The Arkansas banner., 1846-04-29

the authentic documents which our library contains. and would lave ioand the truth, and would have been 10 da3 freeman, and not plsoaer as he constituted himself Yesterday in the hands of the iorty-ni He is now their prisoner; doomed to dwell D He is.not killed, but taken He maF say of b:mas the eonsoBas messenger said to Pen elope:
 inc great Ulysses is not dead
 Bot. far from tNts aad son,
 He lives prisoner oa Q desert isle
 The e!astoc this ebarse in the Senator's position mast be great. On the Grecian band, ot whom he is the Agamamnoa, 1t must have most diminishing effect. That band for some months, has been st- ing lo the picture which the poet3 dre#. Of OFF sgaadnoIhers in the time Of loag-waistel gawHz aal tight stays.
 Small by degrees, and b2aatifally less
 But now, the sudden deduction Of So much weight md strength in the person o their calai musL leave taen almost nothing. On the future conduct of tae campaign, t must have decisive e5.ect,# Tor the AaX of t5is expedition, both big aaj litia. must raaonnce f, when the great chief has imposed the penalty of silence aaJ iaaction on himself.
 Rir flanagan O. Indiana answered a iaa ,le. i Was keen aad ea-,iag speech. Taa sltes5< waz
 eit. took all hesets by storm 1t tas s5f.ea- sion, there was one bud hgrst Of aaplagsa, which called forth the rebae of the President and brought ohl blue light federal Webster to his feet, who ds- ei3red that il it occurred again he would claim his right Senator, to have t,e galleries cleared rres- psctive Of persons "I would moi, ," sail Mir. Han nsgan "aaYe made a single observation on tfs oc- eason, lad it not been fora particular expression accompanied by very significant look towards this qafter, which fell from tle Senator from Missouri Certainly, he was the last man here from whom expected an ualHd looE or an uaHini a.lHsiaa. As said before, on certain occasion here, he aas been to great extent, my political teacher; and, sir, l learned from him, on this Oregon question, more than learned from any other living man. l learned itnom his speech OF te Ashbutoa ;roatY. which .om that hour has been to.him the constant theme oi daadig aad unaiti5ltad hass..iiy against tha neG2t4tor uho made o.ai treat& a1d tss Sen 4togs 9ao voted for t Ilearaed ua.nly from that speech my principles a.4 relation to tha Oregon question From the speech of Gls Senator from Missouri l learned that the American title to Ore zen up to 55 Was gooa hot only against Great Britain, but the whole world. That speech was Hade here oa!y four or Gge years ago, and ia il the Senator tafls}; me those principles, which power iu as h. is he nevar~iii be able t0 eradicate from tng m;ad ile planted them t4en, but be cannot HOW placil them up at Lis aill. l learned at the feet of a9 Gamaiiel lae9 passed from thence: have proclaimed the principles which louad there, H. may lo as ho fists He may before lis country and the worId abandon those principles. fwilt not. make. the sane pledge made by t.a distinguished and patriotic aoI Honest American. #Ao occupied that as4t y5atesday cir. Cass) that EheneYagit is shown bIai 1he line of e Uas ex- tended io the Pacific ocean. I vii not only close ny month and seal my lips against ihe utte1ace o : any claim to te leuitcg north of .l9 . but to aay pat of the coaary Of Oregon Self confident q. tho Senator is, i4t he Aol9 tho game mnon of ouI ii.tla band prisoner, he may fad himself uista- Ken. Not one single document to which Aarefrrea hot one paragraph which ba read, Las reference fo foot of and, win the exception of Lis a!lason ta LeWs and Clarke, wostnfthe Rocky .He#Htaias ! What right had Englaad and ha United States ,te settle line dividing country bslgaainy to Snain ; The Senator from Missouri is perfectly aware that 3 sac! Was never tR. iuteatiou-such was never ii 5 the contemplation of the United States But thi, Was the pledge made by the Senator from Michi gan by this he is bound and by this, after all hs , has sail I express myself also bound. When. ever it cans be shown that the treaty of Utrecht contemplated the establishment of the parallel O
 49o west of the Rocky mountains, | close rY lnontl IS to Oregon. Spain party to that treaty, du sac did moi come in, if racollaef right uutil soma tune afterwards. speak from recollection. and de not maka the statement vith perfect confidence c its accuracy, buf such is my impression. Spair came into it afterwards, protesting that she did no yield any rigbts on the northwestern coast. and on. y when that protest was eoncurred in, did she be- come party As to France, prior to l7S3 she ney. CT asserted title to one foot of territory, from the isihmus of Darian to the Arctic circle on the Pa. cido coast And yet Enr' nd and France. aecor. ding 10 the version which Mr. Benton gives and the 3 impression which he would produce upon the Sen. ate, and upon the country, parcelled out what We : now call Oregon Yet up 10 that moment: up ta the signing of the treaty of Utrecht and long after ) ward and down to the signing of the Nootka Sound convention, before all Europe, with the assent o } all chrlstendom, Spain asserted and maintained and defended her title to the whole of that coast. : Let me said MT H. congratula ate my friend. the distinguished Senator from South Carolina fCal. houn') that at last, the antipodes have met that he has made a convert of the Senator from Missouri. l congratulate him.. He has won the : highest trophy-the .h.ghtcst intellectual rophv he has ever achieved He can now make the proud. est boast, he have uttered. The great leader there has become his convert and subaltern in tha conrse oi "mastelly inactivity"