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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix B (search)
ferson Davis of Mississippi in the House of Representatives, February 6, 1846, on the resolution to terminate the joint occupation of the Oregon Territory. Mr. Chairman: In negotiations between governments, in attempts to modify existing policies, the circumstances of the time most frequently decide between success and failurethat, between England and the United States, if hostilities occur in that remote territory, the party must succeed which has bread within the country. . . . Mr. Chairman, unfortunately, the opinion has gone forth that no politician dares to be the advocate of peace when the question of war is mooted. That will be an evil hour—ere be a higher obligation on the representative of such a people than to restrain excitement—than to oppose a policy that threatens an unnecessary war? . . Mr. Chairman, why have such repeated calls been made upon the South to rally to the rescue? When, where, or how, has she been laggard or deserter? In 1776 the rights of