The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-16
Important from Washington.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

We learn from private correspondent in Wash
ngton that there Is the strongest probability of a
law passing both Houses of Congress, authorizing
the government to take military and civil possession
OF the Oregon Territory, indicated in the last
message of the President.
Upon the subject of Texas and Mexico, il appears
that the President had been, a few weeks before
the opening of the session, driven from the ground
he had intended to have taken, by the spirited cor
respondence of the Mexican minister at Washing
ton and the general appearance of difficulty which
that position might throw around his government
during the year and a half he may remain there
We know for certain that the Secretary of State
Mr. Upshur declared most emphatically, previous
10 the opening of the session, that the President
would assume a positive and determined ground
IN relation 10 the annexation question, and Texas
affairs generally; and we have every reason to be-
ieve that the very passage, in which this position
taken, introduced into the message, but
subsequently taken out in consequence OF the spirit
ed circumstances of Senior Almonte, the Mexican
ambassador Thus far upon this point
Ii is very evident, therefore, that the affairs OF
Mexico and Texas, so far as they are connected
with our relations with Great Britain, will be left
10 chances and contingencies hereafter to be de-
yeloped; but the question OF taking possession OF
the Oregon Territory stands altogether In differ
ent position, From indications in every quarter,
in the House OF Representatives and the Senate,
we have not the slightest doubt but law will pass
by strong majority in both those bodies, for
taking possession of the Oregon Territory, and set
ting al defiance the delays in the negotiations be-
tween this country and England upon that very point
The Western States, as a constituent element OF
this confederacy, all united upon this point, and
they possess prominent influence in both houses
OF Congress, but particularly in the lower House,
where they have, probably, nearly eighty members
out of two hundred and twenty During the year
past, and ever since the law passed by the Senate
OF last session, the subject of the Oregon has been
taken up by popular bodies in every part of the
Western States, and both parties unite in consider
Ing the taking possession of that territory "a set
tied question in political affairs II will be reco-
leced, too, that the bill which passed the Senate
had very large majority and that ii was merely
the approaching termination of the session which
prevented It's being passed by the House, even as
the House was constituted under the old census
The increase of western influence sweeps away
every opposition TO that question now and we have
more doubt that Congress will pass a law for
that purpose, expressly TO meet the wishes of the
Executive, than we have of our existence
Thus it will be seen, that the delays and the pro-
crastination of the British government in relation
10 the negotiations upon this subject, and the imbe-
cility and want of tact of our own minister, MIR.
Everett in London, will be both set at nought, and
sneered at, by the acts of the Legislature this
SION What the result may be in our relations with
Great Britain, it is impossible to predict. No doubt
there will be great deal of feeling created upon
the subject: but that feeling, so far as this country
is concerned will be treated with perfect ano
contempt, and will not prevent public opinion here
from uniting, strongly and firmly, upon the Oregon
question, at all hazards and at all contingencies
In fact, we begin already to dread more a coils
sion between the two countries growing out of this
question, than all the others put together