Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-09-16

| ~ '0 PioteCtloh OF saves who murder
their owners, and carry their horses or
boats to Canada or Nassau The African
squadron article admits the right of search
and yisitationl The red-line map is laughed
att The DIR. Franklin letter is repudiatedl
The old mountain boundary Sacrificed by
this treaty. is admitted TO have been the
true linel The war threat is admitted to
have been an experiment on the nervous
system of our leaders and the commercial
pulse of our cities! And all that the Brit.
ish now ask is that they may have the
same American negotiation to regulate
commerce with them by treaty, and 10 set.
tie all other differences between the two
countries!
did indeed fight that British treaty
and not only for what it contained, but for
something else also: We fought the Oregon
question an that fight Myself and col
league were sounded upon it. We an.
swered like Americans and saved the
country. My worthy colleague was espe-
cially sounded: his answer killed their
hopes: and afterwards the exposure which
was made OF the sacrifice of the northeast
ern and northwestern boundaries showed
the danger Of adventuring upon a new sa-
crIhce; and thus the surrender of the north
bank of the river, and half the country. 10
the British, was postponed to future dav
Happily the result of the elections has re.
stored the democracy to power, and ad-
Journed that PostPonement sine die, And
here let me say that, five ard twenty wears
ago, in series of essays on that suI;ect
| presented this Oregon question to the
people under the aspect which it now wears:
our title to 1.-THE British designs upon it
the necessity for The immediate possession
by our country-and the folly of the treaty
of 1918, which admitted the British to its
joint occupation. On all these points the
public is now at the point that was at 25
years ago; but there was another point |
was then at which the public mind has not
the East India trade to the Udlley of the
Mississippi through the mouth Of the Column
| bid! The invention of rail roads, and the
discovery of the SoUTH Pass since that
time has crowned the feasibility of this
| idea. ......
! A notice in detail of all the topics which
| your letter contains would require too
much space for this brief answer; but there
are two of them which, from their daily
bearing on the daily business of the peo-
pie, and the trouble they still give US, de-
mand from me a word in support of what
you say: speak of National Bank, and
the Paper Currency. One might suppose
that after the Great Bank had been repu-
dated by its greatest champion as an lob
solete ideG'-after its explosion had shown
it to be "a ,0hited Sepulckre filed Nth
dead mems bones and Nth co,ruption"-af-
ter the equalization of exchanges shows it
was not necessary to their regulation--af
ter the introduction of more than one hun
dred millions Of gold and silver shows that
it was not wanted as mandatory Of
paper currency-after the reduction of
interest to four or five per cent. per annum
in the cities where people paid one and
half per cent. per month while the Great
Bank and her branches stood among them:
after all this, and so many concentrations
of the institution at the elections, it might
have been expected that the question was
at rest, and the country relieved from its
agitation. But not so the fact. The ghost
Of the monster still stalks upon the land.
The old Federalists of the Hamiltonian
school, now, as forty years ago, still follow
it as the leading star of their policy; and
many good citizens Tin other respects good
democrats) who were misled into a sup
posed necessity for il in the times of sus-
pended banks, deprecated paper money,
deranged exchanges, and no gold or silver,
have not yet recovered from the delusive
idea then taken up. Hence the question
of National Bank must still be subject
of political contest. The strongest efforts
of the federalists will be made for its chief
advocate: their united exertions will be dl-
rected against him who, in the most for
midable day of bank and power, (Mr. Vap
BUREN, had the courage and patriotism to
declare the sentiment which your letter has
quoted: Incorporating hostility to Ma
tional Bank" Great is the debt of graft
tude which the country owes to Gen. Jack
son for his opposition to this bank. Vast
1 are the evils she would have inflicted upon
us if her disastrous career had not beer
stopped. To say nothing of political evils
in the shape of corruption carried into al
} the sources and fountaias of liberty--intC
the press. the elections and the legislative
, halls: to say nothing of having power II
) the country stronger than the Government
and which governed the Government, ant
put up and put down the price of all prop
erty, produce and labor as it pleased, ant
, which Itself was subordinate to the policy
f of the Bank of England-to say nothing
of such evils from which he has saved us
Y he has also saved the People and the Treas
. ury of the United States from the loss
/: the one hundred millions of dollars which
! bas fallen upon its stockholders and note