The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-10

dietary be discharged from the further consluoiauoh
of the petition Of Pearson Cogswel and that Il be
referred TO the Committee Of Claims; which was
agreed to.
| Mr.. FAIRFIELD, from the Committee on Ma
val Affairs reported bill for the relief Of Joseph
| Wilson; which was read, and the accompanying
| report was ordered TO be printed. ~ 4.
| Mr.. DIX from the Committee on Military Az
fairs reported bill making alterations in the pay
department of the army; which was read hrs'
time, and passed TO a second reading
| REMODEL or THE CONSULAR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
| UNITED STATES
| Mr.. SEMPLE, pursuant To notice, asked and OBJ
tanned leave TO introduce bill to remodel the con-
sular establishment Of the United States; which
was read first and second time, and referred TO the
| Committee on Commerce.
| Mr.. JOHNSON Of Maryland moved that the
Senate proceed TO the consideration OF the special
order; which motion was agreed to.
| SPECIAL oRDER-OREsos-"rBE NOTICE"
| MIR. EVANS resumed his remarks, and after
briefly reeapitulatng the course OF his argument
| Yesterday, he proceeded as follows: l think that
| these extreme claims which cannot be well main
tanned, or have not been clearly established, II IN
sisted upon, will have a tendency to weaken the
claim TO that portion Of the territory to which we
have a good title. II we thus intermlnge the good
and the bad claiming that the one Is az strong as
the other, the necessary effect must be TO weaken,
in the Judgment Of the world, title 10 that por
ton Of the territory 10 which we have valid claim
think the attention Of the government should have
been most directed TO the tile obtained by the oss
sion Of Louisiana. IL IL had not been run or driven
off into the assertion that had good right to
the extreme limits which we claim, II would have
been much more polite. think we have title by
the cession Of Louisiana, connected with the other
public transactions already adyerted to, upon which
we can stand fairly before the world in the assertion
of our claim To forty-nne degrees. The honorable
senator from Michigan, Mr.. CAss, awhile ago,
as understood him in some Of the incidental dis
cussions which came up here, said he did not see
why the parallel Of ago should be selected-that'it
was an arbitrary line, and we might as well agree
upon any olher-that 1t was connected with moth
ing, and had nothing to recommend its adoption. !
do not so understand it at ALL The parallel of ago
was an early established boundary between the
British, French, and Spanish possessions on this
| continent IL was no arbitrary line. By the treaty
of Utrecht, negotiated, ! think, in liza, 1t was
agreed that the commissariesas they then call
ed, commissioners is the term now-should establish
a boundary line between the French and English pos
sessions and the 49th parallel was the line chosen.
On this line Of 49o settled in the cesson Of Lou
siana, has been the basis Of all our negotiations
| in 1918, 1896, 1927, and last year. Il is one which
we can maintain before the world; and If we make il
good we need not discuss Gray's discovery, or any
thing else But, to go TO some other matters which
| have been drawn into this discussion. | say that
/ those who in favor of giving this notice-who
| are for taking this prompt and decided measure
should assign some satisfactory for its adop
| ton. Why should il be done Various reasons
| have been assigned. The honorable senator from
Missouri, Mr.. BEsros,l who certainly has inves-
| tigated this whole subject more closely than any
| other member Of this body, if not more than any
other citizen of the Countrywide is intimate with
i its history and the strength Of eur title to the terri
/ tory-assgns one reason for giving the notice,
that what il seeks TO terminate ought to have
/ been entered into-that il decidedly wrong,
and therefore should be put end to speedily
possible-that it has been the Of much evil
and mischief which he foresaw at the time, and pre-
| dicted as believe he dd-no doubt of that-and
that subsequent events have fully verified his predic
/ tons Now, whether the convention originally
right wrong, will not undertake say. This much
| may say, that IL is not always wise to undo what
| it was not wise TO do at the time. We to see
where to be left whsn the the notice shall be
given. When that measure is taken what is be our
condition. Is il to restore to better position than
that which we occupy'-or is it to plunge US into
a worse condition. Whether the convention has been
| the source of any particular difficulties and mis-
chief, nobody, think, can tell. Undoubtedly diff,
fculties did exist there afterwards, and those who
were at the time, opposed to the CONVENTION, attr1
uted to il the origin and existence Of these difficult
| ties. But who can tell how much greater Difficult
ues-how much more bloodshed.-how much more
mischief would have been produced, had no con-
yenton been entered into for the purpose OF restrain
ing and regulating the subjects of the two nations
| who might meet there in the wildernessi | cannot
think that the evils have been great as the sena-
tor supposes, notwithstanding his great knowledge
/ He read document communicated to Congress If
teen years ago, early in the administration of Gen.
eral Observation-Disclosures by the President-re-
citing the many evils which had suffered and
complaining Of, or, at all events, communicating to
Congress, certain acts of violence which had been
committed in that territory. Well, if these evils
had necessarily resulted from the conventional
these had been acts for which Great Britain was re-
sponsble-f these had been violations Of our rights
lit does seem to me that the then President and
| Congress of the United States would have demand
ed redress, and would have obtained redress Would
| they have submitted then, and would submission
have continued from that day till this' If so, why
did not General Jackson give notice to terminate the
| convention at that moment when oil the facts
before him-when all these evils were within his
knowledge But not a word was said of that
then to my knowledge. At all events, it was never
made question by the then President of the United
States, and the existing administration, to obtain
redress by putting an end to the convention which
it is now proposed to abrogate. | cannot be salts
| fed therefore, that these evils which the senator
predicted have flowed from the convention. | do
not deny that acts of violence have been committed
| | do not deny that certain evils have existed. But
deny that they have been the result of the con-
| vention. On the contrary, am very much in
clined to think that if there had been no convention
regulating the intercourse of the people of the two
nations there, we would have heard of many more
scenes of yoleDce--heard Of many more MURDERS
and Witnessed the existence Of many more evils
than those Of which we have heard, and which have
existed. Another reason assigned for giving this
notice, is that it would put US in a more advanta-
geous position-that it will restore to us what we
lost by the convention. The senator from Illinois,
[Mr. BREEsE,] believe, dwelt most on this topic.
He holds that the notice would give us the rightful
possession Of the whole country. That by that
means we would be in updisPuted possession of the
| whole country-every inch Of It; that our laws
| would prevail; that there would be no room for
1 further controversy. Mr.. E. here read the ex-
| tract from Mr.. BREEsEs speech on which he was
commenting believe that the senator POUNDS this
opinion on the declaration attributed 10 Lord Cas-
tlereagh-end believe correctly attributed to him.
When, in 1913, they agreed to surrender what they
called Fort George and we Astoria, Lord
Castlereagh admitted our right to be the
party in possession whilst the title was
under discussion. II seems to me that the
senator misunderstands the point here involved.
What state Of things existed in ISls when, as he
/ saws we were thus nnt in nnsaesaian h, adr