Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-13

Of them should attempt pass H. would thereby nev
bly, bring on war. That same opinion of his EN-
bodied In his official report chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs There il stood Ii was of record II
could neither be bloted out talked out or sworn out
Yet now that person had declared recently in the face
OF this House and Of the world that the Rio Grande itself
and not the desert this side Of III the true boundary
of Texas That this had been fixed the boundary by the
hand OF Cod and that Mr. Polk would justly subjected
himself to impeachment had he stopped short Of it. Thus
seemed that the Almighty had planted BOTH and though thew
at vast distance from each other each of them was the
true and only line OF boundary He would reply the gentle
man from Virginia, that here was change, and notable
change Of sentiment the part Of this Here stood
his two different inconsistent, incompatible opinions both de-
yeed to the House and let be remembered too that these
the opinions Che the individuals last and new
doctnne) which led to the present In his report made
in August last he stated that the Rio Bravo the true limit
to which had right to extend military occupation of
Texas and that if the President had stopped short of il he
would have subjected himself impeachment while in ls45
this individual had declared that whoever to
the desert far this side Of il would provoke war
and further that would this Government pass beyond il
until Congress should be seized with nodinate lust of
dominion. Was the gentleman from Virginia answered nowi
Mr. BAYLY said not word. Was the country kely 10
believe that the nomination the Court of France had been
the consequences OF this subservency Mr. A. did not say
that they would He had his opinion to that matter
The point he had set out with this that that House
had voted and that it would the ap-
pointment OF eutenantgenera but had more been
inserted IN the BILL and the committee Of conference recon-
mended that the Senate should recede from its dissent TO the
measure and suffer the bill pass with this feature in i.
seemed to him extraordinary that the conerees the part
OF the Senate should accede such report Mr. A. did
undertake uragn the conduct Of the Senate, OF its pre-
siding officer (who, he believed, had appointed the Senaies
portion of the committee but certainly very extraord
nary that the Senate should first take the ground that
made potico military officer should override Taylor and Scott
and then, after smoheng the Wmot proviso and the adop-
ton of the ten regiment BILL should have recommended,
by committee their part, that that ground should be
abandoned But whatever might be the recommendation of
committee of conference the Senate, body had the
power Of holding to the position had taken And now,
moe the watchwod of the lovers of the country was
" Look the Senate " He trusted tina dgnfed body would
stick to its integrity and that the progress OF corruption would
be stayed.
Mr. A. said that the effect of Executive influence in that
hall had been anticipated and predicted when the regiment
bill about pass and in that apprehension the Com
mee of the Whole had inserted provision in the bill that
member of Congress should be appointed to the commands
created and the House had sustained the Committee But
then the uggery and since then, all the projects of
the Administration with the exception Of the tea and coffee
what had become of that he did not know he pre-
sumed coming up again some time between this and
mingh) had been carried under the potential influence of
the ten regiment bill.
Such the resess power OF Executive patronage And
well this understood and counted on that had been
declared without disguise, after the rejection of the Wilmot
provso in the Senate that they would carry the three million
bill in this House without the poyiso and the had
proved that they right After the decisive by which
that provso had been inserted the country had the
prspg spectacle of its subsequent rejection by majority Of
The free States with their majority this floor
had atered themselves that they safe but they little
knew the strength of Executive influence they little dreamed
that among their Representatives there would be faeBg
such question. Within short week that Will
provso had been passed by majority Of nine and
then rejected by majority of seven This was, to simple
distance, Legislative miracle; but the question
gone it forever beyond their reach and it was
plain to have annexation and slavery with it,
Mr.. WOODWORTH, of New York. here asked Mr..
AsHMuS whether he would have voted against three
million bill even if that proviso had been retained
Mr.. ASHMUN answered with a very emphatic negative.
He had voted TO insert the provso, and when inserted
he had voted for the BILL How had the gentleman from New
York voted
Mr.. WOODWoRTH. For the proyiso
Mr.. ASHMUN. YES the first time and how did the gen.
tleman TO- day
Mr.. WooDWoRTH. Against it, as otherwise the bill
would have been lost.
Mr.. ASHMUN. 1t is as said. There is the genteman's
vote, for the proviso day and against the next.
Mr.. WOODW0RTH. The bill must otherwise have been
LOST
Mr.. AsHMUN. Oh, then, as now understand the gem
teman, the Wmot proviso matter of principle but
matter of expediency Under certain circumstances the
gentleman the representative of free State, is willing adj
init slave territory under other circumstances he The
question may be settled in way day and in
Their way another Mr.. A. looked the otherwise.
But he supposed the whole thing arranged and the
must be taken. He had thought and felt that some
time before the sands Of this expiring Congress quite
out the duty of to the country
the result Of Executive influence within those walls He had
done at the risk doubt Of the condemnation if not the
denunciaon Of gentlemen presents but he had only
done his duty These his opinions and he felt bound
present them honestly and earossy The issue with
the people.
Mr.. LINN BOYD moved the previous question which,
being agreed to, precluied further debate.
The Roxbury city election on Monday resulted in the