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in advance do do.-... 2 iii
Mail do
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C:it't'ier’sJisti'ict, and who call for their pn-
_ pars at the oliicc . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .- I Oi‘-
Couipaiiies off) or more ieceiviug their pa-
pers by mail,“if paid in advance . . . . . . . . -. 1 :30
’3:t1c.~‘ of .-l(lV4!I'li.~’ilIg.
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5.-u,,,is,,cd Eve,-y -,.-,;'.,-.xinicsd.ay .-VI=_n_-iii.-ag, by .l..\1VIE.S REED, at Two Dollars Per Annum in Advance. Office on the Dock, .\JV’c’s’t isfm, ‘of
NORWALK, CT. VVEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1846."
Grocery, Crockery,
Flour and Fm-rt Store.
AI Soul/L ./\"m'u'aZ/r.
7 BE subscribers would inform their friends
and the public that they have enlarged
their store and are now ready to offer a good
assortmen ofareicles in the-irline, and as cheap
as any other store in town.
Among their assonment may be found Groce-
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Giiardiaii, Divorce, and other notices .... .. . 1 00 f0!‘ f100(l5ln lll9_“' ll”?-
th'e square. All goods delivered free of expense.
Yearly advertisers, on square, .......... .. 10 O0 G130 W Smrii
payable quarterly. The privilege of y.cai'ly ud-
vcrtisers is limited to their own iinuiediatc busi-
‘[1035.-
Casual advertisemeutsseiit to this Ofiice,iiius'r BI-I
LCCOMPANIED BY THE CASH T0 INSURI-1 INSERTION.
JOB PRINTING,
o F A L L K 1 N D s
Executed at the Gazette Oflicc.
Al)Dl'.I§RY.—The attention ofthe pub-
' lie is invited to the large and elegantassort-
ment of Harnesses, Saddles, Bridles, Whips.
Trunks, &c. to be found at the establishment of
the subscriber. It is believed to be no exagera-
tion that this place, nor any other in the vicinity
has been able to produce so rich a variety, par-
ticularly in the Harness line. They are ready
made and complete at a moment’s notice. VVho-
ever will take the trouble to examine, will find
that the Worknianship of these articles cannotbe
surpassed. Among the lot are several sets of
double Harnesses, which are worthy the atten-
tion ofthose fitting out pleasure equipages.——
There are also several very lightand airy single
harnesses, designed for neatness but manufactur-
ed ofthe best materials,and embracing the double
merit of security and tastefulness. Every article
needed in the line, may be found here, of the
best quality, and on very moderate terms. Re-
pairing as usual. W»! B SWAN-
Norwalk, April 29, 18-15. 18
Important Notice.
R. REED :——There are so many superior,
elegant, extensive, and flourishing adver-
tisements in the Gazette, that. we would just
mention that we are located at the old stand,
east. of the Bridge, opposite T Ldml R Peck’s
Branch, where we have on hand and intend to
keep a general assortment of choice Groceries
The following articles ‘comprise a part of our
extensive stock: ~
500 bushels of superior Rock Salt. at Whole-
sale or retail.
38 large sacks of Liveorpool Salt of a good
quality a1i)i'| kat 2; low pricq. _ d f d
Mess or ,0 our own aying own, 0 agoo
qudmy ami‘cmip' d R d T d r dl
lover, ' imotiy an e op see , 7an e
Vlfick, Young Hyson,Hyson-skin and Shouchong
Teas, Loaf-and Brown Sugars, Pickled Salmon,
Shad and Mackerel, Wrought and Cut Nails,
Cotton Batting, Sperm and Tallow Candles,
B=.ackwhe:ii flour, ‘Corn, Oats, etc.
Also, a tzeneral :1-‘Stit‘lll)t'llI of :"hinn, Hlass
and Earthen w;i:‘t*i, ‘.Vl‘.*-l<‘-'tl€ or r~-mil.
ALI-‘RED KNAPP
N B All personsindebte! to the subscriber
on book, are requested to make immediate set-
tlement. ' GEO \V SMITH.
SCIKEBNER «S: RILEY,
Merchant Tailors.
HE subscribers re-
spectfully announce
to tho public generally,
that they have taken the
store formerly occupied
by t\IALLoItr & BANKS,
where they intend car-
rying on the Tailoring
Busincss,in all its various
branches. As Messrs.
