The Arkansas banner., 1846-05-19

= cies, desire never again 10 see another call ed session of Congress. The country, l think, for all the good they have done, are sufficiently satisfied with such experiments. And, after all, what good can we expect from delay of ninety or hundred days H the giving of this notice Will the country be better prepared for it than now2 think not.
 l object also to the ''peamble" of the senator, as do to the 's5or{dcaHo ill the sen- ator's resolution The 'preamblc'' of the senator is mainly historical narrative. IL rtcites but facts well known to everybody, and therefore for the purpose of information Is wholly unnecessary. Do we earnestly desire speedy settlement of this Oregon controversy Our acts as we'll as our words show It. IL requires no preamble to satisfy any one of this. Preamblcs and forthWiths. Mr. President, have ever been my abonlina- tion. Tine first l regard as reflection upon my capacity; and the other, a restraint upon genteman's liberty. What benefit can the senator expect from his preamble? Is il in- tended as guided cover, or as sweetening to the physic, we are about to administer = Or IS it designed as d piece of diplomacy, by which her Alajesty's ministers are 10 be tick led, and good-humoredIy eoaxed into nego- tiatlon? lis calculated that this preamble will produce this result? My opinion Is. sir, that Great Britain will be more apt to look at the measure itself, its purposes and eonse- quences, than to any garb, however taneilul,
 in which 1t may be clothed. That power will negotiate with or without this preamble, unmindiul of uranAiety, should she con5id- CT il her interest to do so, and not other wse
 Sir, shortly after the senator from heHtuc- ky Air. Criltenden, had favored the Senate with his proposition, the senator from Nerth Carolina, AIr. Mangum, gave Us notice Of his intention to move two additional proyi- soes 10 the resolution offered by the senator from Kentucky. The first of these Was to submit the Oregon controversy 10 arbitration; and the other, to organize III Oregon a teFrto. rial government after specific time, and upon certan enumerated conditions. But, on the l0th of February, the day on which this question was taken up, that senator finding, l suppose, that propo- sition to arbtrate this question had been of fered bY Great Br tain, and that that offer had been rejected by the u. States; and finding, also, suppose, that in the House of Repre- seniatives, d separate bill 10 organize in Ore gon q territorial government had been repor- ted, he abandoned his intention of offering those proyisoes. Those propositions, there fore, not now being before the Senate have,
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 Subsequently to this, the senator from Georgia, Mr Co.quitt, proposed all amenG- menl to the resolution offered by the senator from Kentucky, of which have spoken, and the senator from Kentucky, in part, accepted aud adopted Ii as his own The proposition of the senator from Kentucky, as modified at the instance of the senator from Georgia, differs from the original in this: the original proposition of the senator from Kentucky authorizes the President, in his discretion, to gire or n0t giee the notice after the close of the present session of Congress: that pro- position, as now modified proposes that Con- gross (and mol he PreSidsHi) shall give this notice, to take effect, absolutely, after Con gross shall adjourn, unless the President, ih his discretion, shall see fit to defer it. Now, sir, according to my reading, the difference in these resolutions, II the original and mO- diiied form, is not wide enough to pay for the ink and paper on which that difference is recorded. Either to give il, in the one case, or to defer 1t, in the othef-to do the act, or to prevent flare, to my mind, equal ly objectionable, as both rest upon the basis of Executive discretion, and therefore anlen- able to all the objections have already urg- ed relative to this discretionary power.
 The proposition of the senator from Geor- gia also proposes 10 "negotlateo and "com- promise" If the President, under our con- stiluion, did not possess the power to nego- tiate upon all subjects, there might be some proprlety to confer such power upon him but as he possesses it, under the constitution and independent of us, think nothing benc- fcial can result from inserting such an au- thority in this resolution. On the contra ", many evils may grow out of II. l. may by thus maniesting such anxiety to negou- ate, defeat the object 1t is designed te sub. serve. It may do more il may form q dan gerous precedent, and lead, il future, Il no ln this instance, to inroads upon the const tution-an instrument which he and art alike concerned in preserving in it's heauiliu form of simplicity and efficiency. Ever mind lul of this, let us exercise only the powers the constitution conlers upon the Senate, an( leave to the Executive those which properly belong 10 him.
 The senator also proposes to compromtse To compromise what; The disputed terri tory And what is s'that' In the British vo cabulary, il means the territory which lie between the Columbia river and the 43ti parallel of latitude We have been oilerin: for years to settle this boundary by that par alel and Great Britain, on her part, ha been offering to settle il by the Columbia rlY CT, giving us all south, and she retaining al north. and the river teb be common 10 botl nations. Is il to divide this country, iylnj between the Columbia and the 18th parallel that the word ..compromsien Is inserted = The senator from Georgia does not meal this for he has told me he does noi. H. means to include in his compromise all tn country 10 which either party set up claim ,on the northwest coast of Amerca-ali Incln ded between the parallels of 42o and o4s 4V This Is what he means. But will that meanhi be put upon |, by the British government Wi even our President SO cnnstrue lE The Pres iaent has told us that, acting on the prinel nles or ..romDramise,'' and n difference t