Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-06-18

Mr.. BENTON spoke about an hour in reply TO Mr..
CAss. He asked him if he had been engaged in the
sport of the fox-chasei
Mr.. Cas- made a negative sign with his head.
Mr.. BENTON. Nor either; but have learnt one
of the rules of the SPORT which is to attempt to
ride on both sides of the sapling The senator from
Michigan to have been ignorant Of this rule, at
least politically; for he is on both sides Of Greenhow
washing his hands of him in the beginning Of his
speech, holding fast to him in the end Mr.. B. said
he should spend time the Utrecht treaty, but he
would say there two sets Of commssaries to be
appointed under the tenth article of that treaty-one
to determine boundaries between the French Canadian
and the British Hudson Bay territories, the other to de-
termine them between French Canada and the British
Atlantic colonies in the SOUTH The former to be
done in year; the latter without limitation of time.
Commssaries acted under the first; they failed to
agree under the last and these two sets OF commits
saries are COMPOUNDED by Mr.. Greenhow and his fol-
lowers. Cbarleyoix speaks of these latter commlsa-
ries being appointed in 17l9-six years after the
treaty Of Utrecht-and discharged in 1722, without
having come to any agreement. These two are con-
founded and what Charevox says of the latter is APP
piled to the former Such error as this is so gross
TO show that there is entire confusion in the ideas
of those who speak upon the subject. Mr. b. COM
planned that the senator from Michigan had slipped
all the strong proofs which he had adduced upon
the line of Utrecht, such the kings map, Jefress
Geography, the exclusion of the British for fifteen
years from Louisiana, by virtue of that lne and the
refusal of the British ministers to take any notice OF
their complaints.
But Mr.. B. would not quit the great point before
the Senate, to 60 into argument about the line OF
Utrecht The point before the Senate was a declara-
ton of title the part of the United States to Frazer
river and It's valley, known New Caledonia, and,
as such, occupied by the British without question
since 1906. Mr.. b. said this the great question
for it was question of peace war, and war upon
mstake-a blunder-geographica and political
The blunder was, that the United States had line
with Russia, dividing the country with her from the
to the Rocky mountains, and that all the country
on this side This was the political blunder
The geographical blunder In relation 10 Frazers
river and It's valley called by the British New Gale
donia, and which assumed to be part of on
Oregon. There was no such line, and no such ex-
tension of Oregon. The Russian line was in the
sea, confined to the islands. Frazers river and Its
valley, covered with British establishments since the
year 1906, covered the country from % deg. to
40 deg. These were the facts But the hty-four-
fortes, upon mistake to the Russian line, and
upon mistake to the Frazer river set out to take
that entire river and valley from the Britlsh and,
therefore, to involve us in war, and that gnorantly
and unlustifaby, with Great Britain. Their double
error 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 had prepared them for a war upon mis-
take, instead of retracting it, had this day taken
their course to pcrseVere In 1T! And what was war
upon mistake before, now became war upon design,
and without pretext. MIR. B. said without pre-
text; for the senator from Michigan, in speech of
an hour and half this day, with instructive dread
of the fatal point, mentioned FraZers rIv
err never once mentioned New Caledonia; never
once ventured to assert that the United States had
particle of claim to that British possession Yet
he would still adhere to 81 deg. 40 min. which in
cludes it, and thus by inference, 60 to war for what
he could not even venture to name.
Mr.. b. said it 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 "a deg. 40 min-
line, and our right up to 1t; and, thus acting upon the
patriotic feelings of the people, had prepared them or
war with Great Britain for that line, when there
was no such thing; and for Frazer's river this
n side of it, without knowing it was there The peo
pie had been led into error inamed to the war point
: upon mistake; and now, when the mistake was
shown, the tug of another came upon poor human
nature. To admit the and ask pardon of God
and man. was the part of Justice and candor but this
humlating TO vanity and self-love, and the pride
of consistency To persevere in this error, after II
e was detected, the part of human raiy; and the
senator from Michigan the part of his party, has
obeyed the law of ailty he has persevered in error
he converts into design what was In the beginning
y mistake! We now to have war, as far as the
senator and his party can make It, upon design, and
without pretext for he could not name Frazer's riv-
err which is the sole object, and would be the instant
cause of war.
And how does the senator conduct his new design
4 By endeavoring to make me fifty-four-forty man
: by reading muated scraps, cut from my old speeches
T, torn from their context and made, by mutaton anC
false application, to apply to 81 deg. 40 min on TIM
. continent when applied it to the islands; making
apply to New Caledonia, when spoke it of the val
: ley of the Columbia. had occasion to cut o.
q the four-fortes for the simPles when spok
= some days ago, and must now do it agan-but frs
explain the operation it is only understood in the
% West. Itcomes from horse surgery-cutting horse
!, eyes for the hooks The horse is subject to dis
of the eye something like cataract which blinds
him. and, when emollient remedies fail, the knife il
:, applied the diseased part cut away, and then the
: mal sees clear. So of the simples. The alusion i
70 metaphorcay to the cutting for the hooks, and is
70 make smpleton clear by opening his eyes t
what he did not see before All these caterers for tn
senator; all these searchers among my old speeches
70 may look out when they worth it, for the opera
ton of being for the simples. OF course, the op
= Grafton cannot be performed on senator.
If line has been cut from of my speeches il
which ftyfour forty is mentioned, without continen
6 tai prefxed The Senator from Michigan gravely
parades this line to-day to make me an advocate 70
81 hty-four forty to the mountains. In fifty places i
=, the same speech the existence of such line was de
MED and ridiculed Yet the Senator deceive pco
= pie unacquainted with the subject, to keep mp deu
- sion instead of admitting his own error, endeavor
;s to make me accomplish in his error! WE'LL if h
wants my authority, he shall have it, and that is, tina
there is such line, and was that the homes
n feelings of the people have been msled their patr
- otsm excited about ncnentity, and a war provoke
for what has no existence. | tell him this if h
=, wants to quote my authority. Let him confess hi
81 error, and recant, If he wants my opinions Civ
> them to him freely, and when they may be of servic
o. to him. If individual is leading two neighbors t
or quarrel and fight, upon mistake, he is bound