The Kalida Venture

From the Washington Times.

OREGON---INTRIGUE TO DEFEAT THE HOUSE "NOTICE"--COALITION OF A CAUCUS TO FORCE THE ADMINISTRATION TO A COMPROMISE, UNDERSTANDING WITH THE BRITISH MINISTER--THE ADMINISTRATION IN DANGER--TIME FOR THE COUNTRY TO REALIZE THE CRISIS,

While the people of the United States gratified with the fulfillment of their wishes in the passage of the resolutions of "notice" by the House, have for weeks reposed in perfect security, flattering themselves, in the midst of their various occupations and pursuits of life, that the action of the lower branch would, in good time, be responded to favorably by the upper, a system of intrigue has been progressing in the seat of Government, between the two phases of Oregon opponents, which but few have been aware of, and which, if known to the people, would excite a tempest of indignation and arouse public feeling to an intense pitch of excitement.

A deliberate game has been played, through the secret intrigues of a CAUCUS, in which a perfect understanding was had between a few anti-Oregon Democrats and the whig portion of the Senate, with some Western members for an exception, to compel the Administration into a compromise with Great Britain, by defeating the House notice, as it came to the Senate, and substituting for it a conditional one, in which the responsibility of giving notice was to be conferred upon the President, but with this discretionary power binding him, by a specific clause, to further "negotiation," which should result in the settlement of the dispute by "compromise." In other and clearer words, the understanding is, to pass the resolutions of Mr. Colquitt, of Georgia, which are as follows.

Resolved, That notice be given, in terms of the treaty, for abrogating the convention made between Great Britain and the United States on the twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen and continued by the convention of eighteen hundred and twenty seven, immediately after the close of the Congress, unless the President, in his discretion, shall consider it expedient to defer it to a later period.

Resolved, That it is earnestly desired that the long standing controversy, settling limits in the Oregon territory, be speedily settled by negotiation and compromise, in order to tranquilize the public mind, and to preserve the friendly relations of the two countries.

This substitute for the resolutions of the House, which, while they instructed the President to give the notice, without specifying the time in which he should act, but which action was intended to be without delay, and at the same time while admitting the question to further negotiation, emphatically, by the circumstances of their adoption, forbade compromise, and instructed the Administration against it; this substitute, we say, was the bantling of a secret intrigue, was to be passed through the Senate with as little delay as could be avoided; and with the speed of locomotives and British steamers was to be despatched to the Lords and Commons of England, as an earnest of the pacific policy of the people of the United States, and their avowed intention by the use of the "compromise" phrase to concede to the British power a portion of territory, which the American Executive had proclaimed to the world was ours by a title "clear and unquestionable," and to which the mover of the substitute himself had said the claim of the United States was the strongest.

At that particular crisis it did not succeed. They who were pledged to it did not all stand up to their committal-and, instead of being despatched to the care of the British steamer at Boston, then just ready to embark, an adjournment delayed it to a future day.

Since then, a more complete understanding has been effected. Caucus meetings have been held, the principle of action laid down; votes counted, and the success of the resolutions, in anticipation of the final action, confidently counted on. But, what is more astonishing, and showing how false-hearted some of our American Senators are, while seemingly contending for the interests of their country and the welfare of its people-how traitorous they dare be in secret collusions with our hereditary enemy-all those intrigues to force the Administration into compromise-all these plots to abandon our native soil-these bargains to disgrace the American nation, and of their substance fill the maw of the rapacious British Lion, were convassed and arranged at the British Minister's own table within the lapse of a few days, where a meeting, for this specific and express purpose, was had, attended by all the loyal advocates of the British claim who are comprised in the Whig ranks of the Senate, with, as we said above, a few exceptions from the West, of men who could not in their heart become the plotters of treason against their country.

On this occasion, disgraceful to the name Republican, which one party to this dinner table compact assume, the whole strength of the compromise party was counted and ascertained-their firmness, in the crisis, was pledged for, and Minister Packenham, the Representative of the British Government, put in possession of all "Her Majesty's" party strength within the walls of the American Senate.

Can the American people be made to realize this most infamous fact?-that the British Minister, by his Government to intimidate, intrigue or bribe the American people out of a territory to which that power has no title, and have never pretended to assert one, can surround himself in secret conclave, the doors guarded and the loop-holes closed to provide against betrayal, with a body of American Senators, with whom he can counsel on what will be the effectual means to accomplish the infamy of the American Government, and who are alien enough in heart to commit themselves to his measures of success! Can the American masses realize this humiliating fact? We know that, situated as they are, far beyond the pestilence of this political atmosphere, and ignorant of the utter bankruptcy in patriotism of some of their Representatives, they are slow to believe that American Senators can be found so thoroughly lost to duty, to country and to self, as to enlist as the partizans of a foreign enemy, in its diversified intrigues and corruptions against their own Government. Is it not, therefore, time that they should be alarmed-that they should know how treason stalks through our streets and Capital, how the Constitution is to be rode down by perjury, and National Honor immolated upon the altar of British feeling and interest. We call upon our Republican masses to awaken to this conviction, and we appeal to the Press to sound the warning note. What we here have exposed will, in its important part, soon be acted out. The vote in the Senate we have foreshadowed, the plot is matured--the treason will soon stand forth in its naked infamy, unless some power, stronger in influence than any yet introduced, almost more than mortal, interposes to save the British confederates in the Senate from the deep damnation of the act!

We know that in some quarters we shall subject ourselves to denunciation for this indignant exposure; but that denunciation will be most impotent compared with the avalanche of scorn and contumely that will fall upon the recreant Senators who perpetrate this dishonor of their country. Devoted to the principles and measures of this Administration, we can do no less than warn the friends who elevated it to power, and who now repose not only hope but confidence in its strength to consummate the great ends of its election, against the imminent dangers that now surround and speedily threaten to engulf it. We may say to the Democracy of the States, your Administration is at this moment in greater peril than ever before. This is the crisis of its fate. If this combination between the British Minister, as one party, and a few recreant democratic Senators, joined with a majority of the whig Senators, succeeds in its settled plot, the Administration will be driven from its mission; its policy will be defeated, its strength prostrated, confusion will reign triumphant, President Polk will be left without a party, and British rapacity will feed upon American treachery. Let the Democracy look well then, to the evil days that are upon them, and to the evil end that is impending.—

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