Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-05-13

The Senate, 1t Will be seen, have dOdg-
ed the responsibility of giving notice and
thrown it upon the President, who is bound
according to Mr.. Crittenden, to settle the
question by negotiation. How this is to
be done when we have offered everything
that any man in either house who has yet
spoken will agree for us to offer, and that
offer has been Indignantly refused, Mr.. G.
did not undertake to say; but merely dealt |
in the round assertion that it must be set
tied, and that the President would be re-
sponsibe if it was not, and let him beware |
of such a failure. Most of people that
we have conversed with seem TO think |
that England and her diplomatsts will be |
chargeable with whatever calamitles may !
grow out of their refusal TO accept the par !
allel of 40. But our Senators are 50 re-
fined that they dislike 10 say or do any
thing Of strangers, and consequently they
are willing to blame their own government
with any thing when it comes IN contact
with foreign power, particularly, If that
power be England: Such politicians would
have never signed that immortal document
that gave us independence. Their nerves
would have been unslrung to have called
/ George the Ill tyrant and a villain, as
/ nc was. The tea tax and the stamp act
were not half the provocations to war,
that we have borne from this oyergrown
power many time since with impuaity,
or than the taking from us portion OF
our territory Is, rather than talk of war,
when there is no more danger OF Eng
lands declaring war against the United
States, for her pretended rights to Oregon,
than there is that she will make war upon
the sun because it cannot penetrate the
mists and smoke that hang over her
gloomy metropolis. Free Trader.
Mr.. WEBsTER.-Ibe ARnUjty-As con
siderable curiosity has been expressed as
to the annuity conferred on Mr.. Webster.
we copy the following statement of the
New York correspondent of the Charles
ton News:
II may not be improper for ne to alIaGe
to the annuity spoken of by Mr.. Webster
At various times The political friends Of
Mr.. Webster have been called upon to
raise large sums of money, to relieve him
from pecuniary cmbarrassments, These
demands were promptly met, for the Wings
= of New York and Boston are generous
men, who do not mind few thousand dol
lars to help on a cause or man.
Though Mr. Webster has received enor-
nous fees in his legal practice and can al
ways command them, and though he has
received two fortunes, by his different mar
5 riages, it has frequently happened, as
said, he was in pecuniary difficulties; and
believe that there is no improperly n
abiding to matters of such common no
toriety. At one time, large sum said TO
! have been $4,000, was raised to enable
him to 20 to England and SO let the PEG
5 pie of Europe have a sight of the Ameri-
can whom, OF living men, according 10 the
y gentleman from Alabama, they esteem
next to Washington. This sum Mr.. Web
e ster expended in very short time, witt
the addition of $4,000 received from thu
house of Barring & Brothers, for taking
), which latter sum he was at the time Sc
yerely censured-whether justly or no
p | shall not presume to say.
These frequent calls upon the friends o
d Mr.. Webster for large sums Of money
which lasted him scarcely so long as Ih'
1t time spent in raising them, induced them
with a prudence much to be commended
u to raise at once a sufficient sum, to CIV
=, hun certain annuity, sufficient to sup
port him for the rest Of his days, and be
d yond which his friends would not 90 IN ia
lure, leaving the funds for any extra eX
e pendItures 10 be supplied By his own eXer
tons. This course OF proceeding ma
n seem unusual, and it is not common in th
country at least, but it may find precedent
. abroad, and certainly evinced the liberaIt
n of the Northern politcjons.
er CONFIDENCE IN THE PEoPLE.-A move