" debate in the senate ■ the t s senate on thursday a ■ ",- and exciting controversy arose be ■ u '. ( m messrs allen hannegaii and hay ■ tvu i ' when the latter concluded his i o e ech on the oregon notice mr ilantie ■ n rose to address the senate he prom ■ a - n ot lo detain the senate very long i proceeding to make a lew remarks i to som ■ parts of what he consul ■ das the most extraordinary speech he i in his life he begged to n-k i _ nator from north carolina mr ■ lywood one question which for great i , v he had reduced to writing i get a copy of the pies ion : ■ vas in substance this whether he i authority of the president of the h r n ed states direct or indirect for tl i c | ar ing here thai it was his wish to ter i that existing controversy with ( l compromising on the parallel i 1 mr hay woo 1 replied thai he had al h aid that which for fear of mi*-t«ke i sly written and which he i for the president author ■ lator to make such a declara i stated hy the senator from i indiana was not to bo-expected and would ■ of character mr men said he should construe the ■ reply ,! he senator from north carolina i rative unless forbiddi n by the i 31 if to do h mi haywood 1 have already cnd"a my fri a i fi om ( io t bad i [ laugh h j mien then i shall adopi the otb i . traction and consider his answer i ifilrmative ; and i demand it — i mblic right — that he shall answer i itory put to him if he doe h , , 1 am here to deny thai he has i pressed tbe views of the president mr haywood's answer was but par h tially heard but was understood to say fl lents had noi seat him fl then questions put to him bv h an man but in regartl to lhe inquire - i senator from ohio il he mr h)l occupied the position which thai senator m did and was driven to the iici-i->--iiy ul'h . uestions here about the opinion h president he should quit much fl ter h mr westcotl here called mr haywood i ler if he was about to state any thing fl in the president i ii haywood the senator need not i thinned increased merriment in h parrs of the chamber no sena-m tor had a right to make demands of him i on th floor of the senate and he should h demand . neverthe 1 j i . t consent il properly rcques i • ly lo any reason 1 inquiry . ei fl he house or out of ii he had of i things in that way out of do ! ed rather humilialintr fori of peace and good fellowship - h i ognised in no man a right to de ! mswers from him in his place in h i lleil said he ba 1 no1 demanded ill i h rivate or personal right but h public right when a senator as-b ! to peak for the president it wasm lie right possessed by every senatorh id hi authority for doing so — i il here made by the senatorh : , carolina was that he was theh of the views of the president ot'h 1 states on a great national i on the gentleman had as-tuned h and mr a now again asked wheth-fl is in p ion of anj authority h the president for saying what he i ended mr allen to order i rj in older to inquire here whalfl lh sident's personal opinions orfl fl lien said that he had nor ri-k.-db - opinions of the president were.b haywood said that he was not atfl . ifjd he would however take hsei ve lhat he did not see any a catechism in the rules of order 11 bad noi assumed to speak by auili rity nt mi ul n then the s nator takes - whole speech ml i 1 i in lad to see thai v much laughter mr alh n much excili d :) with the nenl and conversation indeed throughout this entire vented the reporter from hear il mr allen said mr.iiannegan wished the senaie to no h the senator from north . had written his speech he had s ' ilia other senators might it to refer to in reply it was no to . in any of the papers mr haywood i desired that for fear - : and i seems 1 was righl : ne of the papers in its brief account marks this morning has said of h that it was a speech in favor ition ! inn gan said it was quite imma ■ the senator from n < aro • answer to mr h's in i'ae senator had said that - no meaning in language no man if the president had any mmitted himself to the line of i 40 minutes mr 1 would fay in turn that there was neither mean nor truth in man if he had tted himself and that in lan ls thai of the hol book it the 1 tllimore convention tdy committed to the •• 51 . _ ■ • s 10 min the world mr h would . to the year 18 1 1 and call the irs repl to a committee of the i ncinnati their inquirh s re annexai ion of texas ; but mr polk volunteered opinions dso ; and this while the " carolin a watchman b1ujner & james ' ,. ' / " kter a check upon all tour editors y proprietors \ is safe r ( new series r ™ a*£u z ™ \ number 47 of volume ii salisbury n c friday march 20 1816 in was before the nation as a candidate i or the sea be now occujiies i in reply to t question as to the date of i hc letter mr h said it was the 23 i i april 1844 m polk expressed th i opinionthat lhe union ought never to have i li en •■ dismembered bv t he separation