The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-26
a "lOmentary DELAY on their part ia paying =


They @iH pay, but can she erer pay?
The language upon the subject OF Oregon is
equally objectionable Is il an evidence Of .
want Of s'mopsl tone"in The President 70 have re-
CONNIE nded mere preeau tionsry measures 10 pro-
tecl the People OF the United States emigraling TO
the Oregon, from the lomahawk and scalping-
knife OF the savage The country, by the con
yent'on existing between the two nations, is
open TO the joint occupancy Of both DO we
violate any principle of national faith when, by
the adoption OF proper measures, we make avail
able 10 our citizens this right Of joint occupancy
Is this TO show " an oper-reoching a,simuS ?"
Or does this right of joint occupancy mean
ne e.rciusire occupancy of Great Britain Has
she no forts, no armed men, in the Territory
Has Fort Vancouver heen demolished 2--has
her other fort, al the mouth of the Columbia,
been annihilated No such Thing. They are
there, still brisIling with their cannon and small
arms. And yet, with this fact before them, for
the editors of the English press 10 talk of an
Orer-redching dni@us on the part of the Presi-
dent, who proposes merely to afford sa fe escort
TO American ensgranls, must be regarded as
supremacy ridiculous. We cannot but hope
that this boundary question may be settled in
peace. We hope that the new Deputy of the
British Government may be entrusted with the
olive branch. We want no war with Great
Britain She is our best customer, and we are
hers We want peace, therefore, for the ben
EFT OF both. But we augur nothing very favor
able from these outgivings OF the British press
and II they reflect the sentiments Of the Bri-
tish Ministry, 1t may prove much better in the
end that no new Minister should have been de-
spatched to The United States. Mr.. Fox would
have answered quite as well TO carry on CORE
spondence as Mr.. Paekenham. He has great
ability, and il would have been quite as trouble
some for the American Secretary to have an
swered his notes as for that functionary 10 re-
spond to Mr.. Packenham. We indulge the
nope however, that the new Deputy will bring
with him views very diheren, from those ex-
pressed by the "Times."
But, in the estimation of the English press,
the President has exhibited ga perry lop stand
ard Of moral feeling" in his remarks upon
Mexico. What course would these sublmated
"A
ard Of moral feeling, to desire an end to be put
to such war as exists between Mexico and
Texas! Is it to this that the moralists of Eng
land object? Has MOI blood enough vet
howed2 Has not suffering enough yet been
entailed TO satisfy the high morality of Eng
land? Does she take delight in those border
wars, the traces Of which are TO be found in
burning cottases-in prisoners dragged into the
vilest cap,ivisy-in industry paralysed and in
hopes blasted2 Is an American President 10
be abused ami insulted by the leading journal
OF her Government, for desiring TO put an end
to such scenes OF desoation and sorrow? Is
this England's morality-her boosted philan-
thropy Out upon such crocodiles Can they
think that they can by such tears deceive the
world 1t would much better have become the
English press To have spoken out more fully
and freely. They would then have told the
world, 1--WE deprecate the policy of the Ameri-
can Executive, because prolongaiion of hos
Titles is what we most desire. Texas and
Mexico will exhaust each other, and Great Bri-
tain may then dictase terms of reconciliation y
The world would saen have given her credit, al
least, for sinceriiy-Bur TO MOUTH ABOUT MORAL
ITY
We have ba, one more remark TO make, and i
is this. The English public evermore dead
ing out philippines against the President OF TN.
United States. The American press, on the
CONTRARY, treats their sovereign with for
besranee. Whether their King be King
log or King Stork, we take no con
Germ about 1t. Queen Victoria aud Prince
Albert may roll in luxury while the great mass
Of their subjects are crying out for bread. Their
gorgeous palaces may be scenes of iestivity
while their beggar-people may be a, their gates
picking up the crumbs which fall from their Ia
bles The Times may chronicle the daily air.
ings in the park, and may DWELL what raptures
il may please on the apdogs and terriers and
fox-hounds of the royal pair II may sing what
notes il may please in laudation of boated
arstocracy-but we protest against lis eleva,ing
a standard of morality for America. Our boast
is, that our Government is made for the People
and not the People for the Government-ibsl
here the People are the only soveregns and iha,
we pay no worship AT any shrine but that fpub-
lie freedom and public happiness. AS TO the
President OF the United States, whom it has sery-
ed the purposes of the English editors TO abuse
we have only to say that he is Republican, in
theory and in practice. His name Is not unfa
mar TO British history. He is descendan, Of
that same Wat Tyler who raised the common,
Of England against the arbitrary exact ons o
Richard H. And, although Wat Tyler fell a sac
ri6ce to perhdy in the contest, the symbol o.
which &c, of perfdy, the MORALITY of England
London; yet that uprising OF the People
which he headed was attended by an enlarge.