The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-11-20
From the Charleston Mercury.
OREGON.

The state menl oil our w ashlngton cor
respondent. that Ne. Buchanan Was faso-
rabls TO releIease of the Oregon ques>
,lan 10 sn srbIma'or, hzs attracted some
stlrniion. The ssIne statement hss sp-
pesred IN several pspsts, snd 90 ere To-
el,ned 10 think Il weil founded. There
seems equal reason for the belief that The
PrssideGI shll sucks hy the "elesr snd
unq6esIianabls nghI," Of the United
SIsIss. and viii Ieitsrsie m his message
The declaration OF hls inaugural. Tbs
Uoioa has IS good 90 SAID go. There il
an ev,den. snxIsiy, spprosch'ng Slam,
IN the pres., al The aspecg THIS will s,vf
The question. If Congress sancton The
dsslsFsuon oI the PIesiden,. il 10 quite
certsin ihM the Bni.h Parliament xIll
re-echo the relort of SIR Robert Peel, snd
war seems an ine.iIsble ronequenre.
These tao declsrstions do, in iaeI. pre-
clude Navigation. unless The one or The
other party Is willing 10 reIes, from ,ts
positian-which rs rot tn be supposed.
Whist then remsIusi Arbitration az he
s.eIy psseahle means Y ss.lle The dispute.
made 10 Mr. Calhoun and he rtiscted il.
lila reasons have not been pub, shed, bur
whsieser they were. they sere sIsen 81
The opening Of . negotiation, sgsInsi ar
biIrslIon 80 chocs over every other
means Of Terminating The d spnle. Nov
., - pretty generally conceded, We have
40 Other resource shorI oi war.
Our past experiences ought not to arm
Us sgain.t this method nf setting Iniet.
nsuonaI difficulties. We referred the
nnI,h eas'ero boundary TO arbitration. and
rejected the award Of The srbiualor, bot
IN the end We settled the Boundary by
trtary on terms les. advantageous 10 Tho
United States, than the Crglnal award.
Shall We goio var Tor Oregon. rather
than refer our " unquss,ion.ble rights"
TO an impartial third party! There are on
~ two arguments that can justly such an
extreme course. II I Ia question If
overwhelming interest, or q question Of
national bonar. As ~ the FIST, every
body ages that the value Of We territory
is Enthusiastically small compared with
The interests that would be sacrificed by a
wsr.-not worthy in fact Of any cons,d.
Grafton ~hstevet. As 20 he other. II j,
important to noe, tina, II il V point Of
honor. u is very old point. We Hher-
tied u from the Spsutards and have been
discussing it ever since. The honor that
can suffer lis redress 10 drsg. through
such tedious process oi denial and al
ftmation, for half q century. 70 evidently
net Of The impatient sort, and need uot
get into fury. In times past. 90 we
are informed. gen'lemsn bearing grssi
importance ~ his Iook, took an acqua,nl-
sncs by the button and begged an audi.
encs touching mst'er Of great concern.
~ was IN the poss-office," SAID he.
/" when So-and-so." before 4 number oil
peupe. took me BY the nnse, and pulled
il IN an outrageous manner "PulIed
your nose. hs! and what did you do o.
Nothing a, sli-and ! ~an, To know whsl
yon think I'd better dol" "Hos long
ago did This hsppen!' About a week. -
80 sdsise you t,en to do nothing--h you
have horue u week. you can bear u
Ioneer."
Ii strikes ne that this national poin. oil
honor winch has borne . bslf century Vi
diplomacy. may stand adjourned . l,tsls
longer without biusLlng ItselI Inlo fs-
yer.