Weekly national intelligencer., 1845-11-22
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& ADyERTIsEn.
The OREGoN NEGoTIATIoN.--The Washington
Union, as an organ OF communication between the
Administration and the Public, has the faculty oi
keeping the public in the greatest uncertainty upon
points on which il affects 10 enlighten them. For
the last three weeks that journal has been insisting
upon the unquestonable title Of the United States
to the whole territory bordering the Pacific, from
the AID TO the 54th parallels Of latitude and has
been pressing the Democratic party up to the point
of sustaining that ground. "TnE WHOLE ORE-
CON OR NONE this the only alternative as an issue
of territorial right" This was the emphatic de-
claration Of the Union, announced in capitals, and
the declaration was sustained by great parade OF
argument.
| A recent paper contains an amusing qualification
OF that declaration II expressly disclaims having
said that we will have all or none Of the Oregon
| Territory" 81 In saying the whole or none, we
spoke distinctly and exclusively Of our title" In
another article they say, the President declared
nine months ago our right to Oregon is clear and
unquesiionable." And again they say, On the
question of RIeHT--nakedly stated---the Adminis-
4 tration has fake,i its position. That is all.
| That is all. And is not that enough, if it be true
10 show that the Administration is determined not
to adjust the Oregon question The President
surely will not insist on the ground that our right
to the whole territory IS u,quesfaona6ie-tha we
have right TO the whole none-and that Great
Britain has no claim even to partition OF the ter
ritory-no shadow of right-and then, from pure
generosity, or timidity, concede to Great Britain
one half oft.
This surely is not the way in which a Govern
ment that respects itself settles question in con-
troversy. A Government may argue as confidently
as it pleases the strength of its title, but will
not deny to its adversary all claim whatever, while
it condescends to negotiate with him for series of
years, and even makes repeated proposals of settle
ment by partition Of the territory in controversy.
The whole Of Oregon or none" says the
Union, is the only alternative issue of terri
toral rght;' and this it viii have believe, is the
ground taken by the Administration. Any settle
ment of the question in controversy with Great
Britain, short of the acknowledgment by her OF
this whole claim, is to be considered as giving
d,cay' part Of the territory to which we have
| an unquestionable title. If we intend to yield the
serritory it is hardly worth while to insist that it is
unquestionably ours and that we abandon we'll
founded claim.
In the Union of Tuesday last we find the follow
ing language
"Wo have shown how the parallel Of 49o came to be
adopted boundary line between and Great Britain
this side Of the Rocky Mountains. We have shown that
that line has connexion whatever with rights in
Oregon If there shall bc found disposition in this country
gice aoay any Of rights there to Great Brtain the
Of Great Britain in past negotiations has made fit that
should continue TO urge this compromise upon her in
where she has rights to coHpsomse in return
her course snag n am a oint occupancy has been
oPsa. and fa, and jua and. 6aaIy, il tho public sen
nsnt a ~ ns shsn b found willing sanction
6os 4 sbsut eashs q or ssisoy Of Oregon extending.
r. s-- f~> 400 kAo Aat s~- s>- .ls, that
4slh parallel win Be a6Of convenient hne Of sacrifice
| as can be drascn.'
This language the Courier des Efafs Unis re-
CARDS, perhaps not without good reason, as giving
probability to the rulnor which prevailed some
days ago. that the Secretary of State has repeated
TO the British Minister the offer of the 49th paral-
lei as the line of division: that the offer was re-
| jected by Mr.. PAKENHAM, and that the offer was
then formally Withdrawn by Mr.. BUCHANAN. The
rumor goes further, stated by the French jour
nal, viz: that Mr. BUcANAN, "who had contended
| for long time in favor Of part of the British
pretensions, has thrown himself without reserve
corps CT dnae into the portion of the Cabinet
which demands the whole Of Oregon none. Mr..
Polk, it is said, yielded to this act of ,oeakness
for the purpose of showing that he was not imprac-
ticable but, since John Bull has not accepted the
sacrifice, nothing more will be yielded TO him.
The reader will judge whether this rumor explains
the paradoxical language of the official organ, and
whether it places the prospect Off pacific settle
ment Of the Oregon question on satisfactory
footing.