Mallory 65 Banks have
- given up the Tailoring
Business in this place, we having succeeded
thcm,and would respectfully solicit the patronage
of all those who have been accumstomed to pat-
ronize the late firm, believing that we can give
entire satisfaction to all those who may favor as
with a call.
VVith our experience in the business, we feel
confident in saying that our work will be done
in a manner not to be excelled by any other
similar establishment; in Norwnlk. If any doubt:
this fact, let: them gives us a call, and we will
demonstrate it. ENOCH SCRIBNER.
THOMAS RILEY.
Norwrilk, January, 1846. 5
DAILY LINE FOR
PORT CHESTER, ROCKY NECK, STAR?-
FORD AND NORWALK.
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ELEGANT,
AND FAST SAILING
STEAMER CATALINE.-
CAPT. CURTIS PECK, JIt., MAs'r1»:a'.
ILL leave the Pier east side Catharine
Street Slip, East River, etvery m_orm'7zg,-
(Sunday excepted,) at seven o’clock. Return-
ing, will leave Norwnlk every inorning (Sunday
excepted) at: half-past: 11 o'clock, Stamford at
half-past 12 o’clock, Rocky Neck at 1 o’clock,
and Port: Chester at half-past 1.
E3? Stages will be in readiness at the‘ differ-
ent Landing to convey passengers to Bedford,
\Vestpo1't, Fairfield, Soutliport, Bridgeport,
Dnnbury and Ridgefield.
$3“ All Persons are forbid trusting any indi-
vidual on account of this boat; or her owners.
EAVY bleached Sheeting, 3 yards wide;
A. C. A. Tickings; York Mills Shirt-
ings;-red and white, all wool, Cotton \Varp,
and Homespun Flannels; Rep’t Cashmere,and
})la(pi§]Ious. DfiL.'-tines; bl’k and white \Vorsted,
an paca, osicry ; white, bl’k, slate, tint
grey Cotton I"Iosi.e:‘y and Silk. Bonihzizines,
Mei-iztc-cs, Pluids ancl Almcas; Twilled Ging-
hains, the most desirable article for dresses now
’_’'.-f.-..--: I... .,.
‘V’-'4"-.- . ,_
The above articles “'2' would offer I tlH:'[tl1l)llCl
and also Iell(lt?l‘x)!H‘ tlianks l"-r ’lt‘ll‘ lil)t~-rail pd!-j
ronage, lieremfore besttitvetl on us. l
- .lUS{-‘.PH S _\li:i-zki-zit 4‘ Soiv.
A »l)i)§..-'—.lii~t receivt-d from llliio- f’I'«-llti_
c unnion tn 'incqn .lii_\ and f=-r sale l.-w.
Also a qu::n:i'.y of .\laplt-.‘1ti-_vnr.
CL):\lST= on S: l'lAI.L.
_Nr.-w C.in:ian. Jiiiic 28-1-Ti.
’BU’£"l.1'El?.! I '
,,'‘_'-‘i‘‘o:i1|-'sI«i(:~ft as tiisill. offer for salt-6600
"-‘ pounds dairy hunter, V.it‘)‘lH.*_" in qllzill-_\‘
from middling to first rate‘, and wit he sold by
the firkin,and lHilflI|'l\'lll,8.lpl'lCt‘i~' l.l)dl t‘dll|i()l fail
to please-.
Also -200 lbs of live geese fe:itlteis.-
BU'ii"I‘nit:.- 5,,
‘ AIRY Butter, of the first quality, for sale
. by the lirki» or lessq I2‘tlll_\' at Pet-ks.
[~‘ll{KlN BU’l"l‘E 1:. - j
few firkins ofexcellent Butter, for sale by‘
the tirkin or at retail, cheap, at Burralls
BU §i'.‘TiER! Seven Firkiiis of first rate
. Butter, for sale by V
JOSEPH Mist-zirian <3‘ hon.
;l) 2ll)t=Ut ltll days un.il further nmice.
Suiitil)lt- terms.
in the market, at GRUB-IAN’S.
$1’ ‘a N ’5‘ J. I .-.9. |‘l'{l13 ::'c are 4-, 21! t.