of i texas did the speech of the senator i from north carolina sustain the principle b of this declaration . mr h would leave^b ;• to the world to say i lie further quoted the letter where iti beclared we ought to assert and hold otii'l li ■;_',: of dominion over the whole territory bm ll the republic whe defined the limits b lot ( n --__< j i _ .' did not the president himself l[.mr 11 here quoted the following pass i luge irom the president's message : " the^h extraordinary antl wholly inadmissible^h demands of the briiish government undh itli re'ection of the proposition marie in b deference alone to what had been done v liny predecessors and the implied obli-_a-^m ition which their acts seemed to impose,^h laffoi 1 satisfactory evidence that no cmn-h promise which ihe united states ought t"l accept can be effected with this convie-^b ition the proposition of compromise which^b iliad been made and rejected was by iiiyh direction subsequently withdrawn tndh lour little to the whole oregon terri!or\bb lasserted as i.s believed maintained by >>'-| i rel'ragable facts and arguments \\ hath idnl this language mean ' the offer oih loi 10 degrees i whal compromise eould^b lh make short of the hussion line of 5i-h i degrees 40 minutes did he not assert^b lour little to be clear and indisputable toh i the country between 41 degrees and al-h i degrees 40 minutes ? besides mr li i llield the language of the secretary olh is it to be virtually the language ot theh i president and had not mr bnchananm iclaimethe whole territory up lo 54 dc-h l-recs io minutes lie had mr ill bliere read from the closing part of buch-h bauan's last letter to mr pachenham — ■ i.mr b here declared that it was still theh i opinion of i he president that our title wnsh i the best in the world to the whole terri-h bioiy did riot the secretary here speakh b for lhe president 1 and did not the presi-m idem si e document before it was sent b i and did not ihe president adopt the lan-h l-.'.it'.e as his own aud plant himself uponh i 54 degrees 40 minutes it was his ownh ldo--riiie — his own position he planteth b himself on 54 degrees 40 minutes and mil b thing short of that line h b mr ii well remembered that mr polkh iliad been his own first choice nor that nl ithe se iaior from north carolina n.-i-m b'her of hem had preferred him lor the ol'-h i lire of the chief magistrate they . both b pr.derrcd another but he was happy iti bs.c that mr polk had won his way sim bl'.t iu the regard of the senator astoinl idnee him to volunteer his defence againss i the attacks of men who never made anyh i but mr ii would here say that if th«l i president had betrayed the standard ofl i the baltimore convention to its enemies i lhe would not do as the senator from n"b i carolina had threatened to do — turn hii i back upon him the president would careb i but little it ihey boll turned their hack i upon him — but he would denounce hiufl i is recreant to his own avowed principle i — recreant to the weighty trust contid.-dl i to his hands — recreant to the rcticroufl ■ confidence of ihe american people mrb i ii would not on that account abandon i his principles nor abate one jot or titll.b i of the demand lie set up to the whole ol b()iv-ii!i he would speau nf those vvhtl i did in the language of truth and fearless i ness i i the senator from north carolina harl i undertaken to give to the senate the ian h_i ■!_■>• of the resolution of the baltimon i convention on the subject of oregon h he und rstood him as professing to rear i it is it stootl : if that was what he pro i fessed whal he did was unworthy of i h mr haywood said that in reply to this li would read to the senator a part o i mr breese's speech : and he quoted ' b passage from that speech i mr hannegan resuming said then b wii-i i ivat difference between this ar b explained by the senator and the resolu htio'n as adopted at baltimore he wouh h read the resolution as it was mr ii i here read as follows : i " resolved that our title to the whoh of oiviron is cle;tr and unquestionable h 1 1 1 .- 1 r no portion of the same ought to be ceded lo england or any other power b ' that the re-occupation of oregon and the re-annexation of texas at the earli be practicable period are great ameri be.mi measures which ttiis convention re commends to the cordial support of the democracy of the union h this committed the democratic party i'o the whole of oregon — every foot of ir b let anv senator rise in his place and tell bm what quarter of the union the names i texas and oregon had not flown side bii side upon the democratic banners — i wherever mr ii had been it was so — and oregon — oregon and texas — always went together i did the senator from north carolina bila'ter himself that he could win the ap bj 1 u:se ot the democratic party and blind i 1 ..