Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-11

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We cannot conceive what motive the Admins
tration can have in the language which it speaks,
through its official organ, ostensibly to our own
Senate in the tone of reproach, but effectively also
to the British Government, in terms well suited
and as if Intended to extinguish all hope of its ami
cable advances ever being met in a corresponding
spirit on our side.
The official paper of Saturday night has an ar
ticle Of some length Ia continuation of which is
promised0 the burden of which is comprised in the
following extract:
"Let us no longer put the cart before the horse.
Negotiation viii not come until we give the notice.
4 That is the first slap in the process and, when
Englaad sees that we are in earnest, she will then
seriously consider what she is toado. Pass it 1--WE
respectfully suggest) without any formal conpro-
: mise attached to it. Give the notice without fall
terng qualification
Now, we think we do not mistake the opinion of
intelligent men of all parties, including the Members
of both Houses of Congress, when we say that it
is the opinion of fourffths of them that the very
thing which the government paper enjoins upon
them-that is, to give the notirs without quaiif-
cation-woud, under present circumstances, be
tantamount to invitation to war; instead of peace.
The argument, moreover, by which the Admin
isration paper sustans this renewed appeal to the
Senate, is altogether worthy of the wisdom of the
course which it recommends Witness the follow
ing extract, embracing the substance of the whole :
'The friends Of the notice not They look
Great Britain firmly in the face Energy and fmness alone
-
ter and induce her do Justice We have talked of
promise for than twenty years and have talked in
vain. :
"For the last four months we have tried different
regimen and it has wrought the remarkable revolution
in her temper and conduct The message spoke the
spirit of decided statesman. It discarded compromise but
spoke Of giving notice of extending jurisdiction be-
yond the Rocky Mountains; of facilitating emgation of
tabshng mounted regiments and of erecting blockhouses
spoke in bold and firm language The House Of Repren
tatpes seconded its proposition They passed decided
luton by two-hirds of the House. England pur
pose, and resolution The tone of her press changed in
favor Of compromise accommodation, and peace. The
distinguished press in England proposed settlement Of the
question by boundary line which had been at rejected
by England in 1926 Had the other distinguished branch
Congress only pursued the advantage had gained, and
adopted the resolution of the House by similar majority, who
doubt the result ~
So il seems that tire effect Of the passage by the
House of Representatives Of the resolution of notice
upon England was such, that, when she saw our
purpose" the tone Of her press changed in favor of
compromise, accommodation, and peace, and g the
most distinguished press in England proposed set
clement Of the question by boundary line which
had been at once rejected by England in 1885,,
and it is all the fault of the Senates perverseness
that the British Government has not yet offered
better terms of adjustment than reference of the
difference between us to such arbitration as we
should ourselves elect.
If this be not, in the expressive phrase of the
government paper, "putting the cart before the
horse," we should like to know what is.
The proposition of the leading press (the Times
to which the government paper refers, was publish
ed in that paper on the Sd day of January, and it
copied into the papers of this city the 9th
of January. The resolution Of notice passed the
House of Representatives on the 9th day of Febru-
airy SO that this act of the House of Representa-
tives, which, according to the Union" was the
cause of the said proposition by the leading press of
England, actually FOLLOWED its effect at a distance
Of hirfy-sepen days-or, if we allowed for time
for the of it to reach England by the regular
packet, at distance Of fifty-fve days
So much for official logic.