The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-25

which offer we had refused. Well, with the Presl-
dents message which had been sent to all parts OF
the country, before them, did he propose 10 DIVIDE
He was not sure that majority Of the people OF THIS
country at that very hour would compromise short
Of $40 40. They were a curious people. Senators
might go where they would-all round the avenue
into the highways and byways, and on post pillar,
and wall they would see written with chalk, o4O
40' Z" They were words that had sunk deep INTO the
hearts of the people, and before the summer was
over, they would become deeply impressed as
not TO be erased. He looked upon those signs OF
the times with deep interest," and ne thought all VINO
could ought to read them. His friend from Georgia
proposed compromise, which, according TO ms nef
probation, was TO be between the 49th deg ana ,he
Columbia river But he, (Mr. So wond ask, Was
there single American IN the country, OF any sof',
unwilling TO fight Great Britain tomorrow before ne
would g We up an inch Of that soiR Not one such an
alternative would rouse the nation TO man In such
a contest they would find even their Quaker friends
with arms in their hands, proclaimng aloud, ,"To
your tents o Israel |" And in that state Of things
the senator from Georgia proposed to compro-
mise. He, (Mr s., hoped, whatever resolution
passed, that word compromise would be omitted.
He could not vote for any form OF resolution that
had that word in it. Should treaty be made, he
would do his best. Al a still later period, the sena-
tor from Delaware Mr.. CLArroSl proposed enoth.
| er substitute; which was but restatemen OF that OF
the senator from Kentucky, Mr. CRITrESpIH,l with
the alteration of a few words He believed the reso-
luton of the committee preferable to all others;
and although he would be willing to vote for that of
the House. he preferred the other on account offs
better phraseology. But he conld not let that occa
sion pass without saying that the House resolutions
had responded 10 the Presidents message faithfully,
as they ought. They reflected the opinions OF the
people of this country and, better than all that they
were carried opposed by the terrifying cries OF war
but Notwithstanding all that, the House had man
fully supported the honor and interests OF the coun
| try. But were they to pass the notice Were they
/ going TO carry out the measures of the President
| in regard to this subject Were the people to be
gratifed in that particular Or were they TO go
home, leaving the matter as II had been for thirty
years previously, leaving possession TO Great Brit
ain These questions well worthy the grave an
swer of the Senate. Some senators were opposed
| TO the notice in any FORM and their reason was be-
cause they thought it unnecessary TO the purposes
of negotiation and il it is sought for any purpose but
that, they not for giving it, But the President
had told them, that in conducting negotiations, he
had found the convention Of 1927 an mpedment in
his way and that he desired it TO be removed. He
had told them what he had done, and what, if that
mpediment were removed, he expected to be able
to do. They all knew that, by the terms Of the
convention Of 1918, that Great Britain had the pos
session of all Oregon, and that having that pos
| session, she had no inducement 10 negotiate about
it, because she never could get more than she had
and if she negotiated, Of she must lose
a part. Since that time the Oregon question had
been up half dozen times, and it had been treated
with zeal and eagerness. Whenever they had done
10, they told by some it very improper.
Well, on that Mr.. $50 side of the House, they
thought there something curious in the fact,
that whenever they stopped in their efforts 10 settle
the question, Great Britain stopped too. When
they became little feyerish, they talked about Ore
gon again; and thus it had been treated from 1910
TO that time. He would like to ask how long that
state Of things was to last How long were they to
be trhed with by such hypocrisy and insncerity'
Was the matter never to end? No. it would never
end until they annuled the convention Of 1873
until they restored themselves again to the posses
| session of the valley Of the Columbia river
until they protected their citizens in Oregon, and
made them freeholders, as they ought to be. These
things they could do, fthe convention was abroga-
ted, but not before. II that done, they could
extend the laws OF the United States over them and
protect them, for they had right to it American
| citizens on American soil. He hoped never to see
| the day when a call from an American citizen how
ever humble or distant, would be made in vain on
this government TO protect him in his rights. II
was for these reasons the President thought it i'm
| porant to remove the impeachment offered by the
| convention. He remembered when some gentle
men in the Senate not for having Oregon on
any terms. In their speeches in 1910, l64l, l842,
l843 and 1874, and by their votes, there could be
found food Of light thrown on this Oregon matter
| They then told that the god of the republic
would be placed on the loftest peak of the Rocky
mountains, with his face towards the east and that
all the territory behind 1t would be given up TO 9TH
ers They told them that the limits of this country
were already too widely extended for the prosperi-
y and stability of the Union that il was too wide
| " extended for the improvement Of the country in
mind, in morals, and comforts Of every sort. There
| was sort OF faint impression on his mind that on
| one Of those occasions statement was made show
ing the effect of emigration the value Of lands
| and property; and he remembered very distinctly
| that the calculations made to show the effects of
| emigration, attempted to make out that in work.
| shops and manufactures the value of labor would
be destroyed. His friend from New Jersey
gave them most touching description of the fate Of
the poor Indian in Oregon, representing his being
disturbed by the American rife in his slumbers and
| hunting grounds. The senator spoke of Oregon as
being poorer in soil than the mountains dividing
Canada from Maine. They were told it was un
fit for cutvation that Great Britain did not want it
| except for hunting grounds, or where some lima
| tured, sour, bilious Engishman might retreat to-
| They were told that New Holland or New Zealand
| was infinitely better than Oregon. Such wese the
speeches made in lS4l, 1912, l543, and 1874. But
| not one word about the old reasons heard now;
and they would be heard again until Califor-
MIA or Mexico should rap for admission into the
Union. Texas had exploded all those old theories
They would take Oregon now, if they got it without
fighting. Fighting he admitted was terrible thing
they all knew that. They were told if they got to
fighting their commerce would be all destroyed; tina
they were TO have seven armies, and two navies,
ten years war, and at the end of that period debt
of FIVE hundred millions; and in the mean time that
all improvements in steam, and thunder and light
ming would be stopped. One senator told them that
Great Britain, like the United States, was a religious
nation; and that, according to the holy command
ments, it was wrong to covet your neighbours lands
steal his property. He admitted they were of
the same stock the people of Great Britain, their
old grandmother; and that, unlike a great many
Americans who 60 abroad, they had not forgotten
their native tongue; but could still speak English
On account of this people could fight for Or
egon considerable portion of the honorable sena-
ing to the attitude of the speaker, the noise of
spectators in the gallery, and other causes
which, indeed, throughout the whole speech pre-
vented its being heard without great interruption
Was il not right to inform their minds on the
question: Was it not important that they should
be enabled to go into the quarrel, if it came, with
conviction Of its justice He did not expect the
senator to go further than he did He said that
title was clear up 70 400 But let him answer does
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