*- eyes as he seemed to think he had tickled iheir ears while lie withheld from b l lii-ui the substance of what they were for .' it he did be was great i ly mistaken texas and oregon were wia measures and they dwelt together in very american heart with all who had one for texas and as he was told in fexas itself the two names floated toge her on till the democratic banners and low when " texas was admitted when hey had stretched forth their hands and seized on one of the two and secured the prize did they mean to turn about and say we meant by " oregon just so much of it as we should afterwards choose to give you ' they little knew the people of the west if they even dreamed that i h.-y were going to be trampled upon in this way i let gentlemen look at their own recor 1 ded votes in favor ot taking up the ore gon bill at the close of the last session and then let ihem look at the language of that bill and see if it did not propose to take possession of oregon up to 54 deg 40 min after giving onqnalified notice to great britain that the convention must ease at that time we still held texas in our hands and this was a test ques tion and every man in the senate voted for it save the senator who sat there un derstood to refer to mr mcduffie and lhe peerless linger and that most ex cxcellent senator huger had afterwards told him that be had voted in the nega tive because it was suggested to him that unless he did so the civil and diplomatic bill would fail which was then pending but on further conversation and consider tion he wished to move a re-consideration of the vote but his friends would not con sent t hat it should be done in the house of representatives but four out of fifty southern democrats had voted against the bill these were the reasons given to him why he should not distrust the south on the question of oregon ; the re sults were now manifesting themselves and let the speech just concluded by the senator from north carolina show whe ther or not he was justified in his distrust the senator put language in the presi dent's mouth which mr ii would here undertake to deny : not that he appeared here as the champion of the president — he claimed no such position he only de fended the right ami personally he would prefer doing it in behalf of the humblest man in tin country than of the greatest but he would here deny for tbe president what the senator from north carolina im puted to him if tbe statement ot the se nator was hue and the president meant what the isenator understood him to mean then he was an infamous man the gen tleman from north carolina bad told the senaie that in the message there werr here and there in various part of it "' stick iiil-s in parenthetically to gratify the ul traisms of the country but which he ne ver meant to carry out the meaning o this could only be that the president ii these '• stickings in employed false anc hollow words to bide his real motives anc i purposes what was this but deliberate i ly and wilfully deceiving the country i i this was true it must soon come to light i and then what must be his fate but dis i grace * the story of his infamy wouh i be circulated from one end of the land t i the other and his perfidious course wouh i sink him in an infamy so profound in ' i damnation so deep that the hand of re i surrection could never reach him a trai i tor to his country so superlatively hasi i need hope for neither forgiveness fron i god nor mercy from man mr ii care i not if the senator from north carotin i was charged with missives from the pre i sident ; or whether as he should suspec i from the dogmatical style mr ii some i times displayed here he nade these as i seivions tin his own responsibility i mr ftwqgum here called mr ii to or i drv ! mr hannegan immediately apologized i saying lhat if be bad used language tha i was disrespectful to the senate it bad no i been his intention he would not know i ingly forget for a moment lhe respect dm i to the body and what he owed to himsell i he would endeavor to reply in the spiri i which the senator from north carolin i so repeatedly professed declaring lhat b i meant nothing personal while he used th i plainest language i the senator had told them that th h country had been agitaterl from one em fl to the other for the sake of putting smal i men into large offices mr ii had seei bsi.c'ii things before to-day — small mei hiu large offices !" and the country agi i taled for an end like this mr 11 bar bseen small men in large offices there b was an old proverb which said that met i who lived in glass houses should not throw hstones it was true o lhe letter mr h fl might turn on the senator and reply tha hheliad far rather be a small man seekinj b:t high office than be a supple subservi hi-tit tool bending before the footstool o h power and considering it honor enough tc fl run from the back stairs of the palace or fl errands to win the favor of a great man i mr h would be the last to