The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-12-25

ills 10 be pulled down, because Inc rutiip VI
the Baltimore convention issusd that dicfan,,
when half The members were gone; the Sub
Treasury is 10 be restored, because the Pres
ideul supported beforeit had been Hied; aud
measures most unlikely to be iakenas TO Ore
gon, because The Executive was anadvised
enough 10 make, in an inaugural discourse,
a declaration on the subject as extreme as ii
was inopporlune!
''Our peace SO pay FOR the Presidents in
discreiion: our fortunes are to be wrecked
that he may be consisteni.on the SubtteasG-
ry:our workshops and looms are to be ever
turned that the Appendix othe Biiimore Con
veulion may be clarified! But tbis.especial
ly we say, and say i. solemnly: Byanexsfas
official dictnm, pronounced possibly in mere
iHadyeriance, the Executive at once disa-
bled himself; and went so far as 10 disable
Great Britain, from taking proper course,
iii this negotiation, and conducting lin adue
spirit. We protest against having he mighty
interests oil a peoples peace lrAed with, as
has been done by both sides, the President
setting the example, and Sir Robt. Peel fol-
lawing it. The mercy of the common law
in case oflile or death. 10 the
lowest criminal, tosit as a juryman, any one
who has made UP or uttered an opinion be-
fore he is empannelled; and it is INDUSTRIOUS
that here, where the lives ofthousands ofun-
people are at stake, President &
a Premier should be allowed TO enter into
pledged, by every principle of
vanity or popularity, before they know what
can be done or ought 10 be done, 10 yield
nothing.
"There is, however, yet another general
aspect in which we are bound to consider
these main recommendations, as a body OF
measures-as system wreiher meant for
such or nol.'' .......-
"a British ministry has no more jure d.
cine about il than President-nay, proba-
bly, has greater, moi less, need 10 consult The
popular passions on subjects where they list
en- but little to reason. The Executive
should see that the English Government is
as lille like to give way on this question as.
he that, therefore, serious possibilities Of 8
war are involved in his refusal TO compro-
mise or arbiiraie; and that these are strength
ened, if what he proposes 10 Congress be
done. War, then, is quite possible parl of
The political programme which he Offers
And how does he propose to make Us ready
for it? BY filling our Golfers? BY invigor-
ating The arts and trades at home? No;we
are to carry on a war with hard money, and
abolish home industry, that we may have a.
bundant supplies independent of foreign
trade!
"These are, II appears 10 US, the general
indications of this ominons message.
The Louisville Journal has the following
on the same subject:
MIR. Polk must have been perfectly aware
that England would not, in the Oregon nego-
tiaiion, accede TO worseterms than had been
offered her by other administrations. He
himself acknowledges, that he felt the ne
cessiiy and propriety of proposing to yield
'he same boundary that preceding admins
trations had offered, but he refused to Offer
the right Of navigating the Columbia which
those administration had offered. This right
we consider of no consequence, but it is not
so considered either by England or by Mr..
Polk 49,.
'sMr. Polk know to an absolute certainty
that England would decline the proposition
hus modified, as she had twice declined il
even before its modification, and be knew
and knows, thai, if Congress assume and
maintain. his position and carry ont his re-
recommendation, war is in evitable. He re-
comnends that notice be given of the ces-
sation oijoint occupancy, and that measures
be adopted, after the expiration of one year
TO take possession or the whole territory, not
olatitude 49.but latitude 81. 10, the bcuad-
AIRY OF Russia. 49, ....-.53. - i.
"Fhe reader will naturally suppose that il
was Mr.. Folks deliberate designs to precip-
tate the country INFO war. This may have
been the case, but our Impression is thai his
views were different. The whole message,
the double dealing On the tariff. the high-ton-
ed annunciation that no European influence
or colony can be allowed on this continent,
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