Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-03-19
gUashtmgtom Correspondents
EXCITING DEBATE IN THE SEN ATE.
--WIIO is JAMES X. POLK!
WASHINGTON, March 10th, 1876.

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james f. Se,cart, Esq:
The Senate has been the theatre of exciting
scenes since the date of my last letter to you.
There is no Disgusting the fact, "the Universal
Democracy" are wide apart-there are breach
es among them which will not be so easily
healed as were those existing previous to the
nomination of Mr.. Polk in the Baltimore Con-
venton. The nomination of Mr.. Polk was
cure to all the ills affecting the Democracy. 1t
is true, it seemed for while to heal up the
sore-but il did not reach the seat ofthe dis
ease, but left the old corruption to tester and
break out again with still more stubborn and
unmanagible aspect The "Old Hunkers"
and "the Chivalry," have both tried their best
to get the ear of the Throne, and to speak "by
authority )" and the signs are decidedly that
tured on the countenance Of every man of them
1t flashes in the deep and penetrating eye of
Calhoun--it manifests itself in the shaking of
the fat sides of Dixon Fl. Lewis--it blaZes forth
from the fiery furnace of Parson Colquitt's
heated brain, and it carves its way with the
keen-edgd scimitar Of the little dandified North
Carolinian, Mr.. Senator Haywood, who has at
once sprung up''like Jacks Bean in the night"
to be tall chap.
On Wednesday last, Mr.. Haywood having
the floor, rose and addressed the Senate for up
wards of two hours in favor of giving the No
tice to terminate the joint occupancy in Oregon
in the form in which it came from the House
of Representatives. He endeavored to ode
fine the position" of the President on the Ore
gon question-and showed that he now stood
upon the line of the 10Th degree, and that ne
gotiaton was not closed, as had been suppo-
sed, and was never intended to be.-That the
declaration in his "Inaugural Speech" that
our title to the ,chole Of Oregon was 'clear and
unquestonable," was mere private opinion,
and not intended to mean or be construed that
he would not accept the offer of AGO made by
former Administrations Of our Government, If
returned upon US. This understood to be the
basis of his argument.
Mr. II. then very gracefully slipped off his
kid gloces," Qor be it remembered he is one
of the elite of the Democracy, and does not Of
ten "sl,o,c his hands, and walked into the ten
der affections Of Allen, Cass s CO., as though
he were ga hard-fsted Democrat" and used
to his work. The onslaught which Parson Col
quit made upon the Western "Breese" blow
ing from Illinois a few days previous, was not
to be compared with the stirring-up which Mr..
H. gave the other "whole-or-none men" in
his speech on Wednesday and Thursday last.
1t is notorious here that there is no one in either
House of Congress as intimate with the Presi-
dent as Mr.. Haywood, and it is therefore fairly
inferrible that he not only speaks his sentiments,
but indicates his feelings towards Allen & CO.,
for the manner in which they have held him
forward to the Country upon the Oregon ques-
ton.
In the outset, Mr.. Haywood alluded to the
frequent reference in the Senate by Mr.. Allen,
to the Washington treaty-he thought it in bad
taste to be forever, perpetually about it; twas,
as friend of his had remarked, singing Psalms
over dead horses. He spoke, too, of men who
endeavored to break down great measures, and
make great officers out of little men. This was
thrust at Mr.. Allen, who is playing the DEM
agogue to reach the Presidency. He alluded
to the spectacle presented to the world of ne
gotation going on upon particular subject by
one branch of the Government, while in ano-
ther the same subject was being debated, and
the party with whom our Executive is nego-
tiating, is attempted to be frightened here by
clan,or and noise. Another thrust at Allen.
Mr. II. professed to entertain as much friend
ship for the President as it was proper for a
Statesman to entertain for one in his position
no more, no less but before the Senate could
act upon this matter, it was right and proper
that they should enquire what the President
wants, what he intends TO do; and he proceed
ed to define, according to his view Of it, the
Presidents position. That position was upon
40, and when he said 40, one for all, he would
say, he did not mean to calculate by inches
another thrust at the "inch-men," as they
have been called He contended that the Pre-
sident had never said that the offer Of 40 was
inadmissible He had said that the offer made
by Mr.. Pakenham, was inadmissible, and that
arbitration was inadmissbls; but never thai
an offer of 40 would be inadmissibe. Upon
that platform he was prepared to stand with
and sustain the President, but the moment he
abandons that, he would turn his back upon
/ him.
Upon the belief that the Notice is only IN
tended to advance negotiation, he would vote
. for it, He did not believe the President woulc
betray them when he got the Notice, and ad
} vance beyond his own position. He was stan
: ding there now, awaiting for British proposals
Mr.. II. rebuked Mr.. Allen and others, iol
charging others who did not think properblnd
ly to follow certain selfconsdtuted leaders witt