show le h europe such a spectacle as the relinquish ■ ment of all oregon north of 49 degrees land the acceptance of a fine commercial htreatv with the bonus of free trade free ■ trade mr h aid he dearly loved but il ■ m-ver should be bought by him with th of his country ■ it was outrageous in any and in _ ■ western democrat it would be treason ■ moral treason of the deepest dye lo sur ■ render anv part of the soil of an empire estined to stand through all time was ■ eason he did not speak for other parts i f the union ; but for his own he could i peak ; and this was its sentiment free i ade — with the surrender of vancouver's fl dand and the harbor of nootka — and be i remembered britain had never offered i 3 make it a free port — she understood its i alue too well — what did it amount to ' i v'ho did not know that the opening of her i oris was forced from the british govern i lent by the trantic cries of starving mil i ons and that the haughty aristocracy i i'ere compelled to submit to it to save i rieir lives from the avenging knife of the i ssassin and their palaces from the torch ' i ut be was told we must put oregon and i lie tariff together ; that the west was to i ave a market a vast market for their i readstuffs and pork and heel was she .' i rue it is said mr h we in the west i re born in the woods but there are some i mong us whoknow a little and amongst i ither things know that long before our i upplies could reach the british market fl he granaries of the baltic and the black i ea and the mediterranean would have i iceti poured into it to overflowing in conclusion for he would not longer letain the senate he could only say " ! l he whole tone and meaning of the speech i if the senator from north carolina fhat.h f it spoke the language and breathed the i eelings and purposes of james iv polk ie had uttered words of falsehood atidh ipoken with the tongue ofa serpent i mr allen rose to speak ; but — h on motion of mr evans the senate h idjourned tiie carolina watchman hr walker's free trade report ! i we invite the attention of the public to he following interesting articles from the ible correspondent of the baltimore pa riot under the signature of potomac — i t is a humiliating fact for us to know that aur dearest interests — the prosperity at forded by the act of 1842 is to be sacri iced by those now in power for the sake of a barren tract of land as much as we desire to see the oregon territory un der the jurisdiction of the united states we are not prepared to surrender the tu rilf under any circumstances no let nil who love their country begin to moveh on this subject and signify to those whdh presume to sacrifice tbe interests of f lii confederacy at the shrine of british rapal city that it will not be submitted to : i correspondence of the baltimore patriot h washington march 1 1846 the official organ again denies that mr 1'afl kenham received a copy of the annual reporh of the secretary of the treasury through theh icotirtesy of mr walker himself and at the lath iter's room it admits that he had an earhh icopy hut says that he sent for and obtained it ah t'ne office of the ' union ' h ! i do not wish to be captious at all about thi-fl matter but not being in the habit of makin<h istatements without authority for their correcth ness i am not willing to have those statements hcontradicted with impunity ! i ! mr walker's propensity to oiiginate greal hmeastires and have the credit of them is well hkuown his texas letter and the manner nfl hwhich he ascertained or thought he had nm hiuformed capt tyler how many senators woulc ivote for a texas annexation treaty cannot easi lly be forgotten the fact lhat he was in oc htober and november last making extraordinary to frame a free trade system of rev henuc to supplant the present tariff was well hknown to every body in general and to mr pa hkenham in particular the british minister ii la shrewd man at the time i refer to his nego ia*i'!n with mr buchanan was at an end but im pakenham was by no means at the end ol ihis row he knew that sir robert peel de reducing the british tariff as well as sir robert walker that of the united stales t is well known that he then paid his respects i , the latter functionary — visited him at the department what the distinguish !;! functionaries talked about or speculated up l'ii f f course make no conjecture whether it entered the head of either that the oregon i 5 , a could he settled amicably enough if the tariff were broken down i profess ! ; to know what documents statistics and acts if any were then presented to mr paken liiirn by mr walker i will not undertake to sur hnise it is only known that mr pakenham i : an early copy of mr walker's free-trade i rt — the report which the british house of l..