The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-01-08

give such notice. Great sensation hope it
Will be given, and that shall do it as the first
measure to be taken-to be followed afterwards
by real occupation of The ,ohoie tcrritory-
Great sensation in the House and an incpent
clap. which, however, was promptly arrested by
| the Speaker, who called loudly to order But
1t is indispensable that we shall first give notice
The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Douglass)
says that 1t appears TO him there is game play
ing here-a remark which is quite incomprehen-
sible To me. shall not inquire to what the gen
lleman alluded, but confess | was very much
surprised 10 hear that the committee on foreign
affairs will not report to the House such notice
| MIR. q. j. Ingersoll. | know of no member of
that committee who has said So
| MIR. Douglass. said SO, because | had heard
that such was their determination.
| MIR. Adams resumed. | have heard it from
various quarters; and, if the report is delayed
much longer, | shall believe it. A laugh If
II Is So | shall depore it !; | shall deeply regret
il majority of that committee shall not be ready
TO give that notice. All the other measures must
depend on that. While we sit talking here about
regiments of rfemen, and regiments of infantry,
and siockade forts, and sappers and miners, and
pontoniers. Great Britain is armng her steam
vessels, equipPng her frigates and line of battle
ships, and sending troops over here to be ready.
'coutd press a resolution giving the notice
THIS DAY, if hoped that majority of the House
conld he obtained to effect the measure.
Mr. Wentworth here moved that the rules be
suspended 10 afford an opportunity for such
motion: but the motion was pronounced to be out
| Of order.
Mr. Adams resumed. ! feel myself scarcely
authorized TO hope that | should be successful
should make the motion. But for this would
have moved it on the first day of the session.
Because have SO profound sense of the duty of
adhering to treaties, feel debarred from the least
q OG hncIilItv mr. ito
manifested elsewhere, till notice shall have been
given. While our convention remains will vote
n" increase OF army or navy, no fort or stOckade,
no Tilrmen. no Infantry, no sapperS, no miners.
All mnst depend on that. If This bill shall be
made the special order for Tuesday, hope it will
he arranged by the gentlemen who manage The
business of this House that the question of giving
notice shall come up on the same day. and shall
be taken up before any thing else. 1t is mere
wasting of time, and whisling To the wind, to
talk about raising military force until our con-
science is clear from the obligation of the cOnven-
ton
And it does not follow that if we give notice.
there must of necessity be war; nor does it even
follow that we shall then take possession. 1t
will only be saying to Great Britain: After ne
goiiaiing twenty years about this matter, we do
tot choose to negotiate any longer we shall take
possession of what is our own and then, if to
settle the question of what is own, you wish
t" negotiate, will negotiate as long as you
please. We may negotiate after zoe take nos
session. Much laughter That is the militia
ry way Of doing business. Increased merr-
ment When the great Frederick came to tho
throne of Prussia, his father had prepared and
equipped for him an army of an hun red thou
sand men. Meeting, shortly after, the Austrian
Minister, the latter said TO him Sc Your father
has given you great army but our troops have
seen the wolf: yours have not" " Well, WE'LL"
cal az ErnIpripL | will ri tbapn
ty see the wolf" Frederick then added in
his memoir: '' had some excellent old preIen-
sl0ns to an Austrian province which some Of my
ancestors had owned one or Two hundred years
before, and sent ambassador to the Court of
Vienna. stating my claim, and presenting full
exposition of my right TO the province. The
same day my ambassador was received in Vienna
entered Silesa with my army A laugh
So you see that, on the very day his army enter
ed Sesa, he gave notice TO the Court of Vienna
that the convention for the joint occupation of
SIesia was ended. Loud and prolonged laugh
ter.
say, therefore, that hope the first measure
adopted by Congress will be to give, in the most
solemn manner, the notice to Great Britain which
he treaty requires; then the coast will be clear
for us 10 do what we please. 1t does not | re-
paat-t does not follow necessary cOnse-
qnenCe that, because we give this notice, we must
AXE possession, though it is my hope that we shall
1t does not necessarily draw after it a war and if
Great Britain chooses to take such notice as an act
of hostility on our part, and forthwith commence
hosiIltIes on hers, we have been told that shall
all be but one party, and God Almighty grant that
it may be so If it shall be so, the war will have
less of those extraordinary terrors which my friend
from South Carolina (Mr. Holiness has now just
discovered, Notwithstanding the extreme military
propensilies which he manifested on this floor last
year.
The gentleman was most valiant man when
Texas was in question But | shall draw no com
parsOns as TO what we witnessed then and what
we see now !; but this ! will say, that hope. if
war shall cOme--wIch God forbid, and of which
entertain no fears at all-lhe whole country will
have but one heart and one united hand And of
this am very sure, that IN that case Great Brit
ain will not long occupy Oregon, any thing else
north Of the Canada line. Great sensation, and
incipient indications Of applause. But if you
will agree To give notice, strong as is my horror
of war, and Of all military establishments, if there
should then be the breath Of life in me, hope
shall he willing TO 60 as far as any in making any
sacrifice 10 render that successful and glorious
| can say no more. But, ill this notice is given