Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-26

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proximity TO each other, respecting which the
most erroneous ideas had been adopted; and the
comparative ease and security with which they
executed this task served to dispel the apprehen-
sions, previously entertained with regard to ex-
petitions through that quarter of the ocean,
| (pp. 1881 WIFE,
There remain to speak Of but two Spanish
voyages-that of ARTEAoA and BoDEoA, in l779
and that Of GALIANo and VALDEs, in 1892 OF the
first of these, we need only repeat what Mr.. Green
how says at page l25, that il visited nothing which
had not before been examined by Cook and his
account of the second lat PIP. 2a9, 24o) makes il
clear that it did little nothing except to attend
Vancouver in part Of his course.
We have thus brought down this compend and
chronology of discovery and occupation on the
northwest coast of America to the immediate facts
(nearly of the same date) beyond which il seems
to us almost needless to descend--we mean the
Nootka Sound Convention Of 1870, and Grav's
discovery Of the mouth Of the Columbia in 1892
The subsequent history belongs to the living gene
ration of still fiji for action; and it needs not,
therefore, any eucidaton such as we have given Of
remoter events.
1t will be perceived that we have chosen, in the
sketch just traced, to follow mainly the authority Of
Mr.. GREENnow, who has generally given with faith
fulness matters of fact, although he often reasons
I'll from them. On the whole, his book does him
credit for the research he has bestowed upon it.
Yet ne is obviously quite too much the advocate of
every ground of our claims to Oregon for, as we
set up some four or five adverse titles, there can
surely be but one Of them which is good
Of those titles we may perhaps offer our judg-
ment, after we shall have presented, as fur
Their fund of information, the arguments of Mr..
RUSH and Mr.. CANNING. Meantime, what we have
already drawn from Mr.. GREENHow to present to
our readers must, it strikes us, suggest to every
thinking man the idea that the question at large is
much more thorny one than gentlemen on either
side thought, who had only, like the knights quar-
remg about the color of shield, seen its opposite
faces, or, like the travellers dispung about the hue
OF the chameleon, viewed X in particular state
of color.
THE COUNTRY AND THE ADMINISTRATION.
Occasionally we hear the Loco press tantalzing-
ly exclaim, I" What has become of all the predic-
tons of ruin to the country which the Wings pro-
phesied would befal her if Mr. Polk was elected 20
TO this ready answer be given. The great
Wing measure-the Tariff of lS42-is still in
operations dffusing health and imparting energy to
the Government. The balance of trade, through
its influence isskept in favor, and, instead Of
being the debtor to England and British interests,
we are largely her creditor. Instead of having an
empty treasury, we have. through the Tariff trea-
sury containing eight millions five hundred thousand
dollars that, far as this measure of policy is
concerned, the Governments conducted on Wing
principles.
Again, we saved from the DISASTROUS conse-
quences incident to Subtreasury through the re-
peal of it by the Wing Congress Of 1912, and the
Locos had not the courage to re-adopt il in the last
Congress; and thus the country is freed from this
condemned and worn-out measure of Locofoco
policy.
The reason, then, is obvious why Wing predic-
tons were not fully verified. IL is because the Lo-
coiocos were afraid to carry out their principles,
and are conducting the Government with an eye to
the wholesome and salutary creed of The UMgs-
the Tariff Of 1912 and no Subtreasury.
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