Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-05-07
THE SENTINEL
YPsILANTI, WEDNESDAY MAY :, Is45.
Our Foreign Relations.

1t will be seen oy our Foreign News, to which
wish to directespecal attention that dark cloud is
rapidly gathering ever our relations with neigh.
boring powers. As we expected, England, justified in
her ambition by the exhibition of in the wretchsd
measurs of Annexation drops all other considerations
and appeals to the justice of the National hon.
is nothing On this point, she afford to be mag
nanimous-the world knows and admits her greatness
Should she let Oregon pass into the possession of the
United States, it would be imputed her forbearance
her pusanimity. But the justice of it Shall
she let empire pass from her clear and
able" possession into that of Republic. whose grow
ing strength strikes mortal dread into the breast of ev.
cry Legitimatist in the world Never
Shall the British Lion or the American Eagle float
the busy millions the crowded cities, and the state
ly ships which to the coast and throng the
ports of the Patio In Short shall the immense wealth
accrung from the commerce of halfthe world just
being opened to comparative unrestricted intercourse,
yield its tribute to support the British and ars
tocracy, shall it swell the greatness, and add to the
influence Of Republican America :? England, says the
former, and will lot recede from their position. She
asks US, after Selling what was not ours how can we
blame her for defending what's hers9
is evident that the magnitude of the interests nvol
we'd in the Oregon question: render accommodation Of
it difficult than of any other which has aris
We have shown England's position now for our own:
III England cannot recede, much less can we To her,
the possession of Oregon is only for aggrandizement
while to US its possession either by ourselves by
Independent Republican POper sprung from ourselves
and one with US in feeling, sympathes and principles
is absolutely essential to the continuance of our peace
to the successful operation of experimental form
of government, and perhaps. to very existence.
With the possession of Canada our North, Ore.
gon commanding the extensive trade of China and Gee.
anca West, the sympates of Brazil and the in.
luence which madcap of Mexico has en-.
abed her to exercise on the south land her
along Atlantic coast need ask which would be
the ruling power in the administration of American af
fairsa This is the aim Of the English ministry. This
is the crisis. if may Judge from appearances which
country meet under its present rulers. In ev.
cry reasonable MAINTAIN and establish our
rights in Oregon, they have the united countenance
all parties and may heaven grant them more wisdom
than they have ever yet exhibited SO to do.
LARDNrR's LEcruREs-Ws have received the first
number of this truly invaluable work from the enter
prising publishers Greedy and MeElrath. We have
dipped into it as leisure permitted with both pleasure
and profit. The and perspicuity with which the
author handles his subjects, of them the greatest
that engage the human mind is truly delightful. We
hat every person DESTROYS of couneracng the
perncous effects othe food of light and froty reading
with which the cheap publication Offices are literally
deluging our country will interest themselves in giving
circulation to this and similar works.
From the specimen before us we are willing to guar
aEty the ulment of the most sangune expectation
regard to the work. Believing tina. the work itself
the best witness of it's own meyits, shall, as
possible, present our readers with specimen Out dare