Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1846-06-13

sport Of the fOX-chase!
Mr. CAsS made negative sign with his head
Mr. BENToN Nor either; but have lea rnt one
of the rules of the sport, which is never 20 attempt TO
ride both sides OF the sapng. The senator from
Michigan seems to have been ignorant Of this rule at
eas, politically for he is on both sides of reenho,v
washing his hands Of him in the beginning of his
speech, holding fast to him in the end Mr. B. said
he should spend no time the Utrecht treaty. but he
would say there were two sets of commissares to be
appointed under the tenth article of that treaty-one
10 detc mine boundaries between the French Canadian
and the British Hudson Bay territories the other to de-
terminc them between French Canada and the Brit s
Atlantic colonies in the SOUTH The former was to be-
done in year the latter without Limitation of time
CommsSarleS acted under the first: they failed 70
agree under the last and these two ses Of commits
saries are COMPOUNDED by Mr.. Grcenow and his fol-
lowers. Charlevolx speaks of these latter commsa-
ries being appointed in l7l9-six years after the
treaty Of Utrecht-and discharged in 1922 without
having come to any agreement. These two are con-
founded and what Charlevox says of the latter ap-
piled TO the former. Such an error this is 50 gross
as to show that there is entire confusion in the ideas
Of those who speak upon tic subject. Mr.. B. COM
planned that the senator from Michinan had slipped
over all tie strong proofs which he had adducod upon
the line of Utrecht, such the kings map Jer.ess
Geography, the exclusion of the British for fifteen
year. from Louisiana. by virtue Of that line and tic
refusal Of the British ministers TO take any notice of
Their complaint
But Mr.: b. would not quit the great point before
the Senatd to SO into an argument about The line Of
Utrecht. The point before the Senate was a declara-
ton Of title the part Of the United Safes Frazers
river and Its yalley, known New Caledonia, aud,
such occupied by tie British without question
since 1856. Mr. b. said this the great question;
for 1t was question of peace or war, and war upon
mistake--a bunder-geograp hcal and political
The blunder was, that the United States had line
with Russia, dividing the country with her from the
sea to the Rocky mountains, and that all the country
on this side was This the political blunder
The geographical blunder III relation to Frazer s
river and lis valley, called by the British New Gale
donla, and which assumed to be part Of
Oregon. There was no such line, and 10 such eX
tension Of our Oregon. The Russian line in the
sea- confined to the islands. Frazer's river and its
valley, covered with British establishments since the
year 1896, covered the country from 80 deg to
40 deg. These were the facts. But the hfy-tour-
tortle>, upon mistake to the Russian line, and
upon mistake to the Frazer river set out to take
that eatire river and valley from the British and,
therefore, to involve in war, and gnorantly
and unu>tliiably, with Great Britain. Th'ir double
had been shown the readings of the treaties
with Russia and Great Britain detected this double
error. The gentlemen who had led the country into
error, who bad prepared them for upon mis-
take, instead OF retractlnr 1t, had tins day taken
their course to persevcre In it And what
upon mistake before now became war upon design
and without preeXt. Dir. b sad, without pre-
H.. 4 q
an hour and half this day, with an instructive dread
OF the fatal POINT, never once mentioned Frzcr's r,-
or; mentioned New Caledonia never
once ven.urcd 10 assert that the United States had
one particle Of claim to that British possession Yet
he would still adhere TO u deg. 40 min. which IN
cudcs 1t; and thus by Inference 90 to for what
he could not even venture to name
Ar. b. aid IL WAS to try the frailty Of poor
human nature. TIE great organ, and five hundred
small ones following its notes. and many ten thou
sand tongues, had proclaimed the d deg. 40 min
inc aud our right up to 1t and, thus acting upon the
patriotic feelings OF the people, had prepared them for
Il war with Great Britain for that line when there
Was NJ such thing; and for Frazer's river. on this
side Of it, without knowing it there. The peo-
pie Lad been led into error lntlamed to the point
upon mistake; and now when the mistake " as
shown, the tug of Their came upon poor human
nature. To admit the error and ask pardon Of God
and man. the part of Justice and candor but this
was humilating vanity and selflovc, and the pride
of consistency. To persevere in this error after it
was detected was the part of human fraty; and The
senator from Michigan, tic part of his party, has
obcyed the law of traiy: he has persevered in
he converts into design what in the beginning
mistake! We are now to have war, as far as the
senator and his party make it, upon design, and
without preeXt; for he could not namc Frazers rv-
or, which is the sole object, and would be the instant
cause of war.
And how does the senator conduct his new design
by cndcavorlng TO make me fifty -our-forty man ;
hy reading INITIATED scraps cut from my old speeches
torn from their context and made by mutilation and
false applications to apply To d dec. 10 min. the
continent when applied 1t II the islands; making it
apply to New Caledonia, when spoke it of the val
ley of the Columbia. had occasion to cut of
the fiji yiourfores for the Simplcs" when spoke
some days ago, and must now do it again-bu first
explain the operation it is only understood in the
West. 1t comcs from horse surgerv-cuttng horses
eyes for the hooks The horse is subject to dis
ease OF The eye, something like cataract, which blinds
HIN; and, when emollicnt remedies fail, the knife is
applied, the diseased part cut away and then the an
imal sees clear SO of the simples The allusion i,
metaporcay to tine cutting for the hooks. and is to
make simpeton clear, by opening his eyes to
what he did not before All these caterers for the
senator; all these searchers among my old speeches,
may look out when they worth it, for the opera
ton OF being cut for the smpleS. Of course, the OPP
Grafton cannot be performed on senator.
A line has been cut from one cf my speeches in
which iflyour forty mentioned. without continent
tai preiixed The Senator from Michigan gravely
parades this line to-day to make me advocate for
tty-tour forty To- the mountains. In fifty places in
the same speech the existence of such line was de-
MED and rdicued. Yet tie Senator, to deceive pco-
pie unacqualntcd with The subject to keep up delu-
sion instead of admitting his error endcavors
to make me an accomp!ce in his error! Well, if he
wants my authority, he shall have it, aud that is that
there IS such line, and was that the honest
feelings OF the people have been misled their patrl
oilSn excited about nonentity, and provoked
FIR what has no existence | tell hin this. if he
wants to quote my authority. Let him confess his
error and recan, If he wants my opinions. give
them TO him freely, and when they may be of service
to HIM. If an individual is leading two neghbors to
quarrel and fight, upon mistake, he is bound to
acknowledge the mistake he finds it out
and 90 and stop the discord which he has created
This Is the course among mere individuals How
much stronger when the quarrel is to be between na-
tons and war the consequence The Senator and