The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-07

were all for the notice, except Mr. Rhett who made
very eloquent speech In favor OF peaceable and
honorable negotiation. The House and galleries
were crowded. He took nearly the same ground
with Mr. Winthrop.
Mr. billiard, who has the floor for tomorrow. il
the only wing from Alabama. He is a man Of
WASHINGTON, Jan. s, 1916.
The JVar Q1estion-7hs arrival Of the Nemb,r from
Oregon Exciting General Enthusiasm for ''the
Whole or None"-IVar Speechss-Specimen for
Brsncombe Of Defamation upon the Rapacity Of
Ensfand-Speech Of Mr. Rhctt-7Re Issues #
Far Eramined-The Peace Policy advocated :
The hrd0mitabie Little South Carolina, as,usual,
Standing Osa, Fearless, though alone.
"Hang out our banners the outer walls the
cryis, still they Gomez The war question reigns
predominant, paramount, universal, and supreme
The galleries of the House were crowded to day, in
anticipation of the resumption of the Oregon discus
sion; and it was resumed. With the appearance OF
the IVtckty Herald, of last Saturday, with that
graphic picture OF the member from Oregon, pulling
through the Great South Pass' for Washington,
with the incorporating motto of the "whole or
none the whole or nOne," is the universal
echo, Among the crowd, there is but ore voice,
and that is the echo OF the cry OF the member from
Oregon-''the whole or norei'
Now, while we shall claim the honor of having
put this ball IN motlon, through the medium of our
songs Tor oregon, In the campaign of ~, and our
contemporaneous letters to the Herald and the West
ern presses, now that il is fairly rolling let us
endeavor for moment to arrest its progress for fear
that 1t has started too to fill up the whole earth
like the little stone of the Scriptures cut out
OF the mountain: The people need only to
De BE-. convince &c OF their rights, to fight for
TO negotiate to advantage, and time when uegotia-
TONS would augur OF cowardlce and pusillanmity
Such charge, however, can not be applied to the
crr tod M l.
1t safe, polite, wise, and the expedien plan of
operations Time-time-time will settle the CUES
lion tor Us, now that the time for its adjustment by
any other mode than war appears to have passed by
Against the strong current OF the popular feeling,
against the Just Indignation excited at the extrava-
giant assumptions OF England, there was something
manly, noble, indomitable and majestic in the
stand assumed by Mr. Rhett, OF South Carolina, in
his speech before the House to-day After Mr. Gid
dlngss antl-slavery anti-war speech,
MI. Mcdowell, OF Ohio, delivered triumphant war
address; but he dwet less upon the consequences of
war than upon our undeniable night to maintain
the whole or none," at the hazards of war Ger
tainiy we have right to do SO but, as Mr.. c. J..
Ingersoll said, where is the necessity I" But
nrst let US try II we cannot be eloquent against
Great Britain as Mr.. Mcdowell, in a short para
graph
The rapacity Of that vampire Of the seas is inar-
peasabe Her lust for dominion, like that of the
Her garments are stained with the blood Of all ma
uons-her escutcheon is darkened with the records
OF her cruelty, her perdy her srasping avarce and
Unsuitable craving tor plumber. With the weak she
hoids no parley-wh the strong che only negotiates
to defraud. Her history is history of piratica en-
eroachments upon the rights OF other nations. The
remoest corners OF the earth have not escaped her
nrss peaceful yisltations and these have been nva
Spain what she has lost by the rapacty of England.
and she will point you to the rock OF Gibraltar-ask
OF France, and she will tell of st. Helena and the
Canadas-ask OF China, and the old Emperor will
answer that she has compelled him to pay for the
interdicted opium, and the expense of the slaugh-
ter OF hrs innocent people-ask Of Syria, and she
VIII point you the ruins Of St. Jean d'Acre-
ask of Denmark, and let Copenhagen give the
resp&ese; call upon Egypt, and the bloody destrLc-
ton uke Nile will rise up before you inquire OF
Holland Holland, and she will refer you to the Island OF
Ceylon; ask how The East India Company pro.
crosses, and they will tell you, that at the point of
the oayonet they are marching 20 the monopoly Of
Asia; call upon the daikened nations Of Africa and
the Cape OF Good Hope and Sierra Leone will res
quarter OF the globe. And what OF New Holland
Australia, Borneo, Chusan, New Zealand, Jamaica
Guiana, &c, all round the word1 Do not her pos.
sessions stand out as testimony before the nations
that she IL damned, incOrngble, unsuitable, inap-
pcasable, unsatisfiabe, unrelentng, neveryielding
aways-grapsing, never-recedng, always. encroach
ing, unconscionable. bloody pirate That's fact:
Mr.. Simms, of Missouri, had something like this
in his speech to-day; and Mr.. Mcdowell wal
equally denunciatory OF the rapacicus and gorgine
appetite Of the old beefeatsr, yclept John Bull.
but wnat mas all that to do with the settlement Of
the Oregon question: Thus much. John bull has
land enough without Oregon-and we must teach
HIM for once, for good and all that pretenson is not
right; assumption without shadow of justice is moi
good deed, and that he must quit the premises.
But Will that settle lit Will he quit And if he
don't quit, and won't quit, what will il cost to kick
him out ! and will he be kicked out when we have
done kickingl Suppose we kick him out of Canals
and out of New Brunswick, and pour a hundred
thousand nfemen into Oregon and capture the Hud
sons bay Company In a single demonstration
With the mouth OF the Columbia occupied by a Br
nsh fleet, the armed occupation would starve-ths
dog soup upon which Fremont and Farnam, and
Roes Cox kept soul and body together, Just on tb
other side Of the main cham OF the Rocky mountains
the dog soup, with all the dogs that the Indians
could furnish them, would MT afford breakfast for
hundred thousand riflemen accustomed to full ra-
ions OF hog and homminy Decidedly, there is a
chance as Mr. Calhoun says, that we shall lose the
whole OF oregon, by war; unless we hold of unit
Whitneys railroads. finished, and then we can take
1t, II not before, by the force Of emigration.
but TO the speech Of MI. Rhett. He argued with
the power OF truly great man. for the peace policy
Wesshould, perhaps, lose Oregon by wharf.-the har-
mony OF the Union would be endangered by war
the onward progress Of republican principles would
be dcranged-federal measures and a federal despo-
flsm would be established IRON pleas of necessitv-
the whole seaboard might be ravaged-all the elo-
ments OF our present successful and beautiful svs
tenn ofgovernment would be thrown into a confusion
from which we might never be able to rise In the
Adams, and his opposition to the late war Mr.
Adams Indignantly replied, that he had sustain.
ed Mr.. Jefferson, In the measures which led 10
the war, and that during the war, he was in Rus
STA, and therefore, could not have been among the
blue lights OF New England. Mr.. Rhet admitted