis of all matters of interest at Washington
for the past week. and we invite the attention of
our readers to it. The House, it will be seen,
has passed the Internal Improvement bills -
(On the 10th instant, Mr.. Biggs, of this State,
obtained the floor, and after explaining the consti
tutional principles by which he should be gov
erned in his vote these appropriations for rivers
and harbors, offered an amendment providing for
the opening of Roanoke Inlet at or near Nagg's
Head, in this State, and appropriating 100000
for the same On subsequent day, this amend
-ment was rejected. fhe speech of Mr.. Biggs,
we learn, will be published at length; and as
soon as we receive it we shall take pleasure in
laying it before our readers.
On Thursday the Senate adjourned over to
Monday last, and on Friday the House adjourned
to the same day.
The Washington Union is pressing upon the
Senate with great force, the importance of pass
ing the Notice" forthwith, and without advising
compromise on the Oregon question. That pa
per of the 18th instant says: .-.-.......sr
"The next steamer will tell US of this tone in
view of the notice vote Of the House. We be-
lIeve that that vote ('three to one and one over,
and the word compromise votcd out) will cause,
as without any intimidation, in the vulgar sense
of that word, it may we'll cause, the British tone
10 be yet more pacific. Let the Senate break me
force of that pole, and shake an The eye OF En-
Gland the firm stand of the n1eSSGge-let this be
done IN the Senate by a vote, recommending
compromise, and we carried back again well
nigh TO where we were when the subject came be-
fore Congress /; back from consideration of Mr..
Gallalia's offer,' and doubt whether Mr..
Folks ought to have been refused;' back from all
this, down to the old north branch of the Colum-
bia, by the middle Of its channel TO the point where
it enters the sea- Let the Senate bate one jot of
the pressure Of the alternative, by advising q
compromise, and shall quickly 6nd that the
compromising spirit of England will take its old
stand on the north bank of the Columbia, and
compromise away from it only by steps both small
and slow. THEREFORE it Is that, in view Of the
language of Sir Robert Peel, we trust that the
cond section of Mr.. Coquitls resolution will prove
unacceptable to the Senate-even as il proved un-
acceptable TO Mr.. CriItenden. Ifit be fastened on
the notice. the po1cer of the notice, else so full OF
hope. will be struck with palsy"
We quote still further from the Union of the
2lst instant:
"The debate has been pending near two months
and half in Congress, and no man will venture TO
predict its termination rhen it will end, or hoD
it will end, whether it will come TO any conclu-
sion at all. In the mean time, the House OF Rep
resentatives, instead of acting upon the measures
recommended by the President, and passing the
bill tor organizing two new regiments, and adopt
ing system for protecting emigration and extend
ing our jurisdiction beyond the Rocky mountains,
have been employed upon the episode OF the har-
Dor and river bill for nearly three weeks. Can
statesman doubt the effects of this ndecisve and
vacilating course upon our foreign relations? In
stead of presenting prompt, bold, and united
front, the Senate have been splitting up The notice
into various categories and qualifications refusing
to lend the moral force of their sanction TO the
course of the Administration as regards the notice
and, at the same time, proposing 10 strip him OF
his constitutional responsibility 10y lettering his ne
gotIation with England. Who cannot perceive
the unfortunate consequences of this indecislon
and procrastiha;ion upon the BRUSH cabinet
Along with the deplorable influence of these divi-
ded counses let calculate the effect Of the oppo-
sition OF the whg party 10 our Administration on
the proposition of arbitration and who can be sur
prsed by the tone which some of the English
prints employ on hearing OF the result OF that pro-
position No sooner had the bare outline Of the
last correspondence between MessTs. Pakenham
and Buchanan reached England, by the packet
ship Patrick Henry, than the London Standard, the
European Times, and other prints, began TO show
their teeth, and the merchants on change 10 talk
Of
cit is not too late TO redeem the errors we have
committed. Let advance with decision and
promp;itude-act in the spirit of the message
adopt the notice resolution Of the House of Repre-
senlaives, and throw the President upon his own
constitutional responsibility, and all will be safe.
We repeat, who ever heard of any instance in
which nation, upon her knees, obtained her rights
from Great BritaIn2 We ought 10 employ meak
sure of reace, in a firm but conciliatory language
without Wanting. without any attempt at intinida-
tion, nothing insulting, nothing dsrespectful. This
is :he only by which expect TO OBJ
tain our rights, and secure US Peace-an honorable
peace.
'At home, the course Of Congress seems to OBJ
tain little satisfaction it produces respect
abroad. The country is becoming dissatisfied.
The people are aslonished at the procras,ination
and indecsion of Congress. We have numerous
evidences of this state of the popular feeling. But
tits unnecessary to repeat Ihem."
The very eloquent and able speech of Mr.
Calhoun delivered in the Senate on the 10th in
slant, in favor of the "Notice" in a modified
form to Great Britain, shall appear in the Stand
ard at the earliest practicable period.
Senator Haywoods speech upon the Motto" "
has not yet been published in the Washington
papers.
MESSRS. EDWARDS AND SHEPARD
The last Independent thus notices the romina-
ton of Mr.. Shepard and the withdrawal of Mr.
Edwards from public life. Dissenting as we do
entirely from Mr.. Loring's political notions, we