The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-30

1.-The number of square niles, and, II am correctly
informed is far superior in climate and in the fer
tlity Of the soil In this view Of the subject, and
in view also Of the great commercial position il oc-
II cupes on the pacifc (which viii give Il the COM
mand of its trade) and its condguty TO some Of
the most wealthy nations earth ask IL there 10
western representative here who Is willing To sur
render of il to buy peece from the dictator
Of the world Is there an American representative
here who would in view Of the indignant rejection by
j the British minister here of the propositions Of
compromise submitted by the President, advice or
consent that they should again be offered God
forbid honestly protest against further negotia-
ton. | doubt and seriously doubt, the power OF
i the President and Senate constitutionally 10
transfer the soil Of this country, and her citizens
upon IL TO any foreign power whatever. Such an ex-
ercise Of power would be Inconsistent with the spirit
| and genius Of our Institutions, and dangerous 10
the liberties Of the people
\ I think, from what the President has said in his
message, that the doof OF negotiation is closed,
and that the time for action is arrived and ii The
prophecies Of gentlemen to be relied on, that
war is inevitable, that action should not be mo-
ment delayed. The defenceess condition Of our
coasts from east TO west, and from north to south,
and the hum Of usr preparations beyond the At
antic, at least admonish us 10 defsfsse pfepara-
| ton. am sick OF the cry OF negotiation and pro-
erarthation, when we cannot ,nsintnn rights
and have either, while, If sSgscious gentlemen here
be correct the elements ofwar Dire thlchenlng around
| u.s. and threaten shortly great moral explosion
| that would wake up the civilized world from its
cples, throughout its broad extent, that would
mould its history, ~ institutions, its destiny per-
haps for centuries yet TO como.
lthas been said, and not inapdy either, that The
systems that govern the moral world are not UNI
like those that govern the planetary; differing in
this, though that the orbits OF the moral, though
as yariform, are not a. unalterabe. The orbit
of the English government has no settled bounds,
and her revolutions and conquests for the last
fury serve TO demonstrate her powers Of extern
sion, by the corresponding dlninution Of the
spheres OF the systems that reyoiSe In Contiguous
space, and Whose political and commercial yali-
ties have been absorbed by her power aud buried in
its vortex. Who ever dreamed, when the East In
dia Company created for mere commercial pur-
poses and thrown out as a stem Of the government
ta tree that II would strike deep its roots into the
soil Of India; and that now lin the nineteenth ceniu
nv, Engsnd, through its fundamentally, would |
be WELDING her imperial sceptre over the vast en-
pre Of Hindcstan, and the destnies other one hun.
bred and fifty millions Of people, Who would, al.
ter tracing the history Of her progress there, and
looking upon the blood-rfiarked boundaries Of the
conquests she has there made trust her professions
ofafeeton for our country and It's prospective DIES
tiny' No American, hope.
Sir, regretted the other day to hear il said upon
this floor that would subject ourselves, by our
eagerness for the acquisition Of Oregon, to the
charge preferred against US by England, Of lustng
for power and the acquisition of territory Sir with
the permission Of the House, will read from the
Democratic Review few extracts that have been
imbodied in that work, taken from British papers,
showing the principles that govern the action ofthai
government in relation TO acquisitions, &c. They
are as follows:
"In India we (the Bntish) shall be mpcsd ire
sistiby to extend our domnions till zoe hare reached
The natural limits ofhs empire, when the impulse Of
conquest will cease of ITSELF .. .f
VA hirth art hat Il. all
must for some time continue to be- the sormai state
Of our (England's) existence In the Eest' In ac-
cordance with which doctrine, we Americans might
well ask what those natural limits OF the United
States, where the impulse of annexation will cease
of itsefi
Sand is not growth the normal STATE also Of B<sd-
eral Unon7 Another Of those who, as Engiishn,en,
| regard with such holy horror the ambition of the
United States, proceeds, as coanseiier ~ the Esa
India Company, to hold the following language
The pear hangs mellow on the tree, ready to be
shaken down. So the fate Of the Punlaub is
sealed; it is to be taken into subsidiary alliance and
to follow the footsteps Of Hyderabad, and Dude,
and Gwalior, and some score other of British
| allies and tributaries, if SO they to be
called. OF course the necessity Of this movement
is undeniable. A state which cannot govern it.
self must be governed by its neighbours; for the
interests OF humanity are at stake. Without an
efficient government territory soon becomes a
public nuisance-the harbor Of dsaffecton and out
tons and wars. 1t is enough that territory is in
so disorderly condition to entail on its neigh
bors the necessity Of continual, inconvenent, and
expensive precautions. 1t is enough that it involves
more oppressive police, large standing army, or
any other Interference with the Liberties and innu-
mites of peace. Such is the state Of all that region
enclosed within the Upper Indus and its tributaries.
Bloody revolutions, insolent and Febellious SOL
diery, ruined and distracted people, keep north
ern India in perpetual alarm. Selfprcservaton
compels the neighbors to abate the nuisance Such
is the necessity not the duty, which now devoves
on that great power, which providence has made the
centre of amty and the source of order to the whole
peninsula. Britain, which now holds the sceptrc,
successfully welded by many barbarous con-
querors, is the pacifer, the uniter in a word the
| supreme governor of Hindostan."
Who, ask, after this recital of principles that
dictate the action Of the British government, will
quote her opinions morals, humanity, and re.
hgon, IN the discussion of question like this, and
especially when she is deeply interested in it, and
the manner OF its settlement No American, hope.
Who that has Witnessed her hypocrisy in taking
the chair of morals for the world, to lecture Russia
on her cruelties upon the Circnssans, France on
her barbarities upon the Algerines and the United
States upon her lust for acquisition and her slave
system-whilst at the moment Of its delivery she
was tearing from Central America the NMusquito !
shores, cutting to pieces the troops Of Gwalior,
possessing herself Of Borneo and Chusan, and pre-
pairing for the conquest of aub, to complete her
power over Hindostan--conld respect her profess |
sIons OF adherence for what she denominates lust
for power and acquisition That government seems
to have adopted Sir Roberts Pccls notion that po-
litical morality is matter of geography; that the
laws of right depend upon latitude and longitude; |
and that in the East Indies they altogether suspended
in Jdror Of The company. .,E e."
And now, Mr.. Speaker, let me turn the attention
of this House TO the history of the Hudson Bay
Company, to show the close and striking analogies
between II and the East India Company. The
Hudson Bay Company chartered in the reign
of Cherles the Second as trading commercial COM
pany, and its boundaries were fixed by the sources
Of the streams that emptied into the bay of
its own name. Where is that company nowi
Why, il has transported and transplanted itself
west of the Rocky mountains, on the shores
of the Pacific, far beyond its original loca-
tion and has dotted our territory with some thir-
ty Notifications, and is now, backed by the govern
ment that gave il vitality, contesting with this gov
eminent for the title and empire of the whole Of the
Oregon territory, and is perhaps this day whetting
the Indian scaping-knife and grinding their toma-