The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-04

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be admirable eombatanis In a war with England
1t would be Niger against coekgey .....,
But the gentleman Is excusable for knowing it'll
OF the northwest, for he has never been there M
one ever emigrates from Indiana to South Carolina
and therefore South Carolina knows nothing abOu
US; bat many emgrants from South Carolina CONF
among US, and tel Us all about IL and they haC
taken occasion 10 tell us OF the manifold
merit and great achievements Of that State. hay,
reason to admire that old State many accounts
She has taught us the revenue-tarif doctrine; fo
L though il came 10 us originally from Virginia. Il
was doubly distilled by South Carolina into con
centrated essence, and we swallowed il, and loved
the dose We admire South Carolina, also, for hsl
talented sons. We admire her honorable bearing
We acknowledge her right 10 secede from IN,
Union, and will give her, or any other discontinued
State, a pass for that purpose. But we do mol
nul!ify the laws OF tho Union The course Of
South Carolina 10 always rather eccentric, in our
estimation. She viii at one time oppose the cleo.
ton Of President and then suppoft him AFTER his
eeetioni and ai another Time sht will contribute to
elect President, and then oppose his administra.
ton. We think she sometimes has carried her
views OF State sovereignty a issik too hr-to VIII
when she affected 10 1uify the laws Of the United
States, and that Ia her political course she is a
keus too Soalh CaToLinaiah. But one thing we will
say for South Carolina: we wall excuse. her and
her politicians from the charge Of any presidential
aspirations at the present time. The 6nger-board
that directed to the White House, pointed also at
the late election TO Texas and Oregon, and now it
pointed to Oregon alonei snd there ID no other way
by which the executive mansion can be reached. ]
do not ace South Carolina on that road
| | now turn my attention TO my democratic
wing friend from Illinois, Mr.. BAKER,l who had
asked the supporters Of Mr. Polk TO reconcile
our clear and unquesiionabe right to Oregon
with the offer Of the 10Th parallel az compromise.
He asked how Mr.. Polk, after making such on as
sertion Of our title, could offer compromise. do
not find in the message that Mr., Polk described any
particular Oregon as ours. There is Russian Ore
gon, for instance, and Mr. Polk could not claim
that The assertion made in regard TO our title
10 the whole Of our Oregon--to that part of
the territory TO which our right should be
ascerainod. How that right should be aScer-
tanned he does not say. Perhaps il must be
by the "uhina ratio rtgum" But the President
was partially committed upon this subject by the
action Of his predecessors, to offer the 10Th par
allel not us a right, but as compromise, for the
sake Of poace--So his message tells us. VIII a
Clay reprehend him for this, when the same
offer was made by Mr.. Clay himself although he
had said that Gre,t Britain had no colorado TUE TO
any part Of Oregon
Ny friend from South Carolina (Mr HOLMES, |
has also made some remarks this subject, TO
which must pay some attention. The gentleman
bad coniended more strongly for the British right TO
Oregon, and has more strongly denied die Amer.
can rights there, than any British statesman or nego-
tiator has ever done. will turn the honorable % n
lleman over to his particular friend the honorable
chairman Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for
an answer to his argument on that psint. The gen.
tleman had very POLITICALLY described the evils and
disasters, and destruction of war. His description
OF British triumphs and American defeats which he
anticipates, is vastly more poetic and graphic than
will he any British song written after the shall
he over to record its events. The gentleman, in
HE Haue AE thn r
Britain, said that she had forty war,sreamers.
Mr.. HoLmEs Que hundred and forty.
Mr. w. continued. Well, let them bring them
all on, no matter how many, they can do us very
littls harm. According 10 the gentleman, we shall
be very badly of for Of defence or offence,
vessels, AZ soon as they leave port will be out-run,
overtaken, and canured 10y The British steamers. ]
know (said Mr.. w that the British are great mo
nopolizers but never heard bef,re thar they had
obtained the exclusive patent to the use Of God Al
mighty's steam. Ihope that we also can exercise The
right OF using it; for il VIC deprived Of that right
we shall next be denied the use OF the wind The gem
tleman has also asked us how we are going 70 take
Oregon! whether We can march an army across the
Rocky mountains He says we cannot for every
height would prove Gibraltar, and that every
rocky pass, and every vale in Oregon, will bristle
with British bayonets. Alas! We have no rihes!!
Our r'hemen all dead!i Where are our rifles
and rilemcnI If loyal subject of England asked
the question, would answer that our rifles were all
taken, and our rifemen all killed at the battle of
New Oreans!! But we cannot take Canada; that the
gentleman says, is Impossible, because the Welland
canal would afford the means of transporting British
fleets the lakes and that we could never OF across
to Canada, the British having command Of the
lakes We cannot cross on the ice, he says, in the
winter season, because the British would lay down
powder kegs, oil IN one continued row, from the
Falls of Niagara to the northwest corner of Lake
Superior, then touch them off by galvanic commu-
nication, and blow up the whole Of the ice. Now,
sir, these powder kegs must be all in a string, and
all connected together; and there must not be leaky
one among them, and no Yankee must find it out lest
the arrangement should be disturbed. Sir, the gen.
tlcman knows nothing of our climate in the north
west, Why, sir, you may blow up the whole of
the ice one night, and the water will be frozen
over again the next night Tbs British government
will have to get something stronger than gunpowder
for this purpose. No article known TO her extensive
commerce will answer the purpose. She must deal
in young volcanoes, and import some small speci-
mems of the Internal regions to keep the lakes thaw
ed in winter time. am grat6ed, however, to learn
will be able to look out for herself in time of war,
and that she will ensconse herself in her swamps,
where she will be out of harms way. .r4 D. .
The gentleman asserted for South Carolina, and
tho sons of Marion, Of Sumter, and Pnckney, the
capacity retreat into her impenetrable Businesses
anu tncfc ueicfu HeT dShiuet INC Woflu III inc
event of war for Oregon, will South Carolina thus
creep into her shell? na F..
Mr.. HOLMES. said we would come to your
assistance. - - .I.. .... .... ~ .a". ..... D..
We thank you, (said Mr.. w. and l will say to
South Carolina, that when the northern fanatics
shall trouble her, we will come to her rescue.
The gentleman from Ohio Mr.. GIDDrNGs has
threatened the South with war of emancipation,
and an invasion by the black regiments from the
West Indies. The southern gentlemen have pre-
ferred to answer him. They had better leave the
one idea and its professors to Of the northwest.
had an answer for the gentleman to this most
untasteful development Of his one idea. We in
the northwest know his ways, for we have n few
Of his party in Indiana | will waive my answer
TO him, but will say him that my non slovehold.
ing constituents mean that justice shall be done to
the South and its constitutional rights for so intense
is their anxiety this subject, lest it should dis
turb the hormony Of the Union, tina, they ready
to do full and ample justice to the South II should
endorse what was said by the honorable member
from Missouri--viz: that the gentlcmon's wish was
father to his thought-my non-saveholding constit-
uents would believe me; and were they to read his
[Mr. G.'sl speech, they would swear to their be-
boe ~ IN. ;de, snrneated nv the honorable member