The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-11


be spilled-the agonies of the battle held--the
shrieks of the dying-and the still more terrific
shreks Of the suIyiyors-the destruction Of public
morals-the arrest of ciyilizaton-the outrages up-
on humanity And if he has considered all
lhese, does he mean to say they can be replaced.
In view Of all these horrors, one gentleman
has remarked that there would be women
angels OF mercy enough To bind up the
wounds Of the fallen. But there is no now
er in the touch Of the wife 70 recall her hus-
band TO existence. No power other than the mild
and gentle influence Of Christianity, exercised
through series Of years, could bring back the
high sense Of moral propriety-no other power TO
bring INTO their original brightness and happiness
our plsndered and desolsted coasts-our IayaSed
cities-and, above all, make us, as God intended we
should be, really and truly peace with our fellow
men. make bold TO say in no spirit of the depre-
ciatlon OF the power Of my own land, or nv own
countrymen, but with full sense that they are
equal 10 any emergency which valor can meet-let
the war come, and come because we refuse To set.
tie upon terms which we have over and over
again offered, the responsibility of those who bring
II about will not only be deep enough and heavy
| enough to sink a navy, but il will cause them TO
live as long as God suffers them to live under
| feeling of isdescrbable mental agony. Only fan
cyl know how forcbly il will appeal to the senator
from llinos-only fancy The widowed wife approach
ing that senator, and saying, you were the cause Of
The wrelehsdness which Is now mine. A false sense
OF national honor goaded you on! The Judgment
and oPinions OF your predecessors, as pure and as
perfect men as ever graced humaaity, were nothing
with youl There lies my husband, a blsckened
and frighful corset And all for nothing-for Ore
gon Is lost or is not acquired" What would the
senator from Illinois sayI-pardon me for making
such suppoaition-he would hang his head in un-
mlugated sufierng-he would call on the noun
tnins 10 cover him; and would give, IL he had il,
the wealth Of the world 10 recall peace and the
haDDinfAa which huf for hin, - st.u
isted throughout his native land Mr.. President,
the age IN which we live denounces this savage and
unehrstian mode Of settling national controversies
As has been recently said by now standing
upon the verge Of the grave-whose whole life
has been devoted 10 the cause of beneyolence and
humsniiy-"war is fit only for wild beasts, and
| Is beneath the dignity and reason of man. "
IL has been beautifully said by one Of Engand's
brightest sons, that
The drying up a single tear has more
ofhonest fame, than shedding OF gore"
Sir, the spirit Of the age denounces such saw
age policy. That spirit il was which led the
two governments to make an amicabe and hon.
orabe settlement Of the dispute, and that at a time
when II threatened to entail all the caamities
OF war, on the question Of the northeastern boun.
dary-an adjustment which the senator from Ohio
has thought proper TO stgmatize dishonorable to
the nation. Sir, If there is in the life oil
the American negotlator who participated in that
negotation-if there is one act by which he filed the
measure Of human renown-it is his correspondence
on that question. For arseeing sagacity matchless
Intellectual power, and sterling PATRIOTISM he has
rarely been equalled-never surpassed by any
statesman, dead or living. beg pardon for speak
ing 30 IN the presence in which | stand. am de-
Tending the nation, not the negotator and the sen.
ator will permit TO say, that in speaking Of it, 50
powerful and commanding was the influence Of q
portion OF that correspondence on a subject thai
might then have involved US in war-and that until
recently has threatened to involve us if like cir.
cumstances should arse-that Lord Aberdeen, after
reading the statement OF the American negotiator on
| the right OF search, declared that no impressmen
should ever be made on American sailors YETI
friend from Ohio seems to think that the nationa
honor was seriously injured by that convention.
| Mr.. SEWER. The senator has alluded 10 a re
mark made by Lord Aberdeen on the correspond.
enee on the northeastern boundary question: will he
allow me to ask him his authority
Mr.. JOHNSON. | spoke from personal author
hy.
Mr.. SEWER. All! [Cnes of "proceed."l
| Mr.. JOHNSON. Now, Mr.. President, il such
ends can be accomplished by means Of negotiation
invoke, in justice to themselves, and in charity &c
1.-THE nation, the senator's, one and all of them ia
support what have no doubt is the wish and deter.
mination of the majority of the nation q settlement
Of this controversy. Let my friend from Ohio re.
fran from what may be permitted by him to call
his impetuous passions let him give himself to no
dream of national honor whilst blind to all the obi.
cations which Christianity and humanity imposes
let him take no course which will not leave as he
finds these United States almost in every portion OF
them, blossoming like the rose let him not carry
desolation through every OF the land; above
all, let US be animated by that spirit which will
| cause to fall upon US the admiration of the whole
| world, instead Of its condemnation. am not here
| Mr. President wish not 10 be Misunderstood
assaing the validity Of the American title Tha,
title, and the means Of maintaining il, are in the
hands Of the proper and legitimate department OF
the government and whilst il is thus in their
hands, am not about to oppose it; and when am
sure the President intends to carry out q settlement
peacefully II not driven into war by the obstinacy
of Eng land, | would rather strengthen than weaken
the American arm. How is the negotiation to be
again resumed What are the steps most likely 10
| bring about that result Are things to remain as
they are is the advice of the President to us to be
adopted | confess, Mr. President, on this subject
my mind has been solicitousy anxious, and has I'M
dergone recently change, and that change has been
Towing to facts to which | have already alluded, i'm.
pressing me with the conviction, which am sure
cannot deceive me, that the Presidents motives are
peaceful. In what condition are we now, This
title to Oregon--Oregon, all or none-may be made
mot in the hands Of the Senate of the United States
they are incapable of it) may be made the watch
word of party. 1t may come to fill the whole
land, and lash the nation into state of feverisb
| excitement. Emigration to the Oregon territory
is now going on, we are informed; these emf
| grants taking the excitement with them
Members of the Senate proclaim in their speeches
to these emigrants, that when there they stand
on American soil, and will be protected by
American arms and that every Englishman
is trespssser. divided jurisdiction-a system of
laws, and protective arm for one household while
the neighborng household is subject to another sys-
tenn! In my Judgment confusion from this is nevita-
BILE The state of things provided for by the treaties
Of 1878 and 1927 cannot last. Blood will be spilled
How is it to be avoided BY bringing that state of
things to an end by dividing the disputed territory
erecting each into separate sovereignty, combining
each to the laws Of its own government. This can
only be done by abrogating the treaties Of 1918 and
1927. England does not give the notice. Unless she
gives it, or we do, the trenty goes on and all the dam
ger to which have referred will be produced
think, Mr. President, before sit down shall pro-
pose form of notice, somewhat different from, but
substantially the same, that submitted to the SEN
ate by the senator from Kentucky. III was isfed
that the cause to which have alluded would not
drive us into conflict, ! would infinitely prefer the
present state of things far as the treaties are con-