American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-07
Mr.. Allen-I have not asked what the opin-


ions of the senator are.
Mr.. Haywood-Will the senator allow me
to interrupt him for one momenG | am not
at all excted-not at all. l do not see any
catechism in the rules Of order, ! deny the
right of any senator to put questions to me IN
this way.
Mr. Allen-Then the Senator takes back
| his speech.
Mr.. Haywood-Not at all; but am glad to
see that my speech takes
Mr. Hannegan-WeIl he did not let it get
into print this morning, so as to give fair OPP
portunity of replying. All sketches even of
his speech had been, by his Especial request"
withheld in the papers.
MIR. Haywood was understood to say, that
as be had taken very important and respon-
sible position, he wished to avoid the possibiII-
| ty of misconstrUction, and therefore desired to
report his speech himself For fear of mis-
take he had taken that course; and he thought
! he was justified in it by the fact that one of
the papers had really been quite unable to
make out the drift of his remarks yesterday,
and had positively set him down as making a
! long speech in favor of settling the question by
arbitration and compromise.
! Mr. Hannegan-l do not deem it material
whether he gives direct answer to my ques-
ton or not. 1t is entirely immaterial. He as
sumcs-nO, he says there is no assumption a.
bout it-that there is no meaning in language,
no truth in man, if the President anywhere
commits himself to 81 deg. 40 min, as his fiat
tering friends assume for him. Now, sir, there
| is no truth IN man, there is no meaning in Ian
guage, if the President is not committed to 81
deg. 40 min. in as strong language as that
which makes up the Holy Book. From pc
riod antecedent to that in which lie became the
nominee of the Baltimore convention, down to
this moment, to all the world he stands COM
mtted for ID deg. 40 min | 90 back to his
declaration made in 1874, to Il committee of
citizens Of Cincinnati, who addressed him in re-
lation to the annexation ofTexas, and he there
uses this language, being then before the coun-
try as the democratic candidate for the chair
which he now fills.
Mr.. Crittenden-What is the date?
! Mr.. Hannegaa-lt is dated the 2Srd of
April
Mr.. II. here read an extract from Mr. Folks
letter to the committee of the citizens of Gin
cinnati, expressive of his opinion on the Orc
gon question, identical with those set forth in
his message,
Who defines the limits of Oregon? Has not
the President of the United States himself de-
fined the limits of Oregon? Did h. not do so
in the message, so often quoted from' What
does he claim: Up to 81 deg. 40 i2n.--overy
inch of it. He has asserted that clIim, and is,
as he says, sustained by "irrefragablo facts and
arguments" But this is not all; hold that the
language of the Secretary of State is the Ian
guage Of the President of the United States;
and has not MIR. Buchanan, in his last cOmmu-
l nication to Mr.. Pakenham, named Sd deg. 40
. min. in SO many words? He has. The Plesi-
, dent adopts this language as his own. He
plants himself on "a deg. 40 min | well re-
member that the President was the choice of
neither my self nor-I beg his pardon, should
= have named the senator tirst-neither Of the
] senator from North Carolina nor of myself
g Neither of us preferred him. Both of US had
another choice. And must confess am most
9 happy to sec that, since his election, he has
grown so much in favor with my friend from
. North Carolina as to induce him to come here
with a valorous defence against attacks never
! made-never made, sir. But this will say
f and make it attack, if you please-if the Pre-
sdent has BETRAYED that standard which the
= Baltimore convention put into his hands, and
. whereby he committed himself to the country,
r into the hands of the enemy, will not do, as
S the senator from North Carolina threatens,
= turn my back upon him. | suppose he cares
t little whether both of us do that; but ] shall
hold him recreant to the principles which he
2 professed-recreant to the trust which he &C
cepted-recreant to the generous confidence
, which majority Of the people reposed in him.
| shall not abandon the principles of the de-
mocratic party. shall not abate one jot or
title of the principles we gave TO the country
f then; | shall sustain them but shall hold and
exercise the privilege of speaking Of him in the
language of truth and fearlessness. The sena-
tor from North Carolina attempted to speak Of
: the resolution of the Baltimore convention.
ask him if he seriously meant his statement OF
it as fair exhibition of its substance' If so,
7 it was unworthy Of the senator to
7 MIR. Haywood took the resolution from
MIR. Breese's speech--the only place believe
= 1 ever saw it. Here it is:
"Resolued, That our title to the whole of the
D territory of Oregon is clear and unquestiona-
= BILE; that no portion of the same ought to be
coded to England or any other power; and that
, the reoccupatior of Oregon and the reannexa-
ton of Texas at the earliest practicable period,
S are great American measures, which this con-
vention recommends to the cordial support OF
, the democracy of the Union"
Mr.. Hannegan-There is great deal ofdif-
ference between that and the statement of il
given by the senator. The democratic party
{. is thus bound to the whole of Oregon-and
every foot Of it, and let the senator rise in his
place who will tell me in what quarter of this
: Union--in what assembly of democrats in this
9 Union, pending the presidential election the
l names of Texas and Oregon did not fly to-
: gether, side by side, on the democratic banners.
a Everywhere they were twins-everywhere
0 they were united. Does the senator from
: North Carolina suppose that he, with his ap-
e peals to the democracy can blind our eyes, as
e he thinks he tckled our ears? He is mis-
taken. "Texas and Oregon" cannot be divi-
= ded; they dwell together in the American
C heart. Even in Texas, have been told the
8 flag of the lone star had inscribed on it the
= name of Oregon. Then it was all Oregon