Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Oregon Question
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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, on the Oregon Question: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan; 3, 1846 House of Representatives of the United States, January 3d, 1846. The House having under consideration the bill reported by the Committee on Military Affairs, "to provide for raising two additional regiments of riflemen, and for other purposes," and the question being upon the motion to commit the bill to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and Mr. John Quincy Adams and Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, and others, having addressed the House at length - Mr. Winthrop obtained the floor, and proceeded to say, that he understood the Chair to have decided that, upon the pending motion to refer to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union a bill for raising two regiments of riflemen, the whole question of Oregon was open to debate. The House, too, had virtually sanctioned this decision, by declining to sustain the previous question a few moments since. Mr. W.could not altogether agree in the fitness of such a decision, but was unwilling to omit the opportunity which it afforded for expressing some views upon the subject. My honorable colleague (Mr. Adams) in his remarks yesterday, and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Mr. C. J. Ingersoll) this morning, have alluded to the course pursued by them last year, and have told us that they both voted for giving immediate notice to Great Britain of our intention to terminate, at the earliest day, what has been called the convention of joint occupation. Though a much humbler member of the House, I may be permitted to allude to the fact that I voted against that proceeding last year, and to add that I intend to do so now. I may be allowed also to remind the House of a series of resolutions upon this subject, which I offered to their consideration some days ago. I know not whether those resolutions will ever emerge from the pile of matter under which they now lie buried upon your table. If they should, however, I am no means sure that I shall not propose to lay them aside again without discussion. Nothing certainly was further from my purpose in offering them than to involve this House in a stormy debate about peace and war. Such debates, I am quite sensible, are of most injurious influence on the public quiet and prosperity, and I have no disposition to render myself responsible for a renewal of them. I desired only then, and I desire only now, to place before the House and before the country, before it is too late, some plain and precise opinions, which are sincerely and strongly entertained by myself, and which I believe to be no less: strongly entertained by many of those with whom I am politically associated, in regard to the present most critical state of our foreign relations. I desire to do this on many accounts, and to do it without delay. An idea seems to have been gaining ground in some quarters, and to have been somewhat industriously propagated in all quarters, that there is no difference of sentiment in this House in reference to the course which has thus far been pursued, or which seems about to be pursued hereafter, in regard to this unfortunate Oregon controversy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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