The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-22
From the Washington Constitution.
FALSE IMPUTATIONS.

pie, as believe, are not only willing, but
anxious, to embark in a war with Great Bri-
tain, with or without cause: il would open
new and enlarged market for their ngricul-
tural products, and cause great expepdi-
ture of public money among them"
The foregoing sentence is from the Ame-
rican correspondent Of the London Times,
as we find il quoted and commented upon in
The last number of the " League" The
League notices ii because of lis apparent
bearing upon the doctrine of free trade, and
deduces from il a most forcible argument in
favor Of the great cause of commercial free
dom. That argument is ntrinsically good,
whether the assertion Of the Times cores
pondent be true or false. 1t appears, how
ever, that the reasons which he assigns why
the people of the Mississippi valley are anx-
ious TO embark in war with Great Britain,
are wholly gratuitous and unfounded That
the people of that great valley, as well as
every other part of the Union, would, to
maintain our right to Oregon, or TO fulfil our
pledges to Texas, embark in war with
Great Britain, or any other power, is most
truc; but they would not do this for any such
considerations as are attributed to them by
this correspondent. There is no difficulty
in any candid inquirer arriving at the truth,
in regard to the motives which impel the
people of this country in their feelings Of
hostility 10 the Government OF Great Britain.
In the prosecution OF that colonial CONNER
cial policy which the English Government
has been pursuing for centurlec which
has caused it 10 commit more crlle, more
injustice, more unmixed and cruel opplGss-
ion, than perhaps all other causes put to-
gether-it has necessarily happened that she
has repeatedly nfrnged upon our rights, our
interests, and our national pride. 1t has oc-
casioned her TO interfere even with our do.
mestic institutions, to the extent of lending
her countenance and sympathes to the most
reckless fanaticism that has ever disgraced
any country, and of declaring it to be her
purpose to promote the abolition of negro
slavery throughout the world. 1t occasions
her to interfere in matters wholly appcrtain-
ing 10 the people of Texas and the United
States; and by efforts the Host pertnatious
and offensive, to endeavor to prevent the
measure of annexation. II causes her to
view US as rivals, and in various ways to treat
us as if we were yet in our minority, and
only revolted colony of that Government.
She sets up claims to Oregon which we be-
lieve TO be as unfoundcd as we know those
to have been, which she 50 unblushingly
urged 10 a portion Of Maine. On the sub
ject of Texas and Oregon, the people of
the West are especially sensitive. The
right of this Government TO annex the one,
and the right of domain in the other, they
hold to be clear and indisputable. It's pre-
cisely because Great Britain questions both,
and resists both, that the people of the West
appear " anxious to embark in war; with
that power. Upon these questions, knowing
that they are clearly right, they will listen to
no compromise, they will make no conces-
sons. And that revered chief, whose po-
tential voice has so often been raised TO sus
tain the rights of his country has declared
under circumstances so solemn and sacred,
that il becomes almost the voice of fate, that
upon the subject of Oregon there was to
''be no arbitration but at the cannon's mouth"
These are the causes" which make the
Western people willing" and, as the cor
supposes, even "anxious to en-
park in a war with Great Bri:ain;" and not
because "it would open new and enlarged
market for their agricultural products, and
cause great expenditure Of public money
among them," This is a most gratuitous
md unfounded assumption. 1t is wholly I'M
rue. No such sordid and unworthy motives
influence them. They would take up arms
TO defend their rights and resist aggression.
Self reliance is "a common inheritance-cou-
age is their birthright. TO take up arms,
hen, in defence of their rights, is prompted
by patriotic and heroic instincts, and not
or the hucksering reason that there would
,e ga great expenditure of public money
lmong them" Great Britain has always
,een deceived in the motives which govern
is, and the principles on which we act; and
t will probably by the curse of her destiny
o continue to be controlled and influenced
" these dclusions.
10 all that the League says in reference
o the necessity and benign effects of free
nd unfettered commercial intercourse be-.
ween this country and Great Britain, we
most heartily and entirely concur. And if
he friends Of free trade in the two countries
hall ever be able to break dowu the present
arbarous and unjust system of restriction
nd monopoly, it would, to an extent beyond
ii human calculation, promote the interest,
he happiness, and the prosperity Of both.
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.a~ From the New Orleans Tropic.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.
We learn. from gentleman who arrived