Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-03-12


could afford TO furnish millions Tor the
conduct Of the canvass, in order to the
success Of their party, and make money
BY the operation. They will, therefore,
probably continue as they have done here.
tOfOrs, TO deny and urge, urge and deny
the project, so as to be enabled, with as
much justice as they did in l64i, in re.
gard to Bank, 10 assert that the people
have decided in favor Of assumption
FOrewarned blythe past, zoe must be fore
armed for the future.
THE OREGON QUESTION.
10 connection with our national policy,
we cannot withhold an expression Of our
opinion in regard 10 a suJett which has
recently greatly agitated the public mind-'
subject upon which the west, especially,
feel deep and abiding INTEREST," subject
nj which are involved The natIo rights
and the national honor; we allude TO the
Oregon question. The whole territory Of
Oregon, included between AZ and 81
deg. 40 min. North, and the Rocky Noun
tains on the East, and the Pacific ocean
on the west, belongs to the United States,
by every right, recognized by the laws Of
nations, as comforting title BY discovery.
This territory is large in extent, fertile Of
soil, capable Of great production, and en-
dOwad by nature, with every advantage Of
position and navigation, for goat cemmer.
cial purposes. The magnificent Oregon
or Columbia river, flows from the foot of
the Rocky Mountains, through the terriiO-
~, 10 the Pacific Ocean. The mouth Of
that river, convenient as it 10 TO cOm>
merce with China and the East Indies,
must, in time, become the creates com.
mercial emporium Of the Western
world.
This territory, ours as it is by discovery
and by treaty, must, on no account, be
aIienaled from the United States-and
least of all, must it be yielded TO the un-
Just, unfounded, and dangerous preteu>
siOns ol England.
England is the hereditary foe Of Amer.
lea. Her Statesmen can never forgive
the defendants OF those who w'enched
the brightest Jewel out ofEngland's crown.
From the day Of their reluctant acknowl'
edgement of our independence, as a ma.
ton, to the present hour. She has lost
no opportunity 10 control our government
and our people by indirectiOn, and the
influence of the money power. She has
sought to hem US in on every side by her
possession, or her influence over those
who hold dominion Of the soil. With
Canada on The North, her West India
Islands on the South, she now seeks to
render Texas province, subject to her
willard by sggIeSsion and diplomacy,
to hold dominion over Oregon, north Of the
Columbia.
These pretentions, and these efforts
must every where be resisted and Tesis,
ted ssernly, decidedly, and with arm Of.
power, made strong by the cause Of jus
tlce, and Of freedom, against injustice,
and agrandizing European desPotlsm.
The time has certainly arrived when
the soil Of the continents Of America
should, IN conformity with the sentiment
Of Monroe be no longer "subjeCls Of Eu-
ropean colonization" America has been
selected out from all the world, BY the
Col of Liberty, to be the asylum Of the
oppressed OF every nation, and his chosen
land of freedom. The foot Of monarchy
should never desecrats its soil, and We,
his CHOSEN and peculiarly favored people,
would render but an i'll return ofgralitude
and make an unwOrthey acknowledge
ment OF thanks for benefits received,
were we. upon slight occasion, or BY neg
lect or Indifference towards our rights, to
Weld an acre Of our sacred soil 70 the
purposes Of desPOtic monarchy.
The people will insist upon what is
Just, aud show the world Of desPotS that
the PeOpIs OF Republican America know
their rights, anh knowing dare maintain
lhe.n. .rs
ITO be continued.