Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-12-22

sir! walk up stairsn' CALCULATED the French.
man politely. The man was thunder.
struck "Walk up stairs," again said the
| Frenchman. "Polteness will not recipro-
cate your kind intentions here on the frs.
floor, but if you will go up stairs, will
with the greatest pleasure kick you down
stairs!" Such is the extreme politeness Of
the Senator. Mine permits me TO say to
the petitioners q. once, that their petition is
wrong, and that will not entertain it even
for q moment.
Mr. Beaver replied at some length on the
right ofpetition-iagna Charta-Virginia,
&C., &c.
Mr. Olds said he had no hesitation in say
ing just what the Hon Speakers report
said last session-'the act is traitorous. !"
And no invidious references to Charles the
lst shall deter me from placing my decided
mark of condemnation upon the motives
and actions Of these petitioners. Had the
opposers Of Charles been unsuccessful, they
would have been called traitors, and would
have suffered the penalty of treason; being
successful, they were considered patriots,
and their actions called revolutionary. Had
| our revolutionary fathers been unsuccessful
thew, to, would have paid the penalty OF
treason; but being successful they, became
patriots. The entertaining of such petltl-
| tions as these at this particular time, might
have most deplorable effect. We are en-
gagged in foreign war and we have reason
to believe that war is most undoubtedly pro.
| tracted by belief, upon the part of our en-
emv, that we are divided people. That
by prosecuting the war little longer they
will see our government virtually divided,
and then they can dictate terms of peace.
Lot this Senate Us far as our action Is con-
ccrned, ut once undeceive them. Let them
derive no 'said and comfort from the ac-
tion Of this Senate.
Mr. Backus said that no one having An.
glo Saxon blood in his veins, would submit
to be spurned from these halls. He placed
higher estimation on the right of petition
than did the Senator from Hamilton. Mr.
B then replied at some length to MIR Olds.
The time might come when asking for
dissolution oithis Union might be lauda-
BILE object. In reading over and listening
TO the report made last winter, which quo
ted the language Of the father of his coun.
| try, he falt that, the Union then, was differ
ent from ,thes Union as now it exists The
| Union was made different by the accession
of Louisiana, then by Florida, and again by
| the-anexaiion Of Texas. The President
annexed Texas and he has now announced
that California and New Mexico are want
ed, and the Union may be still farther en-
larged. Have not the people the right to
say whether the Union shall be further en-
larged! To grant the prayer OF these Pc
titions might be treason TO the government
as it now exists but not treason against the
Constitution as originally formed.
Mr. Ods hoped the Senate would allow
him time to explain, that he might be un-
der no such unjust imputation, Us those
sought to be cast upon him by the Senator
from Cuyahoga. His feelings, and the
feelings of the Senator are SO different, that
perhaps they could not understand each
other. Had he lived in the days of Charles
the First-und hated that government as
some Senators appear to hate this-he
| would have array led himself with the Pins,
and Hampdens, and the Praise God-Bare-
bones Of that day, in destroying it. Had
he lived in the days of the revolution and
hated George the Third and. the British
Government as some ge enllemen hate James
K. Polk and our own. n.glorious Government
he would have been willing to take the
name of Traitor and endure the penalty
He loved the Constitution, letter by letter,
and sentence by sentence: it was dear to
therefore he would array himself in
| opposition to every man-in thought, in
words, and, if necessarily in actions, who
desired to descend to destroy it.
/ But (suid Mr. o. the Senator from Guy
ahoga says the time may come when we
may wish to take the same action prayed
for by these petitioners-his argument then
looks to this. Because some day we may
wish to array ourselves against our govern
ment, we must take the initiative now. He
(Mr. o. hoped the time nigh never come
when any citizen would wish to place him.
/! self in open act of rebellion, but should that
day come, and the Senator from Cuyahoga
openly array himself, rs his remarks shad.
ow forth that he will, in open act Of REBEL
ion, Mr.. Olds would then, US now, be found
on the side of his bleeding country, and op.
posed to the Senator from Cuyahoga. But
this time may come the Senator informs US,
because the President having successfully
annexed Texas, may with high handed tyr.
ranny annex the different States Of Mexico;
and then cross the Isthmus and annex South
America. This MIR. o. said was new die
ton to him, he had always supposed tha
Congress alone had the right to annex
Congress he had supposed had annexed
Texas. But under which administration
was Texas annexed? and if annexed by the
President? who sung praises to 'Tippecanot
and Tyler too?" The Senator from Guy
ahoga, and no. the Senator from Picka
way. Has the Senator forgotten that he
to whom the Senator in 184O, sung bacha
nalian songs, during the expiring moment.
of his administration, in hot haste, even on
the holy Sabbath day, forwarded the alter
native resolution to Texas, which annexed
the "Lone Starr to this Republic? These
are the men, (said MIR. o. This ther
} should afford poor excuse for mon taking
the initiative of Treason,
: The question was taken upon the recep
tion of the petition, and carried-yeas 19
nays II. And the petition was referred Il
the committee on Federal Relations.
\ A bill in relation to the proof and &C
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