——'l’lie sloop .ltl'i‘.1,C;ipt Giurnman,
_. li:xviii~_r tli.-‘c--ii'iiiueil her \\'e_-eltlylrips
,.._," will leave the l.t:Itll.'i'_I at Five Mile
lfilvt-'l‘-‘ll l‘linr.-tlu_\ evening luc. .‘Hli for Pike
il p. Y., and \Vlll('tilllll-LIE o make her trips
Frieght
ofzill l\'l.x(lS and produce carried on the most rea-
\V. C. »"Aii\iIs.
Five Mile River, De-c. l6i!. IS-I-'3.
Notice.
loinliira-tit-tat Hit-er shod in half barrels
t.‘-.ivendisli plug Tobacco of-.1 good quality
A new supply of Neiv Orleans Molasses cheap.
’l‘re:-dwe-lI’s Buckwheat Flrur, Constantly on
hand. Another barrel oflarge no. l,l\'lackerel.
just opened. J. IVIEEKER 6: Son.
T‘ I
Carpetmgs.
E ask the attention of perso= s in “am of
V carpctst the elegant assortment of im-
perial, ingrain. and veniciun carpets,just receiv-
~('(l, together with floor oil Cloths, ofall widths,
Emattings, bockings, etc. Jas Mallory 85 Co.
New York Type Foundcry.
RUCE’S NEVV YORK TYPE FOUN-
_ DERY, No.13 Chamber street, between
Centre and Chatham sts.
7 The following are the prices for approved-
notes at six months, from which a liberal dis-
count; will be made for Cash :
Pica . . . . . . . . -.3‘2c. per lb. Minion .- . .54c per lb.
Small I’ic«'i.-..34 “ Nonparcil. 66 “
Long Primer.. 36 “ Agate._.. 86 “
Bourgeois.... . 40 “ Peai-L... . 130 “
B_reviei' ..... . . 46 "
\V0od Tye, Printing Ink, Paper, Cases, Gal-
leys, Brass Rule, Composing Sticks, Chases,
and other materials furnished with proinptitude,
and at the lowest; prices.
, GEO. BRUCE, &. CO.
' The Type on which this paper is printed is
from the above Foundry.
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from Ohio and for sale low.
COMSTOCK 8: HALL.
’ New Canaan, June 9th 1845.
if i'ULL’S Double, Single, and Childrens’
' Trusses, for sale by J. A. VVi-:r:n.
I Over Shoes.
THE subscriber has laid in his usual supply
, ofovershoes for the full and winter trade.
He can accommodate with the various sizes
from meus’ to boys’ together with a very pretty
article for lad1e’s wear both trimmed and plain.
RIND Stoncs.—Fvc tons just receive
__ Also boys’ boots. All of which will be sold '
vtsxg‘ ‘cheap;
HENRY HA.\'ni=.s.
.. 'wsiia,.,oc1otrer,.i.s~45; - it
\
44* ' for sale by
Timber and Lath.
75,000 feet of Timber assorted sizes
100,000 I-2 inch Plastering Lath
10,000 Pickets for sale by
T L c§- J R Pizcx
Gaps l
HE’ largest assortment of niens’ boys’ cloth
and fur caps, in the county is to be found
at the store of Jas Mallory & Co.
ENTAL Surgcry.—Dr. Hill offers his
services to the public in every department
of Dental Surgery. His Office continues where
it has been for the last seven ye-ars,——a few doors
\Vest of the Bridge.
No personalconsideration, or private prejudice
will deter him from faithfully serving those who
rnafi solicit his professional aid.
New Goods.
6' K'egs, first uality Cut Nails
2000 m cutqtacks '
100 doz. American and German Slates
20 in slate pencils _
50 reams common and heavy wrapping paper
A very full assortment of Iron, Stee , Glass,
Paints, Uils, etc. together with a general assort-
ment of Hardware and Cutlery, all of which are
offered to dealers, or at retail on favorable terms.
Norwalk, Sept. 9. W’. C. Snuu:-r.
Registers for 1845.
REEN’S Connect:icut:’Register, for 1846,
J. A. ’\Vi=:!:n.
l . POETRY.
HOME AND FRIENDS.
BY CHARLES swAiN.
Oh! there’s a power to make each hour
As sweet as heaven designed it;
Nor need we roam to bring it: home,
Though few there be that find it.’
\Vc seek too high for things close by,
And loose what nature found us; ,
For life hath here no charm so dear
As Home and Friends around us.’
