The North-Carolina standard., 1846-03-11

of wisdom to put an end TO such state of thines2
DO we not owe it to ourselves, and to those who
come after u.s. TO arrest this political earthquake,
which at intervals has given shock 10 all that is
valuable in societY2 tsf5 r. --enlt
Mr.. Chairman, as something has been said a.
bout leaders in this matter, and as the gentleman
from Massachusetts mr. Adarnsl has been held
up before the country as the leader of those who
are in favor of The notice, L will beg the Indul-
! gence of the committee whilst make few re-
marks in relation to that matter. | will take oc-
casion to say, that in giving nay vote for the no.
tice, shall follow the lead of no man-the lead
neither of the llustrious gentleman from Massa
chuseus, nor vet of the honorable member from
Virginia, [Mr Baylyl know no Iead and l
shall follow no lead but that of my constituents.
Whithersoever they direct in matter Of so much
importance to their peace, thither go cheerfully
and promptly. But, sir, if the gentleman from
Massachusetts happens to coincide with me in
opinion upon this OIL, any other subject, l shall
most certainly not change my views on that ac-
count merely. To do so, would be TO put my po-
Utica principles entirely in his keeping to be con-
troled and directed as he might think proper
He would only have to affect to be on one side
in order to drive into that very position into
which, above all others, he would most desire to
place me. Again would ask with what pro-
prety can it be said that the honorable member
from Massachusetts is the leader of all those who
L
the democratic party was the leader in this mat
ter. l had thought that their delegates in con-
vcntion had declared our title TO the whole Of
Oregon thought it formed part Of the dccla-
ration with which we entered the political strug
| gle of l844 in which we were opposed and re-
sisted by the gentleman from Massachusetts, and
| by those who usually act with him. And now,
after the gentleman, with all his might and main,
resisted the election of the only candidate that was
publicly pledged TO the maintenance of our rights
in Oregon, he is be held up the leader Of all
those who advocate the notice. 1t will not do
Gentlemen will fail in their object They ought
! to know, and do know, that The democratic party
have adopted their principles not from spirit of
opposition to others, but because of their connex-
ion with the prosperity and glory Of our'common
country. By such an intimation, the honorable
gentlemen depreciate the moral influence of the
political principles by which they have. for some
= time past, professed TO have been governed
But some gentlemen who have preceded me in
the debate declare that before we proceed to adopt
measures which may possibly lead TO war;
ought fully 10 be satisfied, not only Of our rights
but that those rights are OF sufficient value and
importance TO Justify resort to that dreadful al
tentative This will lead me 10 trouble the COM
mittee with few reflections upon the value of
Oregon and in this connexion | will consider it
with respect to IFS AGRICULTURAL its manufacturing
and commercial capacities And, fist, as respects
its agricultural advantages. And here l am will
ling 10 confess that at first blush and as appears
from the very imperfect accounts from the por-
tions of that territory which have been yet ex-
plored, the prospects not encouraging so
far agriculture is concerned, as is to be found
in other portions of the habitable globe. 1t has
not for instance, the smoothncss of the valley of
the Mississippi, nor yet perhaps its fertility. But
that the parts of it already explored do hold out
very considerable inducements to the agricullurst
l.x.A IL. IL.
lead to the discovery Of other and still larger
tracts suited to the same desirable purposes is far
from being without the range of human proba-
bllity. OF late, every year is rewarding the toll
of the hardy pioneer with the discovery of some
new valley veing in richness OF scenerv-in fer
tilty Of sol-beauty of location and saIubry of
climate, with any spots of equal extent in the
world. The valley of the Umpqua of the Will
lamete, and the Walla Walla have from time to
time, burst upon the gaze of the hardy adventur-
er, and rewarded, from time to time his daring
and tosome wanderings But, sir, when we re-
member that until within few years past, this
whole country has been looked to with an eve
sing lie 10 the furnishing Of furs and when it is
further remembered that those portions of any
country which most inviting to the foot of the
traveller the least adapted to the products Of
agriculture, the wonder perhaps is, not that so few
but rather that so many spots have already been
found which are hereafter to gladden. the heart
and reward the toll of the husbandman Much
too, that at first sight would seem to be unsuited
to cultivation may, by dnt of industry and enter
prise, become the abode of the quiet and indcpend-
ent farmer. To the eye of the pilgrim as it, wan
dering over the surrounding country for the first
time, from the rock of Plymouth, how dreary and
desolate the scenery. Nor did further progress
into the interior destroy weaken for a long
time the startling features of the picture as it first
presented itself to his vision. But Massachusetts
is now great and powerful State-great in her
population in her wealth, in her commerce. in
the intelligence and enterprise of her citizens, and
great in her revolutionary "reminiscences BY the
industry of her people, by their economy and pru-
dence, her snow-capped mountains have been con-
verted into fruitful gardens, and her very rocks
have been made TO bloom with the freshness of
vegetation. And of majority of the old States
how small is the portion of their surfaces that
gives employment to the husbandman. But mall
that contributes to the nature Of f1ocks and herds
and to the support of manufacturing establish
rnents, Oregon bids fair to stand unrivalled on this
northern continent. Her valleys, her hills, aud
her very mountains produce spontaneously and in
abundance the most nourishing grasses, adapt
ing her above all other countries to the growing
of wool-a commodity for which we are now so
largely dependent upon importations from abroad
And though her rivers and water courses are
broken by falls and compressed in places into
narrow defles, offering no safety on their bosoms
to the vessel or the Steamship these very deformi.