The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1846-02-25

ulOu, anu was ready LOT passing any resolution
for giving that notice.
Sir, since that time this House has been enga.
ged WITH all the ability must say unsurpassa-
ble-and with all the patriotism, unsurpassed, as
believe, by any people on the face Of the world,
in the consideration of that veryguestion. have
endeavored TO keep my mind as far as possible
as impartial on this subject as il had not been
made up before; have listened with attention
: all the attention | could command--to the
speakers on both sides of the question, and ifmy
mind had not been made up in the most pos tive
andindeXiblc manner to the opinion that lime
was come for the notice to be given to Great
Britain, do not know what would have been the
result of this debate upon my mind. mean to
say that everything in the nature of argument,
everything in the nature Of fact, everything that
can b we the power of persuasion upon the hu-
man mind, has been, in my opinion, brought for
ward and laid before this House in this debate ;
and say, not upon one side Of the question, bu;
upon the other. | cannot undertake TO draw the
balance of ability between the arguments on the
two sides; but say thai, in my estimation, there
never was debate in deliberatve body where
Fa subject has been more thoroughly and more
completely exhausted than this has been 1t has
left me, sir, where was; it has left me with a
conviction fortified by all that has been said in
this dclberation, that the time has come for gi-
wing this notice to the government of Great Bri-
tan--that the convention of 1927 shall be ter
minated twelve months after the notice being
given by the President of the United States to
the British government of the determination OF
these United States to put an end to that agree.
ment.
Upon this, however, shall have but little to
say in addition to what he had said before adopt
ing as far as the committee will permit all the
arguments of all gentlemen who have maintain.
ed the same side of the question. But, sir, in
the course of this debate, even before what has
fallen from the honorable gentleman from Goor-
| gia, Mr.. King.] to-day, think have heard a
number of gentlemen who have spoken, drawn
rather too much into personalities upon this ques-
ton. have been charged even before this day
with inconsistency in my own course; and some
times it has been intimated that have been ac-
tuated by motives not Of the purest and most pa
triotic kind for having at former time entertain
ed the opinion that Great Britain has some right
upon this question.
Mr. A. proceeded 10 notice those personal allu-
sions, and to present his Interpretation of the
ISHuSSlUlg convention OGlWCcu UGeat britain and
the United States. The situation of his health
(he sad) was such that he must ask an apology
from this committee for anything desultory which
ii was possible he might say, for reasons with
which he should not trouble the committee He
had recently within few days past been urged
by number Of his friends to say something Of
the reasons why the termination of this conyen-
ton should take place; but feeling The extreme
burden under which he abored in addressing the
committee, he had come into this House rather
despairng of his opportunity for taking any part
in this debate. And he should not now have at
tempted it, had ii not been for the personal ap-
peal made to him--he confessed in a manner
which surprised him--from gentleman with
whom his relations had always been Of the most
friendly character, and who hitherto has observed
the rules which that friendly relation prescribed.
That gentleman commenced, by what he con.
ceived to be dlsorderly appeal to him, (Mr. A.
contrary TO, and in violation of, the rules of this
House, by putting question TO him, (Mr Az
instead Of addressing the chair, or at least of ad-
ton to put to him Mr.. Az What right had the
gentleman 10 ask him any question?
Mr.. King rose for explanation, and Mr.. A.
yielding the floor, stated that he had addressed
the chair, saying, with all due respect, he should
like TO ask the honorable gentleman from Massa-
chusens a question. The chair made no obiec
ton, and, as he conceived, assented, and he
(Mr. K) propounded it. He did not think there
was anything supplementary or disrespeclfu in
it; he certainly intended nothing disrespectful to
the gentleman from Massachusetts.
Mr. Adams (resuming) Ibelieve the gentle
man that he did not intend anything disrespect-
ful, and perhaps nothing unparliameniary. Ac-
cordng TO my ideas of the rules of this House, il
was supplementary, though did not under
stand tito be intended as dslespeclul, and there
fore answered the question. answered il as
specifically, as undisguisedly, as clearly as my
heart and mind could permi. me to; aad then he
said
This portion of the sentence was lost to the
reporler.
think he might have concluded from what he
knew of me before that time, what my position
was, and he might have made any argument he
thought inEeable from it, without making that
direct personal appeal. refer TO this now be-
cause, as said before, it is perhaps the final and
the only reason why venture TO address the
committee at this time. have said, before this
question arose. to the House. Il have said, in ur-
glng the Committee on Foreign Affairs TO put US
IN situation to mcctthe question, that was rca-
dy TO vote for the notice 10 Great Britain 10 ter
inmate this convention. have not entered into
all the reasons that have brought me 10 that con
clusion did not think it necessary;l wasAwill.
ing to leave upon the balance of the debate
which has taken place in this IIouse--upon the
arguments thathave taken place on both sides
was willing to leave it to the House, and to say
TO say "oy"--to any of tie PROPOSE.
ions brought before the House TO terminate the
of 1927, for which the largest major
ty Of this House can be obraned-io any of the
propositions, from the direct, positive propos-
ion reported by the chairman OF the Committee
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