.4
VVe oft destroy the present joy
F or f. ture hopes——and praise them;
\Vhilst: flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we’d but stoop to raise them!
For things afar still sweeter are
\Vhen youth’s briglit; spell has bound us !
But soon wc’re taught: that earth has nought
Like Home and Friends around us!
The friends that speed in time of need,
\Vl1cn Hopc’,s last reed is shaken,
To show us still, that, come what; will,
\Ve are not quite forsaken.
Though all were night—if but the light
From Fricndship’s altar crown’d us,
’Twould‘ prove the bliss of earth was this—-
Our Home and Friends around us.
MISCELLAN Y.
From the Knic/ccrboc/cer.
“BOTHERATIONS OF VVOMENI”
T/ie “Coa:t'er.s-,” the “Drz't-ers” and the
“T'Vorrz'e7°s.”—-A new correspondent, “Joe
Miller, Jr.,” discourses to some purpose
upon “Bot/ierations of T’Vo77zm;” I~le con-
tends that there is no man, bachelor or
Benedict, ancient and juvenile, who can
lay his hand on his heart and say, that
since he wore his first long tailed coat,
‘the whole sex, from the ‘help’ in his moth-
er’s kitchen to ‘the girls at meeting,’ and
from them up to ‘the young ladies who
play the piano,’ have not been a constant-
ly going on, a never ending and out and
out Bot/zeration. We are presented with
:1 ‘sample’ of our sex, as an embodied and
‘fixed fact’ in this regard. W'liile shaving
in the morning, his thoughts dwelling the
while upon the young lady with whom he
flirted last evening, he starts (and cuts a
gash in his check) at sight of a beautiful
damsel at an opposite window, who is wa-
tering flowers; ‘now bending down to
pick out a decayed leaf, and now lifting
her sweet face, blooming with health, to
look after some stray ‘morning glory’
which her small white band would ‘train
up in the way it should go ’ Breakfast
over, he hurries down Broadway to the
max-ts, of trade, and sends like a business
man through crowded streets, on ‘change,’
and in all public places, his thoughts dis-
tracted and his calculations spoiled by the
apparition of some daughter of Eve, who
chanced to trip past him in all the witch-
ery oflier lovliness; beautifulalike in face
and figure; her elegant dress swelling
round her person after the latest fashion;
with one hand deposited in a side pocket,
her face cast down, innocently and grace-
fully sucking the knob on the end of her
sun shade, or biting with her small white
teeth its ivory ring. Who could resist at-
tractions like these’! In an instant his
thoughts steal from art to nature. Notes,
discounts, purchases and sales flee from
his excited brain. All thejoys ofa happy
home rise before him—_a fond wife and
merry children. And now Fancy runs
over a space of twenty years; and in the
mind’s eye he sees along train of beauti-
ful daughters, all walking the streets,suclr-
ing the knobs of future parasols in the
same graceful manner as the beauty who
had just passed him. ‘It is a ctirious fact,’
says Mr. l\'Iillcr, Jr. ‘that although the
whole sex have conspired together for one
object, they have yet various methods of
opeiation, all tending to the same grand
result—-botheratiou. There are some of
the softer sex, of an amiable turn ofmind,-
who think that the quiz”:-t system is the best,
and they prefer to gain their objects by
wheeclling. Others, having great con-
fidence in the assumption of authority,
prefer to adopt a commanding inanner,and
trust to their power ofcompulsion. While
a third class prefer a constant and well di-
rected course of teazing, believing that
continual dropping wears away the hard-
est stone. The sex may be divided into
three grand classes; namely: Coazcers,
Drivers, and l’V07‘7'ic7‘s. Let us glance at
one without asking at all; but if a damsel
which Byron speaks, how much more fin-_
ished is her plan of operations! She has
some ‘great secret’ to tell her lover, and
gets behind his chair to whisper it softly
in his ear; her balmy breath spreads in-
cense around him; and her ‘secret,’ by
reason of her agitation is murmured so
low that he can’t distinguish a word ofit;
and most naturally, he turns his face
around to catch her meaning from her
eyes; and in doing so, his lips (acciden-
tally, of course) meet her’s;’ and thc-n—
oh l ‘linked sweetness long drawn out’ isn’t
‘a touch to it ;’ and the most brilliant ex-
ploits of military strategy are completely
dimmed by this specimen of female nia-
neuvering, which a lawyer would pro-
nounce to be a clear case of ‘obtaining a
kiss under false pretences.’ This is just
the way they coax, bewilder and bother;
and if they can’t succeed in this manner,
they make‘ their next attempt as ‘Drivers.’
