Indiana State sentinel., 1846-04-30

cded TO adopt this resolution and put end to the
question. What DO we do now We send all back
again to the House with half den new principles
fastened to a resolution containing propositions not
proposed by the House. What will be the consequence
You Will open up the discussion again.. array
house against the other, and present the mortfyng
spectacle, not of divided Senate, but of the two
branches Of the Legislature divided against each other
The House has done act and the Senate refuses
to approve It, and yet are told that Senators de-
sire unanlmity. 1t cannot be denied that the Senaet
has declined the responsibility of making this thing
possible. Sir, the Senate has done it by the votes
of some distinguished Senators here, who blame the
President for sending this question here at all at the
opening of Congress-. Yes, it has been said he has
done act making him responsible for the confused
state of this question which exists; and instead
of acting with single eye to the public good, they
throw the subject back to the President leaving it to
his discretion in FUTURE after having condemned him
for the course he had taken In Its management in the
past He will 90 behind no bush to hide. have no
doubt the President will take the responsibility sought
to be imposed on him, and act like man. But that
is no excuse for US in great question which we are
told involves the peace of the country. We should
not decline responsibility, refuse TO take pro-
portion of 1t shoulders in this great contest
against Great Britain. And with hope that this
matter may be put in better shape with hope to be
able to take up the resolution reported by the CON-
mttee Foreign Relations or in the hope that the
House of Representatives will afford us the opportu-
nifty hereafter to recede from this ground will take
the responsibility Of voting against the passage of
this resolution even if stand alone in it. remem-
Der once stood on question here against majority
of the Senate some five years ago. And will stand
alone this question; and would rather die on it
alone than vote for proposition that seems to me to
humiliate the country and show want Of character
on the part of the Senate and disposition to shrink
from the responsibility of acting the subject Here
you produce contest between the two Houses-a
thing we have all along desired to avoid; because,
from the beginning to the end every has conceded
the moral power Of our position consisted of union in
our counsels-n our standing shoulder to shoulder.
And yet, sir, vote of tree-fourths of the House of
Representatives. body directly emanaing from the
people
Mr.. JOHNSON. That is out of order. You are not
to refer TO the vote of the other House here.
| Severed voices, Out of order
Mr.. ALLEN. Out Of order to allude to vote of the
House l say after such a vote, unanimous to an
astonishing cxtent-after that vote, do think the
Senate ought to to the moral influence it must
have. That is what l say. We ought not to have
presented the spectacle do to the world of giving
a moral force to the cOunses of Great Britain. But
as 1t Is, what of dispatches will 60 Eng
land after this What will be the opening sentence
of the despatch which will be forwarded by the British
Minister by the very first steamer that sails for Eng
land! 1t will be, Hold on-hold on. Let Her
Majesty's Government be that if they hold
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readiness for war, the war feeling in America will
continue to decrease; the aversion of war will be
multiplied by time, till Her Malesty's Government
will get the line of the Columbia perhaps the whole
of Oregon, for the asking This is destructive of all
hopes of negotiation. The British Government viii
protract them till after you adjourn. Yes, they will
catch you on this hitch they have done so before
with They large portion of the inhabitants
of the East clamoring against Was there any
thing IN the amendment proposed to the House reso-
luton, in the preamble containing proposition to
instruct the President to open negotiations which pro-
posed to share the responsibility The Senate do
say they want that to be ended. No, sir; there is
nothing here that says They want course of bar
gaining, of traicking between the two governments
but part of the resolution says they negoa-
ton to end. The President may or may not do some
thing to put end to the convention, but the Senate
has nowhere the face of this resolution said they
want to end this convention. 1t will be firmly on
j your statute book 1t is now That is the state of
the case The President says he has charged the
law-making power to act in the matter. The law
making power returns the subject to him, and with
erratc, hatng, cramped, manacled action, with tmid
unwillngness to meet responsibility. With all this
before us do you think Great Britain whose trident
already keeps the waters of the ocean, will
stoop and 60 on her knees to us! Do you think you
will induce Great Britain to give up anything by
showing your unwingness to claim anything! Not
at ALL shall vote, for one, if alone, against this
resolution. My vote shall stand here just as long as
if In company. / shall vote against this resolution,
trusting that the final result of this business shall
produce resolution more in accordance with the
interests of the country and more in accordance with
It's dignity.
Mr.. Crittenden then replied in a manner bitterly
personal. Mr.. Allen rejoined with great severity
Mr.. Crittenden spoke again in great anger, when
the question was called on engrOssng the resolution
and ordering it TO a third reading.
1t was put, and decided in the affirmative.
The yeas and nays were then called for, and or
, dered.
, Mr.. Chalmers asked the effect of the vote.
Mr.. Sewer replied that it would be tantamount tC
final vote.
The yeas and nays were then taken, and resulted
as follows:
YEAS.-Messrs. Archer, Ashley, Atherton, Bagby
Barrow, Benton, Berrien, Calhoun, Cameron, Chal
mers, John M. Clayton, Corwin, Crittenden, Davis
Dayton, Dix, Greene, Haywood, Houston, Hunting
/ ton, Jarnagin, Johnson of Maryland, Johnson o.
Louisiana. Lewis McDuffie, Mangum, Miller, More
head, Niles, Pearce, Pennybacker Phelps, Rusk
Sewer, Simmons, Speght, Turney, Upham, Webster
5 and Woodbridge-40.
t NAYS.-Messrs. Allen, Atchison, Breese, Bright
Cass, Thomas Clayton, Dickinson, Evans, Fairfield
Hannegan, Jenness, Semple, Sturgeon, and Westcot
IA.
So the resolution was ordered to be engrossed anG
read third time.
The joint resolution was then read third time
and passed without division.
House Of Representatives., April Is.
THE NOTICE.
On motion of Mr.. BOYD, the House proceeded to