Speech of John M. Clayton of Delaware, Upon the Oregon Question
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Excerpt from Speech of John M. Clayton of Delaware, Upon the Oregon Question: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 12, 1846 The joint resolution of the Committee on Foreign Relations, proposing to give notice to Great Britain of the intention of this Government to annul the treaty for the joint occupation of the Oregon territory, and the resolutions of Messrs. Hannegan, Calhoun, and Crittenden, having relation to the same subject, coming up as the special order - Mr. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, rose to address the committee, but wished, before he proceeded, that the Secretary would read first the amendment moved by the gentleman from Ohio, (Mr. Allen,) and referred by the Senate to the Committee on Foreign Relations. It was read accordingly, as follows: A joint resolution to annul and abrogate the convention of the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, between the United States of America and Great Britain, relative to the country westward of the Stony or Rocky Mountains. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in virtue of the second article of the convention of the sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, between the United States of America and Great Britain, relative to the country westward of the Stony or Rocky Mountains, the United States of America do now think fit to annul and abrogate that convention, and the said convention is hereby accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated: Provided, That this resolution shall take effect after the expiration of the term of twelve months from the day on which due notice shall have been given to Great Britain of the passage of this resolution. And the President of the United States is hereby authorized and required to give such notice, and also at the expiration of said convention to issue his proclamation setting forth that fact. Mr. C. then requested that the amendment reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations be next read. lt was read accordingly, as follows: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Ihat the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, advised to give, forthwith, notice to the Government of Great Britain that the Government of the United States will, in virtue of the second article of the convention of the sixth of August, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the Oregon territory, and after the expiration of twelve months from the day on which such notice shall have been received by the Government of Great Britain, annul and abrogate that convention. Mr. Crittenden then rose and moved the resolutions heretofore submitted by him, in the form of a substitute, or amendment to the amendment of the committee, and asked that they be read. They were read accordingly, as follows: Whereas, by the convention concluded on the 20th day of October, l8l8, between the United States of America and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the period of ten years, and afterwards indefinitely extended and continued in force by another convention of the same parties, concluded the 6th day of August, 1827, it was agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony or Rocky Mountains, now commonly called the Oregon territory, should, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be "free and open" to the vessels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find
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