The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-01-15
NTIMBER geo.

OF the terriiory, notice M notice and 10 extend
Our laws and jurisdiction over IL. No commercial
treaty can affect the right 20 the soil II 10 did then
VIZ would one half OF Newfoundland;
Tor, by treaty with Great Britain, they gave ms
joint right 10 fish there But suppose We should
set up utle to half OF Newfoundland, on the pre-
tenee that we acquired IL by this treaty which gave
us a privilege 20 fsh on It's banks wouhl IL not lie
deemed absurd by all the world he did not belong
10 war parry, bat 10 peace party bat he must be
allowed 10 say that lie was not in favor OF such
treaty that which had dismembered the State of
Maine, and dishonored the nation. We did not
need any more diplomacy in this matier--no further
negotiation nor arbitration. sra sa.- T.f7Ahs
Suppose a neighbor were 10 meet ma In the street,
and say, obl,se me by taking OF your coat and hay
ing down. IL | submit 10 that, he would want
my other garments; and when was stripped, my
neighbor should propose an arbitraton. D would
not submit 10 "a, whether there are any on this
floor who would or not. IL because would not
arbitraie, my nsighbot should propose whip me,
this would be parallel case 10 the one before us
There were other reasons why he would not ne
gotiats longer. Great Briisin had no claim to the
territory. There was still another resson, which
w@4 found, not in Adams viii, as the gentleman
from Ms~asehiprsis AR. Wurnaorl Asd suggest,
ed, but IN the win Of Providence and in the destiny
Of this country, which had directed ust the whole
territory from the Atlantic the Paci6c and from
the frozen ocean 10 the isthmus Of Panama OF the
straits Of Magellan, II gentlemen pleased should be-
long 10 free people. IL was destined that Tins coun
Try should belongio people and be under one gov
eminent, and that they should exercise jurisdiction
over the whole continent Looking through the vista Of
coming years, and reaecting what were fifty
years ago and what we Dow--reAecting that
from three millions We had increased 10 twenty
millions, We could not resist the conclusion that
Yankee enterprise aAd vigor-he used the term
Yankee in reference TO the whole countrywere des-
tined TO spread our possessions and institutions
over the whole continent. Could any act OF the
government prevent thisi He must be allowed 70
say that wherever the Yankee lslept for night,
there he would rule. What part Of the globe had
not been witness Of their moral power and 10 the
light reflected from their free institutional Their
progress could not be anywhere resisted. This con-
uneni will be our own; and gentlemen may say IL
is by manifest destiny, or by Adams will or by
whatever else they will. That destiny was found
written in every page Of our history But The gen
tleman from Massachusetts [Mr. WNrHRorl had
enlarged upon the blessings Of peace and the dangers
Of war. He put the commercial interest in one
scale and the honor of the country in the other and
the latter kicked the beam. H''.
Now he (Mr. CO. lived on the frontier, TOO He
remembered when Detroit was sacked. Then we
had Hull in Michigan; but now, thank God we
had Lewis Casa, who would protect the border, If
war should come, which, in his opinion, would not
come. ......' G f.. '.-'.l. %. "
There were millions on the lake frontier who
would, in case Of war, rush over into Canada
the vulnerable point that exposed TO us. He
would pledge himself that, upon contract with the
government, Michigan alone would take Canada in
ninety days. and, f that would not do, they would
give IL up, and take il in ninety days agnin The
government Of the United States had only to give
the frontier people leave TO take Canada.
Owing to a very absurd and impolitio treaty tina,
we had made with Great Britain, we were not now
allowed to have vessel on the akcs-he must not
call them ''inland seas"--carying more than one
gun. This was specimen Of British diplomacy.
The advantage Of the agreement was on her side
altogether. Great Britain kept up standing army,
and possessed an immense collection Of materials
for ship-building; and she could at any moment
launch any number Of vessels and guns upon the
lakes, to meet what,--our vessels with single pop
gun on board We could not always be prepared
for war; for it was violation of our principles to
sustain large standing army. s"
The charge (sad Mr.. CO. that we are advocates
Of war comes with an III gruce from the other side
We did not yield Texas TO her denunciations when
the South wanted that addition to her territory; and
we now ready to teach her that the line or $40
40 shall be the boundary of her rule and her rapa-
city. We are, in fact, tho peace purity because we
disposed to meet this question the threshold
and 10 meet our enemy, though he be armed to the
teeth This is the best way to avoid war-to take
the matter in time. The horrors Of war had been
strongly depicted by the eloquent gentleman from
Alabama, Mr.. YANcRy,l that he had almost melted
the heart Of one of the war party. The gentleman
had pointed 10 what peace had done for US in the
last thirty years. He had told US of the progress
we had made in science. We had not stopped, he
sad with the discoveries Of Franklin, but had gone
on and made the red artillery of heaven subservient
to the uses Of ife.. Steam, too, had annhlated
space. And we are asked now TO be content, and
do nothing. ga. p. raal ...s..-.raa. 4, .ge# = ,aa
But should we crouch to the British lion be-
cause we had been thus prosperous He rcmem-
bered the time when education, the pride of modern
whigs, was made the means of opposition to democ-
racy. He reoollected the long agony that it cost
him to relieve his mind from federal thradom. Ed
ucaton was an instrument to ridicule and put down
democracy m -, ~ l..-E-s, go .E,..
The gentlemen from Alabama, [Mr. YANcEY, !
having Conlrasted the navy of Great Britain with
that OF the United Siates brought his recollection
a chapter in that Vermont education, to which no
had heretofore alluded, as making modern wings.
In the last war, this doggcrel was sung around the
domesticsaltar; -. $50 g.. H.e'.r. s1rs' q
High, dry, m the cornfeld stood,
Gun-boat, No, l, ..'r .-- "r..... .. ..
Wig-wag went her tail ~
Pop, went her gun"
Also this. ..
flames Madison, my 10 Jim, a ...H."
wonder what yon neon, ..-. .~
You preclsmste in chair Of State, APP. ..
A vision on dream. ..
What WINS the education of the whigS He did
did not wish to do any injustice to Vermont he al
luded to that spirit Of hostility to repubcansm
which was manifested at the Hartford convention.
The gentleman from Massachusetts Mr.. VIM
rHRoP] had referred to remark which Illustrated
his (Mr C.'s) views Of false education and i,s re-
suits. Speaking Of submitting question TO the
common sense ofthe people il had been said 81 will
leave il 10 their nonsense, and beat you ten TO one
That was the sort Of education against which he
protested. II assumed that the people were not
pabe of selfgovernment il revived the stale charge
that the people were their own worst enemies. If
he had had the opportunity, at the proper time repe
that charge, he would have done II in the most csus
tive manner that the English language afforded him.
Shall we (said Mr.. C.) take peace as the price
Of conceding our rights appeal to high Heaven
that, II British feet were anchored off here in the
Potomac and demanded of US one inch Of territory,
or one pebble that was smoo,hed by the Pacific
wave into child's toy upon penalty Of an instant
bombardment, would say, fire "a
The gentleman from Massachusetts, TO whom he
had before referred, said that peace was honor.
Well, peace was honorable, II honorably won. But
not so, if otherwise. IL we yielded Oregon to the
18th, we should soon be called upon to yield the
other halt. IL Great Britain went 70 war for Ore
gon, how long would il be before her starving mil
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