Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-02

we publish IN our paper of day. to the exclusion
OF some other matters, the report Of the committee OF
Congress, to whom was referred by Tho President
The demand of the British Government for the hbe-
ration OF Alexander M'Leod We publish it belle
wing our readers will find il interesting as i, contains
clear statement of the matter al issue and shows
also The feeling that is gaining ground with regard
10 The continued encroachmen's Of Great Britain up
on our territory and our rights.
we had thought IN the many agiiaiing and per-
picking questions which have arisen between the
United States and Great Britain that all would f.
| naly be amcaby settled, without recourse to arms
| That whatever excitements and misunderstanding
might arise between individuals communities thai
mat mutual good understanding, and disposition to
conciiiae peace, would continue exist between the
TWO heads OF government, would insure upon the
principles OF right, peaceable adjustment of ali diff
hcnliIes. and we had thought too that so strongly
did every interest of The TWO demand peace
that 1t would require extreme Gaze indeed to in
terrupt It. Recent events however, have some ha
shaken us in these opinions The fact longer
be concealed 10 the people of the United States that
disposition exists only the part of individu
ais, but also the part of the Government of Great
Britain TO encroach, wherever there is the least pos
sible pretext, and frequently without any pretex at
all, upon our rights and territory. Witness her
unjust claims upon our north eastern territory
her gradua. elcroachments and assumptions of
power in the Oregon territory, and during the Ca
NADIA troubles, her outrageous and unjusiahle de-
strucion of an American steamboat in American wa.
ters and the murder Of some of her crew and las,
though perhaps not least, evidcnclng the feeling
of Jhe British government, the insolent demand for
the surrender of Mleod, who was arrested upon
American SOIL tf his participation in the above out
rage npon American rights. The entertainments of
Great Britain, not however, confined to the mi
ted States: it would seem that her pride and power
had been fed by her success in enslaving the eicmi-
nate nations of The east until she tho lght er PROV
ess sufficient 10 extend her dominion over the whole
world. Bat SO far the United States are concern
ed, we think her agressOns will shortly be brought
TO close. The report of the committee of congress
evidences a feeling that will speedily show itself by
hurting the arisiocraiic aggrcssors from our land
We should think Great Britain had had experience
enough in her contests with American frsemcn 10
court another tri Al. If she has been BETRAYED 10 an
indIscreon in her attitude towards America by her
success in enslaving the efeminaie natives of the
enaiern continent, by misconcep on ufour inter
nal situation or national resources she will find VIVA,
she ought TO have known before tina: freelHen con-
tending for the soil they own, cannot be conquered
and that our internal situation cannot be worse than
it was when we beat them in the war of our revolu-
ton.