The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-19

with England or win any otner power Woulu /
occasion; but in the cup of nations the calamities
of war are not to be compared to that mixture Of ,
humiliation and disgrace which would inevitably
follow tame and base surrender Of undoubted
territorial rights. Oregon is either ours, or IS
not If Englands right to it be better than ours,
let her take it but if our right bethe clearer and
the better one, shall we yield il because England
demands t2 Never 1T is not to the purpose to
say, it is fertile and valuable, and we ought there
fore to have t-no matter what it is if our night
be clear and satisfactory, we are bound to hold
it as against the unjust demands of any and all
powers. ...a.. ~. - a.f,sr,, ,s7lff.r-
But after all this kind reader, is it not mourn
fully apparent that these Jehersonian democrats
are terrible set of fellows9 What right have
they to whisper even, when the lion Of old En-
gland howls2 What right have tbeyto property
or territory? In the admirable strain of Goblet,
are they not repnblicans2 Are they not dragged
republicans, with irregular governments, and
without kings, lords and commons? What shall
iiacobins and Jewelers. loco-focos and destroyers
of social order control lands and territories
Are the old women and children to be scared,
federal Editors to be plunged into crisis,
and Great Britain whpped-just because these
republicans want and intend to have their
rights? Monstrous 1t shocks every nerve in
our decent" and respectable" body. Possess
ed as we are of " all the intelligence and all the
learning" it is absolutely provoking to us TO see
these ignorant, huge-pawed fellows telling our
dear old mother England that she has no right TO
Oregon, and that any attempt on her part to con-
troll it las her liberal principles ought TO have
controlled this country will involve her in war.
Really, Mr. Polk must Equality" his "expres-
sions"
There is key to all this and, TO the deep dis
grace of the federal Editors, they may now find
themselves fallen from the paths of Henry Clay,
and following in the lead of Daniel Webster.
On the 7lh instant this gentleman made speech
in Fancuil Hall, and the sentiments contained in
that speech seem 10 have passed like lightning
through the federal press. He touched the Ore
gon question quite cautiously, but still strongly
enough to mark out his and the whig policy upon
it. He alluded to the discussion which took place
in the British Parliament, on the reception of
President Polks message on this subject 4" the
reports of which he had read with intense IN
tercs! and, he ad led, "the remarks of the
British Minister on that occasion, WERE SUCH AS
WE'RE PROPER, and made IN a temper becoming
lGrge-minded, liberal statesman" He then
went on to speak Of the situation Of Oregon, and
to advocate the erection there of separate Re
public, (which would not consent to acknowledge
allegiance either to this country 10 England y
This speech is what the Register calls one of Mr.
Wcbsers great efforts, coupled with promise
10 publish extracts; and this we suppose, is TO
furnish the cue to the whig party of North Caro-
lima. A separate Republic A Republic rum
ming from 81 degrees north, to California, COM
manding the Pacific and the trade with China,
together with the noblest river beyond the Rocky
Mountains, and embracing rs much territory as
the thirteen old Statcs-and all this, out Of our
Tertiary, for the purpose of building up " ba-
lance of power" on the Western Continent Try
again. Mr.. Webster. Your leader, Mr. Clay, tried
the same game in 1874 in regard to Texas and
Canada, but the people did not like it, and so vo-
ted him to the shades of Ashland Make another
'' great effort" Mr. Webster. You may at least
please England and the federal Editors this side
The Atlantic but we beg you to understand in
lime, that Mr.. Polk will neither equality" his
. Expressions" however "proper" Sir Robert
Peers remarks may have been, nor will the
real people of the country abandon their Prcsi-
lent .
Whenever the democracy talk of our right to i
Oregon, and of the importance OF annexing Texas,
hey are met by the federaliss with the charge =
hat our Republic is large enough already, and S
hat our people are dangerously influenced by c
owe of conquest To this charge we have al a
ways given confident and prompt denial but q
admit its truth, for the sake of comparisons, and e
hen look at England. What has she not done
n the way of conquests, within the last two hun
lred yeurs2 What weak and powerless people
las escaped the edge of her sword the expressions
If her ihe-g gathering priests or the lash Of her
corpion-whip2 What strong people, presenting a
nevertheless at times vulnerable point, has she
allied TO attack, either by bribes or menaces ? "
What people, among all the nations and isles of 81
he sea, has this arrogant power spared When
i'd she learn to confne herselfto her little island, a
eaVing the great world 10 move on, unmoIcsted 2
y her arts, uncursed by her policy, unscourged G
y her navy and her armies2 Look at China, O
riven into war and chastised, TO crafty En- c
ish avarice. Look at India, once the seat of is
alor and independence now crushed beneath the =; =
onquering arm of England hacked and shaped Sc