The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-02-19
Correspondence Of the Baltimore Patriot
CONGRESS--IMPORTANT-THE
OREGON RESOLVES PASSED
IN TIE HOUSE BY A TIRE
MENDOUS MAJORITY.

ENDOUS MATURITY.
MONDAY, Feb. 9.
The Senate was engaged all the morn
ing on private bills.
The House went into committee Of The
whole on the Oregon resolutions.
Mr. Il. B. King, of Georgia, spoke hi.
hour. He made vi gorous attack upon
The administration FOR consistency and OBJ
slnencv on the Oregon question. He
imputed the blame of the present. state Of
affairs TO bad influences operating on the
Cabinet Ministers. The claim 20 the ex-
elusive right to all Oregon, was first start.
ed in Baltimore, as political game, and
WAS never heard of before,
The declaration in Mr. P0lk's inaugu-
raj, that tour RICH 20 The whole Of Oregon
was clear and unqucs!iona5Ie," came up
on US like an unexpected lhundcrcla7.-
Then followed England's declaration, by
Sir Robert Peel, that she had rights in
Oregon which she wou'd maintain and
then followed the offer Of Mr. Polk TO make
the 49lh parallel the boundary. How
dared Mr. Polk to make such an offer, if
he believed our claim go,d for the whole.
Mr. King asked Mr. Adams, respectfully,
TO give his opinion OF our right 10 all Or
,,o-whe,her he regarded il as clear and
unquestionablc
[Mr King here wi,hdre,' the amend
ment he had previously offered, for rcIeiS
ring the question 10 arbnralon.l
Mr. Adams repIied-that the question
of Mr. King was susceptible OF Two mean.
ines. If a question simply of right was
meant, then he considered it clear and in.
Lispu,able. But if all that IS disputabIe. is
meant, then our title is not clear and un>
questionable.
Mr. King resumed. He limited at
Disposition to connect Oregon and the ia
riff, and to obtain the whole Of the former,
at the sacrifice of the latler-and denounc-
ed all such Bargaining.
Mr. Adams next got the floor. He bad
the Goth, 9Th, and 28th verses In the first
CHAPTER of Genesis read by the Clerk as
the Foundation of our claim.
He also got the Clerk to read the 6'h
verse in Second Psalms, as follows:
8. Ask of me, and | shall give tAet
the heathen for thine Inheritance, and the
ul.ermos, paris Of the earth for Thy pos
session.
And he also had another passage reaC
commanding the children OF the earlt
to 90 forth, to multiply, and subdue.
He said that this was controversy be-
tween Christian nations. The Pope wa:
generally believed, formerly, 10 be the sue
SCISSOR o( Him, who gave the command
quoted from scripture. The Pope gavt
to Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain, al 0
this territory. That Spain, originally ha(
H the litle--not very good to be sure -ba
the same by which EnglaLd has alon
held lreland. The treaty Of 1918 wa
/ no., Mr. A. commended, for "jOimt occu
pancy," bu, expressly for "o"- occufan
Mr. A. wanted it terminated, so that W
, might have a valid title to Oregon, by ac
! .ual occ upalion-and then go on TO peoP'
g il. Chrislanize it, aud make II bIosso'
] like the rose.
S MIA. wanted The resolution authoriz
ing the notice TO be given, to pass, IN
. larger the majority by which 1t shout
S pass, the better, =,
i When IN the midst of his argument, M
A s hour expired. The House was a
+. auenlion-lhe galleries deusely crowde
G many Senator's on the floor Of The Hall
e aud Vice President Dlllas, and Secret
n ries b lchanan and Bancfoh were pres
Z EN-.
e Mr. A. having taken his seat, great e
IS forts were made to suspend The hour ruI
/, 10 allow him 10 go on, and Ihey "ou
II have succeeded by a large vote, hot II
y motion was changed by Mr. 9 inge
,y soil 80 as to postpone 6oal action III Y
10 mortow-and 10 ibis form the JesoIu'lc