Sam Slick says, ‘The men hold the
reins but the women tell them how to
drive ;’ and theoretically and practically,
such is the fact. A woman will coax, en-
treat and languish as long as she can, and
men show a disposition to comply; but
let these weapons fuil,and ‘presto, change !‘
She comes out a perfect tyrant; scolds
and bsrates us, if we are only ‘courting ;’
boxes our ears, or smacks our months, if
we are ‘engaged ;’ and lectures, scratches
and thumbs us if we’re ‘married.’ One
who is a good subject for ‘driving,’ stands
no chance at all. Every effort: which he
makes to extricate himself only plunges
him deeper in the difficulty; and finally
at one start he finishes the matter forever,
and we see him safely secured, like a big
catfish with a string through his gills.
Did you ever remark a juvenile pusscy
after she has achieved the conquest of a
poor insignificant mouse; how she hits it
a spat, and sends it'here, and then to bal-
ance matters gives it another and sends it
"there; how she shakes, cuffs, and knocks
it about until it is almost breathless, and
then, should it endeavor to escape, puts
her paw on it triumphantly, and seems to
say: ‘You rim away, if you dare I’ If so,
then you may have some slight idea ofthe
situation ofa poor fellow who is a good
subject for ‘driving.’ He gets a hit here,
which sends him bang into’ a tea-party;
then whack! eotnes another, which sends
him clear into the middle of next wcck,at
a pic nic party; and whip! comes a toss
up into the air, and he alights on his feet
at a fashionable ball. And one half ofthe
time the unfortunate man is unconscious
of his maltreatment; thinks it is all very
nice ; that he is doing the agreeable, and
making all these arrangements himself;
when in fact the whole affair is managed
by the lady to suit herself; and yet she
has the address to make him believe that
lie is the author. And he stands likea calf
about to be lead to the slaughter, while his
enemies are getting the dripping pan and
basting spoon ready for his roasting, and
he is at that moment being regularly ‘done
brown.’ VVe see occasionally in the news-
papers accounts of marriages which take
place ‘after fifty years’ courtship,’ and
every one is shocked to think ofthe great
waste of time which has taken placc,when
an expeditious ‘driver’ would have brought
the wooer up to the popping point ‘imme-
diately, ifnot sooner.’ The matter is very
simple. Five or six hints of the superior
attractions ofMr. Smith or Mr. Brown,
with an occasional going to church with
one or the other, or both; and then a soft-
ness of voice, and a sort of‘Dont-speak-to
me-but-go-right-straib away- and- ask- my-
pa’-ativeness,’ in his presence, will soon
bring things to a crisis. It is all very nice
for a bean to have no rival, but it is some-
times the source of great procrastination,
when one or two appearances of some
good looking man with whiskers would
have sliarpened up the ideas of the lagging
admirer wonderfully, and he would have
been in great haste to have married his
inamorata for fear somebody else would get
of ‘driving’ which are not quite so pleasant
—but as the present generation has been
made very well acquainted with some of
the ways in which it was done, it i's thought
hardly necessary to discuss the matter
them for a moment, in their order.
And first: when did women ever cease
coaxing? when will they cease’!
why, they coax from the cradle to thel
smiling. In early life, orrnature years, itl
is all the same. If we are‘ children, it isl
‘Auh! do now; if you do n’t, ’pon my
word, I’ll never speak to you again! Auh,,
I think you might; I think you’rc mean ifi
for‘ my sake now ’l——only once! I’m sure
you cant refuse this one time 5’ and they
languish at you with their sparkling eyes,
and pout out their ruby li'ps so prettily,
that for the soul of you you can’t refuse ;
and before you know it, you are complete-
ly bambooz'le‘il out ofyour independence
and firmness. When Coriolanus threaten-
ed to destroy Rome, who was it coaxed
him to forgo his intention, and spare the
city? \Vhy, the women. And when Gov-
ernor Dorr undertook his last rev-
olution, who was it furnished recruits for
his valiant army’! The Yankee girls.—-
Just look at the superiority of female tac-
tics in every branch of this ‘elegant ac-
complishment.’ Suppose (understand,I
say ‘suppose’) a lady wishes you to kiss
her. Now if a man wanted such a- thing,
the probability is that he would ask for it
here; yet those who wish to study this
branch of the science, are referred for par-
Coaxliticulars to the melancholy narrations of3se1't'lng the Tights Of any Olhm‘ 533‘
the patient and long suffering Job Candle.
