The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-22

appointed under the bill be discharged at the end OF the
war, and that authorizing the employment oil clerk oy
each paymaster in the service, at salary OF SOU per
annun. The former not concurred m ana the laisI
was pending, when, motion by MIR. SEWER, the Dill
was laid upon the table.
THE THREE MILLION BILL.
The Senate then on motion BY Mr. SEWER, resumed
the consideration in committee OF the WHOLE OF the
bill making further appropriation 10 DrihS lhe eAsuhs
war With Msao to 1s9 and Tsa and ad that he de-
sired 10 ask word of explanation from the senator rom
Michigan, MIR CAss,l relative to the letter OF MT
Marks in the report of the remarks of the honorable sen
aor the other day, that subjects was stated that "
was important to notice that the following significant par
agraph in the letter Mr. Buchanan was not published
60 independently olmy personal services, nave aveheJ
d dei&y on" EXPENSE ''''s
He CMr c. desired to know if the honorable senator
had made that statement after having himself seen the
letter iau in question in the Department of State
Mr. CASS said he would reply after the senator IRON
Louisiana had concluded
rup the honorable senator, whom understood as yield
me in order to allow this explanation.
Mr. SOlLE then addressed the Senate IN speech
which occupied nearly three hours In the delivery We do
attempt at this late honr IN the evening to give lu
report of this eloquent speech brief outline Is all that
we can hope to be able to present. meanwhile informing
our readers that complete report is IN course OF prepa
ration and will be published immediately The honora
bic gentleman commenced BY stating that he intended to
inquire into the causes OF the wars merts-s chafac-
fold-remote and Immediate AS 10 the latter, theie
could be but little difficulty. With regard to the former,
il not so easy to reconcile the minds OF nose VINO
studied them He believed that the remote causes OF the
existing difficulties between Mexico and the United
States were be sought in the character OF our lnstu
onsin that ndestruGloe Rrnelpe Of tne rgn. . 81 ma
neyation of Texas to this confederacy was the only
cause of the war From the day that Texas was an
neyed Mexico regarded the United States with the eye
of an enemy She regarded the whole Of Texas as her
property Distracted worn out, incapable OF defending
her own dignity as she was, Mexico ceased not to have
her eye upon Texas and Proclaimed 10 lhe word lna'
tory The honorable gentleman then entered into an
elaborate historical review OF the various questions con-
nected with the limits limits b hnd EaH be
Rio Grande as her boundary, and that 1t was with
that boundary that she had come into the Uni
ted States Texas came into the United States with
her boundaries unchanged and without any modification
of her geographical physognomy. The clam OF Mex
leo extended to the whole OF Texas She never intended
to surrender ain inch of that provinces and If she was
right about the space between the Nueces and the Rio
Grande she was equally right as to the space between
the Nueces and the Sabine Well then, Were the United
States at liberty surrender portion OF that territory
WHY, that would have been fragrant violation of the
implied contract which the joint resolutions OF Congress
had completed Could the President of the United States
ton as that Texas after becoming one of the United
States, had ceased TO have her limits up TO the Rio
Grande He could not And If he could not surrender
any part of that territory how could II be that this
the Presidents war The honorable gentleman then pro-
ceeded to narate the circumstances connected with the
military operations the frontier OF Texas previous to
the battles of the Sh and 9TH and showed concusivey
that the of the Executive had been wise and
justified by the circumstances Paredes came into power
with the avowed intention of prosecuting hosites
against the United States and it to be supposed that
the Executive of the United States 10 remain pas
sve spectator of what going on on the frontier OF
the Rio Grande STILL he only gave his orders to Gen.
TAYLOR on the 18th of January, and 1t was two
months afterwards when General Taylor LETT his
camp at Corpus Christi. Was it known in Wash
ington that such an order had been issued? Was
it mystery? No They had been told by the honora-
bic senator from Delaware Mr.. JOHN NJ CLAYToNl that
he cognzant of the fact as early as the middle OF
January He impaired that information to the honorable
and distinguished senator from South Carolina, Mr..
Calhoun Thus ii known. Well, what took
place. Clearly the order was considered as having
something serious in it-somethng that might lead to
momenous consequences, for the honorable senator
from Delaware came TO his (Nr So side of the
Senate and impaired the fact TO the honorable senator
from South Carolina as something entitled to the most
gentleman dare to assert that upon such communl-
cation staeman whose whole course OF public life has
been stamped with all the characteristics OF most power
full mind and unsupported purity would not have hest
taed to stop the President If he had considered that the
dangers which afterwards have been seen were involved
in such order He had before his eye that mysterious
relation which exists between the desnies of the United
States and the desnies of MeXico-he had before him
the authority OF the constitution He could not, would
not have surrendered the one nor the other He did not
But he had good and good why he
should not have acted He was then 50 situated that his
interpositon in matter of this kind might in some re-
spects, have affected his influence in another matter OF
most serious importance But that could not have
actuaed the honorable senator from Delaware
| MIR j. M CLAYTON. VIII the senator permit be 10
inform him that, at the time when felt myself, as said
the other day, utterly powerless IN the Senate being
of a minority, | did make attempt to have the sub
iect introduced the other house OF Congress. men
toned the subject to distinguished gentleman OF the
other House of the national legislature and he did, or
the Sd of February of that year, make all the movement
which in his power, in order to obtain intelligence
in relation to this subject and, possible TO arrest the
proceedings of the Executive in regard to the march OF
the army TO the Rio Grande call the attention of the
honorable senator to the record:
"House of Representatives., Journal Of last session. FEB g.
sd AsuMuV (by leave) offered the following resolution
which was read aud laid the table one day under the
rule:
''Resorcd That the President of the United States be re
quescd communicate the House of Representatives
any information in his possession not heretofore commune
Gated which affects the relations existing between the lh
ted States and the republic of Mexico, and particularly
whether the navy of the United States any part
either has beeh ordered towards that republic
and what occurrences have to the knowledge OF the
| President require such movement"
| | will now show him how poweress motion OF the
same character would probably, nay certainly would
=. ,ass been this body The senator will pardon me fo
the resolution in the 0ther ".s"sss'
resolution was re1ec,ed Ny AaHyrA WHO'S
Mr. SOULE proceeded. The HONORABLE senator i, ia
still further fortified my position. Sr, my position !
tbs that in January, S46 II was generally known una
General TAYLOR had been ordered to take post on In
eastern bank of the Rio Grande.
Mr. J. M CLAYTON. Not generally known.
Mr. SOULE The gentleman saysyt was not general
" known presume to assert that II was general
Known in Congress may presume to state that, VIM
The honorable senator from Delaware came to TINS SID
of the Senate and communicated the tactic the honoraD
y senator from South Carolina, it IL more than proDao