-i-d ordered to be re-printed ! how did he hhtaiu the copy ? the official organ says in heply that mr pakenham never at any time re leived a copy of the report from mi vi alker i : - certainly is explicit and not wishing to re min one moment in error or to delay making hie amende honorable if i had been led into an hrror in the matter i went to see the gentleman i who gave me the information that i have in°regard to the manner in which mr akenliam obtained his first copy of the report ind called hi attention to the organ's denial cf i ts truth that gentleman reriied : it is true h evertheless mr walker himself told me i hat he cave mr pakenham lhe first printed i ronv he had of his report which wis lying on i lis table in his room when mr pakenham visi i ed him and not only so bit mr p_fcenbani i las told me the same thing sach was the declaration of my informant i lie is acquainted b..th with mr walker and i kir pakenham — and is far from being a wl .■_*. h lie may possibly speak on this subject hims i it was upon his authority who said he i liad an interview with mr walker that i m i he statement — which by the way i probably i ihoubl not have made if i had not seen ia the i fceneral summary of the foreign news by the i cambria the announcement that mr -\ alker's i report was communicated to the british mi h irv long before it was sent into the properc i inittee of the american congress bj i it is amusing to see what parade the i nion i ind other free-trade anti-taritt newspapers h inake of two letters which have recently ap i eared in reply to the masterly letters of al i lawrence of boston to wm c rives of ir i iginia on the sul.ject of tbe advantages and i blessings of the existing tariff ! one of si i ifree trade letters is from mr bradford a gentle i irnan connected with a large english manufac i muring establishment who has lived for many lyears in england has imbibed english senti-m iments and notions and is eminently english in i flail his feelings this is well know to all wl.ob lare acquainted with mr bradford whonmrel 111 than such a man to write against mr i.iu-b irene's - i.erican tariff doctrines wlwnrm-h i fit to expiate upon the beauties of the doctrinch liii regard to the american tariff entertain lb iwith mutual relish by sir robert peel sir p i bbert walker and sir richard pakenham ! i the other free-trade letters is the production flof mr sidney homer and is addressed to mr.b i edmund pjurke of the patent ( ffice it is per bsonally disrespectfully toward mr lawrence l i abounds in suppression of fact and gross n/;--l fl representations : and the way it lays down i flmiscs and diaws conclusions is very scattering land ridiculous to say the lea.-t of it i fl in speaking of the operatives in the i.owelbj i factories who work by the piece mr iiomeibj fl savs triumphantly that he has a letter from i.owbj i ell stating lhat the girls now only receive eleveibj fl cents per piece for weaving the same cl<>th t i i which they were paid fifteen cents in 184*2 i i and he brings this up against ihe denial of mrl | lawrence that v_<ios tiave fallen since 1 - i'.l i but mr homer chooses to suppress an i:np<.il | tant fact in this connection which is that " :: ''| i has been the improvement in machinery workbj i ed by those girls since 1842 one girl can in i i weave two pieces at eleven cents each as quiclb | as she could one piece at fifteen cents at ti.-h | former period b i mr homer says the chief causes of our nab i tional prosperity and advancement is the treeb i dom of trade between distant and extensivb i sections of this country very good ibb i then goes on to say could this area ol ili-b i freedom of trade be enlarged so as to embracb i the whole world could all nations be brought b i believe that their wisest course was to freely ml i terchange their various productions then woul.b i follow a rapid advance of wealth and greatness,b i c yes indeed who doubts it ! //' tl.b i shy were to fall mr homer might catch i.n k 1 i if all nations could he made to believe & -■ i then there would be no difficulty but th-b i will not believe they prefer legislating toil i ihemsehes — and we in self-defence must d likewise mr homer's truisms to the reversi i notwithstanding i a friend of mine from boston say mr ho timer's letter reminds him ol the loquacious preacher in the stage coach who proved every h thing by ihe bible quoted disjointed and dis connected sentences all along from genesis to i revelations at length one ol the p iss tired observed to the preacher that he fl had not proved justifiable suicide so said i.e ■ that can't be done why replied the passen not the bible say in one place thai judas went away and hanged himself and m ' go thou and do likewise i es ithe preacln \> n rr is no connection be ltw.»'ii the two passages its as much drily ithe other as there has been an ly.