The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-06

ub,ss sneersl Do they forget that the Saviour oil
uankind has said that "sparrow shall not fall Ia
H., ground without your Fathers noticeT And vel
IT,. are asked, where is the clause In Adams will
Which gives this territory. Apart from tho shook
Ulte" which is "clesr and unquestisnable, /" we see
l written ia letters Of living light in everything
Uxheh surrounds us--in that mercifa dspeH zion
IAN of charity and love towards the fallen children
Iof Adam-Ofa just and omniscient God, who has
rvsn to that control OF the elements the effect
In which is 70 bring the remotest parts Of our vast
country into practical propDquity. The iron horse,
The slssm-car,) with the wings Of the wind, his
posinls dstsnded with fame, salamander-like yom-
ung IRE and smoke, trembling with power, but
ubaissiye 10 the steel curb imposed upon him by
he hand Of man, flies from one end Of the continent
70 the other in less time than ancestry required
10 visit neighborng city, while by the magnetic tee.
,sph the lightning sf heaven 10 made subseryient TO
lie will ofman in snnihilaling space In storm and in
dsrkness, IN the heat Of torrid sun or the chilling
basis ofa Siberian winter, this mystical symbol OF
pans diligence speeds Its onward way. Truly
may be said, that with the social influence ofthese
20 great inventions, all the people Of this con.
nsnt may be moulded to one mind. And what
art does not leap st the vision presented Of this
gsat territory peopled by one republican family
Would II be saying too much, that the magnetic
ufegraph may be compared, when extended, as ex-
saded viii be, the length and breadth Of our
add, 10 the nervous system Of the human body'
The sensations OF its remotest parts will VIbrate
pom a common sensorum, communicating It's ray
III intelligence 10 a common centre, 10 be sent to all
other portions Of our republic.
4 Who, then, shall measure the limits Of a eonfed-
ssey OF States like oursl Who, then, shall perpe-
faIs that almost sacrilegous liquidation upon the
mercy Of Heaven and say that the blessings Of this
Uulon spreading too far What, then, will
come Of the cry that we do not want Oregon,
cause Of ils great distance? How agreeable the
,.fG Iafa ~. inT,, Eht.
temple Of freedom, and burning their incense upon
altar eonseerated TO the enjoyment Of civil and
religious liberty.
fhe cry Of some is that we are not prepared; and
some gentlemen, In deprecating our weakness, and
N sulogiLing the greatness Of Englsnds power,
have, in my humble opinion, made speeches much
c,Isr suited 10 the longitude of Westminster Hall
han to that Of the floor Of the American House Of
Representatives. j assert boldly, and without fear
u contradiction, that we now better prepared
70 wage a successful war than II we had been ffit-
,enng away our substance during the long pc
rod which has intsryened since the treaty OF Ghenf,
u keeping aaoat an immense navy, and great and
splendid military establishment. Why, sir, II can
be sSlablished-l might almost say mechanically
that by husbanding our means, we aggregate our
opacity for any emergency and when that emer-
gsncy arises that this preparation IN time Of peace,
Constitutes the best, the strongest, and most reliable
lundauon for effective military defensive and
,zgressIyo operations.
Lei the shrin bugle-blast break upon our ears,
and from the mountain side, and valleys depth
prairie and wood, as II touched by the hand Of
IhnagIc, you will sec the true sons OF Columbia
|spnnglng responsive TO their country's call. The
|sanll whistle OF the Scottish chelain never called
as ready and as determined clan around his STAN
bard, as would rally under the Oregon banner. The
people, the great masses, those whose servants we
|ars, and whose orders the genius Of our insti
,uuons demands that we should obey, are heaying,
might say, like the waves OF that great ocean, to
whose confines they demand the extension Of the
American republic. And, sir, as wave after wave
IOi public opinion eliminates and breaks into
foam, when look around me and the danger
into which some gentlemen here have placed them
selves OF being engulfed aud buried deep, deep be-
n1ath the turgid waitrs, would warn them, while
there IS yet time, to spring aboard the ark Of pot-
al safety.
Canut. was so exalted by the Aattery of his court
srs tha, he foolishly believed that he could, by
his lordly command stay the waves Of the sea, and
bid them, "thus far shalt thou come, and no far
ther.n
As we'll might you attempt TO roll back the tidal
wave Of the great Pacific ocean, as il comes ,hun-
dering the coast Of the Oregon, as to stay this
,Teat movement, this progressive movement, il you
please, of the American millions and as a friend
/ would here warn the "Canutes" Of this House to
CAST their eyes upon land before the waves shall
dash with spray their chariot wheels.
Great Britain founded her first pretensions TO the
northwest coast in an outrageous attack upon the
rights offs Spain; and taking advantage Of her weak
mes, bleeding from the effects of disastrous war;
from Spain the Nootka Sound Convention, as the
treaty is called, upon which her main reliance is
placed in her claim to the Oregon territory.
The value of this claim, even in the eyes Of her
orn statesmen, is shown by one of my colleagues,
Mr. owESl to be such as to justify the charge that
she has been guilty of the most unmitigsied ra-
pacty in the assertion Of her claims TO territory in
all her negotiations with us. And it remains to be
seen If American freemen will agree to be despoiled
with the tame submission of the effemnaie Span
ad. Hers is the robbers title, and thus it has
ever been with her. This vaunted circle of British
military posts, which some gentlemen have brought
IN review before us with u view "to frghen US
from our propriety," are but monuments OF her ra-
paclty and lust of power.
She yet lacks one link in the chain which is des-
tined, if secured, to bind the world in her CONNER
clal letters. That link is the key to the Pacific
washing, as 1t does, the shores Of both great con-
inents and the command of this ocean is hers, and
hers alone, if she is permitted to occupy the har.
bors which she has studiously claimed in every
proffer Of settlement which she has made Of this
question. 1t remains to be whether the cow
ardice OF the descendants of the men of Bunker's
Hill, and of those gallant spirits which conquered IN
our war of the revolution, and Of our second indie
Pehuencc, snail permit her TO grasp 1t. blush at
the bare suggestion of the possibility.
MIR. Chairman it cannot, it will not it shall not
be! have no DISCUSSES as to my opinion of our
right. am satisfied that it extends to $40 40; and
The only shadow Of claim which England has, is
based upon the discovery of the head waters of
Fnzcrs river, in the extreme northern part of this
country; but this she is precluded from by her own
withdrawal Of all claim except that based upon the
Noo,ka convention, which has boon fully shown to
give her no territorial rights whatever.
regret that the situation in which Mr.. Polk
found this question, uammelled by our treaties of
1918 and 1897 as well as Inc many previous offers
of our government, much, very much more favora-
ble to Great Britain than the one recently made
and which admissions had been construed in the
eyes of the civilized world into evidence of British
uue, induced him, or required him, to make that
Offer BY making il, however, ho has shown TO all
the nations Of the earth the strongest evidence which
can be required Of disposition TO amicably adjust
this vexed question.
rejoice that England has refused it. Moreover,
she has done it in such way to unite, in at least
the district which have the honor to represent the
great body Of the wing party with my democratic
friends, IN sustaining me in goingihe whole length
In the support of our title.
am proud to declare to you, sir, and to the rep
resenatives of the nation that in Indiana al least