that ‘in conclusion’ we say a word or two
of ‘T/Vorriers.-’
When it man can’t‘ be led, he must be
driven ; and when he can’t be driven, he
must be worried. There’sa smile when
Y0“ d0n’t-' If We are ‘children ofa larger~he’s willing, a frown when he’s sullen,and-I
lgrowth,’ it is: ‘Dear William, wont you,»
it scolding when he’s stubborn. The fact
has been long ascertained, that teazing is
the most delightful thing which a woman
can do; it is so easy, so pleasant, and puts
her in such an amiable state of mind. Just
let her get fair game, an old bachelor, for
example, and don’: she worry ’l——lirst- 01%
way and then another. Now it is, ‘Why
don’t you get married, Mr. Simpkins'l.—
I’m sure you’ ’re old enough.’ And‘ them
‘Oh! who’d have‘ such an old dried up
‘specimen’ as you are’! I don’t wonder
that you are not married; such fusty, stin-
gy, cross, sour old wretches seldom are.’
Or if it should be a coquette, with some ill
used victim dangling after her, looking as
a sick monkey; sig-hing like a bellows
and groaning like a dry cart wheel ; then
ifshe does not care about "driving’_him to
-extremities, but prefers to worry him, for
‘right out,’ or it may be, proceed to snatch
the fun: of the thing, what a. happy 0p_§,0f'
0
thin as a fishing rod and as lugubrious as .
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tunity to’ exercise this amiable, character-
desires one of the ‘long, long’ salutes, of istic! She goes with him to a ball, and
dances all the evening with Mr. Johnson;
she engages to go wi;h him on the next
Sabbath evening to hear the Rev. Dr.
Poundtext preach, and before he reaches
the house she is off with Mr. Jenkins; he
ning; and all this time the unfortunate
visits her and finds her so much enterlain-.
ed with the conversation of Mr. Jones,;just claim; and I will upholdthe exisjtirig
that she does not look at him all the eve-‘Administration _,in all suitable efl"or_ts to:
T
rights, that Great Britain may now sdid,
to be substantially in poisfsiessiioin of 'all this
territory north of the Columbia rivier, iainil
we of all south of the same river."
I am of the opinion_that Britishisuibjects
are in the enjoyment ofimore of the territ
,'tory iii dispute than their Giovernment, on
a fair consideration of its_pret'ensions, can
vindicate the.American claim, and reduce
Wight views the whole proceeding in much E the possessions of Great Britain to their‘
one, when the big one was away withthe
little one’s bone ; ‘grins horribly a ghast-
ly smile ;’ tries to make believe that it is
a good joke, a very good joke, tihile allthe
every circumstance portends that there
will shortly be a grand blow up. Positively
it is la-shame that they worry the men so;
and yet ‘some people’ say, that they are
not so much to blame, after all. ‘They
say’ that the men encourage thein in it,
and as long as they do so, they must
expect that the \vo‘men will smile, provoke,
botlieii-, and tease them. Now, if an un-
fortunate love stricken youth is troubled
by the smile of Beauty, do you think that
if she knows it to be the fact, she‘ will ‘stop
it I’ Not a bit ofit; It is morethan likely
that on the next occasion she sees him,»she
will smile more sweetly than ever; and be‘,-
silly fool! instead ofbracing up his nerves,
and flying to ‘a lodge in some vast wilder»
ness,’ what does he do’! Why, like a’
frightened horse, he rushes into the flames
again with his eyes wide open! So that
after all he is more to blame than his sweet
the same light as a little doglooks atnbiguproper limits.
No inembiewr of this ciornmitteie, ‘nor cill-3.
