New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-06-27


-. .acsceess Of the Engsh claims 70 the Oregon
rsc~v ~ ness sTess upon the fact that the United
49, 800 70 sccspt the nne Of the 4esh degree a.
snresss s,sns .na, = reason s,. way saey sa'a
~ u e,sar and undoubted right Of the Tinted STATE
3 30 IL Sab degree Of latitude England has no r1SM
- master Whatever bsesuse those which sns iofmeny
Ma under the NoHka treaty ceased with that ues'y
ocordns TO he expressed rule and general practice
~ government Mr. Rush tells u mat N tne neso,
uou Sc sxpressed the intention Of TINS government
Occupy 70 the 5ls This the Ensn o'ees' :. sdnr
NJ kush offered behalf Of this government 70 sapp
- lysh a . compromise This the English refused
Consequently the offer was dead, snn me ,2n' % ,n
sovernment remained good 70 the JAIN b1, ssy a ~
Hnssh organs because you have once offered the ssn
vo have nov no rxhfs beyond IT, notwithstanding una
~ olIer wss rejected" On the same principe II W
Nv Ger the 9Th and II IL rejected thsf WI oecon
u limit Of our ngh ana ". may e Tb 3" 10 xery sooc
I.si,eh sreument but very bad American The Englsf
s~yer Claimed that they had exclusive night to any par
q u Oregon so rnsy SoaS a. heir % ,hs
ssSese Of IL The United States then offered 10 give
- degrees out Of IL exclusively, including tn'
owss Of fuca, and the valuable Nootka Sound Bay
m hey refuse but the whole right valley OF tn'
Columbia 10 ifs mouth and their organs here urge th'
eurrsndsr 20 them Of the territory broe 70 new az
Upeeaons on their part The object OF these uatof'
Suss Be 70 provoke war BY goadng the rest 10 de'pe
Sssion.
~ OF course, it takes the Morning Ners to be
- shabby - shutting and as false as the above
Our argument, which it misstates and conceals
rams truly thus: Since IL Is prored by Mr.. R"sh
beok that our Government opened the negotiation
~ flis subject by CLAIMING only 10 the 5lst degre
If North latitude, mot offering to comprom'se a
fhaa, bat making it the extent OF our cfa'm rs q
Sro6ae or credible that our right up 10 34' 40 TIVE
hundred miles farther than we first cia'med/ .
CLEAR AsD PROFESSIONALLY VIII the New
vsnture 70 copy this Question and attempt an all
sw9f
A. to the reciprocal offers OF compromise they dt
~ establish any thing positively on either SIDE
sAoagh they afford strong ground for the pres"mP
don that neither party woulo have offered 10 give
md sake II II had considered its own rgm 10 'h'
wbols clear and unquestionabe.' Nor since Grea'
Britain ba, once made formal offer Of compromise
vouA our Government be likely to consent to an
adjustment giving her more than she has offered Il
b. content with IL not this plain1 And is 1t no
juH one Of those rules that must work both ways
We cay, then, tina, either one Of the lines OF com
promse hitherto proposed BY the parties must tt
acosded to by the other. or some intermediate iln'
uua be agreed on. We stand for the Amer'co'
uhe-the line Of 49, North which our Government
onee offered to Ia ?, which is the line tor nun
drsds Of miles thu lde Of the Rocky Mountains an
which we consider better for our Country than on
thres hundred miles farther North. II Great Britain
WI not assent 70 this We are for an impartial arb'
ussion and . speedy settlement, though we would
ysshsr erect the whole region into an independent
Republic than TO divide /, by the Columbia The
closing sentences Of the News above quoted arr
ialsshoods 80 malignant, ye, so palPable, that none
bat IN utterly shameless villain could have uttered
them