. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ritory between the 49th parallel and Columbiariver, and acknowledge that parallel as the north- ern boundary. As the president had subscribed tothe platform of the Baltimore con vention, he threwupon ilie senate the responsibility of decidingwhether the claim of the United States to thewhole of Oregon should be insisted upon, or thecompromise proposed by her majestys governmentaccepted. The senate, by a vote of 41 to 14, de-cided in favor of the latter alternative, and on 15June,184(j, the treaty was signed. Two other important questions were ac
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ritory between the 49th parallel and Columbiariver, and acknowledge that parallel as the north- ern boundary. As the president had subscribed tothe platform of the Baltimore con vention, he threwupon ilie senate the responsibility of decidingwhether the claim of the United States to thewhole of Oregon should be insisted upon, or thecompromise proposed by her majestys governmentaccepted. The senate, by a vote of 41 to 14, de-cided in favor of the latter alternative, and on 15June,184(j, the treaty was signed. Two other important questions were acted uponat the first session of the 39th congress, the tariffand internal improvements. The former had beena leading issue in the presidential contest of act of 1842 had violated the principles ofthe compromise bill of 1833, and the opinions ofthe two candidates for the presidency, on thisissue, were supposed to be well defined previous tothe termination of their congressional career. was committed to the policy of a tariff for. revenue, and Mr. Clay, when the compromise actwas under discussion, had pledged the party favor-able to protection to a reduction of the importsto a revenue standard. Previous to his nomina-tion, Mr. Clay made a speech at Raleigh, X. inwhich he advocated discriminating duties for theprotection of domestic industry. This was fol-lowed by his letter in September, 1844. in whichhe gave in his adhesion to the tariff of alarmed at the prospect of losing votesat the south through his opposition to the annexa-tion of Texas, and seeing, defeat certain unless hecould rally to his support the people of the north,Mr. Clay made one concession after another, untilhe had virtually abandoned the ground he occu-pied in 1833, and made himself amenable to hisown rebuke uttered at that time: had then asked, who is entitled to deserve thecharacter of an American statesman, would standup in his place in either house of congress
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