Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-01-10

sdent asked not its advice or nterposon in them Whe
ther they be proper not he alone competent to their
performance and he alone ought TO be held responsible but
If the House thus ineguay untes in authorizing the notice,
voluntarily and divides this responsibility with the
President If the House dsusted the President in this mat
ter might pass montory resolution operating morally to
quicken or restrain his action But is his business that
Of the House In the present state OF the question: without
expressing opinion whether the notice ought ought
to be given and the solution of that question is consttu
onay for him. for him acting with the Senate the House
ought be leave him his proper judgment dis
cretion, and responsibility wherefore,
Resolved That the question whether notice terminate
the convention between the United States of America and
Great Britain of October 1Sis and continued in force by the
convention of August 1897 ought to be given, is
for the decision OF Congress and upon it this House the
present refrains from the expression Of any opinion.
GARRETT DAVIS,
TRUMAN SMITH,
CALEB B. SMITH.
The SPEAKER here propounded the question the com
ment of the resolution and making it the special order for
the first Monday in February
Mr.. PRICE and Mr.. KENNEDY inquired if the motion
could not be amended by striking first Monday in Feb
ruary" and inserting g tomorrow +"
The CHAIR suggested that although il might be compe-
tent to amend the motion in this way yet the question: under
the rule, to put the longest day first would amount to the
same thing.
Mr.. PRICE. make the motion, SIR to amend the reso-
luton by striking out st Monday in February" and insert
ing ssto-morrow."
The SPEAKER entertained the motion, and stated the
question.
Mr.. ROCKWELL, of Connecticut, demanded the yeas
and nays.
Mr.. SCHENCK said the motion to amend was not in
der And, after conversation between Mr. 8. and the
Chair the SPEAKER said, reflection, he believed the
motion to amend not in ORDER it the usual pac-
ce He would therefore, put the question first the long
est day.
Mr.. THOMAS SMITH inquired of the Chair whether, if
the resolution should be merely committed to the Committee
of the Whole the state Of the Union, without making
L.
tent for the committee upon the resolution any time
when the House might be in Committee of the Whole on the
state OF the Union
The CHAIR answered in the affirmative.
The question about to be put the motion of Mr. c.
make the resolution the special order for the
first Monday in February next, when
Mr. ADAMS said he not in the House when the
luton brought in He asked that it be again read
II was read accordingly.
Mr.. ADAMS then inquired if the resolution had been
ported from the Committee Foreign Affairs And if SO,
it the direction of the committee that motion be made
make the special order for the first Monday in Feb
ruary !"
Mr.. C. ]. INGERsoLL answered that the resolution
the of the Committee Foreign Affairs; and that
the motion commit it and make it the special order
made by direction of the committee.
Mr.. GIDDINGS inquired ii, the question of commit
ment the resolution the merits of the question could be
discussed
The CHAIR answered that they could be- to extent
long and interesting debate here commenced, in continue
of the Oregon debate which lasted during the week. The
speakers this day Messrs. GIDDINGS, McDOW-
ELL, and RHETT.
MR.. ADAMS-MR CALHOUN.
In the of the remarks of Mr. RHET offs. Carolina,
he said that he ready go far Great Britain had
gone, might gostep for step, for measurein
relation to the Oregon territory He went for getting Ore
gon in the only way in which could be got And yet
he told that his honor demanded he should give this
notice, and end the existing state Of things, without being
shown ota which national faith had been violated by
Great Britain. II had been said that killing man
made murderer, but killing million made hero. If
man for gross insult called out and shot his feowman in
private and personal combat gentlemen branded him as
felon, and would rejoice TO him swinging gbbet
and they thought honor to stand pyramid ofhuman
heads and wade up the ribs in human blood In their
view this heroism 1t not heroism
War was always enormous crime generally the crime
of both parties engaged in it always the crime Of And
man, with particle Of humanity of religious feeling in
his bosom, could look at any thing but the last the very
last and most terrible And then war,
usually conducted, effected far evil than it did Of
good. The only jusfable against tyranny
prevent the imposition Of chains-wars such
fathers engaged in in the Revolution, and to resist
such aggessions longer olerabesuch had
resisted in our last struggle.
But it said that the South afraid Of II
could not support the President in The North was
vaorous the North chivalric the North ready
prompt, and brave. 1t the South that hung back In
the last the gentleman from Massachusetts the
had shown himself hero by voting aganst but he
rabid for with Great Britain. Though he said he wasor
peace all knew that the tendency and the effect Of his policy
was
Mr.. ADAMS here explain, and, Mr.. RHETT yield
ing him the floor for that purpose, Mr. A. requested to
know whether the gentleman in what he had Just said about
gentleman from Massachusetts, voting against the last
had alluded TO him
Mr.. RHETT said that he had.
Mr.. ADAMS. Then the gentleman is mistaken.
Mr.. RHETT. At all events, he did not support it.
Mr.. ADAMS said that the last with Great Britain had
been commenced in 1872 Three years before that tme in
the year ls09 Mr. A. had been appointed by the then Pres
dent Of the United States, Mr. Madison Minister of the
United States Government the empire of Russia and he
had been appointed in consequence Of the support he had
for years given to the of Mr. Jeersons adminsa
ton against Great Britain. These acts-not known TO
the gentleman from South Carolina.
Mr. A. had thought that, little might be the importance
attached to his conduct and little there Of that
duct known the world, still he did suppose that the
gentleman from South Carolina might have known very diff
erenty from what he had asserted when he said that
Mr.. A. had voted against the against the
which led the The gentleman from South Carolina,
his great anxiety to find fault with the gentleman from Mas
sachuset had used Mr. A. somewhat as in the of
Don Quxote the knight wanted his squire when he
would have persuaded him be dashed for the love Of his
dulcina Thus the gentleman seemed TO ask that Mr. A.
should suffer for the sins Of perhaps others from Massachu-
setts He had nothing Of the Of any gentleman
from Massachusetts, For himself. he cherished the profound
est yeneraon and love for that State and should he be
charged with giving his assent any of the Of Mas
sachuses that time, he hoped would be attributed the
Ignorance OF the honorable gentleman and not to any mag
nan intention Sensation, and manifestations Of APP
pause but the Speaker called TO order
Mr.. RHETT resumed. The gentleman seemed to think
that know every thing about his history arged him