The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-07-11

lar as this Government is concerned, which
} surrenders TO Great Britain more than here
toiore WAS ever offered her-a treaty prepar.
by that rapacious Power, and thrust into
! the councils of our Chief Magistrate We
give up all north ofthe 10Th parallel and on
! y obtain that line to the Straits of Fuca. We
surrender the whole of Vancouver's Island
where the line of the 49th, if carried out
would have given us one third oft, and with
that one third the command and control of
the "Straits" We surrender to England
the navigation of the Columbia river so long
as the charter of the Hudson Bay Company
continues, which am informed is perpetual.
These are some Of the terms ofthe treaty, as
gather them from the public papers, aud il
il Notifying and trucking enough; but what
will he thought of the Administration, it,
when the veil ofsecrecy is rent asunder, and
the doings of the Senate shall appear il may
be seen that all the best lands between the
49th parallel and the Colunbialhave been set
tied or squotted by the Pugets Sound Land
Company, and are recognised as rightfully
belonging TO English subjects, ay more than
this, sir; | greatly fear that fertile lands and
choice positions north and even south of the
Columbia have been guaranteed TO the Hud-
son Bay Company. ........ ...
The voice of the honorable chairman ofthe
Committee on the Territories, (NIr Douglass,)
who see before me,is tuneless now-his he
roic bosom beats no more. Why sleeps his
! indignation, and wherefore is still that tongue
that can deal out such deadly invective and
scorching rehuke? Where are the political
| friends ofthc President in this House? This
hall is as silent now as the remotest seques-
tration of Oregon itself Is there no indfg-
nant voice to hurl back its scorn'at this be-
trayal of party troth? Is there none now
strong enough to sing the praises of Oregon
of American people and American rights
there?
"And must this theme, so long divine,
Degenerate into hands like miner"
Sir, it is not for so humble person as my
selfto NEEDLE in this party strife; but had
supposed, that ere this, some of those who
led in the Oregon debate would have denoun-
ced the catastrophe, or attempted an excuse
for such an unaccountable gyraton. If such
sudden veerings of Executive opinions, and
such n reckless abandonment OF proclaimed
rights and principles, under the subterluge of
treaty, be permitted 10 pass without com
ment or rebuke, the day may come when
"some Caesar, with n servle Senate at his
heels" will howl forth the requiem ofdepart-
ed liberty. ...,
When, in the early part ofths session, the
venerable gentleman from Massachusetts,
MIR J. q. Adams,) with prophetic ken, fore
told thar there would be no war withEnglaud,
felt and acknowledged the truth of this pre-
diction. believed with him, that ifthe Pres
ident was true TO himself as he stood COM
United on the Oregon affair, aud that if his
friends in Congress would manfnly sustain
him, that England seeing this, would aban-
don her pretended claifns-that she would
not go TO war with us; but scarcely credited
the other part of the forewarning-that there
was no danger ola conflict because this Ad-
minstration would back out-that it could
not be kicked into a war with England
Sir, l was deceived; recent events have
verified the wisdom and sagacity of that IL
lustious man; the Administration can neth-
err be kicked nor cuffed into war with Great
Britain: her naval and military power alarm
and shock the nerves ofthe Representatives of
the Western impulses and the Southern chiv-
airy. Speak ofTcxas and the war with Mex
leo, and all of us, from the President down,
are vainglorious and valiant. With feeble
imbecile Mexico, rent as she is by her militia
ry factions and heartless rulers, we can act
as we please but mention war with Eng
land and the scene is changed the gaunt and
palid spectre of fear comes trembling into
these halls, and winds itselfinto the cham
bers of tho Executive mansion.
- Ideem it due to my most |
and well-beloved coleagues-the |
members from PENNSYLVANIA
to condole with them in this the hour of their !
and to offer them my sincere sym
pathy for the distressing and perilous condi-
ton to which this bill,the work and the pet of
the Democratic majority in this House, has
brought them. Theirs is case that strongly |
appeals to the most merciful consideration of.
the committee. Pass this bill, and what can
they say when they go home? Their people
were told that there was no danger ofthe tar
if of 1872 Polk was better tariff man than
Clay, and his letter to ]. X. Kane was tor
ured into an evidence of his fondness for the
ariff of 1S42. That letter answered its pur-
poses. 1t enabled cunning and adroit poll
icians to deceive some ofthe people in the
ariff States, and it obtained for the person to
whom it was addressed Il judgeship in the
courts ofthe United States, But this judge
,hip will not satisfy many ofthe constituents
If my Democratic colleagues. They will be
,lamorous to know how the President and
he Democratic party came to break down the :
ariff of 1912. My colleague from the York :
district who addressed the committee the ,
,ther day, very truly said that the tariff was
lot party question in Pennsylvania Mt the
asst Presidential election. The Wings he
old us, tried to make it so, but the Democrats
oiled and defeated the issue. All this is as L
rue as preaching. Well do remember that I
he Wings ofPennsylvania battled for Henry q
Jlay as the friend of the tariff of 1842, aud '
hat the Democrats claimed greater merit i
or Mr. Polk for the same cause. We got up u
meetings. and PROFESSIONS, in which we re- !,
olved to support Clay as the friend and early q
hampton ola protective tariff. Our friends =
n the other side out numbered our meetings d
, proclainiing Polk as a better tariff man IA
nan Clay. We invoked the muses. and re- a
aled the people with all sorts oftarif' songs, |,
,,,l,;ot uanrv CLAW was Unidentified with the u