‘zen of the country‘, can be_mo_re.t_lee'ply
impressed than I am with the necessity _of
bringing. this controversy to a speedy
time rage is knowing at his heart, nnd,close. The irritation existing, both here
and ‘in Great Br_itain, isjgctting to beexj-.
cessive. gtfwill aaséurqle a more and more’
aggravate _ oi'm'. n the affair will re-t
St-Jullleifl _lti1§sm‘0St 3Sits-tl;ir3ust.c(pnsequences,
n si 1 promp yajuse . _,
It _is now proposed to give:-'th"e_ not_ic§'
prt()l\'igcd for] by the convention of 1827,,
an t e reso ution on your table declares,-
that the President should forthwith take‘
the proper steps to abrogate the treaty at
the _exptratron__ of twelve months. The’
Pfresljdent, in his message, at the opening’
o t e present session of Covngress, says,
i_n substance, that the notice ought now to‘
be given, and adds: “I recommend that
provizionlbe mdade by law for giving it
accor mg y, an erminatintr in t is man-'
h'c‘r, the convention of the octli of August",-
I82"/.”
Ihave' considerably modified my opin‘-'
ions on the subjcc_t of notice, during the
heart; and if any accident happens, let
the coroner’s jury bring in a verdict of
‘Sarved him right!’ All whichis respect-
fuily submitted to the consideration ofour
‘loving’ readers, here and elsewhere.
SPEECH OF HON. TRUMAN SMITH,
OF CONN., ON THE OREGON QUES-
TION, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE
OF REPRESTATIVES, FEB. 7, 1846.
The House being in Committee of the Whole,
and having under consideration the Joint Reso-
lution reported by the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, directing the President to give notice to
Great Britain that the United States will ter-
minate the Convention between the two Gov-
ernments, providing for the J oint; Occupation of
Oregon Territory, at the expiration of twelve
months. A
Mr. TRUMAN SMITH, of Coiinecticut ob-
tained the floor, and said-
Jlfr. Cludrman : I do not know that it
will be in my power to aid essentially the
deliberations of the Committee on this im-
portant subject. But having,- unexpectedly
to myself, been constituted a member of
the‘ Committee of Foreign Affairs, having
turned my attention most anxiously to the
consideration of the present critical state
of our relations with Great Britain, arising
from the Oregon controversy, and partic-
ularly the question of notice involved in
the resolution on your table, I ask the in-
dulgence of the Committee while I give an
exposition of the reasons and motives
which will control my action on the pre-
sent occasion. I am more desirous to de-
clare my sentiments, because, from the
outset of the session, I have indulged
lively apprehensions that this unfortunate
controversy would involve the two coun-
tries in a collision at no distant day. I did
not doubt that the authorities on both
sides of the Atlantic entertained, in a gen-
eral form, purposes of a pacific adjust-
ment, but I feared that one or both of them
would, by the current of events, be swept
into a position from which retreat would
be so difli-cult as to render a conffict cer-
tain. Unless wiser and better counsels
shall prevail at both, ends of the avenue,
than those which the last few weeks have
made manifest, the Government of the
United State's will, in my judgment, within
a brief space, find itself in that category.
The te_rritory of Oregon has been in dis-
ipute between the two Governments ever
«since 1818. Not being able to adjust it
her. It isusaid that there are other waysgtlien. they, by the C0l'IV€Dti0n Of that year,
lin effect, agreed to adjourn it over for the
lperiod of ten years, providing, in subtance,
;that the country of Oregon, with its har-
bors, bays, creeks, and the navigation of
all rivers within the same, should be open
lfor the period named, to the vessels, sub-
ljects, and citizens of the two powers, re-
e or
;power to the territory, and declaring that
grave; it comes as natural to them aslBut to change the sad picture, supposeltheir sole object was to prevent the fills-l
putes and differences among tliemSelV‘8S-
l
1 In 1827 it was deemed expedient to ex-,
‘tend the convention of 1818 indefinitely,‘
lwith the proviso that either party might
labrogate the convention at any time after
‘the 20th of October, 1828, on givinga
atwelve months’ notice.
