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" We copy from the Congressional


Globe, Mr.. Hannogan's retort upon Mr..


Benton, in the debate in the Senate on


the lst April.


Mr.. HANNEGAN then rose and said: Mr..


President, have a few words to say. |


would not have made a single observation


on this occasion had it not been for a par


ticular expression, accompanied by


very significant look towards this quarter,


which fell from the Senator from Missouri.


Certainly he was the last man here from


whom | expected an unkind look or an


unkind aIlusion. As said before upon


a certain occasion here, he has been to


great extent, my political teacher; and,
sir, learned from him on this Oregon


question, more than | learned from any


other living man. learned it from his
. speech On the Ashbur;on treaty, which
{ from that hour has been 10 him the con-
slant theme of deadly and unmitigaied
hostility against the negotiator who made
that treaty, and the Senators who voted
: for It. learned mainly from that speech


my principles in relation to the Oregon
Y question. From that speech Of the Sena-


tor from Missouri, learned that the Anne


rcan title to Oregon up to latitude %


was good, not only against Great Britain,
: but the whole world. That speech was
# made here only four or five years ago. Ii
: was he who taught me. know he is all
It powerful here, but he cannot unlearn me
e that is beyond his power. He planted
r them there, but he cannot pluck them uT
!, at his will. learned at the feet of Ga
v maliel: have passed from thence; have
It proclaimed the principles which founC
n there He may do as he lists. He may
e before his country and the world, aban
d don those principles which he taught me
) | will not.


e make the same pledge made by tn,
| dintinguised, and patriotic, and homes
y American who occupied that seat yester
/; day, Mr.. CAss, that, whenever ii
n shewn that, by the treaty OF Utrecht, tn
2 line of 40 was extended to the Pacifi
l. ocean, | will not only close my mouth an
is seal my lips against the utterance of an
le claim to the country north OF 40 : but
re anv par, of Oregon. But, selfcontider
lie as the Senator is that he holds 8 the Aga
E. memnon of our little band' a prisoner, h
Or may find himself mistaken. Not one sli
- gle document to which he reIererI-nt


one paragraph which he read, has rcte