New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-24

who seem determined 10 nave dis company arc pc
can s they 90 for all of Oregon none 70 take the
Ad along with them by construction at any
and every peril 20 It's consistency and TO the peace OF
the United States. No. sir no: sir The President
has not put himself into that position Had ne done II
or he should do il for do not hesitate TO deca
tina, it would compel me TO turn my back upon Elm
his Administration. have no. that friend uPo ;,b
~; n ,se.s;TI of HIGH devotion 10 his counsrys
honor 20 injurious this great p n, &c 70,
the worlds peace character If our country
IL - ne ncece of the world that he might ing orlously
,.b II back again before could be accepted simply
and .ngy because 1t not seized upon In me Day or
month, or year he offered it ask bis pardon for the
supposition that he could For one GO NOT DOUBT ni
Before / will do II. he must sgn plain recantaton.
would hardly believe that he must DO THE FOUL DEED
before surrender my faith
Wha, it ,ritdran AFTER its last rejecuont That
Ia nothing for Il had been in like manner 1'tedrGtcn oy
his predecessors If their withdrawal in lel7 and 1877
left toe Government still committed, how could it be
otherwise because he withdrew the same offer in 1881
This plea would miserable subteruge and DO Sena-
TOR will adopt in the name OF the Presicent none can
do il and call il an act OF friendship 10 hlu
Mr. President ought not this one act oil Itself TO be
conclusive against these false constructions OF the mes
seye7 But /; is not ALL We are in possession OF more
much more--in these records" for 1t ID to them
speak The President knows his own purposes best
where he intends 70 stop and whether he has IN truth al
ready terminated his efforts negotiate compromise
10 knows that il ne terminates negotiation and rashly
the hazard of our extreme claims TO the
nhob Of Oregon up 10 "a % 30, the United states
ons or prepare dsodge Great Britain and 70 defend
herself by force Of That think have already
proved. And yet oh what an OMISSION! NO nohce
has been given for this necessity 10 Congress or the peo
ple plainly and directly it ought to have been No re.
commentators Congress to prepare for our defence
for the orcibe assertion OF our rights are In these
records" To prepare noy-today No estimate has been
sent up to us for that object None Nothing of the kind
The estimates lowered, not ncreased What Is the
inference What does he that you shall under
stand By this Tba: there is his part intention TO
hat no pOt intiO
will not be pursued by him And will not his friends
permit themselves to see when they thus msconstrue
his message that they involved the President were 1t
true in guilt too deep for decent utterance AN mex
cusabe treacherous cowardly criminal concealment Of
our coun,rys DANGER when in reality there Is to be no
farther negotiation on our part there can De no excu.e
no reason-no preext for silence But the construction
Is false President Polk would not betray bis country
thus Depend upon it he would have told you plainly
and directly Of it he had abandoned negotiation on ms
part not daring thus TO bring you tn an ineVtaoie
war or worse alternative for "al OF oregon or none
against your and without notice to prepare or
it. That ne has not go warned ana 30 iniof"eo you
plainly is 10 my mind. conclusive.
Nor ia this all. The President knows. as well as ne
knows the faces of Senator'S that very large proportion
will not say how many. OF those VINO expect 20 vote
this notice into bis hands favorable 10 negotiation for
c0mpronlise at fe9 and that we would not 90 IT, NOT
FOR AN INSTANT WOULD THINK OF DONG IT If we be-
eved the construction that has been placed upon his
message BY the Senators from Ohio (r ALIEN lndi
ana (Ar HANNKGAN,) and Illinois. (Mr. BREEsE y and,
perhaps, also-l not certainly the Senator from
Michigan, (Mr CAss) He must know-he does know
that would not vote for it, It. on the contrary we did
not confidently believe, from his past conduct and the
absence of any plain recantaon in the message thatths
notice will be used as means OF pursuing the pending
negotiation upon the basis OF compromise, moral
help and not TO hinder it. 1t has been
heretofore conducted by himself and his predecessors
And ye, there Senator here TO speak to and say
that he ia authorized 10 undeceire us it, indeed we have
been thus deceived No answer Then there is one
Then the President has authorized nobody to speak for
him and confirm this senatorial Interpretation of his
b,rt ba Trina 0fO do
believe he would have done that, and than that
rather than deceive and betray many Of this Senate
therefore friend enough TO the President doubt
and deny this false construction and aithtuness
trust a Senator compes me to do it, rs from my heart
do this day openly before tho American Senate. If
any here be authorized TO speak for him, lei
him speak.
