The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-04
OREGON.

The letter which we published in the Madisonan
respecting Oregon, shows what a valuable acquisi-
ton that country will be to the nited States There
10 room there for three or four more States in not
one of which slavery would exist and one at least
Of which would possess commercial ad vantages equal
to those OF the greatest commercial State of the
Union-New York. Nor would these commercial
advantages interfere in the slightest degree with
those already enjoyed by our commercial emporia on
the Atlantic. Ii is fine agricultural country, as is
manifest from the most authentic accounts of it,
Plenty more Of room for the hardy farmers Of the
West and their son,-for enerprising young law
ysrs and physicians and mechanics, to emgra,e
and eei 20 O ipiA he & free and ene
gsc sxsrton Of all their alents-an ample field for
young ministers Of the Gospel TO accompany their
noets, or gather' them there and publish tie glad
sound without the incumbrance of State establish
msnt. In short, a soil wherein to plant, in all
their purity, the institutions of religious and civil
liberty
But this great prize many Of the Wings have ind-
Gated their purpose to surrender to England, as a
reward for hemming US in, tor surrounding US AZ Mr.
Cas'ius NJ Clay expresses ii that we may be coerced
lingnsss to surrender a region out of which can
be made three or four States in which slavery
will not exist for the sake OF Kidding ourselves
Of slavery. One would think that the increase
OF the territory on which "a population wholly free
might grow up and expand is one of the most proba-
BILE ways conceivable Of preventing slavery from
having any undue influence in our Coniederscy.
But the People Of the United States will scarcely
approve the idea Of making donation Of Oregon,
even OF any important part thereof for the sake Of
the immense benefit TO be derived from our be ing mr.
rounded by England Even those Wings ,hemselve.
who have talked in a strain so Indifferent about the
possession Of Oregon ought have more regard for
The generosity and ibersy Of their great aud good
ally England Than to suppose she would require so
high price for her dsinessd sr,rton, in the cause
OF human freedom. Her colonial possessions are i'm
msoseiy more extensive than that Of the United
States Vspery foot Of Oregon, and all Tera were adj
ded 10 the twenty six. She claims, and ha. partly
oo'onizcd the continent Of New Holland, the area Of
which, approved gcogrsphcrs tell us three millions
Of square miles, than nine times Of itself the
entire area Of Oregon Add Hindostan As another
OF her Possessions, million one hundred thousand
Sf""'e "hes-csnaoa and other tracts on the CONT
nent Of North America, upward. Of six hundred
thousand square miles possessions in Africa two
hundred thousand square miles. Surely so great
power, with so many square miles Of dependencies
msy sdord to be generous enough let US have Ore.
Eon without requiring 1t. surrender for the i'm.
mense benefit of releasing US from Southern slave
ry. The frogs discontinued with a log as king.
duplicated Jupiter TO give them He gave them
the Stotk, which devoured them. This English gem
sro.ity with respect 10 Oregon, seems much on rsr
with that Of the Stork. The riAemen, and other
men Of the valley of the Mississippi, il's likely, will
not receive the idea Of being surrounded by Great
Britain with the enthusiastic cheers which greeted
Mr.. Cassus NJ. Clay at the Boston Wing meeting,
fifteen times TO begin WITH and the rest given up in
despair Of being counted"