The Columbian fountain., 1846-02-11
Reported for the Columbian Fountain.
Twenty ninth Congress:
FIRST SESSION.
s e N A L e.
TUESDAY, February 10th, 1916.

1hltCI Uy the INet. iuo'oh,
the journal was read and Mr.. Speight rose and
presented resolutions of the State OF Misslssip-
pi in favor Of the whole of Oregon, and also,
Incidentally in favor Of the adoption OF Mr..
| Aliens celebrated resolutions, against the IN
reference Of European Government in the al
fairs of this continent Mr.. Speight observed
that the resolutions did not instruct himself or
his colleagues, which he considered compli-
mentary, and stated that as he never had been
| great stckler for particular modes OF ascer-
tanning the wishes of his constituents, though
he was not instructed, still he should vote IN
pursuance Of their spirit and intention.
| Mr.. Chalmers also stated that he should
support them.
| The resolutions were laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
| number Of private petitions were present
ed by Messrs. Mangum. Dix, Dickinson,
Breese, Pennybacker, Morehead, Ashley, Ar
cher, Sturgeon, Dayton, Johnson, Yulee and
Bagby. Messrs. Johnson OF La, Breese, Yu-
lee, and Niles introduced some bills and busl-
ness of no general importance.
Mr.. Hanegan moved the printing OF $4,000
extra copies Of the recent diplomatic correspon-
dence, which was carried.
A message from the House was received
with the engrossed bills in relation to custom
house officers, and also the Joint Resolutions
on Oregon as they were passed yesterday,
which
| Mr.. Cass moved should be referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
After the House resolutions on the Oregon
question had been read, the original resolutions
of the Senate were read, and the amendments
Of Mr.. Hannegan and all other amendments,
except Mr. Mangum's (similar to Mr.. Kings in
the House, that Mr.. Adams stigmatzed as ''lhe
last and most timid Of them alp which he de-
clined having read, not intending to press
them.
Mr.. J. M Clayton objected to motion made
that the Senate take up the Oregon question
he wished to conclude the debate on Navy
bill Al; but the Senate decided by yeas % to
NAYS 22 in favor Of Mr.. Cass's motion; and
Mr. Allen took the floor. He said it was
now SO years since the country declared itself
independent, and 63 since England acknow-
lodged our independence, and yet at this hour
over 800 miles Of coast, British law rules, Bri
tish judgments are rendered, British executions
are enforced, and British penalties incurred
while our jurisdiction is not eXtended-there
twenty-eight years have we negotiated, and
our President informs US at the opening of
Congress that further negotiation is vain; it
becomes Congress to adopt such measures as
shall secure our rights and protect our people
We cannot evade action now, because nom
action is the most important action now. If
we do not adopt the measures recommended
by the President we forfeit all claim to all the
| territory, and incur the suspicion OF the whole
world, that we dared not act. The question
is, has this government the nerve to assert its
rights. 1t is too late to question title, it is pos
session now. On the question of title we
stand committed before the whole human race,
by % years of claims asserted-by standing
convention Of treaty with the Emperor of Rus
sia, wherein we claimed ownership, PRUSSIA
| then claimed as far south as the 5lsto Of north
lat and yielded up 10 the line Sd deg. 40 mn
l-REp.)-(See Tanners Map)-by the sol
emn vote of the House of Representatives,
by the solemn voice Of the nation confirming
the declaration Of the Baltimore Convention,
by: the declaration made by our President when
his oath OF office was fresh upon his lips, by
his declaration in his first annual message, by
the vote OF to ! and over in the other
House yesterday, and by, stronger than all,
the deep rooted conviction OF the hearts and
the heads of the whole AMERICAN people. We
are before the world, and we cannot hide from
before the nations. 1t remains to be seen, if
senators will walk up to the work. That is of
more importance than the land. 1t is not pride
in battle; it is pride of nerve, energy OF will
in pertinacity of purpose. He glanced at Eu-
rope, whose chief power we are at controversy
with, and he reminded senators that there
were no territorial disputes now unsettled in
Europe. Their system was settled at the fall
of Bonaparte. The powers of Europe have
nothing else to do but TO bring the whole
world under the government of five European
sovereigns, or, rather, he said, four men and
one woman. Russia had 100000 men in
Asia England had l0O,000,000 subjugated
persons in Asia Also The French in Africa,
England and France in South America, (and
here ne instanced the matrimonial alliance be-
tween French prince and princess of the
only monarchy in North or South America
taking armed possession Of the mouth Of the
second river in importance that flows from the
bosom of South America and France and
England, at the mouth of the Mississippi, in
terfering in the Texas affairs.
He then went elaborately into the Ashbur-
ton treaty, and showed not only that England,
when she pretended to negotiate to settle "all"
difficulties, always left some open. In this
Oregon was left unsettled, and he proved
that it was by duplicity designedly lett open.
So, also, was the Creole affair, the Caroline
affair, and the impressment question. His
speech was most remarkable one, and was
listened to with profound attention. He asserted
and reiterated the assertion, that Great Britain
dorod NOT oc fo tuor c;p0Io andad. and hoU