New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-09
Oregon.

From he Morning Noes Monday. Dec. s.
The facts revealed in the Message OF the President
prove incon,esbly what we long since advanced VIZ
that II War should grow of the affair IL would be
soely owing the antinatOpal course pursued by ne
whig press, including the Journal Of Commeree Inc
effect OF their has been 10 persuade the Enesh
minister take the offer OF Government under
the hope tina. he could get more by holding out II In
well known that when the final offer III the i9h degree
with rome free ports South Of that Inc was made last
summer by Government the British minister that
person used great oyerons ascertain the state OF pub
lie opinion on the subject lie questioned many West
ern members of Congress TO the extent OF territory he
could get a compromise among Others, Mr.. Owen. oi
Indiana, who replied. two years since you could have
got the 10Th, you cannot get 1t now lie applied him
self 10 every indicative OF public opinion. Among
these were the whole Wing press the organs OF that
party which imposed the present Tariff upon the coun'
Try All these earnest In their abandonment OF the
country North of the 49r and for compromise this
aide of IT, The Journal insisted and still insists that
have right North Of that line. After weighing all those
things carefully the minister arrived at the conclusion
that could get by rejecting that Offer when 9th
crvise had the Government beer periodically 6usained
he would have that Offer and the mater would
have been settled. His mistake was fetal one. The
offer viii never be renewed The country TO n man wit
suetain the Message end England will get none OF
our territory
Remarks.
P-Thc Morning Ncws is recognized as the New
York organ Of tho sad remains OF the Van Buren,,
Wright and Butler caba, once so potent in the Ea-
ton and which though tloorcd in the Baltimore
Convention and annihilated as TO the future by the
revelations of the Hoyt Butler correspondence.
still holds in its sening hands the present rule OF
our State Knowing how its clique now stands
with Mr. Polk and the powers that be al w ashing
ton, and how exposed it is 10 farther indignes and
humilia,ions we think some show of fairness and
candor to opponents whom ii may yet be driven TO
regard friends would be more becoming the posi-
ton Of The News.
On this Oregon Question, we cheerfuly submit to
the mature judgment OF the People the relative wis
dom and patriotism evinced BY the journals OF the
two parties For more than year past we have
steadily insisted and argued that the line of i9o
North was the true and proper boundary between
the British possessions west of the Rocky Moan
tains and ours and that Government ought
TO offer that line 10 Great Britain For this
we have been assaulted i'll the Loco Foco journals
as virtually traitor and pairoon. Our
right 10 tie tchoic OF Oregon is clear and IN
disputabie,' gravcly resolved the National Con-
venton which nominated Mr. Polk, and The re-
occupation of Oregon declared by it to be one
of the highest objects of National concern, On the
strength Of these virtual pledges many votes were
doubtless givcd TO Polk. The ,ctole of Oregon up
TO $40 40 was again asserted to be ours by his par
;saus in Congress; and his Inaugural though less
precise as to limits, was very positive and naughty
IN its tone creating intense feeling in England. Yet
we now find that one of the first things he did after
getting into power was 10 cgcr England that rery
lire of 49o which we have all along maintained be
the proper one, and which his par,.sans abused US
for maintaining.
And this is no, all. We stated thaksuch an offer
had been made by our Government TO England soon
after it wa. made. and heartily approved OF the step.
The Herald and other iosterers of turbulence and III
will opened their batteries the proposition, and
threatened the Administration with popular venge-
ance in case II agreed 10 any such compromise,
This soon brought out TSe Uaion with fiat cor
fradIetion of The story of compromise, and an Us.
ser;ion that our Government went for ell Oregon
and nothing short. (Ofcourse there was some quib.
BILE abou, ,hs-The Union probably did not deny in
terms that our new Administration had offered the
10th degree but such was surely the plain purport
Of its article TO those not behind the curtain-such
was the general understanding of its language
And thus we and still abused for us,ifying
the only proposition new Administration has
made and which the British Minister has peremp-
,orily rejected while Mr.. Folks partisSns are con.
demniug what he has done and virtually accusing
their own leaders of trucking to Great Britain in
making that accusation against US
Mr. Robert Dale Owen, i. appears by the News
has been questioned by Mr.. Peckenham as TO hoe
aaea he could get of Oregon, mot very likely
story'l and wss courteoasly informed in reply that
two years ago he nigh, here ge, all North Of 4sa
out y0h cannot get H noao.'' Robert is cviGes,lv
no prophet Thisveryyear his avori,e prss;ae,, 5as
offered the 10th degree and something This side ana
Mr.. Packcnham rejected ,-apparen,ly 10, afraid ~
being abliged 10 take worse terms hereafter NJ
Owens failure in the line OF prophecy should have
warned the News of; ha, dangerous coast.
The balderdash of the News about the an,;Na.
tional course of the Wing press in jus,ieying and
terrifying President Folks offer is deserving only Of
contemp, England had twice thrice before reject,
ed the same or better offer from US. Mr.. packen-
ham is not likely look the Press of this Country
for the means OF defending wha: he deems the rights
of his own. We have 10 doub; his rejection OF NJ
Folks offer was dictated by explicit instructions
from his Government, That Peel and Aberdeen bad
Jeff him TO make the breath Of our Members OF Con.