Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-03-19

Such e2ithets had no terrors for him. While
commenting upon these practices and the tao
tics which had been witnessed here, he exclai-
med, 'sOh my country, and my party J" He
would tell Senators who understood, to construe
the Presidents Message as they did, that they
might find themselves very much mistaken, he
warned them to be careful Mr.. H. then went
into an argument 10 demonstrate that what
he had assumed to be the position OF the
President was so, and In the course Of his re-
marks said that it was etiquette for Foreign
ministers to take notice Of nothing but what
was said to them officially. God knows, he
said, that there had been abundant cause to
break up any negotiation il this were not the
etiquette, and he would not be surprised if the
next steamer brought out heated debates in
Parliament, provoked by the noise and clamor
here, and lectures to US upon propriety.
Mr.. H. commented on the declaration Of Mr..
Allen, that Great Britain would not fight us
single handed for Oregon.
Mr.. Allen said he remarked that she would
not fight us single handed for Oregon alone ;
that if we had war, it would be because other
important matters would be mixed up with it
Mr.. HAYWOOD The Senator was speaking
upon Oregon il was the opening speech; it
was upon his own resolution, and he said that
Great Britain would not fight for that. What
other cause there may be, he probably knows,
from being at the head Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, but don't.
Mr.. Allen said if the Senator would look at
his speech, he would see what he said
Mr.. Haywood. don't carry his speech
about with me in my pocket: besides, he has
never published correct copy of it, and he
has published card saying that there was
many errors in it as published in the papers,
What is one to do therefore2
Butreturning to the subjective said he should
have very different opinion of the President
from what he now had, if the idle dream had
ever entered his head that Great Britain dare
not fight for that portion north of 40. Abiding
to the position Mr.. Allen and others had put
the President in, he exclaimed, oh my God
what a position for mans friends to put him
in If he were there, he repeated, he (Mr. H.)
would turn his back upon him.
He spoke of the appeals made to the people
and the safety there was for certain men who
desired to make political capital out the cry
for the whole, when they knew there were
enough in that body to prevent the mischief
they would otherwise bring upon the country !;
they could with perfect safety cry "come on
We people, and see who shall have the largest
privilege there of cheating the Indians out of
their possessions"
Thus ended the debate on the first day
with Allen, Hannegan, Cass and Breese look
ing as mad as "March hares," and Calhoun
& Co. as smiling as "May morning" |
have never witnessed more excited and deep
feeling in the galleries. Every one seemed to
wish the debate to 60 ONT was in the mouth
of every one: "Old Rip Van Winkle' not on
ly walked up himself to-day, but he has reused
the whole s'household Of the faithful" Every
one determined to come back next morning
and so you may well immagine there was
full house long before "the curtain rose."-
"Old Shrewsbury" tells that the morning hour
is passed, and the Vice President calls the spe-
cial order of the day-when Mr.. Haywood
rose and continued his speech upon the Ore
gon question, occupying about two hours be
fore he concluded. shall not attempt to give
you synopsis Of his remarks. His object
seemed to be, as it was yesterday, to show that
the President stands on 40 degrees, and that he
has never closed the door against negotiation.
In doing this, he read from the Annual Mes
sage, and argued that his Interpretation was
borne out by the Presidents language. 1t had
been attempted, he said, in that Chamber and
elsewhere, to put a construction upon his Ian
guage which the President never thought of
it had been attempted to commit him to posi-
ton that he never intended to stand in by this
Interpretation of his language; it never should
be said that the construction was laid at his
door, that it was attempted to hold him by ii,
and he had no friend to relieve him from the
false position his protested friends were endea-
voring to place him in, and to stand by him.
Mr.. H. was IN favor Of authorizing the No
tee to be given unconditional with any thing
else. He called upon the Senate to trust the
President, and declared that he would not be-
tray them. He pledged himself, there were
any symptoms of betrayal, to stand by the Sc
nate, and to agree never to adjourn until they
knew whether they were to have peace or war.
Speaking of the giving up of all north of 49
degrees, he said to the fifty four forty men, that
if they thought the President was too generous
in making the offer he did, Of 40, that they
might offer proposition similar to the one Of
fered in the House namely that Oregon was no
longer subject ofnegotiation or compromise,
and it might get half as many votes as the
House proposition did, which was 10. He
knew that members could make speeches to
this effect, to send abroad to the people; but
making speeches was one thing, and voting
was another.
Mr. ii. here related an anecdote ofMr. Nat.
Macon Of N. c.. who once advised a young
man Just elected for the first time to Congress,