Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-03-19

and let the speech just concluded by the Senator
from North Carolina show whether or not hs
was justified in his distrust.
Tho Senator put language i'm the Presidents
mouth which MIR. Ill. would hero undertake e
deny not that he appeared here as the champion
OF the President-he claimed no such position
lie only defended the right: and, personally, he
would prefer doing it in behalf OF the humbles'
man in the country than of the greatest. But he
would hero deny for the President what the Sc
nator FROM North Carolina imputed to him. If
the statement of the Senator was true, and the
! President meant what the Senator understood
him to mean, then he was infamous man.
! The gentleman from North Carolina had told the
Senate that, in the message, there were here and
there i'm various parts OF il, "stckings in, paren-
hetcally, TO giatify the ultraisms Of the country,
but which he never meant to carry out. The
meaning Of this could only be that the President,
in these 's,ickings in" employed false and hol-
low words TO hide his real motives and purposes.
What was this but deliberately and wilfully de-
ceiving the country. If this was true it must
soon come to light; and then what must be his
fate but disgrace! The story of his infamy
would be circulated from one end of the land TO
The other, and his perfidious course would sink
him in infamy so profound i'm damnation so
deep, that the hand OF resurrection could never
reach him. traitor TO his country superla-
lively base need hope for neither forgiveness from
God nor mercy from man. Mr.. ii. cared not it
The Senator from North Carolina was charged
with missives from the President; or whether Z
Gas he should suspect from the dogmatical style
OF Mr.. ii. sometimes displayed here) he made
these assertions "cn his own responsibility"
Mr.. Mangum here called MIR. III. TO order.
MIR. flanagan Immediately apologized saying
That, II he had used language that was disres-
pectlul to the Senate, il had not been his inten.
hon. lie would not knowingly forget for mo-
nent The respect due 10 the body and what he
owed TO himself. He would endeavor 20 reply in
he spirit which the Senator from North Carolina
so repeatedly protested, declaring that he meant
ioihing personal while he used the plainest lam
,uage.
The Senator had told them tina, the country
lad been agitated from end to the other for the
AXE OF "putting small men into large oIices.''
VIZ. H. had seen such things before to-day
Small men in large ollices!'' And The country
gita,ed for an end ike this! Mr.. II. had seen
mall men in large offices. There was an old
'roverb which said that men who lived in glass
ouses should not throw stones it was true TO
ne letter. Mr.. Ill. might turn the Senator
nd reply that he had far rather be small man
eekng a high Office, than be supple subser.
ent tool, bending before the footslool of power,
nd considering 1t honor enough to turn from the
Jack stairs of the palace on errands 10 win tina
avor of great man.
Mr.. III. would be the last 10 show TO Europe
uch a spectacle as the REIMBURSEMENT Of all
Oregon north of 400, and the acceptance of fine
commercial treaty with the bonus of free trade.
cree trade, Mr.. H. said, he dearly loved, but it
should never be bought by him with the territory
II his country.
1t was outrageous in any-and in Western
Democrat it would be ireason-moral treason of
he deepest dye. To surrender any part of the
oil OF an empire destined 10 stand through all
lme, was treason. He did not speak for other
PARTS OF the Union; but for his own he could
peak; and this was his sentiment. Free trade
with the surrender of Vancouver's Island and
Britain had never offered 10 make this free port
she understands its value too welD--what did
t amount to? Who did not know that The open.
ng of her ports was forced from the British Co
'ernmenl by the frantic cries of starving milionss
And that the naughty aristocracy We're compelled
% submit 10 il 10 save their lives from the avenu-
ng knife of the assassin and their palaces from
he torch! But he told that we must put
oregon and the Tariff together; that the West
vas TO have market, vast market, for their
'read-stulis and pork and beef. Was she : True
is (saId Mr.. Ill. we in the west are born in
he woods, but there among us who
inow litle, and amongst other things, know
hat, long before our supplies could reach the
bTilish market, the granares of The Baltic and
he Black Sea and the Mediterranean would have
,een poured into it TO OVERLOOKING.
In conclusion, for he would not longer detaip
he Senate, he could only say of the whole tone
md meaning of the speech Of the Senator from
North Carolina that, If it spoke The language
md breathed the feelings and purposes of James
&. Polk, he had uttered words Of ialsehood and
poken with the tongue Of serpent.
Mr.. Alien rose 10 speak but
On motion OF MIR. Evans, the Senate adjourned.