Under these convictions the citizens of
both countries acquired the right of access
to the waters of Oi-egon—-the right of com-
merce with the aborigines of the country,
and the right of entering on the territory,
and mai-ing settlements at pleasure. _
It is said that the conventions of 1818‘.
and I817, should not be denominated. trea-
ties of joint occupation; ‘but Such IS the
character which both governmepts have’
given to them for many yeflrsu 1‘ '3 “°“"
too late to recede; and, besides, I do not
see how a mere change of phm5f=l°€Y ca“
vary the rights of Great Britain or the
‘United States. — _ _
I suppose that both parties have enjoy-
ed the rights of commercial intercourse
over the whole territory—American citi-
zens in some tlegree——British subjects
much more; but in the matter settle-,_
merits the pprties have so'éxerc‘ised‘ tlieir
progrcs's of this discussion. In the first
instance my impression was, I ought not
to vote for it at all; but more mature re-
flection has brought me to the con'clu‘s,i'o'n,
that it is expedient, if not intlispensible tot
abrogate the convention of 1827, and that
I ought to vote for a qualified notice, or in
a rnodifie-‘d form. But I cannot vote for
the proposition on your table to confer the
absolute power on.the Executive, nor for
the notice in the form of any one of the
numerous rnodifi.-ations which have been
proposed, unless that offered by the honor-
able gentleman from Alabama, (Mr. Dar-
gin,) be an exception. I think ‘favorably
of that proposition. The honorable mem-
ber proposes to commence at the Pacific‘,
and run the line through the _middlc of the
straits separating Vancouver’s Island from
the main land, (called the Straits of Fuca,)
and to proceed from thence to in point on
the coast, south of the mouth of Frazer’:-3
river, at the parallel of 49°, and from
thence in that parallel to the Rocky Moun-
tains, giving to the United States all south,-
and to Great Britain all north,of that par-'
allel. This proposition concedes to Great
Britain the lower end of Vancouver’s ls-
land, as an e‘q"t’iivale:it for the navigation
of the Columbia river, and would make the
basis of adjtistment substantially what has
been repeatedly, offered by our Govern-'
ment. I desire to thank the" honorable’
member, not only for his able speech, but
for his truly statesmenlike positi'on."“ Con-
ceived in a spirit of moderation and equity'_
-——proffcriug to Great Britain‘ the olive-
branch, and securing to the Republic all
that is important or essential in t‘he_tét'ri-
tory of Oregon, we should acquire by such
an arrangement, near all the country drain-'
ed byithe waters ofthe Columbia river,
and in Port Discovery, Admiralty Inlet,
Hood’s Canal, and Puget’s Sound, a series
of harbors more magnificent than any'_
other in the western world. I do not in-
sist, however, that: we should advert to‘
any precise line, but I do contend, that in
-authorizing or iacommcnding the notice,
we should, in some‘ emphatic form, make
known to the President the wish of Con-
gress that the controversy should be ad-
ljusted on the basis of ajust and equitable
compromise, and then, in my opinion, there
woul be an end of the matter in one
monti. The reasons why I cannot vote
for the power of notice, unless it be quali-
fied, I must postpone to a subsequent part
of my argument. , '
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But it is said we ought to lay our hands
on the whole of Oregon, to beconverte
into free States, to countervail the gain to
’ the Slave States by the acquisition o_f Tex-
las.- What is, meant by this’! Is it that
lwe should claim the whole of Oregon, in-
ldependetit of our right to the whole? If
;the entire territory is tru'ly ours, then we
{must stand up for our rights, irrespective‘
lof any question about Texas, but if we
have not a just claim to the whole, the’
American people‘ will hardly undertakeia
robbery of territory in_ one quarter. to
imatcl. a robbery committed in another,-
land that, too, on mere calculations of do-
mestic advantage. Besides, the party_ou
whom the operation is tobe performed is
,n burly old gentleman of the name of Bull,
lwho is likely to make a much stouter re-
sistance than the poor Mexican Don, whom
you may vic'tit’n‘ize at any tithe. with im'--'
ptrnity. I insist, therefore, this is a ‘ques-
tion by itself—-that it is a broad national
question, to be taken up and considered
calmly and dispassionately, with a viewtqg
ajusf appreciation ofthe rights of? the re‘-
public, and to assert those rights with all
ot’ie‘_dtrty must i‘nspi'i‘e- ._ ' ~ _
And here, Mr. Chairman, I will ‘advert
for a moment to what I understand to‘-
. *One of the resolutions submitted by Mr.
Dargin was at one’ time adopted by the‘ Com-_r
mittee of the Whole, by a vote of 101._to ,9.8.';—’.--.-
It was afterwards setzaside. If it had ultimately;
received the sanction of the Committee and of
the.House. I should, have considétfifiif my ,
to vote for the notice.-. , _
the firmness which a high sense of patrii _
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