Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-06-04

thohy Let him cOafess his error, and reesn If he
| my opinions"
Mr.. Benton then asked-but the question wa
not answered, and never will be-why Mr.. Cas-
had not stated the ground Of the American CLAIM
to Frazer's riverl Upon this point Mr.. BentoI
made the following remarks:
81 have stated the British tide and am ashamed
afraid TO do It, than should he to state their
tie TO Cansds aud Il Is clear In the other
The British discovered that ver in 1893 settled IN lsO6
covered over with Establishments from head to mouth
from SIS deg. 10 deg and had II covered when
treated with Spain in 1919 Spain never clamed.
sold Il heard OF the rivet: and all the
statesmen no made the Spanish treaty cid
ed Frszsr's river to Great Britain from head to mouth
from 81 deg to 50 deg lreraSibc documents prove thu,
and have heretofore shown them the Senate. This
the British title, admitted by Mr.. Monroe and his Cabinet
IN 1928 stated from their DAYS ago. Now let
the Senator state the American claim the Let
him only state IT, He does attempt IT, lie eschcws
the fatal sound OF Fazers river and the forty
posts upon H. but still vents the people TO believe il -
theirs, and for say war. for any attempt
part take the British establishments on FrazeTs
river would be followed by quickly and Justly as
an attempt To take their Canada This dread
in. We arc the American Senate acting in the eyes OF
e present age and OF posiory and upon great respon
sibiliy by our acts may be made and bound
by sacred and human obligation to make no mistake
IN bringing about great a calamity War is calamity
IN itself-a war upon mistake is double calamity
out war upon design, after the mistake detected
calamity for which there name rises 10 the mag
h'noe OF tue greatest read the which
showed the mistake thought very probable the fifty
had never read the Russian treaties did
know what they said. produced the Biographies TO in
struct them In FrsEers river for thought they were gno
rant OF IL did all clearly, intelligiby, ndspuiably
waited for the result In fact waited long, and until
delsy was dangerous, before could them
right knew the iraty OF poor human nature. and that
instead OF thanks, resentment would probably my
reward. Well II has come personal attack myself
reading mutaied scraps furnished by caterers show
inconsistent, and then able do Not able help
~ ullaA
from nnumeabo speeches, and muuated for the pur-
pose, and then misspphed. What said OF islands ap
piled to continents; what said OF the Columbia rver
applied to New Caedonai what said OF the Oregon
rver applied Fazers Miserable perverson every
where 10 turn against myself, and make party TO
the deception OF the people"
81 have performed a painful duty WAITED long before
would undertake 1t. To make head against OF
eor-to set nation right that had been led astray-was
hercuean task but have veniured upon IT, and do
regret IT, The people may be led astray they not
love They love truth and justice and IT there
no 81 So there they do fight for it,
Ii F5azer's vor belong. the BRUSH, does they do
not to take from her. The people Just
and ready JacksnnS great ASK NOTHING
BUT WHAT RIsHr-s-BNIT NOTHING THAT 10 WRONG"
So clear does Mr.. Benton make this question,
that are absolutely amazed at the dsgraceful
Ignorance of its true history and of the facts con.
nected with it, and which constitute the turning
point of this delicate controversy, by the Ameri-
can President and his Secretary of State, and by
the leaders of the War party in and out of Con-
gress-an ignorance which led the Chief Magis-
trate to assert our ''cear and unquestionabc" IL
tie to a territory to which Mr.. Benton proves BY
irreragable testimony we have not the shadow Of
right and to wrest which from Great Britain, to
whom it clearly belongs, they have been so asst.
duously and successfully endeavoring, in the lam
guage Of one of their number TO prepare the
heart ofthe nation for war" But we can impart
no additional emphasis to Mr.. Benton's own in
dignant and eloquent portrayal of the calamity Of
4 war originating in n ''misidke," and of the cri-
minality of causing that calamity, by design after
this mistake has been detected and exposed But
what will the people think of the criminal igno-
rance of Mr.. Polk and his echoes in regard TO
question upon which il especially became them,
before they expressed officially opinion to which
they thereby committed the government, to make
themselves Intimately and accurately conversantl
But they preferred to jump to their conclusion "a.
Their than to incur the labor Of the investigation,
which 1t was nevertheless their imperative duty t.
have made. But while the people may be chart
taby disposed TO pardon their mistake" it is not
to be supposed that they will tolerate persistence
IN 1t, now that Mr.. Benton has stripped it of all
dsguIse-especially if by an adherence to this de.
tected error we to be plunged into Il war with
Pok's unfounded assertion Of right, and the patri-
oiism of the fifty -four forties, by whom it has been
So vociferous!y sustained