The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-14

all around the world" Sir, the gentleman from
Virginia Mr. PENpLErosl need not be under any
soleitude for the repose Of the youthful Queen so
rudely disturbed by the patriotic bearing and mill
tary fame Of General Cass; the indications on
this floor from so many gentlemen that with
them discretion ID the better part Of valor" will
eiiectuaLy alay any apprehensions she may have
INDUCED. The gentleman has so little regard to
our rights IN Oregon, and TO our claim TO that
territory, that he says he would not give the paper
on which the deed could he written for the 'whole
OF Oregon" to-morov-and why' IL is too far off
we don't want IL; II is not worth fg. Sir, was
this the language Of our revolutionary sires when
they resolved TO resist the power of Great Britain
Was It the language of the American people at the
purchase of louisiana Did they then say, this
territory is too far away--we don't want lit is
rot worth a hg' He says II will take some six, or
eight, or ten months to 60 TO Oregon by sea- but
am told that we 60 the whole distance of fifteen
thousand miles in four months; while England has
TO go nearly twenty thousand; and we make the
iand Journey of three thousand miles from New
York In three months. r-t
One word as 10 the language used by the gentle
man from Massachusetts, Mr.. WErnHorl mot
the venerable ex-President. There is a material diff
ference in the opinions Of the two gentlemen. This
gentleman la laugh said that on the whole, II was
little doubtful as To title but he thought that of the
two, we had the better title. But then he asks, are
we going to turn sayages, and fght Great Britain
for such strip of territory In his regulsr-built
speech he does not say savages, but brutes. Are
we going TO turn brutes and brute force TO
support our tItle' This may sound we'll from the
representative Of the city in which il was resolved
that II was unbecoming moral and religious people
TO rejoice at the victories achieved by gallant
tars over the boasting "nstress Of the seas" and
from the portion OF the Union that held out blue
lights 10 guide the fleets Of the enemy but II docs
not Sosnd very well TO an American ear, and is not
very paatabie to an American heart. He says, #
6ghf 0TeOon a will he "a If mar
brute force. | ask him, # Oregon Is ours and 1t
shall come eventually TO the last resort Of sOyer-
eighties, whether he would not employ "brute
force r." 10 maintain the rights of his country Our
fathers employed "brrte force" in question grow
ing out Of trhng tax upon few pounds Of tea,
and that too, IN Boston, the gentleman's own cradle
of liberty.
The representative OF the Charleston district Mr..
HoLIEs acknowledge that he IS afraid and he
asks If we went out with rife to rescue stray
sheep from the fangs OF wolf, and when we reach
ed the spot, found sheep in the jaws OF lion,
whether we would not be afraid too, and 60 back
and get eight or ten rifles more | would meet the
figure used by the gentleman by saying that our OBJ
Iect is To prevent the lion from getting hold Of our
sheer" but the gentleman from Charleston Is not
willing to loan his rife and that South Carolina
rhe is lust what | want in this contest. Il was ef-
fectve in 1916 and 1912 and why should 1t not be
in 1886 The gentleman from Virginia Mr.. PEspLE-
roN endorses the declaration Of the representative
Of the Charleston district and says he too 10 afraid
Well sir ask what has created this sudden panici
remember that once a British army invaded this
District and consumed this Capitol with fire. The
gentleman from Virginia was then, probably, play
ing and sporting the green lawn; or, schoo!-boy
like, was "bobbng" his pnhook, in hope Of cap
turing a ''minnow," in the babbling brook When
he heard the booming Of the dlstnn; cannon, and
beheld aar of the rising smoke that marked the bar
barian triumph Of tho invading Inccndares-nay,
u,ns orohahlv within hearing of the rolling of the
British drum the mere thought Of which now strikes
terror to his heart. One might have imagined that
the recollection Of flaming Capitol and the insoent
riumphs Of the royal myrmidons, would have en-
kndled the fire of patriotic indignation, and awaken
ed ardent desire for opportunity of avenging
ourselves upon the aggressor, and wiPing oot in his
Blood the tncmory Of his atrocities and his nso.
lcnce. But the ghost of former days rises but in
terror and dread to the gentleman, and he frankly
acknowledges that he is afraid. In making such a
confession, | feel very he does injustice to old
Virginia: such cannot be her sentiments; no, never
But these over-cautious gentlemen most ur-
gent in their efforts infect others with their fears
II we but shake our hand at Old England are
reproached with gasconadng. We are told of her
power, her resources what she has done, what she
can do, and what she means to do. But, beg of
gentlemen, they are not willing to 60 for this no.
ce to cease undertaking and depreciating the abi
ty and the willingness Of the American people to
defend their honor and their interests, when assaed
from any quarter, hswever powerful. Mr. Clay, in
1872 when addressed by the submissionists with
similar arguments, exclaimed "Cease to proclaim to
us the arms and the power Of Great Britain" His
injunction would apply with equal pertinacity and
force in 1916.
Sir, how humliating must 1t be to an American in
foreign land, when he reads of the glory, the pow
er and the nvncibty of the British nation herald
ed by members Of an American Congress an ar
eument to deter it from asserting the national rights
and honor. How, ask, will such declarations of
our inability to defend our just rights, and cope with
an enemy that our ancestors successfully grapped
WITH in infancy, before we had distinct natonali-
ty fall upon the ears of those veterans Of the revou
tion who still lnger amongst us' Will they not be
ready to conclude and with reason, that this is truly
degenerate age, when the roll of the British drums,
that only directed them with hearts of steel to the
enemy, heard by their offspring, after the lapse of
half century, with "fears"
Sir, in maintaining what we conceive to be our
national rights in declaring to the world that IN the
hearts of the American people there is still burning
brightly the fires of l776, we are reflected upon-l
| had almost said with sneer-as the "war gentle
mem" we charged with "gasconading;" yes, gas
conadng If it be gasconading, let us, for the hon
or of our revolutionary sires, gasconade on the side
of our own beloved country. Truly there has been
gasconadng, even to the rafting of Engand's morn
ing drums, producing that sensation which, trus,
in God, will never be felt by but one Virginian; and
if felt again expressed in the halls Of an Amer
| 1Can COnBrcsS. dsh, Cah INC seutiIisHS VI ulc
gentleman be the sentiments of the "Old Dominion''
Here Gen. ATKINSON, half rising, said, no, new
er; and God forbid il ever should.
| But the gentleman says we must negotiate. Well,
sir, we have done it; we have been negotiating for
nearly thirty years, and we are now just where we
were in 1879 But, again, we told we must set
tie this long-pending question by arbitration: And
who are we to select the arbitrator Russia
She is a member Of the holy alliance. Austria
She is also member Prussia She, likewise, ie
member of the holy fraternity Of despots France
She, though not nominally, 10 also in feeling and
principle with them And why not submit the
question between us and Great Britain to the atb
trament of any Of these powers' Because the end
and object of the holy alliance is to check the ad
vance ofrepublican principles throughout the world
And the feelings Of the French government towards
US and republican principles is pretty wellindicatec
by her recent conduct in Texas, and her presen
wanton and unprovoked attack, in conjunction with
England, upon tho Argentine republic. Russia hal
been thought Of by some as likely TO be an impair
tia umpire, but there would be special reasons fo
her leaning on this question to the side Of Gree
Britain. II the Wolverines, the Hoosiers, tn