Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-28

TIE OREGON-Brihsh PTeieHsions-The
sp rit of the British Government. ma
respect TO lis inSegn policy IS folly exhibited in the
last Edinburgh Review IA an article entitled Meri.
co and TIE Great Western Prarits. To that portion
OF It which relates TO the Oregon cOantry we have
now particular reference.
The question now pending between tie United
States and Greet Britain 10 the sovereignty ct |
ihIs ierrIIury u mot discussed 10y the Review. Its
object. as avnw ed only probe the existence
nnd eapnhtlities of the cOuntry-Jhe remoicsI nook
OF tile wtnid ahd tire ltsI place as IL slys
iOr the planiathr' ut n peoBr. n goes on 10
remark;-"The land " hich is To command the North
Pacific and give law to ITS my TInd islands, Canini
long remain upIed d Ca,lls loudly or. these
wliU have foresighi-on hUse " lao can eaIimate the
promise OF the iuure-Io forecast its dee Tiny. The
Americans never show themselves defrient in this
branch Of political wisdom. They are familiar " ith
what we can scarcely realixeIthe rapid march OF
time in the western world"
The occupation Ui the Oregon being n thing which
must sOOn take place, the question arises whence
are the people 10 come WIN are TO settle ~ And
here The Rev lew makes a most remarkable Geclara-
tinn an these wOrdSJ However the political aues
tinn between England aud America, as To the ON
nerShip Uf Oregon. may he decided OfeFoa ,viH
neUer b otOn'se Overland from he Eastern States
While these wOris were passing lr'm the pen o
The wrrer an expedition Of about QUO thousand
persons from the States of this Union were on iher
" lif w VI etfii- mere uu SELLERS
now m that TerrIt ~ who went FROM the limited
States Missionaries cOme end GO IN tcspiIe oC the
"h"wlIng wilderness" which the Edinburgh NriIer
describes Hs lying between the Western h,rIrr of
the prares and tie cuIivable egiuns OF the CpIum
ba II Is thus terrific desert which Is To keep our
people IRON The Oregnn-a vast eIpanse of snow
aud empesis TOR siN months of the yrar and for the
other six regIun of hopeless debility, with "plair.
Of arid sand deiles of volcanic rocks hills COVERED
with bHier shrubs, and snowy IROtIntains Of many
days journey more It's level part Is irnversed
10y f'rniIIlAe predatory cavalry. "an enemy Of
more than Scyihnn siyHgeness aud endurance who
cannot he tracked erlaken cunc, lated" These
are tho obstacles which 10 prevent The settlement
OF the Oregon county 10y emigrnnIs rum The UniIeI
STATES. FanCIiul eNaggeutuus ALI Even if oil
the terrorS which this winters Imagination has
'u'iJured up stood 40 the way they would have no
Piency 10 stop The onward course of the American
people westward whenever occasion and impulse
s'oqld set The current strongly ia that DIR cIIon.
With all the pIniesSed neutrality oiIhe Edinburgh
Review as r. he qnesiiu uf sovereignty il Is PLAIN
enough that steady eye Is Kept upon the Oregon
that England looks Ia It with anxious earnestness ~
To a country which she would fam pussrss The
ambitious ami iar-reaching spirit aninniing her poll
ry speaks uur ga The language Of the Review when
It eNclaims-"The urrermosI purInns Of the earth
are our inheritance; let uuI throw IL away m
ncre supiHeuess ga Difference To the " Use coz.
illusions Of tuuSe sges Gi the diScuuragiug school
who Lad they hren listened Ia. would have been
checked one 10y one all the enterprises hlch have
changed the face OF the world IA The last thirty
years D"
But 'is nu ion nf settling the Oregon country b,
Gmigruiion r. IN Europe is ofIhe y ildcsi-quiie
as ianriiu the idea that American enc qy and
enterprise must stand rope led by The IcTrur, al Imn
ginary deserts and rp1'niug Savnges intervening bo
I" cen the NeSien, Praires AMI the Valley of the
Columbia. We care mt To see the settlement OF the
region beyond The Rocky Mountains fastened be.
lore ITS ume-but when the lime shall como fIr uc.
cupying Il nothing can BE- more ceriain Than this:
that The people of these SIales. bearing with them
the banner Of the Republic will he the people To-
do that very Thing, 80 that lIum The shores of the
Pacific 10 The far Atlantic seuboard one ccniinunus
eKpanse will spread OF free sol ..acrcd 10 republican,
institutions
We quole again from the Review:
'ln the mean lime. the long line OF coasts iviie.
emg ration from The overpeuped shores Of the old
world, When once the isllinus of D4ien is rem
dered irnyersIblc, the voyage will he easier and
shorter than that To Australia which thirty thousand
Of our cOunlrymen have made ia a single YEAR
whoever. therefore. are To- he the future owners u
Oregon, its people will come from Europe The
Americans have taken up the question IN earnest;
Their Press teens with writings on the subject; We
need only mention the able Memoir OF Mr. Green.
how, Translator Ia the Department Of Stale in
which their claim is Il Isorcally deduced with much
ingenuity. French writer's as may be supposed
nTe already advocating The American view Let
us abandon ous. from motives Of justice. il the right
be prO"ed against us: fro mulIves of D Ilicy AZ II
be proved not worth cOnresting-hui not IN mere
indolcnce. Let us not fold orr hands under The
IDLE persuasion that we have colonies enough; that
u Is mere labor ia vain TO the seed Of future
nations over the earihi that is but trouble and ex.
Pense To govern them. IL there - any one thing on
which the maintenance of that perlous greatness To
which we have attained depends, more than all the
resi-. Il Is COlonIzaOni the opening Of new markets
the creation Of new custUmers"
"PeTiLous greatness" il proper phrase. But
there are unUccupied regions enough ia the world
~: England TO cOlunize without needing 10 mIrude
between and the Pacific. However. IL the ques-
lion Of occupancy in the Oregon country to be de-
termIned 10y the quluer from which migrants are
TO issue TO occupy it, there Is llle for doubt as
TO The future pOssessOrs Vt that regiOn.--BaItimors
American.