The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-18

From the Baltimore Republican.
PosirIoN OF tue ENEMY.-We do not see wha
the country would do III the wings had the manage
ment OF the government. We believe that the rank
and file Of that party are as honest in their intentions
as ourselves; but to their leaders, regret be
unable to say the same thing. Suppose for mo.
ment that wing President occupied the chair, wha
would now be our position You must look into
their journals for an answer--there will be found
the medium through which all things are seen, and
especially our foreign relations. II wing had won
his way TO the high position Of the presidency, We
should not now have had it in our power to boast
of the fact that the rich and splendid domain OF
Texas belongs to and our children. That would
have been foreign country, and the gates would
have been forever closed against emigrants from
the United States Her rich alluvial lands, roll
ing slopes, and smiling valleys, would at this
very time have been in subsection to foreign pow
err A commerce, which in very few years will
amount to millions, would have been directed 10
other than American channels and the mechanics
of Europe, the mariners of Europe, would have been
engaged in supplying the wants of that people, and
carrying off her surplus productions Assuming
that the new republic contains territory equal in
extent to six States ofthe ordinary size, and three
of them will be cotton States we are then enabled Ia
form idea Of the vast addition to our wealth and
commerce in all its branches. Let each State be
the size of Alabama, il will then produce five hun.
dred thousand bales of cotton; multiply this by three
and we have fifteen hundred thousand bales. So
that We will get this vast amount from three OF
these new States; or, If it is not cut up into
States, then from one half of the whole. VIVA,
is the value of this amount Of the great staple
At six cents per pound, (below the average price al
this time) the whole will be worth S45, 600 900 in
cash. This vast amount, recolect, will be made
every year from one half ofthe new territory. Now
just about six-tenths Of the whole Of this immense
sum will be expended in the purchase of Northern
manufactures-hats, boots, shoes, hardware, cutie
ry, leather, wooen and cotton fabrics, and every
thing else which the mechanic has to sell, or the
Southern agriculturist wishes to buy. Our position
has enabled us to secure all this, while the position
of the wings would have lost the whole. There is
still more glaring instance now on the tapis. We
just want TO know what they would do about Ore
gon' Do their papers propose anythingi Do their
statesmen suggest any plan at all No, they mere
ly look on and make captious objections to the
movements of the democracy, and intimate nothing
themselves. What they do say is against our own
country, and is calculated to forfy the preensons
of England. We want an answer to this ques-
ton. Suppose the Oregon question remains open
until the election Of lS4S, and the wings by
another accident get into power: will they not be
compelled TO give up the whole country in order to
make their conduct tally with what it is now' We
see no escape from this, and it becomes the duty OF
every voter-not only democrats, but wings aso--to
look well to these things BECAUSE if they are again
put into power they must in order to be consistent
with themselves, yield the whole territory without
an effort to preserve il.