come to one other act OF OMISSION which mention
without the slightest intentional 6iscouriesy to the
honorable Senator from Ohio (r ALLEN but the facts
we'll known to the Senate and the omission which
au1e bears too strongly upon the point before me to
be altogether predetermined. Mr. President, my subject
too important for to sacrce truth aud argument
TO any false decacy 1t Is no question of dollars and
cents butitis as regard it and this Senate looks
H. question peace or wa-honor or dishonor to my
country. The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign |
Relations then has aways been regarded in the practice
of legislative bodies depository OF the Executive pur
poses and opinions prrate well public in far
they connected with our foreign relations. do not
say he is required expected tell the Senate any
thing c0nGd.tidNy entrusted to him. BY means;
all Eut heretofore it has sriced II he met mprudent
inquiries by Tpresspe silence By his simple unexplan-
ed waiver OF unsafe iuterrogaores could know what
about How Is it in this matter The honorable
chairman with most alarming emphasis moro than once
when he stimulated by question from others but
ofhis bend and imagnation-l grant you OF his
clear and unquesoncd rght-has assumed to construe
the message for ug. a record by which the President
had both pledged himself and notified tie Senate that |
there would be no farther negotiation for compromise
hoped he mistaken. and always believed he Was.
This has been terated and reiterated in the Senate by
the honorable chairman and other Senators and II has
gene to the world. where 1t will hastily be taken up by
thousands as though it had been AUTHORIZED ex
position Of the views and intentions of the Admuistra
ton More recently, the honorable chairman proclaimed
that the Presidents opinions and views had undergone
shado,c Of turning but in answer to direct in
Quiry put to him the floor Of the Senate by the |
honorable Senator from Maryland, (Mr. JoHNsoN) |
it was distinctly admitted by himself that the records
aud the records ALONE. were tho from which
he derived any authority thus 10 commit the Pres l. |
dent against negotiation In word ,ha, the hon.
orable charman's speeches were but inferences OF
The Ssnatornot authorised interpretations by the chair
man. From the records ALONE" Mark thst
The honorable Chairman of Foreign Affairs. then. it |
appears has obtained and does not possess
italy the views and purposes of the President and |
what he has given us the logic of his mind, not an
dicum of his Office. After his own decara
ton in the Senate it would be doing him great injustice
iusinuatc to suspect otherwise or that be meant
any thing else.
Here then we see Committee on Foreign Affairs in I
The Senate for more than months in possession Oft
subject and with these identical records referred
then for consderaon-early notice asked fora reso
luton reported and speeches delivered-but commu-
ncRton has been made 10 the Chairman inmating that
his Senatorial construction of the Presidents meaning is
true or false II the construction be not trus
for the Presidents silence However painful to
him personally he owedtto all the prophecies of his own
public station and to the service OF the Republic not
speak beforehand of his future purposes. in Rssoa
iion, through the Chairman anybody else. If the
however, be the duty of the resi-
dent would be plain to himself to the Senate. and
the nation. He should have authorized that committee
the country RICH, once by confirming the SEN
aos Interpretation TO the letter and bringing the SEN
ate to ono mind about what it s he means and what
is he wants with notice after having determined to go
for all OF Oregon" mo compromise"-" no neeotia-
,iou ~ To my mind itappears therefore, that this oms.
sion make the customary confidential disclosures TO
the chairman Foreign Affairs is pregnsn, with infer
ences. More especially we know that Senator to be
tee personal and political friend of the President but
who hos committed himself and would in
cl;ued mist say carry the Administration with him,
either before behind against all compromise and.
sequenty sgains, all negotiation do not say thatthese
,nisconsructions wlful never harbored athought
F., hat they were.
But again, Mr. President If the Administration wish
ed 70 stop oil negotiation their nothing easier
than for the President of the United States do all
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