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Southland Times, Issue 1291, 9 August 1870, Page 3

There was a fine scene in the United States Senate a few days since, when the resolution offered by Mr Chandler, of Michigan (he who wished to have privateers fitted out here in the name of King Theodore, during the Abyssinian war), directing the President to appoint Commissioners to treat with the people of the Red Eiver settlement, was taken up for discussion. Mr Chandler was the only speaker in favor of the resolution ; but he was quite enough. uMy God ! Mr President," he exclaimed," "is that gorged and insolent brute, the Britisher, who owes us half the cost of the late war, to be allowed to gobble up any more territory on this continent ? Isn't it the i

ultimate attitude of impudenoe^for him, or even his c*tspaw, the Dominion of Canada, to : tallc about getting up an expeditiofito settle tke hash of these Bed Riyer patriots, to be annexed to us, who are a hundred thousand strong and / who ChaYcD control orer a territory to which that of the Dominion is but a spec~onlhe map ? Here Howard, hold this up, will you !" And bare the senator thrust into the hands of 'one of his colleagues a map of North^Araerica, and made him hold it up to the .Tit* of the Senate, While he went on I ibdescant upon his theme; "It Js our mission," said he, "to snatch this domain out of the hands of the Canadians- to cliam up any British troops that might pQJgfi to Winnepeg ; to take the earliest opportunity to knock- the Bntish ]€r* wn to flinders'; to arrange for some one or two hundred thousand- British grafieis with ; and to cabbage the whole boundless continent without 7 -iany furChlr ; ' procrastination." No one tboughtifcrworth while to rebuke Mr Chandler; but after he had spoken his piece; h« violation was sent to the Committee ouForeign Relations, where it will sleep T thkt : sleep which; knows, no waking.?7-?Few York correspondent of the Scotsman.