Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-05-24

ii re strength of intellect, and power TO conceIve'
perfect and adapt ideas, and apply successfully to
his characters the creation Of his inventive mind.
The tact and ingenuity which he displayed in
catching. arranging and enumcra,lng the sounds
of the Cherokee tongue, and afterwards applying
them 10 syllable characters, arc Of tho highest or.
der. lie certainly was one of the most remarka.
bio men Of the age.
The amount appropriated by Government TO be
used in hunting him up has resulted in bringing to
light his death--ho has gone to his last account.
| W hat the motives wrrV '''~' '-'--.' -
wander, We have never been able to learn.
Foreign iaikof Wm.--The billigcren, tone of
the British Journals, with for Il wonder very
few exceptions, grows more and moro fierce to
us ward They look upon Mr.. Polk's mes
sage as an open assault of the British nations
erclusire privilege to acquire territory declaring
tha, the language of that message which claims
for the United States clear and indisputable IL
tie 10 The lands of Oregon is manifest denial OF
their righ, 10 the same, and amounts 10 its inva.
sion. Tho British premier has publicly referred
in Parliament to that part Of the message, and dc.
clared his belief that the title in dispute rests sole
ly and absolutely in Great Brtan-a titlo de-.
rived from an old cession Of Spain 10 England, SO
long ago, in fact, that the maps of the coasts
even of Oregon were drawn wide Of the truth and
displayed the competest ignorance of the region.
Subsequent treaties between Spain and France,
cemonted at a time when the lights of discovery
had thrown more knowledge upon the country, in
which the rights Of Spain as first discoverer and
grantee of the Pope were ceded to France, and by
r, that Power sold to the United States during the
administration of Mr.. Jefferson, are reckoned OF
no weight by the keen, algrasping statesmen OF
r England. They seem to place firm confidence
in their right to Oregon, while the United States
1t President and peoPIo--are as fully convinced
u of their own sole, jus, and tenable right to the
same very far north Of the mouth Of Columbia
l.? river. This conviction they will never rcln.
quish, and so far from avoiding war by surren-
dering any portion of this claim, or by contln'
uance of the Joint occupancy, the people of these
States, with tho exception of few seaport mor'
chants and the elements of opposition which arc
d always in the whig party found arrayod against
q the deeds and measures Of n democratic admins
ration arc rather desirous of war, if be, they
right then secure the peaceful occupation OF c
Il country theirs by every 'clcar and lndlsputabt
b. title which a nation can possess. These points
adhered to by both parties render a collision il
=, Oregon Inevitable. The Hudson Bay Company
y ong accustomed to govern this section, will Ger
tany strive to oxeCd their assumptions and law
over The American emigrants who nave movet
and are constantly moving thither, while they
" will as certainly refuse 10 como undor any sucl
yoke.
: There can be no compromise in this matter
for the words of the message hold out every induce
ment to emigrun.s; who go thher under the fol
pursuasion iha; they will be pro.ec.ed-and they
y will be President Polk is not a man 10 eat hi
e words, and the open declaration of our rights t(
I Oregon will bo sustained. Thus, if England does
not totally relnqush her claim, there must be
war, and will commence in Oregon. In this CRISIS
we are happy that our State has a delegation II
d Congress of men every way able and willing tc
view and support our rights to Oregon with I'M
: compromising frmness. Upon this subject We
t ghl say more, but after so long an editorial VIC
must stop to take breathing time.'
The Ncw York Spirit Of tie Timcs.-Wo al
ways devote to this popular Journal regular hour;
mono of your skimming sort Of reading either; we
do not skate over its ample surface breaking never
INTO tho rich things below the ice, (Which once
broken is never reclosed,) but we commence from
$ the notice TO Correspondents ending with the
.Chess.player's Chronicle And don't we enjoy
treat! don't we find nuts 10 crack of varied kind
5 all containing some rich, digesfiNc kernel7 don't
; VIC travel onairy pinion--not the flying machine S
: after some fugitive duck which is hurrledly wing
ing its way from the fowler! don't we sit beside
some STILL shadowy pool so dim and cool, beneath
the curved, waving willow trees, watching ths
bobbing of the cork. that somo sly perch is test
ing! don't We pick our flint and snap our eyes
when we accompany some daring high-Iife hun