The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-04-24

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Ii Is not surprising that amid the multpey
our duties (Which We shall arrange in more cu,l Z
Portable and available form, we trust, in the coun.
the next week)-engaged aswe were yesterday Vi
the interesting proceedings of the two houses Of ca
gress-and amid the other duties of the editor,
near two o'clock in the morning, and having 50 su
an article to prepare for the press, "a part Of Wild
was not written out until after the midnight lamp
the article on the Oregon resolutions should
found not as clear in all its phrases, noras compr
hensive in all its statements, as it might othsrwi.
have BEEN We are not altogether surprised, therefor
that this article Of Yesterday evening, under the he's
of "The Deed of the Day" should have been par
TALLY misunderstood in its scope and meaning, an
have given some dissatisfaction to Of our fiend
We cannot expect to please every body at all tina
like the counuyman who carried his jackau
market; but we make it a rule to explain as we q
along, and give "the sober second" expression
when the hurry Of the first has in any degree obi
secured or distorted our meaning. We mean to ux|
the same privilege on the present occasion.
The whole object we had in view in that artick|
was, first to express qualification that the nota
had been authorized by Congress; and, secondly, II
possible, to restore harmony to the democutk
rants, 30 far at least as our humble voice could
reach the senses of our friends. DBL 600 i
In doing this, we spoke of the fact that thd
notice had passed; but we intended to express no
appreciation Of the form had been made to assume
1t is we'll known to our readers--rung, in{sed
in their ears until they must have been fnck
of the sound-that we had our preferences among
the forms Of notice. We should have preferred, II
it could have been obtained, a simple, naked notice
to any other. That, we understood, was the no
tice recommended by the President in his messag I,
We approved the House resolutions of notice
willingly accepted them as the next most agree
able form. We greatly preferred them to ,h,
form adopted by the Senate. We have said thu
about hundred times. We have certainly repeat.
eddy declared this preference, and deeply regretted
that democratic Senat. had not passed them IN
that FORM We could scarcely have been NOR
explicit than we have been in this preference.
When, however, it was found that the wing
the democratic party Of that body, differing in hel
views with a majority of the democratic members,
were unwilling to vote either for the naked and simple
notice, without any whereas or reasons assigned, o.
for the House resolutions, then we are free to say
that we preferred the notice in almost any form to no
notice at all
The Senate resolution was Objectionable to us, but
still it was better than notice at ALL and it is still
further softened by the amendments which the con.
ference committee Of the House proposed-ant
therefore it was that we congratulated the country
upon its adoption. II never entered our minds 10
express a preference for the Senate form of no
ce over either the naked notice or the resolutions o.
the House. .a..s
The Senate resolution, apart from the preamble
which we said, in our yesterdays article, was but
the "preface Of book, and was not part o
the gist or text Of the book ITSELF" follows
R.soissd BY the Senate and Housc Of Repressnid,ir.s
ne Unit,d stai., am',ioa in ce"sre,s assrmst,s Tm
horzcd at his discretion TO give to the government
Great Britain the notice required by the second article
CATION Of the same. 4" '"E- 'H..'
This resolution differs from that of the Hous,
mainly in the fact that tef the giving of the notice
to the President Eat his discretion Now, we would
have preferred that Congress had taken their portion
Of the responsibility; and yet no one could doub
that the President Of the United States, under tn
authority given to him, by the Sens,es resolution
would give the notice. Q"
The notice was one Of the leading measures of tn,
administration; and though not approving the form
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