Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-05-02

His reason for asking was TO be lound in exist
ing circumstances in the United States; though
he was the last man who would desire TO cast
a sur on great nation. He understood, that
in 1918 convention was entered into between
this country and the United States, the purport |
of which was, that the territory ia dispute up
on the Oregon should be considered as a mat
ter upon which no determination had been
come TO. and that the whole question should
be left open Under these circumstances the |
House OF Representatives had passed bill Tor
Settling this territory. The English were
not, he believed, a people at all accustomed TO
buster or express themselves in manner which
should rouse the Indignation of those with
whom they conducted negotiations but il
must be apparent TO every body that, this was
most extraordinary proceeding. II il arose
| from the weakness of the American Executive,
| Il beloved foreign nations seriously to consider
the matter. II the House of Representatives
passed such bill, if it were sanctioned by the
Senate and urged upon the President he might
be forced TO give it the effect of law while we,
having taken no precautions, but trusting to
their good faith and the comfy of nations,
would find ourselves Invested Of the means of
protecting our own rights. If this case had
been properly looked into, they should at once
have declared that the United States had no
right west of the Rocky mountains and il the
negotiations which had been broken up were
to be recommended, he trusted they would be
put on proper footing, and that the United
States would he called on 10 show what right
they had to cross the Rocky Mountains at ALL
Sir Robert Peel replied, that Mr. Roebuck
had rightly described the convention, which
was framed TO last for ten years. 1t was re-
newed in 1927 and expired again in 1888 hut
il was also provided that neither party should
terminate the arrangement without giving a
wears notice. With respect 10 the Degotla-
lions with The Executive Government of the
United States, they have not been brought TO q
close and il would not be consistent with his
duty to produce the correspondence to the
House. Mr. Roebuck would see that our rela-
lions are not with the House Of Representa-
tlvcs but with the American Executive. Sir
Robert quite agreed with Mr. Roebuck that
nothing could be more unseemlng than 10 use
any language of buster or menace hut while
iorbearing to do so, he hoped the house would
not infer that her Majesty's Government are
not deeply sensible OF the importance of this
subject.
SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.
(From the Times of March 27.)
The .4nneration Of Teas 10 The United
Siates.
The tone of President must needs be lofty
He must assume dignity which is not conced-
ed, and be would only be misunderstood and
UeSplSeu DN MS IelOW CltlLtNS, u lie du'pltu
the conventional courteses and humiitles o
European Potentates. His office is the most
honorable in all the earth his responsibility
the greatest. To disturb the unanimty of the
y Federal Union, even Tor an imagined object o
), morality, is the most stupendouS crime oiwhicf
d human nature can be guilty. TO extend thai
union indefinitely, in all directions is the ciil
] zen's first and nobleSt instinct; TO be compre
: hended in it the greatest felicity that can hap
nj Ii il tho nnlv Cpcurtt
for peace. All this may mean much or little
t but in the old world it is the language of mel
e who are not conducting but founding an em
n pre.
= We in the old world have long since chasts
e ed one another's desires TO al least the Language
!, of modesty and mutual difference. The Presi
: dent is not overawed by the presence of un
sovereign power in the length and breadth o
his continent. Hence he feels no indecency il
/ expressing, in clarifying every aggressive i'm
J. pulse of the heart.
n From the Times of March 49,
d In the inaugural address delivered by tn
e new President on the 1ih Of March, we flint
faithfully reproduced all the worst characters
d tics of the American statesmen who have bee
n in power since the withdrawal of Mr. Wehste
t from the Cabinet of Washington. II Mr. Pol
"a was chosen as the thorough representative c
l. the party which makes slavery reputation, an
n foreign aggression its claims to distinction, W
are bound to acknowledge that he has no
X swerved from the intentions of his constituents
81 His language on all these subjects has the sam
N unblushing impudence which belonged TO hi
4. predecessors, aud which we had fondly imagin
l. ed that no one else could rival but in hi
l. mouth il has this very serious aggravation, tina
it convnces us that he is preparing to begi
IN where the others leave off We had CAREFUL
i'll guarded ourselves against any preconcepton
of hostile TO Mr. Polk ; and we had endeavored t
ia persuade ourselves that we should lind MOI
re moderation in his own conduct than in that {
nd his adherents but the indulgent illusion
is completely dispelled by the first words he u
tiers, and the anxiety which was increased, {
wakened by Mr. Tyler's strange and incongrl
. GUS efforts, is rendered infinitely greater b
OF declarations from the new President of at lea!
ih equal violence, and, we fear, much more sil
~ niticance.
Ss Mr. TYLER intimated in a message some tin
nc ago, that doubts were entertained by son
81 whether Texas had not orig inally formed pa
~ OF the territory of The United States, and bee
III improperly alienated from them; but Mr. Pc
o. resolutey alirms that Texas was once pa
en of our country, was unwisey coded away 10
w. foreign Power, is now independent, and pos
IT. esses an undoubted right to merge her sove
ne eighty in ours The whole assertion is ute
Gu " eroundless-irsi, because Texas formed n
ne part of Louisiana when sold by France ;-ant
60 secondly, because the boundary treaty viii
no Spain concluded in 1919 definitely wiped out
y such equivocal claims for ever. But in tn
w discussion no argument is practicable the We
" is resolved on sczing his prey, and it signf
ne but little that the lamb stood drinking low,
ca down the brook.
ny MI Polk holds somewhat similar though le
eI precise, language, as to the Oregon territor
VI, He pledges himself at the very outset of
co III C,Il