The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-02-06

thrust ms SWORD nearly up 10 tie hit
in the side of his antagonist. His
very heart was cloven. The unfor-
tnnate young man fell without utter
ing a groan. His sword dropped
from his grasp. He pressed his
right hand to his breast, and with a
quivering motion of his lips, as if
struggling TO speak, expired.
'Oh! my God! exclaimed Trevor,
in broken and hollow tone, with a
face so blanched and horror strick-
en- that it froze my blood to look at
him. what have done? Can all
this be real?'
The unhappy survivor fingered an
exile in foreign land five years,
and died Of broken heart.
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HEMARKs OF EIIs. WENTWORTH,
In the house of representatives. Jan. lfsh, 1916,
Ian. On the Oregon question.
Mr.. WENTWORTH said it was easy
for gentleman to rise on this floor
and descant upon the glories of war,
or the blessings ofpeace. For one,
he had nothing to say upon either.
He would avoid the charge of bra
vado on one side, and timidity on the
other. The question of declaring
war was not before Congress. And
we were at amity with all the ma
tons of the earth, and consequently
we had no peace to make. He had
expressed his views in relation to
this matter on several occasions be-
fore this, and it was difficult TO find
politician who had not. For near
ly thirty years the matter has been
in agitation; and during the whole
time, the cxtrinsic consideration of
peace or war had been dragged in,
and used to retard the assertion of
American rights. In all this contro-
yersy there was but one question.
and that was, els Oregon ours ?"
iii is, we but act the part of JUS
ticc when we claim our own; if it is
not, then we should make no preten-
sions adversely to the party justly
entitled to it. If it is all ours, then
we should boldly but respectfully as
scrt our rights to it all; if not all
Ours, then we should only take what
is ours. This course would be alike
honorable to us as men, as Chris
tians, and as a nation. There was
but one high-minded course to pur-
sue, and that was to do right, and
leave consequences to themselves,
to be provided for as they arose.
Entertaining these views, he had
resolved to manifest his attachment
to American rights by silent vote
on this question at this session, and
should have done so, but for the al
fusion to him by the gentleman from
South Carolina, (Mr, Rhett, in re-
lation to the vote given by him, the
present speaker, (Mr. Davis and
the present presiding officer, (Mr.
Tibbatts, and about sixty other de-
mocrats, against inserting this no
tlcc with the Oregon bill, and which
no gentleman yet having spoken had
explained. He would here state,
however, that the reason for his ST.
lence was that the people were be-
ginning to believe that this subject
was one that was forever to be talk
ed about and never to be acted up
on. He was afraid that the Oregon
excitement was to be considered the
American humbug, used to make
Presidents and to get men into Con
gress; but to go no further because
there was ga lion in the path" As
long ago as he could remember, the
politicians were talking and diplo-
matists negotiating on this subject I;
and the advances, if any, all the
while, have been the wrong way.
AS Texas, the twin measure with
this at the last session, was passed
without discussion, he certainly hop
ed that Oregon would have secured
the same courtesy; and he was at
the commencement Of this debate, as
he now was, ready and anxious to
limit the debate to single day.
Gentlemen were anxious to define
their positions, and therefore were
delaying this measure for weeks, and
perhaps for months, when they could
but know that their votes, ny or no,
on the question of this notice, and
upon a bill extending American ju-
risdiction to the Russian boundary,
would be the best definition that
they could give. Early action on
this question, one way or the other,
was what the people expected, and
what he (Mr. W. would labor to
promote. AS was said in the case
OF Texas, he would reiteratc as
equally applicable to Oregon, the
people have decided the case at the
polls after full hearing of all the
parties, and it only remains for us to
execute their Judgment.
One gentleman has nronosrd TO