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Speech of Hon. William H. Haywood, of North Carolina, on the Oregon Question; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4 & 5, 1846

Speech of Hon. William H. Haywood, of North Carolina, on the Oregon Question; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4 & 5, 1846

Haywood, William Henry

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ISBN10: 1235668940
ISBN13: 9781235668944
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... one's American blood boils at the thought of ceding an inch! The treaty with Russia, which, in the view of Senators, so dishonorably and unconstitutionally dismembered the national domain, (for the benefit of crowned heads too!) was submitted to the American Senate, and, with a full knowledge of the correspondence, the Senate approved it all, by a vote of ayes, 41! no, 1! Who was it? exclaimed several voices. Where was he from'? Jlns. Rhode Island. His name was DWolf. All British, save one! In passing, the Senate will suffer me to say that this treaty with Russia was made within the very year succeedingthe famous declaration of President Monroe's Message against new European colonies on this continent! Made by him. It is of itself a contemporaneous construction of the meaning attached to that declaration. Attention is due to the names of the Forty-one Senators who approved of it! There are illustrious names in that list; but I have not time to go into such details; and if I had, the Senate would hardly have patience to hear me through. The President further found that our importunity to fix upon the line of 49 as a compromise was again manifested as soon as the convention of 1818 was likely to expire; and that, in the correspondence preceding that identical convention of 1827, which it is our present wish to abrogate by a notice, the American Minister was instructed to adjust the controversy at this same line of 49; and the convention was made only because that compromise line could not be.got. That correspondence also was laid before the Senate along with the convention of 1827, where, in despite of the opposition of my honorable friend from Missouri, Mr. Benton, and in defiance of his predictions, the convention was approved by a vote of ayes 31, ...

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