Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-03-19

u language, no truth in man, if the President Ina
e any where committed himself to the line of 81
1V. MIR. III. would say, in turn, that there was ne
Their meaning in language nor truth i'm If h
II had not committed himself, and that i'm languag
u strong that of the holy book ITSELF Before III
: Baltimore convention met he stood already com
: United to the whole of Oregon up to $40 40 be
n fore all tho world. Mr.. Fl. would 20 back TO ih
year 1874, and call the Senator's attention to Mr.
Folks reply TO a committee of the citizens o
;. Cincinnati. Their inquiries referred to the an
nexation Of Texas; but, in replying, Mr.. Poll
volunteered opinions in regard to Oregon also
, and this while he was before the nation as can
! didate for the seat he now occupies.
D In reply to question to the date of the let.
J ter, Mr. IL. said 1t was the ED April, 1874
1 MIR. III. here quoted the letter. Here Mr.. Polk
expressed the opinion that the Union onght nsTer
; TO have been 'dsmembered' by the separation OF
Texas. Did the speech of the Senator from
North Carolina sustain the principle of this de-
claration! MIR. III. would leave it to the world
TO say.
He further quoted the letter where il declared
we ought TO assert and hold our right of domin-
ioE over the whole territory of the Republic. l.
Who defined the limits of Oregon? Did not the
President himself? Mr.. II. here quoted the fol-
lowing passage from the Presidents message -
"'T'he extraordinary and wholly inadmissible de-
mands of the British government, and the rejec-
ton of the proposition made in Difference alone
to what had been done by my predecessors, and
the implied obligation which their acts seemed
TO impose, affords salts factory evidence that no
compromise which the United States ought 10 ac-
cept can be effected. With this conviction the
! proposition Of compromise which had been made
and rejected was, by my direction, subsequently
Withdrawn, and our title to the whole Oregon
territory asserted, and as is believed, maintained
by irreiragabe facts and arguments" What
did this language meant The offer of 400 =
What compromise could he make short of the
| Russian line of $40 40? Did he not assert our
title TO be clear and indspu,able to the country
between 400 and $40 40! Besides, Mr. n. held
the language of the Secretary of State TO be viz
ually the language of the President; and had
not MIR. buchanan claimed the whole territory up
10 $40 40>! He had. MIR. Ii. here read from the
closing part of MIR. Buchanan's last letter TO Mr.
Pakenham. Mr.. b. here declared that it was
still the opinion of the President that our title
was the best in the world TO the whole territory
| Did not the Secretary here speak for the Presi-
dent? And did not the President see this docu
ment before it was sent, And did not the Pre-
sident adopt the language as his own, and plant
himself upon $40 4O'! 1t was his own doctrine
his own position; he planted himself on $40
40>, and nothing short Of that line.
MIR. ii. well remembered that Mr.. Polk had
not been his own first choice, that of the Sc
nator from North Carolina. Neither of them had
preferred him for the Office of Chief Magistrate.
! They both preferred another; but he was happy
! TO see that Mr.. Polk had won his way SO fast in
lunteer his defence against the attacks OF men
who never made any.
! But Mr.. III. would here say that if the Presi-
dent had betrayed the standard of the Baltimore
| Convention TO lis enemies--he would not do as
the Senator from North Carolina had threatened
TO do turn his back upon the President (loY he
rather supposed the President would care hut lit
| tie if they both turned their backs upon him)-
but he would denounce him as recreant TO his
own avowed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 10 The weighty
trust confded 10 his hands--recTeant TO the gene
rous confidence OF the American people. Mr.. Ii.
would not that account abandon his principles
abate ot TITLE of the demand he set up TO
the whole of Oregon. He would speak of those
who did in the language of truth and learessness.
| The Senator from North Carolina had under
taken 10 give 10 the Senate the language of the
resolution of the Baltimore Convention on the
subject of Oregon he understood him as profess.
| ing read it as it stood if that was what he
protested, what he did was unworthy Of Sena-
tor
Mr.. Haywood said that, in eply to this, he
would read TO the Senator part of MIR. Breese's
speech; and ne quoted a passage from that
! speech.
! MIR. lIannegan, resaming, said there was
great difference between this explained by
the Senator, and the resolution adopted at
Baltimore. He would read the resolution as it
was Mr.. III. here read it, as follows:
"Resolved. That title to the whole of the
I
that no portion of the same ought TO he coded to
! England any other power; and that the re-
| occupation of Oregon and the remuneration of
Texas, at the earliest practicable period, great
American measures. which this Convention re-
commend to the cordial support of the Democra-
cy Of the Union.'
| This committed the Democratic party to the
whole OF Oregon--every foot of it, Let any Sc
nator rise in his place. and tell in what quarter
OF the Union the names of Texas and Oregon
had not flown, side by side. upon the Democratic
banners. Wherever Mr.. II. had been, it was So
Texas and Oregon-Oregon and TeAas-always
! went together
! Did the Senator from North Carolina fater
himself that he could win The applause of the De-
nocratc party, and blind their eyes, as he seem
ed TO think he had iicSled their ears, while he
withheld from them the substance of what they
were contenGng forl If he did, he was greatly
mistaken. Texas and Oregon were twin mea-
sures, and they dwell, together in every American
heart. With all who had gone for Texas, and
Gas he told) in Texas itself, the two lanes
floaied together on all The Democratic banners
And now, when Texas was admitted, when
they had stretched forth their hands and seized on
one of the two and secured the prize, did they
mean to turn about and say we meant By Ore
gon' just so much Of it as we should afterwards
choose 10 give youl They little knew the peo-
pie Of the West if they dreamed that they were
going 10 be tramPled upon in that way.
: Let gentlemen look at their own recorded votes
in favor of taking up the Oregon bill at the close
Of the last session, and then lie. them look at the
language OF that blll and see If il did not propose
TO take possession of Oregon up to so 40, after
giving unqualified notice to Great Britain that
the convention must cease. At that time we
: held Texas in our hands; and tEis was test
question; and every man in the Senate voted for
1t save the Senator who sat there, Understood 10
refer 10 Mr.. McDulfie,) and The peerless Uuner
/ And hat + -