-u ba • en proving i have much to write in a future letter about ithe maimer in which the president and his c ihi net messrs dallas cass calhoun and allen are all at six and sevens head and tails oo ithe compound question of the oregon and the the heart-burnings the jealons lies the rivalships and the current of crimina ition and re-crimination are vehement no two of them has the least particle of confid nee in each other this is here well understood bwho will come out ahead remains to be seen bb potomac h tariff and anti-tariff scene washington march 2 1846 the ways and doings of the british f party in this country and their co-work l-r and co-adjutors the lordly manufacturei are rapidly developing tbemselvi f the proceedings of congress being jay i accepted an invitation to visit the room o f the house committee of post offices and po.t roads where i found a mr hnmer brother to sydney homer whose anluariffletrcr appear ed in the last number ol the t«ioi exhibiting about 200 specimens of goo's of english man ufacture wi:ii like goads of amm icaii pn-duc lion and pjices attached to each — ill order to convince members of congre that our lawli on 1 !.! to he stmck d.avn 1 don't know when i ■ rer enjoyed an hour _ time more heaiti.y mr h •;:: i i a gentie inianlv looking pe ■;. •■:).•- de/-t;iiul ithe want of the english n ts adntir lahlv well i::d ' - '"' '*' lt lhe had resided in manchest id for ten ivears en_;i_e-i in sending i this i reside in i lie fnited stat s in 1 - i _* - h i i : sir ro on tbo ertber ii ■ brings a letl r i f instruction and l-eeon mr alexan r henry t i • i l346 a i i ! '''" •**« i ... ■*"• ill l ■'"•' [-*' it * li ■ i i i g ''•* mr lr toi _ v iu is i "- - - ' a - ■- i he praises ih i h w i ,: -* c - i i:i reg nd io mr ii struc i to lee l-\a'.t those of great britain mr 11 niy writes : ii am glad l rience as i und !■!..■ sul i ikeii it in ban ! : fur if the i of those v obtain isoin-.d informali nclnsiona i i i ut b-i information bwid be highly valuable b there were presi nt in the :■•■ i while i was flthere messrs stewart t i ibard flof the house and mr wet baliimore fl.\ls two or three ami-tan fll you may well imagi h gentle flraen as i have named woo scircum b-'an i mr flllomc-i c ming th m.-l fl recomm - -•'•- t -- , '\ v l.liil put them ! mr homer answered as well bperhaps as any free-trader could — but never ihave 1 seen a man - > <■• mpletely cornered ! i he exhibited two pieces of calico which he fl were manufactured bv senator simi b f h '• islan i wh - sold them one f •: it cts i per yard and tiie other fbr 11 or 1 mr a eth lere.i thought there must he some mistake in this i and went up to the senate and requested mr i simmons to come down to ihe ( mimitte room i who readily assented to th he aid | ihe pieces in question were noi ol lis maim ifacture and from the quality the be.l piece was i not worth over 1 cents and the other not i lu peryard those persons from whom i.mr homer bad obtained them had deceived i mr homer said the - ot this i species of goo is made a pr fit of fromco to 80 i per centum mr hubbard asked him why then i more persons did not invest tle-ireapif.il in such i profitable business ' ii •■ asked mr homer i why //- did not embark in lhe business ! the i latter replied that be would invest 50,000 in i it if be did not fear that so many woul i rush in i to the same enterprise as to briiig down the pro i lit by competition so low as to destroy lhe hu i siness mr stewart asked that if that was i not the american doctrine that c mpetition re i duced not only the profits bul the price ' mr i collamei asked who but the greal mass o the i people reaped lhe !- ;.- fit fr in this competition i among manufacturing capitalists ' mi.-iluh i hard wanted mr homer lo say if the reason i why he did not invest his capital iu this line of i business was because competition wuuld bring | ■: iwh the prices ol i manufactured .' — i mr homer faltered in bis reply and said there i weie several reasons why he would not engage i in manufactures one was lhat the market i ; he ti ictuating h mr wethered seeing the state ol things and i exercising his compassion aid it was too bad i for soman lobe against one hehopedtbe i tariff folks in congress would also have a com i mittee room as well as the g itish manufac i nnrr with specimens i examination and i comparison and that ihey woe appoint some i sensible gentlemen to superinti n i il and argtte i matter single-handed with ve homer i w li.-i.-uj.oii the gentlemen their hows i took 1 fear mr homer will i too hot ihi him the ameri i can pe don't like these onson i behalf of briu-!i manufactures who seek the i traction of the ameri tariff however i - in the i bto all teachers ! i valuable school books ml blisiied by gr1gg _- elliot philadelphia i c 1 ' ! i \ - i i "-- t * i ■ b i ' ' | b bi ____! bj bj bj b i . | l : i bj | i i f our common schools i i i i all i i '! | bj i i i corn fob sale ! _■* ?~ i _ i l tori-kxcb i . all kinds blanks i neatly printed a a for sale at this office